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Italy’s government is sending 500 soldiers to Milan and vowed a “firm response from the state” after protests against the cost of living descended into clashes with police, vandalism and looting. Further demonstrations are planned on Saturday.The government of the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is also planning to swiftly approve tougher new security measures, including extending preventive detention for minors, cracking down on youth gangs and banning gatherings for people deemed a threat to public order, Italian media reported on Tuesday.In France, the interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said on Tuesday some military forces would be deployed during ⁠protests ​planned…

Jane Dodds has announced she will stand down as leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats.Dodds said she would remain the party’s only Member of the Senedd (MS), but that work to increase its presence in Wales’ parliament “should be led by a new generation”.”Leading the Welsh Liberal Democrats has been the honour of my life,” she said in a statement on Tuesday, adding “now is the right time” to hand over the role.Only Welsh Lib Dem MP David Chadwick is eligible to seek nomination to replace Dodds at this stage, the party said.Relations between Dodds and the UK Liberal Democrat…

Who pays for US elections and what do they get? Josh Rushing asks Lawrence Lessig and Bradley Smith.The 2026 midterm elections are on track to be the most expensive in the history of the United States, with a record $11.6bn in political advertisements alone. Independent expenditure-only political action committees, or super PACs, dark money and billionaire donors now shape who runs and who wins, yet voters of both parties say money has too much power.Josh Rushing asks two leading experts who is paying, what they are buying and whether the system can change.Contributors:Lawrence Lessig – Professor of law and leadership,…

Addressing the issue of US intelligence sharing after Tuesday’s talks, Zelensky said he was “thankful that intelligence works now”.”Speaking about early warning, which is very important for our people, our children, adults, civilians because we can hear when ballistic[s] is coming – so we are thankful to American side, now it works, it’s great,” the Ukrainian president said.He said he also hoped for a good result on SpaceX’s Starlink satellite access as well, after Ukraine’s military had reported in recent days speed restrictions on the US platform used by Kyiv to carry out drone strikes against Russia.And Zelensky also restated…

Americans are fed up with data centers and Big Tech, and Republicans are poised to take more of the political blame in the Nov. 3 midterms.The POLITICO Poll found last week that Americans were far more likely to associate the GOP with giving tax incentives to tech companies at a time when the public’s concerns about artificial intelligence and data center sprawl are only deepening.Nearly half of respondents — 47% — called Republicans the party of tech tax breaks, more than double the 21% who said the same for Democrats.Voters are also far more likely to want candidates who propose…

The attack in Abyei, which borders West Kordofan, took place on Monday around 11:30 local time (09:30 GMT) targeting Amiet Market around 10km (six miles) from Abyei town, the region’s Information Minister Yohana Akol Ngor told Radio Tamazuj, which broadcasts from the Netherlands to audiences on the Sudan-South Sudan border.On Tuesday, the minister confirmed to the Associated Press and Reuters that the death toll had risen from 73 to 153 people.”It is a horrible and shocking situation,” AP quotes him as saying.BBC Verify has studied satellite images that show extensive burnt buildings in the north-east corner of Amiet Market, which…

Guy Baybutt, who works for a family-run business The Veg Box Company also said he was “severely affected” by Tuesday’s outage.Baybutt, who is from Preston, told the BBC the firm – which supplies fresh fruit, vegetables and other produce to customers across the UK – could not access its website to download and process customer orders amid the technical issues.”We were also unable to book parcels onto DPD’s system for collection, meaning orders that should have been dispatched today were at risk of being delayed,” he said.”To make matters worse, customers were unable to access our website to place new…

The softly-spoken Yorkshireman has a remarkable record as someone who has been on the Labour frontbench almost continuously since 2001.Born in Wakefield in 1960 and educated at Lady Lumley’s Comprehensive School, Pickering, and Peter’s School in York, he studied social and political science at Christ’s College, Cambridge.Before entering politics, he worked as a journalist, briefly editing Parliament’s in-house magazine The House, before becoming a disability rights campaigner and trade union official.He is married and has one son.He first came into Parliament in Tony Blair’s landslide general election in 1997 as MP for Wentworth, a former mining area north of Sheffield,…

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Voters in Alberta have chosen to remain part of Canada in a first-ever independence referendum.Canadian state broadcaster CBC News called the results of Monday’s vote late on the same day after 48 percent of the ballots counted showed overwhelming support for the “remain” side, with 76 percent opting to stay with Canada.The result marks a major win for Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is facing a trade and political war with the United States amid US President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs and repeated suggestions of annexing the country.On his way into a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning, Carney called it…