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The aircraft reportedly took off from the Hindu pilgrimage site of Badrinath on Friday afternoon before losing contact.
The aircraft reportedly took off from the Hindu pilgrimage site of Badrinath on Friday afternoon before losing contact.
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<p>Immigrants at Texas detention facility, protesting harsh conditions, say they’ve been threatened with force-feeding</p><p>Members of Congress sent a scathing letter to federal immigration officials this week demanding answers about conditions inside a Texas immigration jail, as detained immigrants on a prolonged hunger strike claim officials are retaliating against them and threatening them with force feeding.</p><p>A group of seven congressional Democrats sent the letter earlier this week to Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, and David Venturella, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director, protesting about the treatment of hunger strikers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/30/congressional-democrats-letter-ice-dhs-hunger-strikers">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Parents are opting for a second shot of MMR vaccine sooner, which aligns with guidance in Germany, the UK and France</p><p>Measles cases are accelerating in the US, with twice as many confirmed cases as last year, and more parents are opting for earlier vaccination – especially with the second dose of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which can be given as soon as four weeks after the first.</p><p>Giving the second shot soon after the first aligns with what some other countries, such as Germany, the United Kingdom and France, recommend – and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/vaccine-considerations/index.html">says</a> it’s an option.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/30/measles-outbreak-vaccination">Continue reading...</a>
<p>After improbable election victory, the unconventional grassroots movement says it will prioritise dismissal of corrupt officials</p><p>In Belgrade’s Pioneers Park, just across from the national assembly, a small crowd craned their necks to listen. One woman held aloft a placard reading “Love prevailed for the people and Serbia”. With a bouquet of media microphones in front of them, members of the Student List, the direct democracy movement that won an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/25/serbian-leader-aleksandar-vucic-concedes-defeat-in-fiercely-contested-parliamentary-election">improbable but decisive victory</a> in Sunday’s election, gathered under the trees.</p><p>Having spent days bathing in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/europe-serbia-election-celebration-aleksandar-vucic-defeat-student-movement">euphoria of their unexpected triumph</a>, the candidates’ focus was now clear: the cleaning up of the rotten institutions that had increasingly blighted the lives of Serbs over the 14 years of government by the populist leader Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive party (SNS). They called for the dismissal of many senior law enforcement officials, among them the chiefs of the criminal police, the paramilitary gendarmerie and an anti-terrorism unit.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/student-list-focus-on-cleaning-up-serbia-corruption">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Forums for discussion of feminist and LGBTQ+ views face growing intolerance from Chinese state, say experts</p><p>Beijing’s annual independent queer film festival has been cancelled after what is understood to have been a campaign of sustained harassment from authorities.</p><p>Beijing Queer film festival, which was due to begin on Friday in China’s capital, is one of the country’s oldest independent film festivals.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/beijing-queer-film-festival-cancelled-after-police-harassment">Continue reading...</a>