4 h. ago Badenoch warned plans to ditch ECHR is ‘death wish’ for Tory party

Conservative leader has taken her party to the hard right with the announcement they would leave the European Convention on Human Rights and deport 150,000 illegal immigrants a year

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6 h. ago Badenoch warned plans to ditch ECHR show ‘death wish’ for Tory party

The Tory leader has taken her party to the hard right with the announcement that they would leave the European Convention of Human Rights and deport 150,000 illegal immigrants a year

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11 h. ago UK politics live: Badenoch claims deportation plan is credible – but can’t say where 150,000 migrants a year will go

Tory leader calls question ‘irrelevant’ as she is set to announce series of hardline policies on first day of Conservative Party conference

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12 h. ago Typhoon Matmo: China evacuates almost 350,000 people as powerful storm makes landfall

Flights, trains and businesses shut down across Guangdong and Hainan as authorities raise top-level warning

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14 h. ago Typhoon Matmo: China evacuates 150,000 people as powerful storm makes landfall

Flights, trains and businesses shut down across Guangdong and Hainan as authorities raise top-level warning

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17 h. ago Kemi Badenoch sets out Tory plans to deport 150,000 migrants a year with Trump

A Removals Force modelled on the ICE agency would be given £1.6 billion and ‘sweeping new powers’ including facial recognition without warning to spot illegal immigrants

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26 h. ago Conservatives to pledge £1.6 billion ‘Removals Force’ to deport 150,000 a year

The Removals Force will aim to deport 150,000 people every year

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26 h. ago Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigrationThe Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands.The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Storm Amy batters Britain with cars smashed and trees downed as weather warning extended

Tens of thousands of people were left without power on Saturday

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33 h. ago OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidationOpenAI launched the latest iteration of its artificial intelligence-powered video generator on Tuesday, adding a social feed that allows people to share their realistic videos.Within hours of Sora 2’s, release, though, many of the videos populating the feed and spilling over to older social media platforms depicted copyrighted characters in compromising situations as well as graphic scenes of violence and racism. OpenAI’s own terms of service for Sora as well as ChatGPT’s image or text generation prohibit content that “promotes violence” or, more broadly, “causes harm”. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Met Office urges public to prepare emergency kit as Storm Amy wipes out power

The British public have been urged to prepare an emergency kit, with over 20,000 people currently without power as Storm Amy batters the UK - here's what you need to know

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53 h. ago Met Office tells EVERYONE in Britain to prepare three essential items

As Storm Amy is expected to bring heavy rain and wind to all of Britain this weekend, the Met Office has urged people to prepare ahead due to the risk of power cuts

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55 h. ago US military under fire in Virginia, but were Trump and Hegseth shooting blanks?

President and his defence chief took aim at the ‘fat generals’, but some doubted there was much substance to the swagger on showThis week marked an inflection point in Donald Trump’s relentless politicisation of the US armed forces, as he delivered a partisan – if scattershot – campaign speech to the very room of people he is not supposed to: the commanders of the most powerful military in the world.For those declaring a five-alarm authoritarian fire in the US, there was plenty of smoke: the anti-woke rhetoric that has become a commonplace of the political right, the threats to summarily dismiss the generals who disagree with him, the transparent pleasure at deploying the military to perform police actions in major US cities. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago UK households urged to lock all doors and windows from now until 8pm – here's why

Brits are being urged to lock all doors and windows by 3pm with the Met Office issuing amber weather warnings to some parts of the country as Storm Amy makes landfall

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56 h. ago Madagascar president who took power in coup accuses protesters of trying to trigger another one

Young people take to streets to voice anger at water and power cuts, and corruption in political systemMadagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, who first came to power in a coup in 2009, has condemned protests calling for his resignation, saying that demonstrators were trying to trigger a coup and were funded by unspecified foreign governments and organisations.Youth-led demonstrations on the Indian Ocean island started on 25 September, initially driven by outrage over water and power cuts, but have grown into demands for action against corruption and reform of the political system. At least 22 people have been killed by security forces, according to the UN, which officials denied. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Red weather alert issued in Ireland as Storm Amy approaches UK

Storm Amy has officially made landfall in Ireland, bringing fierce winds and heavy rain across the country

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3 d. ago Visions of resistance: women fighting to save their homeland – in pictures

The theme of this year’s Women By Women exhibition, Rooted in Resistance, is to showcase images of women defending their land and communities from destruction – by powerful people and corporations or the climate crisis. The pictures, taken by female photographers from Nepal, Cambodia, Brazil and Nigeria, will be on show at the Oxo Gallery in London from 9 to 12 October Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Ted Cruz mocks MTG’s ‘not suicidal’ post with claims ‘powerful people’ are trying to silence her over Epstein files

The MAGA firebrand urged her followers to investigate should ‘something happen’ to her

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5 d. ago 'Because of 20/20 Levels, I’m not just surviving — I am building something meaningful'

As a new £150,000 pledge lifts our campaign total to £950,000, we hear from Samuel, who was lured into a cult-like church when unemployed — but escaped and found work thanks to 20/20 Levels, one of the organisations we are funding

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5 d. ago China court sentences 11 people to death over alleged role in family

Another five people given suspended death sentences over alleged role in gang that operated scam centres and illegal gambling worth $1.4bnA court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their alleged roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations worth more than $1.4bn, and for the deaths of workers who disobeyed them.The Wenzhou intermediate people’s court on Monday sentenced 11 members of the powerful Ming family in Kokkang, Myanmar to death while another five were handed death sentences suspended for two years. Continue reading...

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