Former Bank of China boss arrested on corruption charges (www.theguardian.com)
Pro-China candidate Mohamed Muizzu wins Maldives presidency, upending relationship with India (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, could charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)
Zelenskiy forced to recalibrate to avert Nato summit falling-out (www.theguardian.com)
Top German journalist received €600,000 from Putin ally, leak reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza in communications blackout as Israel intensifies siege (www.theguardian.com)
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Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.
Kim Jong-un offers Putin ‘full support’ in Russia’s ‘sacred fight’ with west (www.theguardian.com)
Younger people more likely to doubt merits of democracy – global poll (www.theguardian.com)
Democracy remains popular across the world, but faced with a global array of challenges from inequality to the climate crisis, young people are far less likely than their elders to believe it can deliver on what concerns them....
Bribes and hiding at home: the Ukrainian men trying to avoid conscription (www.theguardian.com)
China may be planning overseas naval bases in Asia and Africa, say analysts (www.theguardian.com)
China’s military may be planning to build a host of overseas naval bases, as it hopes to protect shipping routes and strengthen its ability to resist sanctions from the US and its allies, analysis has found....
Skin cancer cases reach record high in UK with sharp rise among older adults (www.theguardian.com)
Australian federal police using AI to analyse data obtained under surveillance warrants (www.theguardian.com)
The AFP’s use of AI has been limited so far but the agency hopes the technology will help police identify money laundering and potential fraud
US Supreme Court halts Pudue Pharma deal that shields Slackers (www.theguardian.com)
Is there a relationship between increasing animal atacks on humans and global rising temperatures? (www.theguardian.com)
So would you say animal behaviour is indeed changing lately?...
TIL that according to an FBI report, Elvis Presley believed the Beatles had led young people astray “by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music” (www.theguardian.com)
Portugal PM Antonio Costa resigns amid corruption allegations. (www.theguardian.com)
Portugal’s socialist prime minister, António Costa, has resigned hours after prosecutors examining alleged corruption involving lithium and “green” hydrogen deals announced that he was under investigation and police searched dozens of addresses, including his official residence and the environment and infrastructure...
Malaysia issues ‘kill switch’ order to cut controversial concerts (www.theguardian.com)
UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI’s ‘catastrophic’ danger (www.theguardian.com)
The UK, US, EU and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology....
‘We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers (www.theguardian.com)
In a series of interviews conducted over several years, 14 women from east Africa and the Philippines recounted their experiences with recruitment agencies hiring for the United Arab Emirates, including alleging they were denied food, held captive and treated violently.
‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat (www.theguardian.com)
Third person charged for infant’s death from fentanyl in New York City daycare (www.theguardian.com)
Prosecutors say Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, played a key role in selling the drugs that were stored at the childcare facility...
Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists (www.theguardian.com)
The decline appears to coincide with significant changes in global climate that turned glaciations into long-term events, a decrease in sea surface temperatures, and a possible long period of drought in Africa and Eurasia. The team behind the work said the time window also coincides with a relatively empty period on the fossil...
Fears UK’s cashless society will leave more than just the vulnerable behind (www.theguardian.com)
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Sunak’s new oil and gas licences are ‘moral and economic madness’ (www.theguardian.com)
PM becomes ‘dangerous radical’, in words of UN chief, by backing fossil fuels incompatible with net zero goals
