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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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 Devon and Cornwall police launches new £350,000 boat to stop people traffickers targeting their coastline

The Home Office hopes the vessel will act as a deterrent to organised crime groups and allow officials to intercept and board vessels when dealing with high-level threats.

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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 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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6 d. ago Deadly super storm with 83mph winds leaves nine dead and dozens missing as typhoon Bualoi hits Vietnam

A DEADLY super storm packing 83mph winds smashed into Vietnam, killing nine people, leaving dozens missing and forcing mass evacuations. Typhoon Bualoi made landfall just after midnight on Monday in Ha Tinh province, ripping off roofs, toppling power poles and flooding highways. Authorities had already evacuated 28,500 people, grounded fishing fleets and shut down four...

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7 d. ago The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few | Editorial

Britain risks devolving its digital destiny to Silicon Valley. As a TUC manifesto argues, those affected must have a greater say in shaping the workplace of the futureIn The Making of the English Working Class, the leftwing historian EP Thompson made a point of challenging the condescension of history towards luddism, the original anti-tech movement. The early 19th-century croppers and weavers who rebelled against new technologies should not be written off as “blindly resisting machinery”, wrote Thompson in his classic history. They were opposing a laissez-faire logic that dismissed its disastrous impact on their lives.A distinction worth bearing in mind as Britain rolls out the red carpet for US big tech, thereby outsourcing a modern industrial revolution still in its infancy. Photographers, coders and writers, for example, would sympathise with the powerlessness felt by working people who saw customary protections swept away in a search for enhanced productivity and profit. Unlice...

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7 d. ago Typhoon Bualoi latest: Vietnam evacuates thousands and shuts airports as storm nears landfall

Typhoon Bualoi is expected to hit central Vietnam this evening

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7 d. ago Vietnam evacuates thousands and shuts airports as Typhoon Bualoi nears landfall

Vietnam has evacuated thousands as Typhoon Bualoi closed in, moving faster than expected with landfall forecast around 6 p.m. The storm moving in Sunday packed winds up to 133 kph, dangerous surges and heavy rain that could trigger flash floods and landslides

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9 d. ago From Israel to JK Rowling, has Emma Watson taken her final form as the millennial people’s princess?

After years out of the spotlight, the actor-activist returns with striking candour in an exhaustive podcast. In the process, she’s carved out a surprising new role as the millennial people’s princess: almost perfect, but powerfully human, argues Hannah Ewens

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1 week ago Former FBI director James Comey indicted for making false statement to Congress and obstruction of justice

Indictment comes after Trump instructed US attorney general to prosecute Comey and others he considers political foesUS politics – latest updatesJames Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump’s most frequent targets, was indicted on Thursday on one count of making a false statement to Congress and one count of obstruction of justice, according to a person familiar with the matter, in the latest move in the president’s expansive retribution campaign against his political adversaries.“No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case,” Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, tweeted on Thursday. Continue reading...

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