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The BBC has agreed to pay £400,000 to an award-winning Jewish documentary-maker who alleged she was subjected to antisemitism and pushed out of the corporation after October 7.
Lucie Kon, 57, spent 22 years at the BBC and worked on programmes including Panorama, Today, BBC Breakfast and Storyville. Films she commissioned or helped produce won an Oscar, Emmy and Bafta.
Kon says her treatment changed dramatically after the Hamas attacks. She alleges colleagues described Zionists like her as “evil”, argued that Israel should be called terrorist if Hamas was, and told her to consider what had driven Hamas to carry out the massacre.
When she proposed a documentary about October 7, Kon says she was told she was “too partial” to oversee it because she was Jewish.
She subsequently filed a formal grievance, but a BBC investigation rejected her complaint. Kon says she was then kept away from work for months. During a restructuring, her position was made redundant and she failed to secure the similar role replacing it.
She launched unfair-dismissal proceedings.
The BBC has now agreed substantial compensation, reported as £400,000, without admitting liability or accepting that Kon suffered antisemitism.
Kon says Jewish employees still at the corporation continue to face hostility and feel unable to identify openly as Jewish or Zionist.
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#BREAKINGNEWS: A man accused of killing a North Carolina college student 14 years ago was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, rape and other charges after prosecutors told jurors that forensic evidence was “screaming his name.”
Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old sophomore when she was beaten to death in her off-campus apartment in September 2012. abc7ne.ws/0gHEqw
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The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there. The speed has not been restored. And the delivery of interceptors to protect us against Russian ballistic missiles is still delayed. We’re waiting for interceptors that were already agreed on. But they are still not coming. This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every single day.
All of this is happening while we continue our quite successful operations on the front. We keep defending positions. Things have become harder – partly because of the Starlink and Starshield policies and speed limits. But our frontline is still holding and I am proud of how strong our people are.
From an address at the Hudson Institute. (2/3)
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Animal rescuers in Utah used a remote-controlled crawler nicknamed "R2-D2" to gently nudge a trapped kitten out of a drain pipe. 🐱
They said "R2-D2" is usually used to inspect pipes, but now it can add "kitten rescuer" to its list of functions. 😅
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⚠️ DISCLAIMER for the Nithya Defense League ⚠️ The following post contains facts, receipts, and Nithya’s own words. Any resemblance to being “taken out of context” is probably your feelings talking. No context was harmed in the making of this post. All context was used exactly
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Tribal nations have rich histories, cultures and strong traditions that continue to thrive today. Through their languages, stewardship of ancestral lands, enduring sovereignty and generations of knowledge, tribes remain an essential part of America’s past, present and future.
ALT Three young girls performing a closing prayer at the Native Language Forum performed by a Native royal court.
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Thank you Holly Mitchell, for your continued support. You’ve been there firsthand for the important work in Sacramento and understand what it takes to support children in foster care and address homelessness. I’m grateful to have you by my side as we continue this work. Let’s keep fighting the good fight over the next four years.
Let’s get out and vote!🗳️
@_HollyJMitchell
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Hours after Putin agreed to peace talks, Russian missiles killed at least four people in Kyiv | Russia bombarded Kyiv with ballistic missiles in an hourslong nighttime barrage killing at least four people and wounding dozens, while the Russian military said its air defenses intercepted over 800 drones fired by Ukraine at Moscow and other cities, the large-scale attacks beginning only hours after President Vladimir Putin agreed "in principle" to resume three-way negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States
📖 FULL STORY ➠ ow.ly/9AXE51009sc
#Ukraine #Russia #War #Kyiv #Geopolitics #WorldNews
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SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
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Three waves of ballistic missiles have been launched at Kyiv by Russian “humanitarians” since yesterday evening. They used 21 missiles. Unfortunately, numerous sites across the city have been hit and damaged: ordinary residential buildings, energy facilities, infrastructure at one of the railway stations and the metro, shopping malls, and businesses. Even a monastery is among the damaged sites. Our emergency services are working at all the affected locations. Twelve of our regions came under Russian attack overnight. In Kyiv and across the regions, 34 people were injured, including five children. As of now, two people have been confirmed killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones.
Almost immediately after another round of talks, Russia launched a pointed attack. This means there has been no real change in its attitude toward everything that is happening. It is important to keep trying to find the right solutions to end this war. But when Russia responds to negotiations with ballistic missiles, real pressure on Russia is needed to bring about different steps – steps toward ending the killing. Stronger air defenses and the rapid delivery of missiles, the ability to destroy ballistic missile launchers, sanctions over the war – all of this must be in place. I am grateful to everyone who sees the situation for what it is and acknowledges the reality. The aggressor deserves to be treated accordingly. Ukraine deserves support. People's lives deserve protection. Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine!
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7 ans de boulot.
Tout volé et détruit en 10 minutes.
Koumal, Lyon (69), #17octobre
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Body of 7-year-old NY girl exhumed after suffering months of torture, prosecutors say abc7ne.ws/oyRBUO
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One woman just made history as the first person to swim all 900 miles of the California coastline. abc7ne.ws/4YfM4E
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Well well well...
95% of arrests in French "student" riots are men, 70% are adults: Justice Minister
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With great sadness, we received information about the passing of an Auschwitz Survivor Hermann Höllenreiner, who died three days before his 93rd birthday.
Hermann Höllenreiner was a German Sinto. He was born in Hagen on 19 October 1933, and he grew up in Munich. In March 1943, aged nine, he was deported with his family to the German Nazi camp Auschwitz, where he was registered under prisoner number Z-3526 and imprisoned in the section designated by the SS for Sinti and Roma families.
Höllenreiner endured hunger, forced labour and daily terror. He later recalled being made to carry jars containing the organs of murdered children for SS physician Josef Mengele, while members of his family were subjected to medical abuse.
He was transferred out of Auschwitz before the murder of the remaining prisoners in the Sinti and Roma family camp in August 1944. He subsequently endured imprisonment in Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen before escaping from a death march near the end of the war.
Exhausted and severely traumatised, he was taken to France by liberated French prisoners and eventually placed with a foster family in Paris. His separation from his family continued long after the war ended: only in December 1946 was he reunited in Munich with his parents and sister, who had also survived.
In later life, Höllenreiner shared his experiences through talks, interviews and commemorative events, bearing witness to Nazi persecution and speaking out against the continuing discrimination faced by Sinti and Roma. His life inspired Anja Tuckermann’s documentary novel "Mano: The Boy Who Didn’t Know Where He Was." In 2013, he received Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit for his work as a witness and educator.
Photo: Britta Pedersen/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
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A British student group called “Youth Strike” is planning a Day of Action on November 20th and they posted a promotional video for it filmed at the France riots. He tells the youth to “fight back” while smoke billows behind him. They want a riot here too.
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⚠️"Il faut que tout le monde voie ces images".
Guillaume Guérin, maire de Limoges, nous fait une visite de son Hôtel de Ville sous les décombres.
Je me refuse désormais à nommer ces gens-là d'émeutiers ou de casseurs.
Ce sont des terroristes.
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Did you know that @RoKhanna (worth over 100 million), who supports the revolution in France, evades taxes via three golf clubs owned by his minor children in Ohio?
A true man of the people!
