Supreme court rejects Republican argument on Pennsylvania ballot counting: AP The supreme court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania, the Associated Press reports. The justices left in place a state supreme court ruling that elections officials must count provisional…
Supporters of Bolivia’s ex-president Evo Morales stormed a barracks in the central Chapare region and took about 20 soldiers hostage, military sources said on Friday, marking a dramatic escalation in their standoff with the state. The hostage situation comes nearly three weeks after backers of Morales – the country’s first Indigenous leader – began blocking…
Moody’s: UK budget will be ‘additional challenge’ for public finances The UK government’s increased borrowing will give an “additional challenge” to the public finances, according to influential ratings agency Moody’s. UK gilt yields, effectively the price at which the government can borrow, rose to their highest level this year on Thursday afternoon as markets responded…
The Victorian Greens leader, Ellen Sandell, says former co-deputy leader Sam Hibbins will never be welcomed back to the party room after he admitted to a relationship with a staffer that broke the party’s rules. Sandell said Hibbins resigned from the party room this week after MPs suspended him. She said she had also requested…
Climate breakdown caused more than half of the 68,000 heat deaths during the scorching European summer of 2022, a study has found. Researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) found 38,000 fewer people would have died from heat if humans had not clogged the atmosphere with pollutants that act like a greenhouse and…
Palestinian prisoner rights organisations have accused Israeli prison authorities of “brutally assaulting” Marwan Barghouti, the most prominent Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody. Prison staff assaulted Barghouti in his solitary confinement cell at Megiddo prison in northern Israel on 9 September, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club and a support group for…
Sudanese militia have been accused of killings, sexual violence, looting and arson during eight days of attacks on villages south of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. The UN said there were reports of “gross human rights abuses” linked to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group, which has escalated attacks on civilians in el-Gezira state since the area’s…
Labour has suspended the whip from the MP Mike Amesbury after footage appeared to show him punching a man to the ground, the party said. A video published by the Mail appeared to show Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, hitting the man in the face and knocking him to the floor, before standing…
A scheme designed to boost the numbers of French children able to travel to Britain for school trips is reportedly in peril as a result of an overhaul of entry requirements in the UK. New rules for French school trips were introduced in December last year after a meeting between the French president, Emmanuel Macron,…
A Nasa astronaut who was briefly hospitalised after returning from space has been released, the space agency said Saturday. Nasa’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin, were flown to the hospital for additional medical checks on Friday after parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast on board…
