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Flock says its cameras make US safer – so why are they being sabotaged?

5 September, 2026

There have been recent incidents of privacy breaches that have caught national attention. Last week, a police officer in Kentucky was charged after using the Flock system to track his ex-girlfriend – who filed a protection order – over 2,000 times.He was caught using Flock’s newly mandatory, AI-powered audit tool that flags suspicious use.Others are

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Germany’s far-right AfD bids for first taste of power in eastern vote

5 September, 2026

Germany is holding its breath this weekend as there is a seismic election in the country’s east.The Alternative für Deutschland party is aiming to secure a majority in the regional parliament of Saxony-Anhalt.An outright win would mark the first time a far-right party has held state-level power in the nation’s post-war era.For the AfD’s opponents,

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Argentine couple to return Nazi-looted painting to rightful owner

5 September, 2026

A painting which was stolen by the Nazis and only recovered in Argentina last year must now be returned to the heir of its rightful owner, a court has ruled. The late-baroque Portrait of a Lady was lost for 80 years until it was spotted in photographs of a house for sale near Buenos Aires.The

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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa’s true size

5 September, 2026

The Mercator map was designed in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator to help European explorers navigate across the world.The distortion of his map is a result of the fact that it is impossible to accurately represent the surface of a globe on a two-dimensional chart.Whenever a map of the world is drawn, compromises

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Trump’s peace envoys to visit Moscow and Kyiv

4 September, 2026

US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will visit Russia and Ukraine this weekend, as efforts to end the war appear to be gathering pace.Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed he will meet with the envoys on Sunday, after they visit Moscow on Saturday to hold talks with meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.Witkoff and Kushner have led

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Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage and Russia is the chief suspect

4 September, 2026

Attacks on military and defence targets are not new, although previous acts of sabotage linked to Russia include more puzzling targets – such as an Ikea store and a Polish paint store.The novelty now is the concentration of cases.”The intensity of military sites being attacked we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks is unusual,”

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Falkland Islands: UK support ‘unwavering’ after Argentina restates claims

4 September, 2026

It is not yet clear how or to what extent the sanctions will be imposed or tightened. In Argentina, a current law already allows for restrictions of activities of oil companies participating in projects considered unauthorised on the islands.Two oil companies – Britain’s Rockhopper Exploration and Israel’s Navitas Petroleum – are due to begin extracting

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‘It’s like layer upon layer of miracles’: How Nepal flood survivors were rescued from tunnel

4 September, 2026

A tunnelling expert involved in the rescue operation at a blocked Nepalese hydropower tunnel has described to the BBC how they managed to reach survivors.Arnold Dix has been advising Nepal’s hydropower authorities on how to dig through the blocked tunnel to Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station, which was one of several stations hit by last week’s

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Volkswagen board approves plan to cut another 50,000 jobs

4 September, 2026

The board of German car giant Volkswagen has approved a plan to cut another 50,000 jobs as part of the biggest restructuring in the group’s almost nine-decade history. It brings the total number of roles the carmaker plans to shed by 2030 to 100,000, after announcing in March that it would cut 50,000 roles.The group

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Argentina to sanction oil firms as Falklands dispute with UK heats up

4 September, 2026

Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, has heightened tensions with the UK over the Falklands, warning he will impose economic sanctions on firms which exploit oil close to the British overseas territory.In a national address, Milei said the “winds of change” favoured Argentina’s claim to the islands, emboldened by signs the US might reconsider its stance of

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US investigating if missile hit Iran wedding, Vance says

4 September, 2026

“I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what’s happened in the conflict thus far. So I’m extremely sceptical of this,” Vance told a White House briefing. “I know that we’re investigating.” Iran has launched fresh attacks on US bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates

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Pig kidney works in human body for 271 days – is this the future of organ transplants?

4 September, 2026

A kidney transplanted from a pig has worked inside a patient for 271 days – the longest on record, say US doctors.Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him “hope” and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine.The team at Mass General Brigham hospital say

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ICE agent charged with lying about shooting Venezuelan man during crackdown

4 September, 2026

In Minnesota, Castro faces separate charges of assault and false reporting of a crime related to the shooting. Castro was one of thousands of federal immigration officers deployed to the Midwestern state during Operation Metro Surge, which sparked fierce protests and resulted in the deaths of two US citizens at the hands of agents during

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Australia is becoming a data centre capital – but at what cost?

4 September, 2026

On a rainy Monday night during a town hall event led by Greenpeace Australia Pacific at the Lane Cove library, locals say they were never consulted on their area becoming a data centre hub. One of the proposed centres from the cluster is 16m from the nearest home and 160m from a local primary school.In

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Trump $1 coin makes him first living president on US currency in a century

3 September, 2026

Donald Trump’s portrait has made its way on to a US coin – the latest move by the president to put his personal stamp on American institutions.On Wednesday, the US Mint launched the $1 (£0.74) coin with a portrait of Trump alongside the words “Liberty” and “In God We Trust”, to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.The

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Anthony Joshua’s driver attempted overtake before fatal crash, trial hears

3 September, 2026

The court heard police had yet to take a statement from Joshua following the crash.During cross-examination, Kayode’s lawyer questioned Ajayi over the lack of statement, to which he replied that “efforts are ongoing” and that he had not contacted Joshua because he “didn’t have his number”.The trial was adjourned until 10 September.Joshua, who was born

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South Africa’s Sharpeville massacre survivors start legal fight for justice and compensation

3 September, 2026

The 1961 Indemnity Act was passed by the apartheid government in the wake of the massacre and protected the police and government from having criminal charges or even civil claims brought against them in relation to what happened at Sharpeville.Despite more than 30 years of democratic rule, that law remains on the statute books.But now

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Embattled Spanish PM Sánchez insists no prior warnings before Ceuta crisis

3 September, 2026

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said no-one foresaw the influx of 72,000 migrants in the exclave of Ceuta, as pressure mounts over his handling of the crisis.”It’s absurd to think that the government knew and did nothing,” Sánchez told Spain’s parliament on Thursday, hours after tens of thousands of people joined protests across the

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NBA: Los Angeles clippers fined $30m over Kawhi Leonard scandal

3 September, 2026

The LA Clippers have been fined $30m (£22.2m) by the NBA for violating salary rules in order to funnel millions of dollars to star player Kawhi Leonard.The fine – the largest in the league’s history – comes after the NBA report said Leonard pressured the Clippers into “obtaining off-court income opportunities [and] successfully obtaining those

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EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after ‘new escalation’ in Leipzig

3 September, 2026

Von der Leyen was clear in her statement that the Leipzig attack had involved “military-grade material carried out by Russian operatives on European Union soil”.”We will not tolerate it,” she said. “We have to step up and that means being ready to respond to Russia’s recklessness faster and better.”While she was meeting Rutte in Brussels,

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Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect

3 September, 2026

Over the last year, Uber has also pulled out of Ivory Coast and Tanzania. The latest announcement means Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa are the only African countries in which the firm now operates.”This decision is limited strictly to these two markets and does not impact our operations across the rest of the continent,”

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Protests in Spain over government’s handling of Ceuta migrant crisis

3 September, 2026

Thousands of people have protested in cities across Spain over the government’s handling of the influx of migrants to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north African coast.Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta, while the government says right-wing parties are exploiting the crisis.On Wednesday a police

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South African airline behind daring stadium stunt cancels next flyby

3 September, 2026

The South African airline behind a stunt which saw two planes flying in close formation low over a packed stadium, has cancelled a similar operation this weekend.Airlink confirmed it had withdrawn its application for the display set to take place before South Africa’s rugby match with New Zealand in Johannesburg on Saturday, citing a poor

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Iranian attack on Saudi tanker killed two sailors, Saudi Arabia says

3 September, 2026

Saudi Arabia has condemned what it said was an Iranian attack on a Saudi-owned supertanker on Monday night that killed two Filipino sailors.The Saudi national shipping company, Bahri, confirmed on Wednesday that its vessel Sidr was “involved in a security incident while transiting the Strait of Hormuz”.Sidr was hit by projectiles north of Oman’s Musandam

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