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The president thrust Springfield, Ohio, into the spotlight with a false pet-eating claim - years later, it remains at the heart of the immigration debate.
The president thrust Springfield, Ohio, into the spotlight with a false pet-eating claim - years later, it remains at the heart of the immigration debate.
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Italy's government approves sending 500 troops to Milan after clashes and protests.
<p>During a summer fire that destroyed homes in Stourbridge, low pressure meant filling a water carrier took 40 minutes</p><p>Concerns have been raised about how drought affects the UK’s ability to cope with wildfires after MPs were told firefighters struggled for water supplies during this year’s record summer.</p><p>The government has been urged to set out water companies’ statutory responsibilities during major fire incidents to improve the country’s preparedness for the years ahead.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/21/firefighters-growing-concerns-water-supplies-tackle-wildfires">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Rights groups say the planned 1.4km route, which ends at compound run by far-right settler group Elad, will displace Palestinians and reshape the cultural landscape</p><p></p><p>A fifth foreign company has pulled out of a plan to build a cable car from West to East Jerusalem that threatens to involve the seizure of land and property rights from dozens of Palestinian families along its route, but local authorities insist the scheme is proceeding as planned.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/world/middleeast/jerusalem-cable-cars.html">project </a>appeared to have stalled for four years until late September, just weeks before <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/01/israel-election-benjamin-netanyahu-gadi-eisenkot">Israel’s 27 October elections</a>, when the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA) issued a notice of intent to award a contract without a public tender to ROPES, a cable car engineering consultancy based in South Tyrol, Italy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/fifth-firm-pulls-out-israeli-cable-car-project-east-jerusalem">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Unorthodox campaign is challenging the ruling party’s 12-year reign with a bold democratic experiment</p><p>On a cool autumn evening, a team of Serbian student volunteers went canvassing in the housing estates of Krnjača, a Belgrade suburb. They were equipped with lanyards emblazoned with the word “victory”, a stock list of questions and a mobile app that mapped visited homes and the level of support in each.</p><p>The volunteers were part of a mass student movement, Student List, that has rocked Serbia with two years of constant protests. On Sunday, the group will represent the most serious challenge Aleksandar Vučić has faced in his 12 increasingly authoritarian years in power, by putting forward their own candidates in parliamentary elections.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/protest-movement-serbia-student-list-try-to-take-power">Continue reading...</a>