The Guardian

Smithsonian Institution secretary to retire amid Trump attacks on museum independence

‘I have to be honest, it has been stressful,’ Lonnie Bunch III saysThe Smithsonian Institution’s secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, will retire at the end of the year amid Donald Trump’s attacks on the museum’s content and independence.Bunch, who was appointed in 2019 as the first African American to lead the museums, cited personal reasons for departing, while acknowledging the pressure that the president’s attacks on the Smithsonian’s depictions of US history had taken. Continue reading...

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The Guardian

US federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi case

Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights A US appellate court has decided that the federal constitution does not guarantee a right to clean water.That legal opinion came in the form of a decision on Friday from the fifth circuit court of appeals to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a 2022 lawsuit from several Jackson, Mississippi, residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their constitutional rights. Continu

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WSJ World News

Opinion | Taiwan’s Drone Bill Signals Stronger Defense

Taipei’s investment shows that the island is serious about deterring Beijing.

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The Guardian

Glastonbury tickets break £400 for first time as on-sale date is announced

Tickets set to cost £408 at return for Somerset festival after a fallow year, a jump from £378.50 in 2025After a fallow year in 2026, Glastonbury festival fans can start to get excited – and nervous – about tickets for 2027’s event going on sale.The price breaks £400 for the first time, at £408 including a £5 booking fee, a rise from the 2025 cost of £378.50. The usual scramble to acquire them – with all the attendant frantic spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups – will begin at 9am on Sunday 4 Octob

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WSJ World News

Opinion | Who Really Rejected Peace in the Middle East?

Hint: Despite what the leading candidate for United Nations secretary-general has said, it wasn’t Israel.

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WSJ World News

European Nations Impose Trade Bans on Israel Over West Bank Settlements

Israel condemns the moves and retaliates against the U.K., the first to announce measures.

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BBC World

Fourteen go on trial over deadliest Channel small boats disaster

At least 30 men, women and children drowned when their dinghy capsized on 24 November 2021.

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The Guardian

Victims of deadly Amazon cargo plane crash identified, as two more remain critical

The victims, employees of an aircraft cleaning company, were in a van when the plane crashed into itAt least five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airportOfficials in Florida on Tuesday identified the five people killed in Saturday’s Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami international airport – and said two more remained hospitalized in critical condition.At a morning news conference, the Miami-Dade sheriff, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, also said both pilots of the Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767,

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The Guardian

UK airport disruption: what are your rights if you have been affected?

Air traffic control issue affecting airports across UK on Tuesday has been resolved but disruption could continue into WednesdayFlight disruption across UK continues after air traffic control technical issueBusiness live – latest updatesAirports across the UK including Manchester, Birmingham and all those in London were hit by problems at air traffic control on Tuesday.The technical issue at arose shortly before 2pm and was resolved about three hours later. By that time nearly 300 flights had be

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The Guardian

Trump renames places and poses as superhero in bizarre social media blitz

Trump passed the long weekend posting a torrent of memes and musings on his Truth Social platformThe long weekend may have proved too long for Donald Trump, who passed the time by musing about annexing other countries, unilaterally renaming places he’s not allowed to rename and turning himself into a superhero.Amid the torrent of memes and posts by the president on his Truth Social platform over the Labor Day holiday weekend was a bizarre AI-generated video depicting Trump as the Green Lantern D

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The Guardian

Ukraine’s prosecutor general quits after anti-corruption agents raid his office

Ruslan Kravchenko resigns over allegations some of his officials were engaged in large-scale money launderingUkraine’s prosecutor general has resigned after investigators used ladders to raid his office in connection with a major corruption scandal that threatens to embarrass Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Ruslan Kravchenko quit his post on Monday after allegations that some of his officials were involved in large-scale money laundering. They received cash to protect call centres involved in illegal phone

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The Guardian

Israel to close British consulate in Jerusalem after sanctions announced

Several MPs also banned from Israel after UK steps up condemnation of settlements and announces sweeping sanctionsUK politics live – latest updatesIsrael has ordered the closure of the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem in response to sweeping UK sanctions on goods from illegal settlements.Reacting to Ed Miliband’s description of violent Jewish settler activity on the occupied Palestinian West Bank as “ethnic cleansing” carried out with the tacit backing of the Netanyahu government, Is

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BBC World

Where is Israel's proposed West Bank settlement the UK opposes?

BBC's Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from an area close to Israel's proposed site in the occupied West Bank.

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WSJ World News

Opinion | What Went Wrong After 9/11

A series of errors over a quarter-century leaves the U.S. in dire need of rebalancing.

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BBC World

British widow faces deportation from Sweden after 22 years

A 78-year-old British woman is facing deportation for failing to fill out a Brexit residence application on time.

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The Guardian

Hurricane Lowell brings threat of floods, mudslides and tornadoes to Hawaii

Islands of Kauai and Ni’ihau are under hurricane warning, while Oahu is under a tropical storm warningDamaging winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Lowell were pelting Hawaii’s western islands on Tuesday, bringing the threat of floods, mudslides and tornadoes.The islands of Kauai and Ni’ihau are under a hurricane warning, while Oahu, the state’s most populated island with close to 1 million residents, was under a tropical storm warning. Continue reading...

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The Guardian

Barnaby Webber’s death in Nottingham attack was ‘potentially preventable’, inquiry told

More rapid use of blood products may have raised chance of 19-year-old making it to hospital, though chance was low, says counselThe death of a 19-year-old student who was killed in the Nottingham attacks in 2023 was “potentially preventable”, a public inquiry into the incident has heard.Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, a 65-year-old caretaker, were fatally stabbed by Valdo Calocane, a paranoid schizophrenic, on 13 June 2023. Continue reading...

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NY Times World

Hungary Expels 10 Russian Diplomats, Signaling a Shift

The housecleaning puts the new government more in line with how European allies relate to Moscow, tempering cozy ties developed under Viktor Orban’s administration.

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BBC World

Suspect held in Germany after spate of sabotage attacks on power grid

The suspect had reportedly claimed responsibility for attacks on electricity substations in letters.

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The Guardian

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer urges to Trump consider pardon after mistrial

Attorney hopes Trump would ‘consider a pardon’ given ‘the type of person she is’ and ‘what she has been through’Murder trial ends in dramatic deadlock – what comes nextThe lawyer of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her three young children, has said he hopes Donald Trump will pardon his client after her trial recently ended with a deadlocked jury.Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, made the appeal on a televised interview on the ABC show Good Morning America on Tuesday

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