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A ‘typhoon day’ has come to mean one thing for many – a chance to indulge their favourite pastimeThe winds of typhoon Kong-rey howled through the streets of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, inside a brick and glass building people similarly wailed down the corridors of a branch of the Partyworld karaoke chain.Through the poorly soundproofed door of one room voices warbled a song by the Taiwanese rock band Mayday, and through another came the sounds of a song by Coldplay. In room 330, someone made an exasperated search through the song list – “where is Kylie?

Victoria police say a man was found with fatal gunshot wound on Langford Street in North Melbourne at about 3.15amGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA large-scale homicide investigation is under way after a man was fatally shot, triggering “horribly emotional” scenes in a busy nightlife area in inner Melbourne on Saturday morning.Victoria police said emergency services were called to Langford Street in North Melbourne at about 3.15am after a man was found with a gunshot wound.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/02/police-search-for-attacker-after-man-shot-dead-in-busy-nightlife-area-in-melbourne Author : Daisy Dumas Publish date

Ex-president’s speech comes as race enters final stretch, amid battle with Kamala Harris to woo Michigan votersDonald Trump on Friday tried to energize his voters during a rally in Warren, Michigan, delivering an address replete with his characteristic fear-mongering about immigrants and tangents including musings about his hair.The former president also repeated his aggressive attack on former Republican representative Liz Cheney, one day after he said she should be under fire with rifles “shooting at her”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/trump-rally-warren-michigan Author : Victoria Bekiempis in Warren Publish date : 2024-11-02 01:13:20 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Muhammad Hassam Ali, 17, was killed by stranger after a four-minute conversation in city centreA 15-year-old boy who followed a teenager he did not know through Birmingham city centre and stabbed him to death after a four-minute conversation has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years.Muhammad Hassam Ali, known as Ali, was 17 when he died in hospital on 20 January, hours after he and his friend were confronted by two masked 15-year-old boys they had never met as they sat in Victoria Square, drinking hot chocolate and chatting about cricket. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/02/boy-15-who-fatally-stabbed-teenager-in-birmingham-jailed-for-life

It emerged from the slime of the sunshine state during Bjelke-Petersen’s oppressive regime. Now it’s back – but can it survive more sensitive times?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA man whose pseudonym is Johnny La Rue is holding a yellowed magazine with two toad-headed lovers embracing on the front. He reads aloud a headline that would likely trigger a firestorm on social media were it written today.“Who wrote that?!” he exclaims.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/02/respawned-queensland-magazine-the-cane-toad-times-takes-aim-at-a-post-truth-world Author : Joe Hinchliffe Publish date : 2024-11-01 23:00:59

Wooster Rancy, 21, accused in death of Sgt Sarah Roque, 23, whose body was found at Fort Leonard Wood in MissouriA US army soldier has been charged with murder in the death of a fellow service member at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, the military announced Thursday.The army office of Special Trial Counsel charged the 21-year-old specialist Wooster Rancy on Wednesday with murder and obstructing justice in the death of 23-year-old Sgt Sarah Roque. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/army-soldier-murder-charges Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2024-11-01 21:57:45 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Morales and current president are locked into a standoff for ruling party’s nomination in next year’s presidential contestSupporters of Bolivia’s ex-president Evo Morales stormed a barracks in the central Chapare region and took around 20 soldiers hostage, military sources said on Friday, marking a dramatic escalation in their standoff with the state.The hostage situation comes nearly three weeks after backers of Morales – the country’s first Indigenous leader – began blocking roads to prevent his arrest on what he calls trumped-up rape charges aimed at thwarting his political comeback. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/01/bolivia-evo-morales-police-officers-taken-hostage Author : Agence France-Press in

Pennsylvania event organizer says it doesn’t ‘share values’ presented by the float denounced as racist by NAACPA Pittsburgh-area Halloween parade’s depiction of Kamala Harris in chains and being dragged by a vehicle displaying Donald Trump’s name is being condemned as racist – and has prompted an apology from the event organizer.Photos of Wednesday night’s parade in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, that circulated widely across social media show a person dressed as the Democratic vice-president shackled and walking behind a golf cart-like vehicle. The vehicle – a float in a Halloween parade organized by the Mount Pleasant volunteer fire department – is

Russell Bruce Moncrief, 75, faces counts of human trafficking and racketeering over ‘sickening scheme’A bail bondsman is facing criminal charges in Florida for allegedly approaching incarcerated women and offering to bond them out if they give him sex in return.Russell Bruce Moncrief faces counts of human trafficking and racketeering – along with accusations that he used his authority within the criminal justice system to prey on particularly vulnerable women, said a recent news release from the office of the state’s attorney general, Ashley Moody. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/florida-bail-bondsman-sex Author : Ramon Antonio Vargas Publish date : 2024-11-01 19:52:29

Daniel Khalife, 23, says he absconded because he was ‘terrified’ of being locked up with dangerous offendersA former British soldier has told a jury he did not hand himself in after he escaped from prison because he was “finally demonstrating what a foolish idea it was” to imprison someone with his “skill set”.Daniel Khalife, 23, told the court he absconded from Wandsworth prison while on remand because he was “terrified” of being locked up with “serious sex offenders” and “terrorists” who wanted to kill him, and that he did not think his imprisonment would be in the public interest. Continue

Exclusive: about one in five offers involve meat and dairy and one in ten processed meat despite known health risksSupermarkets are using multibuy promotional deals to encourage shoppers to buy meat and processed meat, despite the products being linked to a heightened risk of cancer, research reveals.Almost one in five (18%) of multibuy offers in major British supermarkets involve meat and dairy products, and one in ten (11%) processed meat such as ham, bacon and sausages. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/01/uk-supermarkets-using-multibuy-deals-to-encourage-sales-of-meat-study-finds Author : Denis Campbell Health policy editor Publish date : 2024-11-01 18:03:49 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Defra report warns there could be ‘health disbenefits’ with 29% of vapers reverting or relapsing to cigarettesUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have been told that a plan to ban the sale of disposable vapes by next summer could lead to some users “reverting or relapsing” back to cigarette smoking.The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said vape usage in England had grown by more than 400% between 2012 and 2023, with 9.1% of the British public buying and using the products. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/01/disposable-vapes-ban-could-push-users-back-smoking-defra Author : Aletha Adu Political correspondent Publish date : 2024-11-01

Family of Samantha-Jane Ramsay say she made allegation 10 years before police say first complaint was madePolice dismissed a teenage girl who reported an alleged sexual assault by Mohamed Al Fayed in 1995, saying they would add her name to a pile of similar claims.Last month the Metropolitan police said the first report of sexual assault by the Harrods owner had been made in 2005. After the family of Samantha-Jane Ramsay, who has since died, came forward, the force said it had no computer record of her report but it may have been paper-based and not transferred. Continue reading... Source

At least two people still trapped under rubble in Novi Sad, interior minister says, and two more in hospitalAt least eight people were killed on Friday after part of an outdoor roof collapsed at a train station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, the country’s interior minister said.“Eight bodies have been recovered, eight people have died … two people are in hospital, one of whom is in critical condition,” Ivica Dačić told reporters. The minister said rescuers were in contact with two people who were still trapped beneath the rubble. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/01/roof-collapse-serbia-train-station-novi-sad Author : Agence

Thieves steal two prints and leave two behind after ripping them from their frames as they were too big for their carThieves blew open the door of an art gallery in the southern Netherlands and stole two works from a famous series of screen prints by Andy Warhol, leaving two others badly damaged in the street as they fled the scene of the botched heist.The gallery’s owner, Mark Peet Visser, said the thieves had attempted to steal all four works from a 1985 series by the US pop artist called Reigning Queens, which features portraits of the then-queens of the

Logan MacPhail, then 16, murdered 15-year-old Holly Newton in Hexham in January 2023Coercive control red flags were there – but Holly Newton was too young to see themAn obsessed and jealous teenager who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in an alleyway has been detained for life and told he will serve a minimum of 17 years.Logan MacPhail murdered 15-year-old Holly Newton in Hexham, Northumberland, in January 2023. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/01/teenager-who-killed-ex-girlfriend-jailed-for-life-logan-macphail-holly-newton-northumberland Author : Mark Brown North of England correspondent Publish date : 2024-11-01 13:52:33 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Those killed include more than 20 people from two attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central GazaThe Israel Defence Force has shared pictures of Nazi memorabilia it says it found in “civilian homes exploited by Hezbollah” in Lebanon.The IDF shared photos of a book with a swastika and the name “Hassan Salih” inscribed on the front, as well as a Nazi pennant flag and figurine of Adolf Hitler, but it did not provide any more evidence or details of the find. The Guardian could not independently verify the images. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/nov/01/middle-east-crisis-live-netanyahu-says-ability-to-counter-threats-from-lebanon-key-to-any-ceasefire-deal Author : Hayden Vernon

Weather agency says four regions remain under amber alert because of risk of rains and stormsThe death toll from the floods in Spain this week has risen to 205, as residents in the Valencia region were warned to brace for more rain and an additional 500 soldiers were earmarked to help with the rescue operations.Authorities in Valencia raised the death toll there to 202 on Friday afternoon, bringing the overall toll to at least 205 in what was the deadliest episode of flooding in Spain’s modern history. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/01/more-rain-forecast-as-500-extra-troops-mobilised-in-spanish-flood-disaster Author : Ashifa Kassam Publish date :

Harris and Trump campaign in key swing states of Arizona and Nevada as only five days remain until electionOn Thursday, Trump called former Rep Liz Cheney “a very dumb individual”, and said: “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”Cheney has vocally opposed Trump since the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and has become a surrogate for his Democratic opponent, vice-president Kamala Harris. Continue reading... Source link :

Darren Jones says ‘markets always respond to budgets’ and says Office for Budget Responsibility reviewed plans as extra borrowing sees markets jitterReform UK is facing a schism over its approach to Tommy Robinson’s supporters, after two high-profile party figures said it was wrong to disavow those who went to a weekend rally backing the far-right leader.Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform, said earlier this week the party “want nothing to do with” Robinson and “all of that lot”. Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, also said after the summer riots that he had never had anything to do with “the

Heightened risk Cádiz river could overflow, with yellow and orange rainfall warnings for southern regionsThe low-pressure system responsible for Spain’s most devastating floods in decades in Valencia also set new rainfall records across south-eastern Spain. In Jerez de la Frontera, 115mm of rain fell in just 24 hours on Wednesday – the wettest day on record for the southern Spanish city. The deluge caused widespread flooding and road closures, and there is a heightened risk that the River Barbate in Cádiz could overflow as more rain is forecast through Friday and into the weekend.While the rare red warning issued on

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as investors weigh implications of Rachel Reeves’s budgetThe biggest mover on the FTSE 100 this morning is Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of products ranging from Dettol to Strepsils.Reckitt’s shares are up 10% after a US court ruling boosted its baby formula subsidiary, Mead Johnson.Abbott and Reckitt unit Mead Johnson are not responsible for a young boy’s debilitating intestinal disease, a jury found on Thursday in a lawsuit accusing them of failing to warn of their premature baby formulas’ risks, a victory for the two companies following large losses in similar trials.At

Early results show Mokgweetsi Masisi’s Botswana Democratic party on track to lose by landslideBotswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has conceded defeat after preliminary results showed his party had lost its parliamentary majority in this week’s election, ending nearly six decades in power.The private Mmegi newspaper and state radio reported that the ruling Botswana Democratic party (BDP) had lost by a landslide, citing results from more than half the constituencies. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/01/botswana-president-mokgweetsi-masisi-concedes-defeat-election-six-decade-rule Author : Reuters in Gaborone Publish date : 2024-11-01 07:53:55 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Sector says review shows need for reform of funders and providers, however experts question potential selection bias of voluntary data Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPrivate hospitals say an Australia government review of the sector’s financial viability show there is a need for structural reform of the relationship between funders and providers, but experts question whether the voluntary data provided to the review proves there is a “crisis”.The federal health department announced the review in June following contract disputes between private hospital companies and health insurers that

Investigation under way into whether mechanical failure resulted in deaths of German shepherds Xtra and Soldier in SydneyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales police are investigating whether engine failure led to a police car’s air conditioning failing and the subsequent death of two police dogs inside a special “dog pod”.The German shepherds Xtra and Soldier were found dead inside the police vehicle by their handler on Thursday at about 12.30pm.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/01/nsw-police-dogs-die-found-dead-in-car Author :