57 m. ago Scotland’s housing crisis is one of complacency and an absence of imagination

Until we rebuild public imagination and civic confidence, no amount of policy will fix our housing problem, writes Frazer Macdonald Hay

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4 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Drones hit Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery

Russian attacks kill four on Saturday; Serbian government faces deadline to oust Russian owners from state oil company. What we know on day 1,362 Ukraine’s army said on Saturday it struck a Russian oil refinery in the Ryazan region near Moscow, as “part of efforts to reduce the enemy’s ability to launch missile and bomb strikes”. Explosions and a large fire were observed at the site, said the military. Ryazan is located about 200km (125 miles) south-east of Moscow.Russian officials often do not admit such attacks have succeeded, and the Ryazan governor, Pavel Malkov, adopted the standard line that Ukrainian drones were shot down but debris happened to hit the target. “Falling debris caused a fire on the premises of one enterprise,” Malkov said. A wave of 25 Ukrainian drones attacked the region, Malkov said.Officials in southern Ukraine said four people were killed by Russian attacks on Saturday. Prosecutors in the Kherson region said “three civilians are known to have been killed” i...

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4 h. ago Four dead and five injured after boat believed to be carrying migrants capsizes off San Diego coast

Officials searched throughout the night for survivors after the boat capsized off Imperial Beach

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5 h. ago Revealed: Indonesia's bid to return drugs mule gran Lindsay Sandiford to the UK in exchange for monster who raped 136 men

The demand for Sinaga's release was made in March as British officials in Indonesia prepared to repatriate Sandiford - sentenced to death in 2012 for smuggling £1.6million of cocaine

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6 h. ago Cancer weekly horoscope: What your star sign has in store for November 16 – 22

OUR much-loved astrologer Meg sadly died in 2023 but her column will be kept alive by her friend and protégé Maggie Innes. Read on to see what’s written in the stars for you today. Sign up for the Mystic Meg newsletter. Your info will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy CANCER JUNE 22 - JULY 22...

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6 h. ago Taurus weekly horoscope: What your star sign has in store for November 16 – 22

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6 h. ago Aries weekly horoscope: What your star sign has in store for November 16 – 22

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8 h. ago Britain's roads to be made narrower to stop drivers from overtaking cyclists in latest war on motorists

Official guidance on the Government's website states lanes on local roads should either shrink no more than 10ft 8in wide or expand to at least 12ft 10in. Critics they are far more likely to shrink.

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8 h. ago Drivers stuck in car park for four hours after traffic light fault

One woman said she had been stuck in the Cabot Circus car park for nearly four hours and that there was 'no communication from anyone in the car park who works here'

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10 h. ago Federal officials confirm Homeland Security officers are in Charlotte for immigration enforcement

Federal officials confirmed that a surge of immigration enforcement in North Carolina’s largest city had begun as agents were seen making arrests in multiple locations

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11 h. ago Four dead and five injured after boat capsizes off San Diego

Officials searched throughout the night for survivors after the boat capsized off Imperial Beach

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13 h. ago ‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates

From Texas and Iowa to Arkansas, faith leaders are wading into politics to counter the rise of Christian nationalismHe grew up on a farm in Indiana, the son of a factory worker and eldest of five children. He studied at Liberty, a Christian university founded by the conservative pastor and televangelist Jerry Falwell, and recalls wearing a T-shirt expressing opposition to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.Two decades later, Justin Douglas is running for the US Congress – as a Democrat. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Massive explosion at fireworks factory in Pakistan as 4 killed in blast with others injured

A blast at a fireworks factory in southern Pakistan has killed at least four people and injured 11 others, police and hospital officials said. The cause of the explosion has not yet been identified

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16 h. ago COP30 makes individual climate actions seem small. That's why experts say to work in groups

Climate choices aren’t just individual actions

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16 h. ago Chuck Schumer should quit – but would his imaginary friends agree? | Arwa Mahdawi

The US government was shut down for weeks – and then Democrats shrugged their shoulders and gave upChuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, has a pair of very sweet imaginary friends. They’re a middle-class couple called Joe and Eileen Bailey and they live on Long Island. At one point the imaginary couple, who feature in Schumer’s 2007 book, Positively American, were called the O’Reillys. According to the Hill, one Schumer aide said the name then was changed because the publisher thought O’Reilly was “too ethnic” for mass consumption. Another aide said that claim was false, and Schumer just wanted a name that “sounded more national”. Naming strategy aside, the key point here is that Schumer has said he runs all his policy decisions by this completely fictional couple. He’s referred to them hundreds of times throughout his political career.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Donald Trump boasted to friends about 'banging' his assistant, Epstein email claims

The email was released as part of a 23,000 document trove of communications and papers handed to Congress by Epstein's estate.

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17 h. ago Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister

Sonia Guajajara tells Cop30 the rights of traditional communities must be maintained in the face of exploitation by the mining industryCountries must recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as a key component of tackling the climate crisis, and civil society must help in the defence of such lands against mining interests, Brazil’s minister for Indigenous peoples has said.Sonia Guajajara, a longtime Indigenous activist before being appointed a minister by President Lula da Silva, said: “[Among the goals of the Cop30 summit is] a request that countries recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as climate policy.” Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Massive explosion next to major Argentina airport sees flights cancelled as 22 are rushed to hospital

A blaze took hold last night in an industrial area south of Buenos Aires, the country's capital, officials said, as firefighters battled the flames.

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19 h. ago Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration using her music speaks volumes | Alim Kheraj

Official Trump social media accounts have been The Life of a Showgirl snippets to promote his agenda. Why has Swift, who once wanted ‘to be on the right side of history’, said nothing?In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has used music from Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in three posts on social media. The first, shared by the official White House account on TikTok, was a patriotic slide show of images set to lead single The Fate of Ophelia. As Swift sings “pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes”, the video cuts to pictures of the US flag, President Trump, the vice-president, JD Vance, and the first and second ladies. The second and third were posted by Team Trump, the official account for the Trump Campaign. One, set to Father Figure, riffs on the lyric “this empire belongs to me” with the caption “this empire belongs to @President Donald J Trump”, while the other, celebrating Melania Trump winning something called the Patriot of the...

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20 h. ago Father of teen whose death was linked to social media has ‘lost faith’ in Ofcom

Ian Russell says watchdog lacks ‘urgency’ and is not willing to use its powers ‘to the extent required’ The father of Molly Russell, a British teenager who killed herself after viewing harmful online content, has called for a change in leadership at the UK’s communications watchdog after losing faith in its ability to make the internet safer for children.Ian Russell, whose 14 year-old daughter took her own life in 2017, said Ofcom had “repeatedly” demonstrated that it does not grasp the urgency of keeping under-18s safe online and was failing to implement new digital laws forcefully. Continue reading...

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