Women and children said to be among the dead after Israeli airstrike; outcry over Israel’s ‘devastating’ decision to ban Unrwa

Al Jazeera has spoken with the director-general of the Gaza government’s media office, Ismail al-Thawabta, who has said at least 93 people were killed in the Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza’s town of Beit Lahiya. Gaza’s health ministry said earlier today that 60 people were killed in the strike this morning, which hit a residential building housing displaced civilians. Al-Thawabta said that the building Israel attacked housed 200 people. Dozens of people are reported missing and 150 others estimated to be injured. Medics said 20 children were among the dead.

Many of those injured have been rushed to nearby Kamal Adwan hospital inside the Jabalia refugee camp. But the hospital is struggling to treat them as it reportedly has run out of medical supplies and only has two paediatric doctors, with no surgeons. Israeli forces detained dozens of medical staff at the hospital days ago. Dr Hossam Abu Safiya, director of the hospital, told Al Jazeera on Friday that most of the surgeons had been arrested by Israeli troops, meaning urgent surgeries could not be performed.

The UAV (drone) force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting the industrial zone of the Israeli enemy in the Ashkelon region.

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Survivor Oleksii Sivak has set up a support group for others who have suffered widespread but unspoken abuse

Russian troops tortured Oleksii Sivak for weeks, applying electric shocks to his genitals in a freezing basement in his home city of Kherson in punishment for resisting their rule.

When Ukrainian troops freed the city in the autumn of 2022, Sivak was presented with a long list of medical specialists who could help his recovery and asked to tick the ones he needed.

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A group of Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Nancy Mace is demanding US Citizenship and Immigration Services fire an employee who cut videos and made other social media posts praising illegal immigrants.

There is simply no moral argument for allowing the former president to win in the name of opposing genocide

If you’re undecided about your vote, a reliable rule of thumb is to always side against the candidate who is a convicted criminal, admires “good things” done by Adolf Hitler, and is labeled a “fascist” by four-star generals who worked in their administration.

However, just days before the chaotic 2024 US election, many American voters are still loathe to vote for Kamala Harris due to the Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. It’s hard to blame them. “How can we vote for genocidaires?” ask many Democratic voters radicalized and infuriated by Israel’s daily war crimes. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu’s fanatical government, populated by a rogue galley of Jewish supremacists, openly declared their desire to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and illegally occupy more land. Their desire for ultra-violence and carnage does not spare journalists, UN workers, doctors or even US citizens. More than 42,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed.

Wajahat Ali is editor of The Left Hook substack, co-host of The Democracy-ish Podcast, and author of the book Go Back to Where You Came From and Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

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The Brazilian supermodel, 44, is expecting a baby with beau Joaquim Valente, and sources close to the star say she's "excited" about this new chapter in her life.

Barnard College is being called out for inviting a United Nations official who has likened lsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and Israel as the Nazi "Third Reich" to speak at the elite Manhattan school this week.

Researchers found 38,000 fewer people – 10 times number of murders – would have died if atmosphere was not clogged with greenhouse pollutants

Climate breakdown caused more than half of the 68,000 heat deaths during the scorching European summer of 2022, a study has found.

Researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) found 38,000 fewer people would have died from heat if humans had not clogged the atmosphere with pollutants that act like a greenhouse and bake the planet. The death toll is about 10 times greater than the number of people murdered in Europe that year.

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As Pakistan’s second biggest city takes the lead in the poor air quality index, one artist and activist struggled to find people who cared

It is “smog season” in Lahore. Along with cities in the plains of the Punjab province, October is now popularly called the fifth season in Pakistan as the burning of stubble in the fields after the rice harvest takes the already poor air quality to record lows.

On Monday, Lahore took the world lead on several measures of poor air quality. According to Swiss-based IQAir, which partners with the UN and other agencies to measure pollution, the air quality index was 299 – just two points short of hazardous, followed by Delhi scoring 207. An AQI of 151 to 200 is classified as “unhealthy”, 201 to 300 “very unhealthy” and more than 300 as “hazardous”.

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From Germany to Japan, people are buying up draughty churches, leaky hotels and asbestos-filled schools for peanuts and turning them into dream homes. They can be as big as 40,000 sq ft – but are they always a great deal?

There’s an Italian farmhouse on the Cheap Houses EU Instagram account that I have my eye on. It has red shutters, stone brickwork and a chicken coop out the back, and while the 1970s interiors are straight out of a horror film, for €65,000 – the price of a deposit on a one-bedroom flat in London – it has potential.

Instagram is full of escapist accounts like this. The largest, with nearly 3 million followers, is Cheap Old Houses, which features historic properties in far-flung parts of America and Europe being sold for less than $100,000. It’s run by Elizabeth Finkelstein, a historic preservationist, and her husband Ethan, who works in digital marketing, who relocated from Brooklyn to upstate New York to a soon-to-be-demolished 18th-century house they bought for $70,000. They want to show that home ownership is possible if you’re willing to get creative with the old and unorthodox: a church, a fishing depot or a historic home in need of restoring to its former glory, in deindustrialised communities in rust-belt America and depopulated regions of rural France and Spain. “The average home price in America is almost half a million dollars right now,” says Elizabeth. “We felt that this was a solution – sort of a hack to the system – to get people in the door, but also to save beautiful old houses.”

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• Warwickshire player’s first time in Test squad
• Wicketkeeper-batter Jamie Smith will miss tour

The England Men’s selection panel has named a 16-player squad for the three-match Test tour of New Zealand, scheduled for November and December.

The squad includes one change from the recent series in Pakistan, with Warwickshire’s batting all-rounder Jacob Bethell called up for his first inclusion in a Test squad.

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"I got a title that nobody can take away from me," said Joel Kaufman, 66, of Queens.

An Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 34 people early Tuesday, more than half of them women and children, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.

Tory leadership candidate wades into reparations debate, arguing empire brought democratic institutions

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Britain’s former colonies should be thankful for the legacy of empire, not demanding reparations, according to the Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick.

The MP and former minister said countries that were part of the empire “owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them” in the form of legal and democratic institutions.

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The “Social Network” star opened up about life after his sudden fall from grace in 2021, during which he was slapped with allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

Vice-president to strike hopeful tone in remarks delivered from site of Trump’s speech before deadly January 6 attack

With the presidential race deadlocked a week before election day, Kamala Harris will call on voters to “turn the page” on the Trump era, in remarks delivered from a park near the White House where the former president spoke before a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol in a last effort to overturn his 2020 loss.

The Harris campaign has described the remarks as a major address that will underline the vice-president’s closing message, in a location she hopes will remind voters precisely why the electorate denied Trump a second term four years ago. She is expected to cast Trump as a divisive figure who will spend his term consumed by vengeance, leveraging the power of the presidency against his political enemies rather than in service of the American people.

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Past threats former president – and present Russian ones – have spurred Europe to invest in self-defence, but as conflicts rise the alliance still looks vital

Politeness and convention dictate that European leaders try to sound noncommittal when asked whether a Donald Trump presidency would hurt Nato. But despite the rhetoric about “Trump-proofing”, Nato cohesion will be at risk from a hostile or isolationist Republican president, who has previously threatened to leave the alliance if European defence spending did not increase.

“The truth is that the US is Nato and Nato is the US; the dependence on America is essentially as big as ever,” said Jamie Shea, a former Nato official who teaches at the University of Exeter. “Take the new Nato command centre to coordinate assistance for Ukraine in Wiesbaden, Germany. It is inside a US army barracks, relying on US logistics and software.”

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Comments at Trump rally lead to anger and indignation in one of the most crucial battleground states in the election

On Sunday evening, the Philadelphia council member Quetcy Lozada was attending a campaign event with Vice-President Kamala Harris at a local restaurant, as the Democratic presidential candidate unveiled a new economic proposal for Puerto Rico.

Lozada is of Puerto Rican descent and represents the seventh city council district in Philadelphia, made up of over 50% Latino, predominantly Puerto Rican, residents.

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This frothy film tells the true-crime story of the so-called polite bandit Bruno Sulak, who goes on a crime spree in 1980s France, but insists his gang never fire their guns

Fast-rising French star Lucas Bravo, best known so far for playing love interest chef Gabriel in the series Emily in Paris, plays polite armed robber Bruno Sulak in this frothy true-crime story. Set largely in a version of the 1980s where everyone avoids wearing the most heinous trends of the time (and instead rock all the chic 80s styles designers have been reviving recently such as huge feather earrings and animal print) the story apparently sticks reasonably close to the historical record as it tracks Sulak’s career.

The handsome bandit specialises at first in robbing les supermarchés in the sticks. His gang includes stalwart wingman Drago (busy character actor Steve Tientcheu) and Bruno’s girlfriend/getaway driver Annie (Léa Luce Busato, whose slim list of credits includes playing one-third of the love triangle seen in the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics). Bruno insists that the crew is always cordial to those they rob and that they never fire their guns, although the weapons are loaded. Soon he is being hailed as a real-life Arsène Lupin, a gentleman burglar for the times. Naturally, this only annoys police commissioner George Moréas (Yvan Attal) who escalates his efforts to capture Sulak and the gang.

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The NFL’s most explosive offense resides in Detroit -- all the Lions do is score, score, score.

US bank accuses four users of stealing about $660,000 in total from ATMs using fake cheques

JPMorgan Chase is suing customers in the US it accuses of stealing thousands of dollars from ATMs by exploiting a technical glitch that went viral on TikTok this summer.

The US bank has filed lawsuits in at least three federal courts against people who withdrew funds before a cheque bounced, in the so-called “infinite money glitch”.

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Club’s preferred candidate has a stellar reputation but rebuilding incoherent squad and culture is an almighty task

At least there isn’t a recent example of Manchester United gazumping Manchester City to sign a 30-something Portuguese and it turning into an expensive farrago. The Sporting manager, Rúben Amorim, had been heavily touted to join City next summer should Pep Guardiola decide to stand down, particularly after the club’s director of football, Hugo Viana, was named as the successor to Txiki Begiristain at the Etihad Stadium.

On Monday, though, Amorim emerged as the preferred candidate to replace Erik ten Hag after the Dutchman was dismissed.

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Bradley’s pick was a panicked one after failing to entice Woods and the early noise around 2025 event resembles chaotic circus

A potential scenario, one which may be necessary to preserve some of the lofty status already bestowed on the 2025 Ryder Cup. Early noises around the event are so chaotic that Coco the Clown feels like an appropriate mascot for Bethpage as the US host Europe.

Via this theoretic plan, Keegan Bradley continues his ascent back towards the summit of professional golf. He qualifies for the team of which he is, for the time being, the captain. Because it is supposedly impossible to combine playing for a modern-day Ryder Cup team with captaining one, Bradley has to pass on his duties.

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