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Designer is developing wool alternatives and for Paris wants focus to be on ‘sea life, not sea food’ with ocean-inspired clothes Stella McCartney has been talking about animal rights at fashion week for 30 years. She is usually a lone voice, but the issue is back in the headlines this season. Outcry over the physical restraining of a Peta protester at a catwalk show by Steven Kolb, the president …

When one track failed, Trump administration rushed immigration case of Palestine rights advocate Salah Sarsour An immigration judge has ruled that the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque can be deported under a controversial, cold-war era law the Trump administration has sought to wield against foreign nationals who have been outspoken about Palestinian rights. Salah Sarsour, a US permanent r…

On morning service from Dubai to Tel Aviv, 150 passengers witnessed a horrific cockpit assault, flight plummet and daring rescue Pilot who stabbed co-pilot on Israel-bound plane may have tried to crash it, says Netanyahu As flight FZ 1073 soared west over the waters of the Gulf towards Israel, its passengers may have bemoaned a 20-minute delay at takeoff. For a low-cost airline route, flydubai’s …

Trump criticized $2.4bn rehab amid attempts to pressure then Fed chair Jerome Powell into lowering interest rates The Federal Reserve ’s internal watchdog said on Wednesday that the agency has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors. The Fed’s inspector general said that a variety of misst…

Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumption Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legislation intended to offset the impact of datacenters on consumer electricity bills, which has emerged as a top voter concern ahead of November’s midterm elections . The Ratepayer Protection Act failed by a 57 to 43 vote, falling just shy of the 60-…

French president, speaking alongside Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez, says EU bid would be good news for UK and Europeans UK politics live – latest updates The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has reacted warmly to Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the UK could rejoin the EU. “Welcome back,” the French leader said in English with a smile at a news conference in Madrid on Wednesday. Macron contin…

Women say nothing has changed since Delhi’s infamous Nirbhaya bus rape case 14 years ago The posters, just like the women holding them, were taking no prisoners. “Girls don’t need curfews, rapists need consequences,” read one. “Lock your dicks rather than your women at home,” read another. As hundreds of women walked from the gates of their university campus into the streets of Delhi – where sexu…

While the country’s screen sector is growing, only a fraction of production staff are Scottish themselves Scotland’s striking Ardross Castle, the oldest star of Celebrity Traitors, which kicks off tonight, is just one of the stops on the Scottish tourist board’s “screen tourism” trail. From Outlander and The Odyssey filming in the Highlands and islands, to Glasgow city centre standing in for New …

Met calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’ Police investigating the Grenfell Tower fire have asked prosecutors to consider charges including manslaughter and fraud against a range of companies and individuals. The Metropolitan police announced it had given prosecutors evidence relating to 20 companies and organisations and 54 individu…

Developing North Sea fields does not contradict net zero goals, according to Simone Rossi New oil and gas projects are a “no-brainer” that pose “no contradiction” to the net zero agenda, according to the head of EDF Energy. Simone Rossi has joined a string of renewables leaders in making the case for more North Sea production as the government prepares to decide on two projects there. Continue re…

Seven others found guilty of lesser charges in connection to incident in 2021 when inflatable dinghy sank killing at least 27 people with four more missing, presumed dead A Paris court has jailed six ⁠men for manslaughter over the deaths of at least 27 people in the worst mass drowning from a small-boat crossing in the Channel on record. Seven other men were ⁠found guilty of lesser smuggling char…

Independent commission accuses country of failing Indigenous people, amid rising tensions over land rights An independent commission set up by the Swedish state has called on the country’s government to apologise for the “harm and injustice inflicted upon the Sami people” and to start a national process for “redress and reconciliation”. The Truth Commission for the Sami People also called for a s…

PM also defends decision to release suspects on bail and expresses ‘complete confidence’ in security services There are “strong indications” that Iran played a role in events in which five men were arrested near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire as part of a terror investigation, Andy Burnham has said. Speaking to the media at the end of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Burnham said he cou…

Donald Trump and six tech executives voluntarily signed the document, which included a misspelling, committing to safely developing AI The White House misspelled “United States” under the signature of Donald Trump on an accord he signed with AI executives on Tuesday. At the bottom of the accord on “Super Intelligence,” the term Trump has used to rebrand artificial intelligence, the president’s si…

Cotality data shows median house prices fell in September as interest rates hit borrowing capacity Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Housing prices are falling in almost every suburb in Australia’s biggest cities, with values dropping faster in Brisbane than Sydney as the slowdown intensifies. Prices nationally have fallen 5.2% from their peak in March to where they wer…