Mayors will also be given new powers to hold failing water firms to account.

Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.

Britain and Canada are extinguishing freedom of speech and expression at the behest of a genocidal regime and the people who support it.

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The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

The parliament said a video did not comply with its media policy

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

Met calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’

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<article data-history-node-id="448613" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-representatives-introduce-bill-sanctioning-expanding-israeli" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-representatives-introduce-bill-sanctioning-expanding-israeli" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US representatives introduce bill sanctioning expanding Israeli settlements</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A growing number of Democratic lawmakers are ramping up pressure on Israel, introducing legislation to impose sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.</p> <p>The Stop the Settlements Act, led by Representatives Joaquin Castro, Madeleine Dean, Don Beyer, Greg Casar, Sara Jacobs and Veronica Escobar, would block new settlement construction or expansion through sanctions and a ban on importing goods made in settlements and outposts.</p> <p>“Under Netanyahu’s government, settlers are engaged in a violent land grab that’s ripping Palestinians from their land. Sanctions can help stop it,” US Representative Joaquin Castro wrote in a post on X.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Settlers are driving Palestinians from their homes in a violent land grab. Sanctions can stop it.<br> <br> I'm introducing legislation—alongside Reps. Dean, Beyer, Casar, Jacobs, Escobar—that imposes sanctions against anyone looking to take Palestinian land in the West Bank or Gaza.… <a href="https://t.co/fpEwgItaFM">pic.twitter.com/fpEwgItaFM</a></p> — Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) <a href="https://x.com/JoaquinCastrotx/status/2105411781979959424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>

Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution

The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.

Donald Trump says artificial intelligence firms have agreed to "police themselves" after a summit with major tech leaders at the White House.

Rapper Macklemore said his upcoming “Free Palestine” tour, launched after he was dropped as Ed Sheeran’s opening act, “sold out immediately" on Wednesday.

All this is horrible, but there’s one fact about this case that ought to keep you awake at night worried about the future of the world: