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| Hello. Today we're covering Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction to global efforts pushing for a ceasefire, as attacks carry on. Our live page will cover the Israeli prime minister's intervention at the UN in New York. We're also hearing from a Florida resident who had to flee her house at night as hurricane Helene is barrelling through the US Southeast. And we catch up on the Australian saga which could see a women-only art exhibit reopen to the (female) public. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire talks met with pessimism |  | Lebanese officials say more than 700 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since Monday. Credit: Reuters | Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah goes on as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office indicates his team is continuing talks with the US over the ceasefire proposal issued on Wednesday by Washington and its allies. "Israel shares the aims of the US-led initiative of enabling people along our northern border to return safely and securely to their homes," the statement said. The proposal had been dismissed by Israeli politicians on Thursday, although the White House said the initiative was "co-ordinated with the Israeli side". Netanyahu is in New York today, where he is preparing to address the United Nations General Assembly. While he faces international pressure for a truce, his hard-line allies in government oppose it. The prime minister's policy of staying at the negotiating table can appear, in that context, "to be a familiar strategy", writes Hugo Bachega: "To let negotiations happen amid international pressure without, perhaps, really wanting them to succeed." Hezbollah, too, has given no sign of wanting to back down.
- The latest: An overnight Israeli strike has killed nine family members in the southern Lebanese town of Shebaa, according to its mayor, while Hezbollah says it has fired rockets into northern Israel. Our live page has more.
- Verified: Richard Irvine-Brown has been looking at what the latest satellite imagery and video on the ground can tell us about the damage sustained in southern Lebanon. Watch his report here.
- Analysis: Can diplomacy bring a ceasefire to the Middle East? Early signs don't bode well, writes our State Department correspondent Tom Bateman, at the UN in New York.
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WORLD HEADLINES | | | - Eric Adams: New York City's mayor is expected in court today after he vowed to fight charges of bribery and fraud. But what exactly is he accused of?
| - Sudan civil war: Sudan's army has launched a major offensive in the capital Khartoum against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, targeting areas it lost at the start of the conflict.
| - Sycamore Gap tree: A sapling of the world-famous tree that was fell last year has been gifted to a family in memory of their son who died of cancer when he was 12.
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| Devastation and deaths in southeastern US | Hurricane Helene is barrelling across Georgia towards Tennessee, after devastating Florida with fierce winds and flash flooding. At least three people died in the US in one of the largest storms ever to hit the Gulf Coast. Florida resident Briana Gagnier tells Christal Hayes how her family escaped their flooded home. |
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| | | Briana Gagnier and her family saw water creeping into their home on Holmes Beach, Florida, and started moving their belongings onto tables and beds. Then came a loud bang. "My family and I all looked at one another," she tells me "Then water just started pouring in." A door to their garage broke open violently - caving way due to the floodwaters from Helene. The water quickly rose to their shoulders. She and her family had to swim out of their home - which is located on a barrier island off Florida's Gulf Coast. "Everyone was screaming and panicking," she says. "Whatever your worst idea of what this storm is - that is what we're seeing." |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | Women-only exhibit wins appeal case |
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| |  | Artist Kirsha Kaechele and her supporters celebrated the decision outside court. Credit: Mona /Jessi Hunniford | Frequent readers of this newsletter might remember the Ladies' Lounge, a controversial art exhibit that banned men from entering in a Tasmanian museum. After being shut down in May for breaching anti-discrimination laws, an appeal judge ruled it legal. “Today’s verdict demonstrates a simple truth: women are better than men," the artist behind the show said. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Truly all-inclusive | The tourism industry is becoming more mindful of neurodivergent visitors. | |
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And finally... | Companies are being warned about the increasing role of AI to carry out so-called CEO fraud using the likeness of executives. Our cyber correspondent Joe Tidy asked engineers to create a clone of himself to see if it could fool his colleagues. Did they fall for it? | |
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