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Who was Roy Cohn and to what extent did he shape US President Donald Trump? Newsnight presenter Paddy O’Connell interviews Kai Bird, co-author of ‘American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump’.
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Israeli media reported that the UAE contacted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu before the October 7, 2023 attacks, warning him that Hamas was planning a major operation. The prime minister has rejected the reports.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Tuesday denied a report by left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz that he received a warning from the United Arab Emirates prior to the October 7, 2023 terror attacks by Hamas.
“No warning was given to the Prime Minister from the United Arab Emirates before October 7,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
Haaretz, in a report based on a book excerpt by two of the newspaper’s journalists, said that UAE President Mohammad bin Zayed spoke with Netanyahu 10 days prior to the attack. In that conversation, bin Zayed said Hamas and its then-leader Yahya Sinwar were planning a major operation targeting Israel.
The UAE’s Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, did not explicitly confirm the report but said, “When necessary, all relevant intelligence has been and continue to be communicated between the relevant entities.” The UAE normalized relations with Israel in 2021 as part of the Abraham Accords.
In the call with bin Zayed, Netanyahu reacted with “relative calm” to the UAE’s president warning that Hamas could launch an operation. Netanyahu said Israel was prepared for any scenario and that an attack was more likely to come from the West Bank.
The Haaretz report was also confirmed by The Times of Israel (TOI) on Tuesday, with TOI citing an Emirati source that bin Zayed had warned Netanyahu of the Hamas attack.
The Haaretz article comes after centrist Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported last year that Egyptian intelligence officials had warned Israel that “something big is going to happen” shortly before the October 7 massacre.
The Hamas terror attack on October 7 killed some 1,200 people in Israel, with the group also taking another 251 hostages into Gaza. It was the single deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust.
The latest reports that Netanyahu had advance notice of a major Hamas operation came ahead of Israeli elections next month.
Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, whose centrist Yashar party is frequently leading Netanyahu’s center-right Likud in the polls, said “More and more signs point to the fact that Netanyahu blindly led Israel into the disaster of October 7.”
Eisenkot has pushed for an official state commission of inquiry into the October 7 attacks, an idea which Netanyahu has rejected.
Naftali Bennett, another Netanyahu opponent running in the election who earlier served as prime minister, said, “Netanyahu bears personal and direct responsibility for the failure that led to the deaths of thousands of Israelis on his watch.”
Yair Golan, the chief of the center-left Democrats party, posted a message on X to Netanyahu: “You knew, you ignored, you failed, you are to blame.”
The October 7, 2023, attacks had massive consequences not only for Israeli society but also for Palestinians in Gaza, where Hamas was in charge.
Following the Hamas attacks, the Israeli military began a war targeting Hamas in Gaza. That offensive left more than 73,650 Palestinians in Gaza dead, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, with a UN Commission of Inquiry last year finding that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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In this Quick Take, Ian Bremmer breaks down the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s historic win in the Saxony-Anhalt state election and what it could mean for the country’s political future
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| Americans may be reading less, but bookstores are thriving and book clubs are bringing people together. Book club events on Eventbrite jumped 33% during the first half of this year compared with the same time last year, Axios’ Sami Sparber reports.  The intrigue: The book club boom has been largely driven by “hyper niche” meetups that bring together readers who love the same genres or have the same hobbies, Eventbrite says.Readers are lacing up corsets and attaching prosthetic fairy ears to gather with fellow fans of the red-hot “romantasy” genre. They’re reading together silently, sometimes not even the same book. Indie bookstores are hosting clubs for people who want to craft while they discuss books.  Case in point: At Atlanta bookstore Offbeat Books, each book club has its own vibe, owner Lindsi Bollinger tells Axios.The horror club spills into movie talk, while the nonfiction club is run “pretty much like a classroom,” with PowerPoints, a projector and discussion questions. There’s also a “weird girl” reading group — part of a literary trend celebrating books with messy, strange, complicated female protagonists.  Between the lines: Book clubs are also getting a lift as younger people get more into offline hobbies and in-person hangouts.“One of my favorite parts of book club is when we have ended the book club and people are just talking to each other … maybe making plans outside of the book club,” says Hannah Mathews, a bookseller at Offbeat Books who facilitates the “weird girl” club. Share this story. |
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Brussels
9 September 2026 20:55
The European Commission unveiled its Affordable Housing Package on Wednesday (9 September), in an attempt to curb the rise in short-term rental properties in tourist cities and increase access to affordable housing.
“Lack of affordable housing is a matter of concern for so many of our European citizens. Essential workers and students cannot afford to live where they serve and study,” said EU commisison president Urusla von der Leyen.
Under her housing plans, local authorities in “areas under housing stress” can justify restricting the purchase of a house being used for short-term rentals like Airbnb.
The EU cannot directly intervene in the housing policy of member states. But it can harmonise rules that affect the internal market.
Paris, Barcelona and Lisbon have different restrictions on tourist rentals. “[But] This has led to legal uncertainty, different approaches and repeated litigation,” the commission said.
It is estimated that short-term rentals activity nearly doubled, with an exponential growth of 93 percent across the four major platforms between 2018 and 2024.
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In Madrid, there are around 40 short-term rentals for every 100 long-term rental homes.
“This creates pressures on both the cost and availability of housing,” the commission said.
One in seven municipalities in Europe are unaffordable for the average nurse, according to an investigation by Correctiv.
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A drone show lit up New York Harbor last night: 2,977 lights, one for every life lost on 9/11. They rose from the water and formed the Twin Towers at full scale, two nights before the 25th anniversary. 9/11 families, survivors and first responders helped create the tribute, including FDNY’s Brenda Berkman and Tim Brown, Terry Strada of 9/11 Families United, Jim Smith and Genevieve Siller. It was meant as a moment of remembrance and unity. But as the towers dissolved back into scattered lights, it became hard not to flinch. For some, it felt less like a tribute and more like watching it happen again. Source: ABC7 News / Writer: Julie
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