‘Our future is being stolen’: Greta Thunberg joins students protesting in Paris 13. October 2026 (12:03) Swedish activist stands alongside French teenagers calling for investment to fix teacher shortages and crumbling schoolsThe Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has joined demonstrating high school students in France as the country braced for another day of nationwide protests over chronic teacher shortages, overcrowded classes and crumbling buildings.“Young people are not being included in the conversation,” Thunberg, 23, who became famous as a teenager through school strikes demanding action on the climate crisis, told reporters outside the Lycée Paul Éluard in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
How a scandal engulfing Brazil’s top court could return the Bolsonaros to power 13. October 2026 (12:00) The judge who helped convict Jair Bolsonaro is caught up in a crisis that could benefit his son and damage LulaMarina Silva on Flávio Bolsonaro: He will try to finish his father’s ‘perverse project’ to destroy the AmazonThundering to a crowd of thousands of far-right supporters in São Paulo on 7 September, Brazil’s Independence Day, the senator Flávio Bolsonaro focused less on his opponent in the presidential election, the leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, than on someone who is not running at all.“Whoever votes for Lula is voting for Alexandre de Moraes,” Bolsonaro shouted, referring to the shaven-headed supreme court justice once described as “Voldemort” by Elon Musk. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Millions of Medicaid recipients to face draconian requirements as of 1 January 13. October 2026 (12:00) Trump’s reform law that seeks to make coverage harder to get, and to keep, includes working 80 hours per monthIt is a date keeping US healthcare providers up at night: 1 January 2027.As the midterm elections loom, everyone from hospital leaders and to patient advocates are focused on the New Year, when Republicans scheduled the most controversial elements of their healthcare reform law to go into effect. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Andy Burnham will take Britain back into European Union, Neil Kinnock claims – UK politics live 13. October 2026 (11:58) Former Labour leader says he believes the prime minister has an ‘authentic commitment’ to taking the UK back into the EUAndy Burnham promises ‘serious dialogue’ over UK’s relationship with EUEd Miliband, the foreign secretary, is speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum with his counterparts from Germany, Poland and Norway. Jakub Krupa has been covering it in detail on his Europe live blog.As Jakub reports, Miliband said the EU should review its policy on dealing with Russian assets frozen under sanctions imposed since the war in Ukraine starts. He said:Europe has big decisions to make, including on Russian sovereign assets. I think we need to return to this issue.Britain is willing to do this alongside the European Union, because we know that every wrong message that is sent to President Putin is a message that sets back our security and sets back the Ukrainian cause, and we need to send the right messages. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
