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Chalmers says global economic turmoil will drive budget cuts, but Australia should avoid recession

Treasurer says ‘very substantial and intensifying pressure’ on federal budget as he points finger at private sector for driving up inflation amid Middle East conflict Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Jim Chalmers has warned of “very substantial and intensifying” economic pressures on the horizon but insists he’s not planning for a recession, as he prepares to find new ways to cut the budget ahead of its mid-year update. The treasurer on Sunday called on critics of government spending to name the services that should be cut, as he points the finger at the private sector for driving up inflation in Australia amid the protracted conflict in the Middle East. Continue reading...

Cornell president vows transparency amid outrage over fraternity rape case

Michael Kotlikoff expresses deep sorrow over the case, calling it one of the most challenging periods for Cornell.

Serbian populist leader Vucic launches campaign for prime minister

Former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is seeking to extend his hold on power through a parliamentary vote.

Cornell president says university 'must do better' after frat house rape allegations

Michael Kotlikoff described the allegations of a woman who says she was drugged and gang raped as "deeply disturbing".

Mamdani, Irish PM play bingo, ‘split the G’ in New York

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani shared a video riding the subway with Irish PM Micheal Martin during UN week.

Iran war live: Yemeni forces strike Sanaa as Trump warns Tehran of hard way

Fighting in Yemen displaces more civilians, as Trump says a decision on Iran is coming.

Trump appears to share personal phone number of US senator in ploy to push permanent daylight savings

US president urges Americans to call Tom Cotton to support bill to make daylight saving time permanent Donald Trump on Saturday put pressure on the US senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas to support a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, urging Americans to call what appeared to be the personal cellphone number of his fellow Republican and the chair of the Senate intelligence committee. The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House in July, but it faces roadblocks in the Senate, where some Republicans are strongly opposed to it. Proponents, including the president and his administration, argue that the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. Detractors said permanent daylight saving time would lead to darker and potentially more hazardous winter mornings when children will be waiting for school buses and parents will be driving to work in darkness. Continue reading...

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers during olive harvest

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers during olive harvest

Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says

Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more The Conservatives have unveiled a proposed £700m childcare giveaway for high earners ahead of their annual conference, saying they would end the “cliff edge” where free entitlement ends at salaries above £100,000. The plan, set out the day before the event begins in Birmingham, follows the earlier proposal by Kemi Badenoch’s party to abolish most stamp duty, another change to taxation that would disproportionately benefit wealthier people. Continue reading...

Russia Turns to Striking Kyiv’s Bridges, Threatening a Vital Lifeline

The bridges, used by many commuters in the Ukrainian capital, are the latest target in a broad Russian bombing campaign against infrastructure.

Trump ramps up pressure on US Republicans to end US clock switching

The US president published a lawmaker's cell phone number as he called for the passage of a bill making DST permanent.

Funeral held at Gaza church for mother and daughter killed in Gaza strike

Funeral prayers were held at Gaza City’s Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church for a Palestinian mother and daughter.

Dezenas de milhares protestam em Madrid por medidas na habitação

Dezenas de milhares marcharam em Madrid a exigir habitação acessível e mais proteção para inquilinos, um dia após o parlamento chumbar medidas de emergência

Is the CJP changing India’s political landscape?

Youth-led movement demands resignation of chief election commissioner.

Al Jazeera speaks to Palestinian schoolboy from viral photograph

A photo went viral of a Palestinian boy hiding from Israeli forces on his way home from class in the occupied West Bank.

American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels

Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.

'Presenciei quase 500 execuções de presos – e nunca vi uma como a de Christa Pike'

O repórter texano Michael Graczyk já presenciou execuções malsucedidas ao longo de sua carreira, mas nunca uma em que o condenado sobrevivesse, como o caso da presa no Tennessee

Tennessee prison chief to resign after Christa Pike's failed execution

Pike's lawyers said the failure "goes far beyond any one person". Pike is in critical condition after surviving two lethal injections.

Tennessee prisons official resigns after Christa Pike’s failed US execution

The state's governor said Frank Strada would step down as an independent review examines what went wrong.

Tennessee prison chief who oversaw botched Christa Pike execution resigns

The head of Tennessee's prison system has resigned in the first major shake-up since the stunning failed execution of Christa Pike, who is in critical condition after surviving two lethal injections. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, who previously denied Pike clemency, has halted further executions through the rest of the year while a review is conducted.

Tennessee’s top prison official resigning after botched execution of Christa Pike

Frank Strada leaving position as state launches independent investigation into what went wrong Tennessee’s top prison official is stepping down in the aftermath of the failed execution of death row prisoner Christa Pike, the state’s governor Bill Lee announced Saturday. Frank Strada, the department of correction commissioner, will leave his position later in October as the state launches an independent investigation into what went wrong during Wednesday’s botched execution of Pike, according to Lee. Continue reading...

Florida jury finds ex-sheriff’s deputy not guilty in shooting death of Black air force airman

Roger Fortson was shot by deputy when he opened door with gun in hand after a false domestic disturbance call A Florida jury recently found former sheriff’s deputy Eddie Duran not guilty of manslaughter with a firearm in the fatal shooting of Roger Fortson, a Black US air force airman who was killed inside his apartment after authorities responded to an unfounded report of a domestic disturbance. An Okaloosa county jury acquitted Duran, 38, on Thursday after about two hours of deliberations. He had faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted. Continue reading...

What We Learned About American Teenagers Supplying Guns to Cartels

Our reporting revealed how Mexican criminal groups are relying on teenagers and young adults in border states like Arizona to help supply their weapons.

Somalia won’t accept Israeli presence ‘under any circumstances’: President

In exclusive Al Jazeera interview, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says Israel planning a naval base in Berbera.

Israeli reporters’ ‘verbal attack’ cuts short Ireland press conference

Israeli reporters’ ‘verbal attack’ cuts short Ireland press conference

TSA to prohibit airport security officers from sitting down while checking travelers’ IDs

TSA says rule change is meant to keep officers ‘alert’, but union says it ignores safety and ‘common decency’ US airport security officers who verify boarding passes and IDs ahead of security checkpoints will no longer be allowed to sit down while working. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was moving forward with this change in policy to keep officers “alert”, the agency confirmed recently. Continue reading...

Como vale-tudo no STF 'sequestrou' a eleição — e quais as consequências disso

Crise sem precedentes instalada no Supremo, escancarada pelo caso do Banco Master, tornou pública a divisão da Corte, aprofundou conflitos e transbordou para a eleição.

‘Bordering on angry’: The state of play as US midterms enter final month

Democrats enter final stretch with surprisingly positive outlook as Republican money seeks to stem damage.

Quase 500 mil pessoas protestam em Madrid pela crise da habitação

Segundo dados oficiais, cerca de 70 000 pessoas participaram na manifestação em Madrid, enquanto estimativas não-oficiais apontam para meio milhão a protestar contra a crise da habitação e os despejos.

Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals

Exclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election The Conservatives are planning to make sweeping cuts beyond the £47bn announced last year if they win the next election, according to leaked comments by the shadow chancellor. Speaking last year when he was shadow business secretary, Andrew Griffith told Conservative members he and fellow shadow cabinet ministers had discussed making further cuts in “every part of government”. Continue reading...

What to Know About France’s High School Protests

Students angry over the state of the country’s education system have blockaded hundreds of schools. Thousands of protesters have been arrested and dozens of people injured.

Greece returns priceless relics – and suggests UK should follow suit with Parthenon marbles

Greek PM hopes handover of Tsar Samuel to Bulgaria will persuade Britain that time has come for ‘truth, reason, justice and morality’ In a ceremony replete with the sort of fanfare usually reserved for great events, Greece and Bulgaria have formally exchanged “a treasury” of relics and bones, sealing a cultural deal negotiated over decades. The handover involved priceless religious objects removed from Greece at the height of the first world war, as well as remains thought to belong to Tsar Samuel, Bulgaria’s revered medieval warrior ruler. Continue reading...

‘This can’t go on’: tens of thousands protest against housing crisis in Spain

Demonstrators take to the streets of Madrid ⁠and other Spanish cities ⁠after ​new legislation fails to pass Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Madrid ⁠and other Spanish cities as they step up demands for action to tackle ⁠a mounting housing crisis ⁠after ​government measures were struck down by the opposition. Demonstrators on Saturday waved posters calling for a general strike ⁠after the measures drawn up to address mass anger over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in ⁠Madrid, and other housing issues, were rejected in parliament on ​Friday. Continue reading...

'Anger in the streets': Tens of thousands protest in Spain over housing crisis

More than 50 protests took place on Saturday after the government failed to get emergency legislation through parliament.

Fresh protests over housing flare in Spain after lawmakers reject relief measures

Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Madrid and other cities in Spain on Saturday to demand affordable housing, fuelled by anger at lawmakers who narrowly rejected measures put forward by the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to strengthen protection for tenants.

Espanha enfrenta protestos pela habitação em 50 cidades após rejeição de apoios aos inquilinos

O despejo de uma mulher de 87 anos transformou a indignação com as rendas que quase duplicaram em dez anos numa ameaça para o governo minoritário de Pedro Sánchez.

Will Spain's housing crisis lead to a snap election?

The BBC's Guy Hedgecoe is in Madrid, where a series of marches have been scheduled, after Spain's Congress rejected measures aimed at tackling the country's housing crisis.

A influente igreja evangélica que apoiou Jair, mas rejeita Flávio Bolsonaro

A Assembleia de Deus Ministério Madureira tem uma relação antiga com a política e se aproximou do bolsonarismo em 2018. Nesta eleição, contudo, resolveu se afastar da candidatura de Flávio Bolsonaro e chegou a fazer acenos a Lula, mas acabou fechando apoio a Ronaldo Caiado, que soma cerca de 3% das intenções de voto.

Flavio Bolsonaro: In the name of the father, sons, and holy ideology

The first round of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday pits two well-known names in the political ring: Lula vs. Bolsonaro. But it’s not former president Jair Bolsonaro facing off against the incumbent head of state – it’s his eldest son, Flavio Bolsonaro. He’s less charismatic than his father but just as ideologically radical as the family patriarch.

Libyan unity talks upended as warlord’s son linked to drone attacks on fuel facilities

Western Libya’s GNU say working with Saddam Haftar ‘impossible’ as US-backed merger plan breaks down Allegations that the son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel storage facilities and power stations in western Libya have upended plans for the Tripoli-based government of national unity (GNU) to continue cooperating with Haftar on a plan to unify the country. Saddam Haftar, the deputy commander of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), has increasingly been seen by the US as an important figure in its plans to unify Libyan security, judicial and political institutions. Continue reading...

‘The enemy is tearing our city apart’: terror in Kyiv as Russia ramps up attacks

Mayor Vitali Klitschko says Kyivans can no longer pretend it is ‘peacetime’ amid strikes on school, hospital and bridge Valeriya Tkachenko was dropping her son off at school in central Kyiv when the air raid alert sounded. Staff hurried the children and parents into the shelter, where the frightened lawyer spent the next two hours with her son. “I’m scared to death all day about what could happen to my son,” she said as she emerged from the shelter, already late for work. Continue reading...

Student Protests Rattle France as Police Clashes Bring Blockades and Tear Gas

Days of unrest have affected more than 1,000 schools across France as high school students push for better standards.

Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc

Sunday’s poll pits the leftist incumbent Lula against the son of a former far-right president convicted of staging a coup ‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of election Shortly after his controversial speech to the United Nations general assembly in September, Donald Trump gathered a dozen like-minded Latin American leaders and boasted that rightwing candidates had won all seven presidential elections held in the region since he began his second term. “Everybody I’ve endorsed has won,” the US president said in New York to most of the leaders of the Shield of the Americas, an anti-drug cartel coalition of 15 countries governed by the right or far right. Continue reading...

Russia strikes another Kyiv bridge, deepening travel chaos in Ukraine's capital

Kyiv's Northern Bridge across the Dnipro river was hit by a Russian air attack, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Saturday, deepening travel chaos amid an escalation in strikes ​on ‌infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital. The latest attack comes a day after the city's Southern Bridge was hit by several strikes that officials said were "tearing Kyiv apart".

G7 to release millions of barrels of oil and diesel after Trump threat

The co-ordinated release is aimed at heading off further price spikes and avoiding a ban on US diesel exports.

American University of Afghanistan at Risk of Closure Amid Funding Cuts

The State Department has denied its funding for the next two years, jeopardizing the education of hundreds of female Afghan students.

Cornell frat house rape accuser 'under siege' online, says lawyer

A lawyer for Jane Doe says she is "not doing well" amid attempts to uncover her identity.

What to Know About Fighting Between Ethiopia and Rebels in Tigray

The conflict is raising fears of a regional war in the Horn of Africa, drawing in foreign powers including Eritrea, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Iran Jails Hard-Line Lawmaker, Exposing Deep Rifts in Its Leadership

Hamid Rasaei, a vocal opponent of a diplomatic deal with the United States to end the war, was convicted of publishing false information with the intent to harm the Parliament speaker.

French media respond to M. Le Pen’s ‘Kevlar suit’ comments against investigative outlet

The editorial committees of 39 French media outlets, including FRANCE 24 and RFI, on Friday released a joint statement condemning National Rally (RN) party leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s recent comments targeting investigative outlet Médiapart as “violent attempts at intimidation” against press freedom in France, qualifying them as “particularly worrying for the right to information" that citizens of a democracy "are entitled to expect”.

Widdecombe Murder Suspect Charged With Preparing Acts of Terrorism, Including Against Farage

Joshua Kerry, a 28-year-old British man accused of killing the former lawmaker Ann Widdecombe, was charged on Friday.

India Faces Fresh Protests, This Time Over Voter Rolls

Hundreds were detained in New Delhi as demonstrators expressed anger over the removal of 130 million people from the rolls. The government denies accusations of “vote theft.”

Spanish Lawmakers Reject Eviction Freeze, Spurring Calls for Early Elections

The government had proposed more protections for tenants after outrage at the eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid.

Israel Lists 170 Killed in Gaza It Says Were Militants Posing as Media Workers

The Israeli military published an investigation it said rebuts accusations that it intentionally targeted journalists. But it and a journalists group disagree over 78 people who are on the list.

Argentina’s ‘Golden Passport’ Program Offers Citizenship in Exchange for Foreign Cash

The program would grant citizenship to people who make major investments in Argentina. Similar efforts have yielded significant income for small economies, but have also led to risks.

Como a imprensa russa vê a eleição brasileira - e o que isso revela sobre a forma com que o governo Putin enxerga o Brasil

Para analista, pouca cobertura da imprensa russa sobre eleição brasileira sinaliza que o Kremlin não tem interesse em que o público tome conhecimento da sua visão sobre o pleito.

How widely used is the death penalty in the US?

The death penalty is back in the news after Christa Pike survived two lethal injection attempts in Tennessee - but how widely used is it in the US?

Mass Shootings Surge in South Africa as Illegal Guns Flood Streets

The country was shaken after nearly 30 people were killed in two separate mass shootings. South Africans are demanding greater government intervention.

Sánchez pondera eleições antecipadas enquanto protestos exigem greve geral

Presidente do Governo decide este fim de semana se antecipa eleições após rejeição de dois decretos da habitação. Movimentos pela habitação preparam novos protestos e apontam greve geral como próximo passo.