Fierce fighting in Gaza as more civilians set to leave Gaza has suffered another fierce fighting overnight, with a live feed capturing sounds of explosions and bright flames on the horizon. The Israeli military said it killed dozens of Hamas fighters, having earlier said its troops had broken through the group’s defensive lines. More civilians are expected to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing today; the UN says more than 400 people used the crossing…
Li Keqiang: China bids quiet farewell to popular ex-premier China’s former premier Li Keqiang was laid to rest on Thursday, with the country’s flags being flown at half-mast across China. Li died of a heart attack on 27 October. He has been cremated. Pictures show crowds gathered along the streets as a convoy carrying his body drove past. There has been muted state coverage of his funeral, a major contrast to the outpouring of sorrow…
Suspected mushroom poisoning: Australian woman charged with three murders Erin Patterson has been charged with murder over the suspected mushroom poisoning deaths of three people. It’s a story that has gripped Australia. Patterson was arrested on Thursday morning and police have spent the day searching her home east of Melbourne. Patterson, 49, served her family lunch in which the trio, who included her former in-laws, fell ill. A fourth person survived. Toxicology reports suggest the…
France has recorded more than 800 anti-Semitic attacks in the last month.
Elementor #559770 November 2, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Metro – The King and I The Metro leads on comments from the King in which the monarch urged the world to unite to combat the risks posed by artificial intelligence and to ensure the technology is used as a “force for good”. He said AI has the “potential to completely transform life as we know it”. The front page is…
Elementor #559758 November 2, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today The Guardian- Pandemic hit brain health of over-50s, study finds The Guardian’s top story is that the COVID-19 pandemic sped up cognitive decline in those over 50, regardless of whether or not they caught the virus. The study says that lifestyle changes and pandemic conditions led to an “acceleration in cognitive decline”. The front page has a large image of an…
Elementor #559752 November 2, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Daily Mirror – Escape from hell The Daily Mirror reports the latest from Gaza. Under the headline “Escape from hell,” its front page features the photo of a severely wounded Palestinian boy who was let out of the enclave for treatment in Egypt. The front page also leads on a story about UK entertainer Robbie Williams. Today’s top stories Like this…
Elementor #559746 November 2, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today Daily Express – First Britons flee Gaza hell The re-opening of the border into Egypt is the splash in the Express. The paper says the UK foreign secretary has vowed that although everything in Gaza is “difficult and uncertain”, he “will not rest” until every UK national is brought home. James Cleverly’s comments follow the announcement that the first British citizens…
Elementor #559740 November 2, 20231 Min Read Summary of the Top 6 headlines today The Sun – Bring them home The Sun leads on the faces of the 32 children being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza alongside the headline “bring them home”. The paper says that Hamas kidnapped 32 children during its 7 October attacks on southern Israel and it says it is endorsing parents’ calls to “free our children”. It adds “this is…
One word: dry.
‘I wish I could change what happened to us.’
The mum-of-two, 49, was taken into custody on Thursday morning and questioned at Wonthaggi police station in Victoria, Australia.
Much of northwestern Europe went on high alert Wednesday as a storm dubbed Ciaran threatened to bring gale force winds and extreme rainfall to the region. Three French departments — Finistere, Cotes-d’Armor and Manche — will be placed on red storm alert, the highest level, at midnight (2300 GMT), national weather agency Meteo-France said. Meanwhile thirty other departments including Paris and its surrounding regions are placed on orange alert.
Creepy.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday vowed a “merciless fight” against surging anti-Semitism after residents of the French capital discovered anti-Jewish graffiti on buildings in several districts. Paris prosecutors have launched a probe into the incident as a possible hate crime. “The Israel-Hamas conflict is clearly being imported into France,” representative council of French Jewish institutions Robert Ejnes said.
We and other aid agencies are asking people to join us to call for a ceasefire. Whatever your politics, surely our shared humanity demands this.
The group of family and friends were killed when soldiers allegedly demanded to take over their house in Volnovakha, a town in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
‘Her story is a stark reminder of the indiscriminate nature of this disease, which can affect anyone at any time.’
Be careful what you write.
Holidaymakers opted for sandy beaches and sunshine.
But don’t panic if you fail.
Elon Musk and ChatGPT boss jet in for UK’s AI summit – as Sunak warned of ‘here and now’ threats SKY News says Rishi Sunak has been warned not to ignore the “here and now” threats to people’s jobs posed by artificial intelligence, as Elon Musk and the creator of ChatGPT jet in for a landmark UK summit. Bletchley Park is set to welcome more than 100 figures from politics and business from today, including…
Kamala Harris to call for urgent action on AI threat to democracy and privacy The Guardian says Short-term threats posed by artificial intelligence to democracy and privacy need to be addressed as urgently as longer term existential threats, Kamala Harris, the US vice-president, is expected to say in a speech setting out the Biden administration’s vision before the UK’s Bletchley Park summit on AI. In a speech in London on Wednesday before attending the conference,…
Elon Musk is a risky star draw at Rishi Sunak’s AI summit — what will the shindig actually achieve? The Independent says Rishi Sunak will today bring together leaders of the tech world for a two-day summit to discuss the dangers and opportunities of artificial intelligence – a conversation the world urgently needs to have. Ahead of its start, Number 10 announced the get-together will finish with a live-streamed chat between the prime minister and…
Scientists excited by AI tool that grades severity of rare cancer BBC News says Artificial intelligence is nearly twice as good at grading the aggressiveness of a rare form of cancer from scans as the current method, a study suggests. By recognising details invisible to the naked eye, AI was 82% accurate, compared with 44% for lab analysis. Researchers from the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research say it could improve treatment and…
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