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From black-clad agitators to an appeal for ‘Tommo’s Mum’: an unsettling week with the Patriot Platform

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-12T05:00:30+00:00

A militaristic operation with features of influencer culture, the new anti-migrant movement seems to show a shift in tactics and rhetoricShortly after 7am last Saturday in the English coastal town of Dover, livestreamed footage distributed by Britain’s newest anti-migrant movement showed dozens of men in paramilitary outfits jumping out from the backs of vehicles, their faces covered beneath balaclavas, their hands in black gloves.Within an hour, hundreds more masked agitators, dressed head to toe in black, some wearing silver crosses around their necks, were marching through the town’s street

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Artist delights in beautiful ‘mess’ and dead trees of England’s rewilding sites

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-12T05:00:24+00:00

Rebecca Howard spent two years visiting projects and painting landscapes that feature in West Sussex exhibitionRewilding areas do not usually conform to traditional notions of beauty in England’s green and pleasant land. Detractors may bewail the beaver-felled trees, untidy scrub, deadwood, weeds, mud and “mess”.But a new exhibition highlights the aesthetic delights that can be discovered on rewilding sites where fungi grows on dying trees, water buffalo gather in new wetlands and brown-watered beaver pools flood once-desiccated fields. Continue reading...

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Death toll from Philippines ferry fire rises to 35, as officials warn toll will grow

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-12T04:53:10+00:00

The deadly fire had begun in the ferry’s cargo hold, then tore through the ship within secondsThe bodies of passengers killed in a ferry fire off the Philippines arrived at a port near the resort town of Coron, Palawan, on Saturday morning, as the country’s coast guard warned the death toll of 35 would grow.Tents were being set up to receive 30 bodies brought from the M/V June Aster, which ran aground near the tourist hotspot after a fire erupted on Wednesday evening and tore through the vessel “in seconds”. Continue reading...

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Alleged drone operator charged with murder after mistaken identity shooting in Sydney

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-12T04:37:50+00:00

NSW police say 18-year-old was operating drone when arrested and likely ‘conducting surveillance on someone or some premises’A Sydney teenager has been charged with murder after police accused him of operating a drone as part of a suspected botched gang hit in the city’s west.Joshua Macdonald, 40, was shot dead at a Merrylands West home on 2 September in what police believe may have been a case of mistaken identity. He was not known to police and had no links to organised crime. Continue reading...

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BRICS Summit: Traffic restrictions, diversions in central Delhi till 9.30 pm

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-12T04:28:17+00:00

The restrictions will be in force from 9:30 am to 9:30 pm, particularly around Bharat Mandapam and the Pragati Maidan area, as well as on major corridors connecting central Delhi with other parts of the city

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Iran takes defiant stance as US war deepens its isolation

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-12T04:20:20+00:00

Iran, facing heavy US sanctions and ongoing attacks, is keen to position BRICS as a counterweight to the US-led economic and political order

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Герои 11 сентября: как обычные люди спасали обычных людей

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-09-12T04:17:33+00:00

25 лет назад террористы захватили четыре пассажирских самолета, чтобы направить их на здания в Нью-Йорке и Вашингтоне. Погибли 2 977 человек (не считая исполнителей теракта). Среди них – пассажиры рейсов, сотрудники офисов Всемирного торгового центра, работники экстренных служб. Жертв могло оказаться еще больше, если бы не люди, которые, невзирая на опасность, занялись спасением окружающих – порой ценой собственной жизни. Речь не только о спасателях, но и об обычных офисных клерках.

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Где собирается молодежь: главные форумы и фестивали России

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-09-12T04:17:03+00:00

11 сентября в Екатеринбурге начался Международный фестиваль молодежи, который объединил около 10 000 участников из 191 страны. Какие еще масштабные мероприятия для молодого поколения проходили в стране ранее – в справке «Ведомостей».

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L’ombre de la guerre en Iran plane sur le sommet des BRICS à New Delhi

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-12T04:15:04+00:00

Si le président iranien, Massoud Pezeshkian, a été reçu avec faste vendredi, l’Inde, la Russie et la Chine jouent chacun leur partition, limitant la capacité des porte-voix du Sud global à s’ériger en puissance alternative dans les relations internationales.

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India-China relations, from conflict to cautious thaw

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-12T04:05:34+00:00

Here’s how ties between the Asian giants have evolved from a deadly 2020 border clash to a more stable relationship as the Chinese leader visits India for the first time in seven years

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The Doctor Pressuring African Leaders to Own the Ebola Response

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-09-12T04:01:07+00:00

International agencies and foreign donors have long driven campaigns to defeat diseases like Ebola. Dr. Jean Kaseya, the head of the Africa C.D.C., wants to change that.

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In Doonbeg, Trump’s Irish Open Visit Prompts Protests and Praise

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-09-12T04:01:07+00:00

As the U.S. president heads to his Doonbeg hotel for the Irish Open, locals expressed both appreciation for the resort’s economic benefits and opposition to his politics.

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Trois virées en famille pour réviser l’Union européenne, son histoire, son fonctionnement

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-12T04:00:37+00:00

« L’école buissonnière ». Chaque mois, des idées pour faire les devoirs en plein air. Cette semaine, on se sent un peu plus européen à Bruxelles, on se glisse dans la peau d’un eurodéputé à Europa Expérience, à Paris, et on entre dans l’intimité de Jean Monnet dans les Yvelines.

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Nearly 50,000 Yemeni civilians flee as Houthis advance along Red Sea coast

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-12T04:00:24+00:00

Global struggle for control of Bab al-Mandab strait threatens to turn Yemen’s on-off conflict into a forever warViolence erupts in Yemen again: why it matters globally and how it is linked to the US-Iran warNearly 50,000 people have fled a sudden advance by Houthi forces in western Yemen, with entire villages emptied and families trapped near frontline fighting with depleting food supplies, according to aid workers.Civilians in the Middle East’s poorest country have found themselves victims of a global struggle for control over one of the most important shipping routes in the world, which thre

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Firewall compromised: has Friedrich Merz blown ‘democracy’s last shot’?

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-12T04:00:23+00:00

Many fear chancellor is wrong man for the job at a time when Germany’s defences against far right are crumblingA cataclysm. A 9.0 earthquake. A five-alarm fire. A bitter rejection of Germany’s joyous reunification three decades ago, and a threat to the democratic postwar order.Sizing up the repercussions of last weekend’s win for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party in the former communist state of Saxony-Anhalt, German commentators expressed a sense of doom, panic and helplessness in the political establishment. Continue reading...

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BRICS Summit 2026: What’s on the agenda?

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-12T03:59:37+00:00

Leaders to navigate global trade disputes, regional crises

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Saudis shut down oil pipeline as Houthis tighten grip on Red Sea shipping

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-12T03:45:19+00:00

Saudi Arabia temporarily ​closed the East-West pipeline after a drone attack that both Baghdad and Riyadh said had originated in Iraq, where Iranian-backed militias operate

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L’Arabie saoudite, isolée face à l’Iran et aux rebelles houthistes du Yémen, cherche le soutien des Etats-Unis

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-12T03:45:11+00:00

Le royaume risque de perdre tout débouché maritime pour ses pétroliers, depuis que les rebelles alliés de Téhéran se sont emparés du détroit de Bab Al-Mandab, voie de sortie de la mer Rouge vers l’océan Indien, et tandis que l’Iran bloque le détroit d’Ormuz.

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La película casera que ha conquistado la taquilla china

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-09-12T03:40:00+00:00

El largometraje ‘Niu Lai’, realizado únicamente por un joven sin experiencia cinematográfica y su madre, se convierte en el fenómeno del verano en el gigante asiático

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¿Quién manda en Al Qaeda? Por qué no hay otro Osama Bin Laden

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-09-12T03:39:00+00:00

El actual líder del grupo terrorista, el egipcio Saif al Adel, opera en la sombra desde Irán. Los éxitos de la guerra emprendida por Estados Unidos evitan que el veterano yihadista haya sido siquiera nombrado públicamente como jefe de la red terrorista

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Making Indian commodity derivatives markets competitive

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-12T03:38:41+00:00

India has the scale for a world-class commodity derivatives market, but it needs a regulatory design that delivers both safety and capital-efficient participation

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Les succès des houthistes au Yémen renforcent l’Iran face aux Etats-Unis

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-12T03:30:25+00:00

En prenant le contrôle, vendredi, de tout le littoral bordant la mer Rouge, les rebelles se sont assuré l’accès au détroit de Bab Al-Mandab. Deux mois après la fermeture du détroit d’Ormuz, Téhéran compte tirer parti des succès de ses alliés pour relever ses exigences en cas de nouvelles négociations avec Washington.

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Frédéric Mégret, juriste : « Si la CPI ne parvient pas à rallier assez de forces, elle disparaîtra dans le chaos de l’époque »

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-12T03:30:22+00:00

Face à la crise inédite que traverse la Cour pénale internationale, son avenir dépend moins de l’affirmation d’un principe de justice universelle que de la volonté de nombreux Etats, qui l’ont souverainement créée, de la défendre, estime le spécialiste du droit international, dans un entretien au « Monde ».

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Les succès militaires des rebelles houthistes au Yémen renforcent l’Iran face aux Etats-Unis

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-12T03:30:17+00:00

En prenant le contrôle, vendredi, de tout le littoral bordant la mer Rouge, les rebelles se sont assuré l’accès au détroit de Bab Al-Mandab. Deux mois après la fermeture du détroit d’Ormuz, Téhéran compte tirer parti des succès de ses alliés pour relever ses exigences en cas de nouvelles négociations avec Washington.

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Court case brought by Zionist federation against journalist Mary Kostakidis ended ‘by consent’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-12T03:21:50+00:00

Former SBS newsreader had been accused by Zionist Federation of Australia of breaching Racial Discrimination Act when sharing X postsFederal court proceedings brought by the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) against journalist Mary Kostakidis have been discontinued “by consent” with “no order as to costs”.The former SBS newsreader had been accused by the federation of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) by sharing two X posts about a speech by the late Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah in January 2024. Continue reading...

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Maha Al-Daya, la brodeuse de Gaza qui résiste avec du fil et une aiguille

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-12T03:00:12+00:00

Réfugiée en France, Maha Al-Daya a fui les bombardements qui s’abattent sur l’enclave palestinienne depuis octobre 2023. Afin de conserver une trace du vécu des Gazaouis, elle reproduit, par la pratique d’une broderie ancestrale, les cartes d’évacuation larguées par I’armée israélienne. Un geste de résistance et de résilience qui ancre sur la toile la mémoire de sa terre d’origine.

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