In Ecuador, fishermen are the collateral victims of American bombs
Under the pretext of waging a 'war' against 'narco-terrorists,' the US has targeted longline fishing vessels off the coast of the Andean country. Eight fishermen remain missing, and Washington has claimed responsibility for the deaths of 238 men in the Pacific and the Caribbean since late 2025. Human rights advocates have condemned what they call 'illegal killings.'
G7 countries pledge $2.5 billion to fight food insecurity
In announcing the pledge, French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said the World Bank identified 44 countries that may face food insecurity, notably due to fertiliser supply issues linked to energy price hikes after the US war on Iran.
Israeli firm’s digital ads enabling installation of ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say
Discover-Tech’s Controlium software lets clients mass-profile internet users then covertly hack targets, say researchers at University of Toronto An Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets, researchers at a Canadian university have said. Citizen Lab, a digital investigations research unit at the University of Toronto, said it believed dozens of devices at the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera had been compromised by spyware delivered through ads run by Discover-Tech, which describes itself as a specialised digital advertising agency. Continue reading...
Burnham to deliver speech in Scotland on devolution – UK politics live
The prime minister is expected to announce plans on devolving decision-making powers away from both Westminster and Holyrood towards regions and towns Good morning and welcome to our UK politics live blog. Prime minister Andy Burnham is in Scotland today where he is expected to invite Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, to collaborate on devolving decision-making powers away from both Westminster and Holyrood and pushing control further down to Scottish regions and towns. The newswires have reported an extract of his speech, which he is expected to deliver in Lanarkshire around midday: During my first week in office, I told the first minister that I wanted to work with him to spread opportunities to communities across Scotland’s regions and cities. Through No10 North, we are rewiring the state and I want to make sure regions in Scotland are fully part of this. Young people who rely on benefits will be given less money in exchange for more intensive health and employment support under plans for a separate youth welfare system, the Financial Times reported. Alan Milburn, who is leading a major review into Britain’s youth jobs crisis, will recommend benefits for young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) be delivered through a different process, sources told the newspaper. Reform’s Robert Jenrick has responded to claims made by his colleague Sarah Pochin that the party is “chauvinistic”, after she was caught by an undercover ITV news reporter complaining about the party’s culture. “That’s not my experience of Reform,” Jenrick told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. John Healey is planning to increase taxes on the UK banking sector in his 28 October budget, the Guardian understands. One option on the table is reversing former Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 cut to the bank profit surcharge, from 3% back to 8%. You can read more on this story here: Continue reading...
Cable and camera: selfies in 1970s Handsworth
Nearly 50 years ago in inner-city Birmingham, photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon set up an impromptu studio in the street and invited their neighbours along. With no camera phones in 1979, long cable releases gave participants the power to decide how they wished to be seen and represented. The project’s original aim was to counter negative media images of Handsworth and its people. Now, in collaboration with Dewi Lewis Publishing, a Kickstarter fund has been set up to bring them together in book form
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