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Zohran Mamdani has threatened to take legal action against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over allegations the agency’s officers at the agency are using parking lots owned by New York City for operations in the area. In a letter to the Trump administration, New York City’s mayor noted the agency’s use of property owned by

Greenpeace activists have dropped boulders in the North Sea to snag the dragnets of industrial trawlers fishing in a marine protected area. Activists onboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise dropped the giant stones to form an underwater barrier around the Southern North Sea marine protected area (MPA) – the UK’s most bottom-trawled MPA. Boulders were

Supermarket chains in at least seven European countries have said the temperatures of refrigerators and freezers in some of their shops soared overnight to as high as 50C (122F), echoing a cyber-attack last month that caused millions of euros of damage in France. Retailers in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden reported

Unknown hackers have targeted Ukraine’s nationwide emergency alert mobile app, sending residents in Kyiv a warning that they were at risk of an imminent nuclear strike. The app reported a high possibility of nuclear radiation late on Sunday. It also wrongly warned of a chemical threat to the Ukrainian capital and street-to-street fighting. The messages

The award‑winning author Craig Silvey sent multiple messages about his sexual desire for young boys and was caught with explicit images of children and adults. The young adult novelist was jailed on Monday for seven months after pleading guilty to distributing and possessing child exploitation material earlier this year. The 44-year-old was found with numerous

Trade unions are expected to make further inroads into big tech companies in the UK after new rights for unions to access workplaces came into force, with Google UK signing an agreement on Monday. The Prospect union has reached an agreement with Google to begin organising among about 7,000 workers across its UK operations, including

Closing summary I’m going to leave the blog there for now, here’s what you need to know: Supermarket chains across Europe are dealing with another wave of cyber-attacks on their refrigeration systems after hackers managed to get into the temperature controls, turning the dial past 50C, spoiling huge quantities of frozen and fresh produce The

Ryanair has said it is considering implementing pay freezes, setting the scene for a confrontation with unions as the airline tries to offset soaring fuel costs driven by the Middle East conflict. The airline is also considering reducing crew numbers on flights and increasing the use of AI, in a cost-cutting drive. Europe’s largest low-cost

The stratospheric polar vortex over the northern hemisphere is facing the prospect of an unusually early weakening. Forecast models suggest it could weaken significantly over the next 10 days, when it would typically be strengthening. A major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event is possible. This could influence weather patterns in the following weeks, increasing the

Democrats condemn Haley Stevens’ ‘betrayal’ following Republican endorsement Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Democratic politicians have condemned congresswoman Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, over her endorsement of his Republican rival just days before the midterm vote. Stevens’ extraordinary endorsement of Mike Rogers was the

Tories and Reform UK accuse Mahmood of surrendering to ‘open-borders Labour left’ Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, is already ridiculing the indefinite leave to remain (ILR) announcement coming this afternoon. In a post on social media, he claimed that she was surrendering to “the open-borders Labour left”. double quotation markLater today the government will

In Arizona, where summer temperatures regularly hit triple digits, air conditioning can be a matter of life and death. This year, as the state recorded its hottest summer on record, Diali Avila’s monthly power bill went up to $400, the highest it has ever been. Avila, the state director for Climate Power, an advocacy group,

Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding and mandatory evacuations in a swath of the south-west on Sunday, including in a Colorado tourist town bracing for its main river to rise to historic levels, as weary residents in the normally arid region deal with another drenching. Officials in Pagosa Springs, a town of more than 2,000 in

Sales at the UK’s largest brickmaker plunged by more than a fifth over the summer, as it criticised the government for not introducing fresh help for the housing sector faster. Leicestershire-based Ibstock said on Monday that sales slumped by 22% below its expectations in the three months to the end of September, prompting it to

At 22:49, a fourth alert stated there was a “Street fighting threat. Street fighting is taking place in Kyiv. Don’t go outside.” At 23:53 a series of all clear messages were then delivered to users’ phones, which were connected to each of the previous Kyiv alerts, individually declaring each threat clear. In a separate post

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, says it has covered 90% of the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) assets stolen in a hack on Thursday. The remaining 10% may take longer to source in the required amounts, the company added. Binance has consistently pledged to cover 100% of the losses from what is suspected to be crypto’s biggest