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The Telegraph‘America will be furious and Beijing delighted’: How Starmer handed Chagos to China
Nigel Farage has claimed that “our American allies will be furious and Beijing delighted” after Sir Keir Starmer gave up the Chagos Islands.
- The Telegraph
IDF assassinates right-hand man of Hamas leader Sinwar
Israel has said it has assassinated the “right-hand man” of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
- The Guardian
Iran braces for Israeli strikes as supreme leader calls for west to leave Middle East
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes first public appearance after attack on Israel in retaliation for Hezbollah leader’s killing
- The Telegraph
Watch: Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike British oil ship in Red Sea
Video footage shows the moment Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched an explosive-laden drone boat into a British oil tanker in the Red Sea.
- The Guardian
Gulf leaders support Palestine – but many would not mind seeing Israel challenge Iran
The escalating Middle East conflict could create a dangerous vacuum – or an opportunity – for several states
- The Telegraph
Pictured: Israeli air base hit in Iranian missile strike
Iranian missiles hit a hangar and caused craters at Israel’s Nevatim air base, according to satellite imagery.
- The Hill
Opinion - Stop building China’s military with US tax dollars
The Department of Defense funded more than 2,000 scientific research papers with Chinese collaborators who were directly affiliated with the CCP’s defense research and industrial base.
- The Telegraph
Yazidi woman kidnapped by IS as a child 10 years ago freed from Gaza captivity
A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by Islamic State as a child before being sent to Hamas in Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity.
- The Independent
Man who smashed Taylor Swift guitar with hammer at Texas auction explains why he did it
Instrument has reportedly been listed on eBay after the stunt
- The Independent
Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
Here’s what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election, from The Independent’s data correspondent
- Associated Press
Cambodian maid is arrested and deported by Malaysia for criticizing Cambodia leaders on social media
A Cambodian woman who worked as a maid in Malaysia has been deported to her homeland for comments she posted on social media criticizing Cambodian government leaders, in the latest example of a Southeast Asian government helping another arrest a dissident. A Cambodia prison official and an opposition activist group said Thursday that Nuon Toeun, 36, who had worked in Malaysia for several years, was arrested last week by Malaysian authorities following a request from the Cambodian government.
- Malay Mail
Tie constituencies in Malaysia to total number of voters, not total trees
OCTOBER 3 — It’s criminal — or at least reprehensible — to contemplate passing Borneo at least a third of the parliament...
- CNN
World awaits Israel’s response to attacks from Iran
“We really need to expect the worst,” Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, tells Eleni Giokos about Israel’s possible retaliation to Iran’s missile barrage.
- The Independent
Israel-Iran latest: Beirut rocked by huge explosions as Israel ‘targets Nasrallah successor’
Israeli strike lands just outside perimeter of Beirut airport as Lebanon offensive continues
- The Independent
It’s clear we are already in a Middle East war – one that will be difficult to stop
ANALYSIS: World leaders, UN officials and experts all agree that only the most determined diplomatic efforts, only a multilateral ceasefire, can be the parachute to slow this nightmare down, writes Bel Trew
- Associated Press
North Korea's Kim threatens to destroy South Korea with nuclear strikes if provoked
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to use nuclear weapons and destroy South Korea permanently if provoked, state media reported Friday, after the South’s leader warned that Kim’s regime would collapse if he attempted to use nuclear arms. The exchange of such rhetoric between the rival Koreas is nothing new, but the latest comments come during heightened animosities over the North’s recent disclosure of a nuclear facility and its continuation of missile tests. Next week, observers say North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament is expected to constitutionally declare a hostile “two-state” system on the Korean Peninsula to formally reject reconciliation with South Korea and codify new national borders. During a visit to a special operation forces unit on Wednesday, Kim said his military “would use without hesitation all the offensive forces it possesses, including nuclear weapons,” if South Korea attempts to use armed forces encroaching upon the sovereignty of North Korea, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
- INSIDER
The old F-16s the West is giving Ukraine can't outmatch Russia's best jets, former US general says
The F-16s Ukraine's allies are giving it are older models, meaning they'll struggle against Russia's best jets, a former US general told BI.
- The Daily Beast
Trump’s Heartless Reaction to Pence Being in Danger Revealed in Bombshell Filing
A bombshell filing out of Donald Trump’s election subversion case was unsealed Wednesday, revealing a trove of damning allegations about how the former president acted on and around Jan. 6, 2021. Among the nastiest accusations in the 165-page document was how Trump allegedly reacted to learning from an aide that his vice president, Mike Pence, had been taken to a secure location in the U.S. Capitol for his safety. Trump’s alleged response to that news: “So what?”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get
- The Independent
Trump claims Harris and Biden are leading world to brink of World War 3 after Iran launches missiles at Israel
VP Kamala Harris on Tuesday called Iran “a destabilizing, dangerous force in the Middle East.”
- Associated Press
Ukraine's military will pull out of Vuhledar in the east after 2 years of intense fighting
Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from the front-line town of Vuhledar, perched atop a tactically significant hill in eastern Ukraine, after more than two years of grinding battle, military officials said Wednesday. Vuhledar, a town Ukrainian forces fought tooth and nail to keep, is the latest urban settlement to fall to the Russians as the war stretches deep into its third year and the Ukrainian army is gradually being pushed backward in the eastern Donetsk province. Ukraine’s Khortytsia ground forces formation, which commands eastern regions including Donetsk, said in a statement posted on Telegram it was withdrawing troops from Vuhledar to “protect military personnel and equipment.”