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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 21m
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action crowdfunder for UK supreme court challenge blocked due to US sanctions
Exclusive: CrowdJustice platform says US firm Stripe, its payment processor, ‘cannot support accounts or transactions’ linked to group
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h
‘Self-healing’ coach who was banned from working in Australia to speak in UK
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‘Self-healing’ coach who was banned from working in Australia to speak in UK
Barbara O’Neill has previously claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate soda A controversial proponent of natural remedies who has been banned from providing any health services in Australia is due to embark on a series of events in the UK and Ireland despite criticism from scientists, health charities and academic bodies. Barbara O’Neill, who describes herself as a naturopath and nutritionist, lectures internationally on “natural self-healing”. Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h
Royal College of Nursing cuts ties with Israeli drug company
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Royal College of Nursing cuts ties with Israeli drug company
Britain’s nursing union axes Teva UK as commercial partner over links to Israel’s military and corporate track record Britain’s nursing union has cut its ties with an Israeli drug company over the firm’s links to the country’s military and track record of corporate misconduct. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has axed Teva UK as a commercial partner and as sponsor of a forthcoming event on migraine and headaches at the union’s London headquarters. Continue reading...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 12h
Etats-Unis : après l’exécution ratée de Christa Pike, des suites judiciaires incertaines et un impossible débat sur la peine de mort
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Etats-Unis : après l’exécution ratée de Christa Pike, des suites judiciaires incertaines et un impossible débat sur la peine de mort
Cette condamnée à mort de 50 ans, dont l’affaire a été fortement médiatisée, a été hospitalisée mercredi soir dans le Tennessee au terme de deux heures de calvaire, après avoir survécu à deux injections de barbituriques, un échec retentissant pour le système américain d’administration de la peine capitale.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 12h
Le gouvernement dans l’engrenage d’une mobilisation lycéenne hors de contrôle
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Le gouvernement dans l’engrenage d’une mobilisation lycéenne hors de contrôle
Le ministre de l’éducation nationale, Edouard Geffray, doit recevoir vendredi les associations lycéennes et de parents d’élèves, après dix jours de manifestations aux abords des établissements scolaires, parfois brutalement réprimées par les forces de l’ordre.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12h
Cool history map shows the approximate dates (BC) of the adoption of the spoke-wheeled chariot. Source: buff.ly/2PPtgdl
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 10h
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... US deploys thousands of troops to Middle East as Donald Trump weighs strikes on Iran
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US deploys thousands of troops to Middle East as Donald Trump weighs strikes on Iran
Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt expected to arrive in the region by the end of November, a US official says
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 22h
This journal article on ancient trade networks connecting Roman and Asian empires features a cool map showing the trade routes between China and Rome. I love history maps like that! Source: buff.ly/3movjV8
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Does the EU want Britain back? Yes, @sandrogozi.bsky.social tells Andrew Marr.
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.ft.com/content/b847... China’s bigger, better batteries
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China’s bigger, better batteries
It’s the world’s fastest-growing power technology — and Beijing is dominant
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike execution fails: What next when a lethal injection is botched? aje.news/jqrlvw
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Christa Pike execution fails: What next when a lethal injection is botched?
Only woman on Tennessee 'death row' is in hospital after two injections failed to kill her.
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Catalan News @catalannews.com · 01/10/2026
🚗 | Spain's new traffic rules: what changes for drivers, riders and pedestrians? Motorcyclists required to wear gloves, while minimum age of 15 for electric scooter riders
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Spain's new traffic rules: what changes for drivers, riders and pedestrians?
Motorcyclists required to wear gloves, while minimum age of 15 for electric scooter riders
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...I hereby give notice I will make this point every day until further notice. Almost all CEE countries are now net importers of labour and they've converged with EU average incomes. If you're expecting a big surge of CEE immigrants because of FoM, for good or ill, you're mistaken. 2/2
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Polling from June. Wonder if it shifts now the debate is more open. Also do respondents know what Schengen is or is it a proxy for freedom of movement? On the latter.... 1/2
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Professor John Mersheimer cooking Victoria Nuland and Mike Pompeo. Both have been responsible for more deaths globally, than the Iran, and that isn’t an opinion.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“US sanctions placed on countries between 1971-2021, has been directly responsible for 38 million deaths globally” - Professor John Mersheimer.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Manchester City chair shielded by diplomatic immunity ft.trib.al/TFeIHUr
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Manchester City chair shielded by diplomatic immunity
Khaldoon al-Mubarak was granted immunity six years ago, protecting him from potential legal proceedings in the UK
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Big Tech out-lobbies European companies in Brussels ft.trib.al/X3oqTgo
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Big Tech out-lobbies European companies in Brussels
US corporations including Google, Apple and Amazon use their influence to push back against EU digital bloc rules
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
492/ "For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the US since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran" "120 of them were children & 26 were teachers" www.dropsitenews.com/p/minab-scho...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
Building of the Pep supremacy is an era that will be defined by sham-ball
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Building of the Pep supremacy is an era that will be defined by sham-ball
Guardiola’s success at Manchester City was underpinned by financial cheating. Now he can only double down on his adherence to the owners
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“A mother described to me that she had prepared her child’s snack and placed it in her backpack, kissed her face, and sent her to school. What was returned to her was her child’s backpack with an uneaten sandwich.”
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So what ARE the options for Britain re EU? - Status quo: massive damage to the economy - Customs Union: limited economic benefit - Single Market: significant economic benefit but UK has to follow EU rules without a say on them - EU membership: econ & political benefits with a seat at the table
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/d740... Andy Burnham says rejoining EU an option for UK
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Andy Burnham says rejoining EU an option for UK
Prime minister says ‘going all the way’ is a possibility as government reviews relations with 27-country bloc
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham: UK could ‘go all the way’ by rejoining EU
PM says he is looking at all options and ministers will examine ‘what is doable’ and the ‘pros and cons’
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years halted
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Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years halted
The state governor and supreme court earlier refused calls for clemency for Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Arsène Wenger and Arsenal: 30 years on from appointment that changed English football
David Dein’s decision to hire the Frenchman ushered in an irreversible era of multiculturalism, giving birth to the globalised Premier League we know today
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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · 30/09/2026
Salty seas get saltier and world ocean more acidic as heatwaves bring ‘profound change’ ft.trib.al/e5oRq5R
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Salty seas get saltier and world ocean more acidic as heatwaves bring ‘profound change’
Scientists say rapid warming has also led to accelerated sea level rise over the past decade
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson
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Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson
How can Manchester City be trusted under these owners after they were found to have devised £900m of ‘sham’ contracts?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi
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Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi
Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiome
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/a120... Is the world really drowning in debt?
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Is the world really drowning in debt?
We may not be on the eve of disaster but room for manoeuvre is shrinking for major economies
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Public opinion has turned decisively against Trump. His negative approval rating is twice as bad today as it was on the eve of his party’s 2018 drubbing.” My column on why Trump will pretend he bears no responsibility for the looming GOP defeat. as.ft.com/r/f337d285-0...
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A Republican midterm defeat will not be an earthquake
Democrats are likely to make gains in Congress but divided government is unlikely to derail Trump’s agenda
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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When an algal bloom turned the Wye green, regulators were testing only a few spots a few times a year. Locals started testing weekly. Nicola Cutcher on the rise of the river guardians. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/why...
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Why I became a river guardian
Across the UK, ordinary people are taking action to protect our rivers from pollution
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Lula at UN: “African countries borrow at rates up to 8 times higher than Germany and 4 times higher than the United States. It’s a Marshall Plan in reverse, in which the poorest finance the richest.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar... I presented at G20 Rio YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY6Z...
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Zealand superimposed on Japan. 4.9 million people vs 126 million. Source: buff.ly/2ZLxp4e
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Wait what theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Britons are not ageing healthily – we need to learn from countries that have made it a priority | Devi Sridhar
Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care, says public health academic Prof Devi S...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 28/09/2026
L’Iran dément « catégoriquement » toute implication dans un projet d’attaque contre une base militaire utilisé par les Etats-Unis en Angleterre
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L’Iran dément « catégoriquement » toute implication dans un projet d’attaque contre une base militaire utilisé par les Etats-Unis en Angleterre
Cinq hommes, tous Britanniques, ont été arrêtés, sont soupçonnés de « préparation d’un acte terroriste ». Interrogé par la presse sur la possibilité que ce projet d’attaque « ait été motivé par un Etat étranger hostile », le ministre de la défense britannique a dit qu’il ne souhaitait « pas spéculer à ce stade de l’enquête ».
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
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AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’ Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have issued a warning to governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history. A report co-authored by the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, urges politicians to act now before there is runaway progress in the technology. Continue reading...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
There are 2 big stories in development happening in Africa @katemac.bsky.social (1) LEAPFROGGING: Africa is buying huge quantities of solar panels. Electricity access is accelerating growth (2) MAKING not just BUYING: some countries are capturing manufacturing phenomenalworld.org/analysis/afr...
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Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay | Green Strategy in Africa
On the continent’s industrial development agenda for the twenty-first century
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 28/09/2026
Trump is now responsible for 29% of our national debt. That's more than any President in American history. What happened to DOGE?
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.  Everyone knew exactly what they were doing!  A crime more confessed to as it happened than any other in history. A crime more documented as it happened than any other in history. There are no excuses. None at all
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh this is lovely.
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/aa0a... A message for the chancellor: the time is now ripe for tax reform
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A message for the chancellor: the time is now ripe for tax reform
Healey’s challenge is to improve the efficiency of the UK’s fiscal system
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
15/ France trying to transfer advanced battery and EV technology from Asia Investments in the battery sector in Dunkirk are expected to exceed €9 billion! Taiwan's ProLogium & Sino-Japanese AESC gigafactories ambition in Dunkirk Supported by French govt & French battery national champion
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW: The big story is not Chinese EVs everywhere —but Chinese EV factories everywhere. And its not just Chinese firms going out. Our CM-FDI database tracks every foreign Solar, Wind, EV and battery manufacturing plant built in 21st century. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/c995... Northern Ireland in tense stand-off as protests block Orange Order parade
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Northern Ireland in tense stand-off as protests block Orange Order parade
March unable to proceed as police say they cannot facilitate Protestant route down largely Catholic road
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
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Northern Ireland live: controversial Orange Order march in Portadown delayed amid huge protest
Large crowd blocking route march was due to take in Catholic enclave of largely Protestant town
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Caroux @caroux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Republic of Ireland’s Gavin Bazunu boycotts Israel match ‘as a person of principle’
The Republic of Ireland’s Nations League fixtures with Israel will go ahead after a ‘significant majority’ of players voted in favour
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 26/09/2026
From proscription laws to terrorism sentences, the state is using every tool at its disposal to criminalise dissent. So we’re supporting people who refuse to be silenced. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help…
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Help defend the right to protest on Palestine | Good Law Project
The brutal crackdown on our right to protest is happening right now, with people standing in solidarity with Palestine bearing the brunt – so we’re supporting people who refuse to be silenced
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