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Is Iran charging a toll to allow oil traffic through Hormuz?
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Man caught with 300 tortoises and 77 parrots bound for Malta at Sicilian port
Italian police say Maltese citizen under investigation for smuggling after animals found packed in car A Maltese man is facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly attempting to transport 300 tortoises and 77 parrots from Sicily to Malta. The animals were found packed into a car near the boarding area for a Malta-bound catamaran during an inspection at the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the local unit of Italy’s financial police squad said on Monday. Continue reading...
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15-year-old loses hand during French schools protest as clashes with police continue – Europe live
Hundreds of schools in France remain closed amid planned demonstrations across the country The conservative People’s Party is very pleased with the announcement. “At last,” they say on their X, with a slick election video – set to the EU’s anthem “Ode to Joy” – to go along with it. Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election for 29 November, just days after rightwing parties blocked his minority government’s emergency measures on housing amid widespread protests ( 9:10 ). The election will take place on Sunday, 29 November, the earliest possible date procedurally. In a fierce address, Sánchez framed the election as choice between “regressing” under a “far-right coalition” or “keeping moving forward” with his progressive administration ( 9:04 , 9:09 , 9:17 ). He said the election will be about who will guide Spain through a period of disruption amid high political tens
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No10 insists UK military base RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers
Downing Street offered more details about the redeployment of US bombers from the British airbase Yesterday, as a gimmick, the Tories were handing out “Bottler Burnham” bottles of water (“0% strength”) to make a point about Burnham supposedly cancelling plans for an early election under pressure from the Tories. It is a version of a stunt they pulled in 2008 when they gave journalists bottles of a “Bottler Brown” beer. (Gordon Brown did pull plans for an early election at the last minute; this time the jibe is unfair, because there were no Burnham plans for an early election.) The new bottles feature the image of Burnham produced by the Manchester artist Stan Chow . The SNP’s effective ban on new nuclear energy in Scotland flies in the face of common-sense. No part of Great Britain should be missing out on plans for new nuclear renewal. Continue reading...
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Before UK Greens, who else has equated Zionism with racism?
Israel condemns the move as the party's vote causes an uproar, including among party members.
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Greens pitch Zohran Mamdani-style $25.1bn plan to nationalise 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets
Former MP and Greens Institute head, Max Chandler-Mather, says proposal for publicly owned supermarket chain will ease grocery prices Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast More than 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets would be nationalised, and hundreds of government grocery stores opened, under a $25bn plan being put forward by former Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather. Channelling New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan for publicly owned grocery stores, Chandler-Mather, the boss of the party’s thinktank, the Greens Institute, wants to use new forced divestiture laws to take over major supermarket sites and three distribution centres. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...
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Bombs preventing rescue of kidnapped youths, Nigerian police say
The father of one of the 19 young abductees tells the BBC he hasn't eaten in three days out of worry.