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DoJ charges 28 green card holders in California over alleged voter fraud

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T18:52:06+00:00

Crackdown marks latest escalation in the Trump justice department’s push to target alleged noncitizen votingThe US Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against 28 green card holders in California accused of fraudulently registering to vote and casting illegal ballots.The crackdown marks another escalation in the federal government’s ongoing efforts against alleged noncitizen voting, efforts that Democrats and voting rights groups say are part of a strategy by the Trump administration to sow doubt in the results of the upcoming midterm elections. Continue reading...

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Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T18:37:14+00:00

Exclusive: Utility seen as ‘litmus test’ of PM’s promise to bring ‘essentials of life’ under public controlAndy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present him with more radical options for what to do with the stricken company.In an early test of his promise to bring “the essentials of life” under public control, the prime minister is urging his advisers to go back to the drawing board and create a new list of policies for the utility. Continue reading...

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France imposes partial curfews in several cities, including parts of Paris

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T18:16:45+00:00

Interior minister concedes police ‘lost control’ of weekend protests and says he is ‘fully resolved to restore public order’Europe live – latest updatesPartial curfews have been issued for a number of French cities, including parts of Paris, after the government admitted police had “lost control” during violent weekend protests around the country.Sébastien Lecornu, the French prime minister, said after an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday he was “fully resolved to restore public order” and had called for “local and partial” curfews if needed. There was “no question” of imposing a full curfew

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Benny Gantz drops out of Israel’s election race

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-10-19T18:11:01+00:00

Decision comes after polls showed his Blue and White party below the 3.25 percent threshold needed to enter the Knesset.

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French authorities announce partial curfews as PM blames ‘ultra-left’ for exploiting protests – Europe live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T18:07:41+00:00

Curfews to apply to parts of cities including Paris, Nice and Lyon after days of violence on French streetsMacron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after 2,400 arrests across FranceFrench PM Lecornu says he has asked prefects to implement “a number of partial curfews” in certain “localised” urban areas to stop further disorder, which he attributes to “the extreme-left” and some criminal elements.We will no doubt hear more on this from local authorities, as in the example of Marseille (10:32). Continue reading...

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Israeli police detain 10 people in rare raid against West Bank settlers

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T18:05:14+00:00

Move comes after US photojournalist and group of European diplomats and Palestinians were assaulted in separate attacksIsraeli police have detained 10 people in a rare raid against settlers, after a weekend of extreme violence in the occupied West Bank including an attack on US photojournalist Heidi Levine, which she described as an “attempted lynching”.She was knocked down, kicked and beaten by a group of masked Israeli men as she covered the olive harvest in a Palestinian village on Friday. The militants broke four vertebrae and a rip, ripped open her finger so it required surgery and left h

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : un sommet russo-américano-chinois ne ferait qu’alimenter « l’appétit de grandeur » de Vladimir Poutine, juge le ministre des affaires étrangères ukrainien

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-10-19T17:49:00+00:00

« Inviter Poutine à une telle rencontre lui conférerait une stature qu’il ne mérite pas. Ce n’est pas un leader mondial ; c’est un criminel de guerre », a estimé Andrii Sybiha, qui plaide en revanche pour un sommet russo-américano-ukrainien.

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Le mandat de Giorgia Meloni, des marges italiennes au cœur de la politique européenne

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-10-19T17:46:49+00:00

« Meloni, quatre années au pouvoir » (1/6). La présidente du conseil affiche le plus long mandat d’un chef de l’exécutif de l’histoire de la République italienne. « Le Monde » raconte en six épisodes comment, sans rien renier de ses convictions, la dirigeante d’extrême droite s’est imposée, à la fois dans son pays et au sein de l’UE.

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Italy Faces Parallel Protests in the North and South

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-10-19T17:44:17+00:00

Protests by young people in northern cities ended in riots as farmers and truckers in the south, angered by high gas prices, stopped commercial traffic.

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Итоги торгов на Мосбирже 19 октября

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-10-19T17:43:45+00:00

Главный бенчмарк российского фондового рынка по итогам основной сессии в понедельник, 19 октября, вырос на 0,25% до 2432,06 пункта. Его долларовый аналог индекс РТС увеличился на 1,18% и составил 924,74 пункта.

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ITV’s exposé of racism and misogyny in Reform? Just a few (more) bad apples | John Crace

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T17:42:46+00:00

While the party’s MPs went into hiding, it was left to its failed byelection candidate Matt Goodwin to defend itIt was the dog that didn’t bark in the night. After Sunday night’s ITV exposé of widespread racism and misogyny within Reform, you might have expected one of its MPs to have taken to the airwaves on Monday morning to defend the party’s honour. To try to persuade viewers that the real problem lay with the journalists who couldn’t stop themselves from investigating Reform rather than the fact that the party’s bigotry was endemic.Instead, we got nothing. Every Reform MP was otherwise en

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The French Teen Maimed During School Unrest by Tear Gas Grenade

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-10-19T17:39:21+00:00

The police’s treatment of the student last month sheds light on how a wave of school unrest evolved into national protests that spilled into widespread riots on Saturday.

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North Sea strikes could severely disrupt UK fuel supplies, union warns

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T17:39:13+00:00

More than ⁠160 ​offshore rig workers plan walkout amid rising tensions between unions and oil companies North Sea workers are preparing to strike at oil rigs across the ageing basin over the coming weeks in a sign of growing tensions between trade unions and oil companies.The Unite union said on ⁠Monday that more than ⁠160 ​offshore rig workers would take part ⁠in a 24-hour ​strike from Wednesday that could “severely disrupt” UK fuel supplies. Continue reading...

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Minister says Mahmood’s migration policy will ‘prolong integration’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T17:35:17+00:00

In now-removed post, Miatta Fahnbulleh criticised home secretary’s proposal to extend qualifying period for settlement in UKThe energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh, appears to have criticised Shabana Mahmood’s migration policy in a post on her constituency website, in which she suggested she had concerns that a longer settlement process could affect integration.Fahnbulleh has since removed the critique, which appeared in a write-up of a community meeting in Peckham, her south London constituency, in September, saying it was not a true representation of her views. Continue reading...

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French authorities announce partial curfew in Paris as PM blames ‘ultra-left’ for exploiting protests – Europe live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-10-19T17:18:27+00:00

Curfew to last from 11pm to 6am and reportedly applies to unaccompanied minors and people wearing masks or personal protective equipmentMacron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after 2,400 arrests across FranceFrench PM Lecornu says he has asked prefects to implement “a number of partial curfews” in certain “localised” urban areas to stop further disorder, which he attributes to “the extreme-left” and some criminal elements.We will no doubt hear more on this from local authorities, as in the example of Marseille (10:32). Continue reading...

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