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Polanski Loses By-Election, Greens Check Votes Were Recycled

Camden Rose

Green Leader Learns Voters Support Saving the Planet but Resist Electing the Supervisors LONDON, ENGLAND | Labour held the parliamentary seat of Holborn and St Pancras after Green Party leader Zack Polanski failed to win the October 2026 by-election. According to Reuters, Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali received 12,292 votes to Mr Polanski’s 8,928, handing Prime Minister Andy Burnham a useful result. ITV News also reported the outcome. The defeat has…

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Flydubai Flight FZ1073

Alan Nafzger

Flydubai Co-Pilot Suspected of Trying to Crash Tel Aviv Flight, Airline Announces Pilots Should Ideally Want Plane to Land Passengers discover the most important safety feature aboard a Boeing may be another pilot sitting in economy JERUSALEM, September 30, 2026 — Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday after what began in early reports as a cockpit altercation developed into…

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Donald Trump Shoots the Messenger

Bethan Morgan

Trump Bans the Press: The King Shoots the Messenger Again From a sofa in London we watch Washington rediscover the oldest trick in politics: sack the courier, keep the crisis WASHINGTON — For most of human history, rulers confronted bad news using a simple communications strategy. They killed the person who brought it. It was crude. It was violent. It was *terrible for staff retention*. Fortunately, civilisation has progressed. The modern…

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Milei’s Economic Reforms Win World Cup Match

Lowri Griffiths

Milei’s Economic Reforms Accidentally Create World’s Most Efficient Counterattack Argentina Cuts Government Spending, England Immediately Loses Possession BUENOS AIRES. Argentina’s government claimed Thursday that President Javier Milei’s economic reforms have now achieved what decades of football coaching could not, producing a national side so ruthlessly efficient, deficit-shy, spreadsheet-driven it scored twice in the closing minutes to eliminate England from the World Cup while barely increasing public expenditure. Officials described the victory as…

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Spain Offers Amnesty to One Million Undocumented Migrants

Isabel Navarro

Spain Offers Amnesty to One Million Undocumented Migrants, Discovers the Waiting Room Has a Border Sánchez government insists Spain has not been overrun, merely become extremely popular without reservations MADRID, SPAIN — Spain’s government has rejected suggestions that the country’s migration system is overwhelmed after more than one million undocumented migrants and asylum seekers applied for regularisation, shortly before 50,000 to 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave…

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

Yasmina Khan

MADRID, Spain — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez found himself increasingly isolated Saturday after roughly 50,000 migrants entered Ceuta, apparently mistaking years of progressive political language for practical travel instructions. The crisis, first detailed by Bloomberg and later confirmed in reporting from CNN and the Irish Times, has alarmed European governments that strongly support humane migration policies, particularly when implemented by another government several hundred kilometres away. Sánchez has long presented himself as Europe’s compassionate alternative…

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Avengers: Doomsday

Asha Mwangi

Avengers: Doomsday Assembles Every Living Actor After Marvel Discovers New Characters Require Introductions Robert Downey Jr. returns as Doctor Doom, Chris Evans returns as Captain America and audiences return carrying flowcharts, medication and proof they watched 19 streaming series HOLLYWOOD — Marvel Studios has released the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, confirming that Robert Downey Jr. will return as Doctor Doom, Chris Evans will return as Steve Rogers and…

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Spain’s Economic Miracle: A Sports Trophy

Emily Cartwright

Spain World Cup Win Exposes a Debt-Fuelled Economic Miracle When a Heavily Indebted Nation Wins the World Cup, Economists Must Ask Whether Bankruptcy Is the Ultimate Performance-Enhancing Drug Spain won the 2026 World Cup after defeating Argentina 1–0, leaving international football facing its deepest philosophical crisis since FIFA discovered that a hydration break could also contain six advertisements, a tactical lecture, and a sponsored reminder to gamble responsibly. The tournament…

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Iran Deal: The Fine Print

Cyndi Himmelstiere

Trump Announces Historic Iran Deal, Insists Everyone Will Read The Fine Print Eventually Iran Agrees Not To Build Nuclear Weapons, Reserves The Right To Pursue Extremely Suspicious Science Projects LONDON —  President Donald Trump has announced what officials are calling a “historic” US-Iran framework deal this week, a diplomatic document so important that several members of Congress immediately demanded to read it before pretending they had already read it. Westminster,…