OpenAI guided Canadian mass shooter to find his victims
By Usaid Siddiqui October 17, 2026 The deadly Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada raises questions about when AI companies should report threats of violence to police, and the potential risks to an individual’s privacy. Credit: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images For months before carrying out Canada’s deadliest school shooting in almost four decades, Jesse Van Rootselaar was consulting an unlikely adviser on how to perpetrate mass murder. “In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroo
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UN ends food support for Palestinians in Gaza
The Guardian By Emma Graham-Harrison and Seham Tantesh in Gaza 19th of October 2026 Photograph: Mohamed Hinnawi/WFP Two-thirds of population face crisis levels of food insecurity and 200,000 people are in danger of famine This winter is likely to deepen hunger for Palestinians in Gaza, after sweeping aid cuts forced the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to end support for more than half a million people each month, the agency’s director for Palestine said. More than a year afte
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Trump ramps up third-country US deportations
By Alia Chughtai and Umar Farooq October 15, 2026 Official data shows tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers have been sent to countries they have no ties to. Credit: Sgt Walker Pino/US Department of Defense/AFP United States immigration authorities have dramatically stepped up detentions and deportations since January 2025, when Donald Trump became president. Trump campaigned on a pledge to implement the “largest deportation operation in American history”. Officers
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Trinidad police bill threatens press freedom
By Natricia Duncan October 20, 2026 Journalists call for urgent amendment to special operations bill, which increases police search and seizure powers Officers in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. Photograph: Miami Herald/Tribune News Service/Getty Images Journalists in Trinidad and Tobago have called for an urgent amendment to a sweeping new bill that increases police powers of search and seizure, which they argue threatens the country’s much-vaunted freedom
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French Colonialism in Algeria and the Definition of Genocide
By Solenn Renault Defeated Algerian tribe leaders are forced to take part in a celebration parade in Paris for the centenary of France's colonization of Algeria to show their allegiance to their "homecountry", 14th of July 1930, Credit: Getty Images used by Le Nouvel Obs France's colonization of Algeria started in 1830 with the invasion of Algiers and lasted for 132 years until Algeria's independence in 1962. The initial process of colonization led to the native population of
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Yemenis cross Red Sea to Djibouti to flee Houthi war
Their overland routes to safety blocked off, several thousand people have boarded boats to escape gunfire, bombing and a dire humanitarian situation. By The Guardian October 20, 2026 Madinah Abdullah (in pink) and her family members at the Markazi humanitarian site in Obock, Djibouti, on 6 October. Photograph: Carlos Mureithi/The Guardian Abubaker Saeed was fishing in the Red Sea off Yemen’s coast last month when he noticed explosions in the distance. His mind turned immediat
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