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Moment Afghan woman fights back as female Taliban morality police try to force her into a van during brutal new crackdown in Kabul
Video footage has emerged showing an Afghan woman resisting female members of the Taliban’s morality police as they attempted to force her into a van in Kabul, in the latest example of the regime’s escalating crackdown on women’s dress and behaviour. The incident, which occurred on Saturday, saw at least 20 women and girls forcibly…
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Labour reveals plan to make it easier for staff to work from home with new rules for firms trying to block flexible working requests
Labour is planning to make it harder for businesses to refuse staff requests to work from home, according to minister Louise Haigh. Speaking at the TUC Conference in place of Andy Burnham, Haigh said firms that want to turn down flexible working requests will have to meet employees face-to-face to explain their reasoning, building on…
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Datacentre giant accused of using AI while lobbying for Victorian minister’s support for hyperscale factory
The Victorian jobs minister, Melissa Horne, has accused datacentre giant NextDC of using artificial intelligence to draft a letter lobbying her to support the expansion of its Footscray facility, alleging the correspondence contained basic factual errors. The exchange highlights growing political sensitivity around datacentre expansion in Victoria ahead of the state election, as local residents…
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Trump unleashes fury on Supreme Court he built as he fumes they ‘set America back a hundred years’ after voting defeat
Donald Trump has launched a furious attack on the US Supreme Court after it blocked his attempt to alter mail-in voting rules just weeks before the November midterm elections. The court’s emergency order, issued on Monday evening, rejected an executive order that would have let the US Postal Service check mail-in ballots against a central…
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Meta adds new subscription tiers for businesses, creators and ‘AI power users’
Meta has launched a new set of “Meta One” subscription plans aimed at businesses, creators and heavy users of its AI tools, expanding on the paid features it introduced earlier this year for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The company insists its core apps and Meta AI will remain free, but is betting that additional revenue…
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Trump LOSES mail-in ballot crackdown fight as Supreme Court rejects his eleventh-hour plea with weeks to midterm elections
The US Supreme Court has dealt Donald Trump a significant setback in his bid to restrict mail-in voting, rejecting his administration’s eleventh-hour request to enforce new Postal Service checks on mail ballots just weeks before the November midterm elections. The order would have allowed officials to cross-reference mail-in ballots against a central voter database and…
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Property bloodbath: The Aussie suburbs where house prices are plunging and being sold at a loss – and hotspots that are defying the downturn
Almost half of all property resales in Melbourne’s central business district are now selling at a loss, according to new figures from data firm Cotality, highlighting a growing divide in Australia’s housing market. The report shows that while overall profitability remains historically high, recent buyers—particularly apartment owners in Sydney and Melbourne—are increasingly bearing the brunt…
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Mom sobs in front of daughter’s casket after she was gunned down by illegal immigrant DoorDash stalker as cops admit they HAD warrant for his arrest but couldn’t find him
Police in Sacramento, California, have admitted they had probable cause to arrest a man who went on to fatally shoot a woman he had been stalking, but were unable to locate him before the attack. Rohit Rohit, a 22-year-old DoorDash driver who had entered the US illegally from India in 2023, shot 38-year-old Shalini Thakur…
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When is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads | Peter Walker
Guardian columnist Peter Walker argues that much of the debate over ebikes conflates two very different things: legal, speed-limited electric-assist bicycles (including share schemes like Lime and Forest) and illegal, throttle-powered electric motorbikes that merely resemble bikes but can travel far faster than the law allows. He contends this distinction matters because it clarifies where…
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This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door
SimpliSafe has launched the Video Doorbell Series 2, extending its AI-powered “Active Guard” proactive monitoring feature to the front door for the first time. The doorbell combines on-device AI, cloud-based computer vision and facial recognition to detect suspicious activity, allowing a human monitoring agent to view the live feed, speak through the doorbell and attempt…