In today’s newsletter: A mob descended on the Merseyside town and clashed with police after three children were killed – here’s what happened
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The horrific knife attack in which three children were killed in Southport has shocked the country. It has also been seized on by the far right to promote its hateful agenda and led to riots, injuring 54 police officers and the burning of a police van within sight of the venue where the child stabbing victims had danced to Taylor Swift.
Israel-Gaza war | Iran has vowed revenge after airstrikes killed the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut in the space of 12 hours. The dual Israeli assassinations crushed hopes for an imminent Gaza ceasefire and fuelled fears of a “dangerous escalation” in the region.
US news | During a contentious and chaotic panel hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) on Wednesday, Donald Trump parroted disinformation and questioned Kamala Harris’s race. Trump claimed that Harris suddenly “became a Black woman” and had previously only been identifying with her Indian heritage. “Is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump said, as the audience audibly gasped. “I respect either one but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian all the way and then all of sudden she became a Black woman.”
UK news | Fire brigades across England are rife with “pockets of abhorrent behaviour” such as sexist, racist and homophobic language, an investigation has found.
Science | A new accessible blood test that can predict male infertility could soon be used by GPs, researchers say. Researchers looked at data from almost 4,000 men who underwent semen and hormone testing from 2011-2020.
India | The death toll from landslides in Kerala rose to 166 and almost 200 people were missing as the southern Indian state reeled from one of its worst disasters in years.
Continue reading… World news | The Guardian
