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Britain’s reopened refugee resettlement scheme offers no escape for Palestinians in Gaza.
Britain’s reopened refugee resettlement scheme offers no escape for Palestinians in Gaza.
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<p>Republican Neil Bush says he was ‘deeply troubled’ by Ken Paxton’s conduct and ‘enormously impressed’ with Talarico</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/oct/21/donald-trump-south-carolina-data-centers-midterms-ukraine-witkoff-russia-latest-news-updates">US politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Neil Bush, a son of former president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/george-bush-senior">George HW Bush</a> and a lifelong Republican, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/neilmbush">announced on Tuesday</a> that he crossed party lines to vote for James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas.</p><p>In a Facebook post, Neil Bush said he chose to vote early for Talarico over Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate and current Texas attorney general, because he was “deeply troubled” by Paxton’s conduct and was “enormously impressed” by Talarico’s principles.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/neil-bush-votes-james-talarico">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Department drops efforts to return Tony Hall to Barbados, a country he left at 12 and where he has no living relatives </p><p>The Home Office has lifted a deportation order handed to a 62-year-old man who has lived in Britain for 50 years after criticism of the department’s attempts to remove him to Barbados, a country he left as a child.</p><p>The Home Office wrote to Tony Hall on Tuesday to inform him that his deportation order had been revoked. His case had been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/19/tony-hall-has-lived-in-the-uk-for-50-years-why-is-the-home-office-trying-to-deport-him">highlighted in the Guardian</a> a day earlier.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/21/home-office-lifts-deportation-order-tony-hall-62-lived-uk-50-years">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka spent a week in jail after defying restrictions on protests in Delhi amid government crackdown</p><p>An Indian court has ordered the release of two leaders of India’s Cockroach movement, who were jailed last week amid a mounting state crackdown on youth-led protests.</p><p>The two leaders of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) movement, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/14/leaders-of-indias-cockroach-party-jailed-for-violating-ban-on-protest-site">had spent a week in Delhi’s Tihar jail</a> after being arrested by Delhi police last week.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/india-cockroach-movement-leaders-released-protests-government-crackdown">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Measures would remove some penalties for those helping women access abortion but are ‘small-scale step’, say campaigners</p><p>Poland’s lower house of parliament has approved two bills aimed at loosening a near-total ban on abortions, in what campaigners have described as a “small-scale step” ahead of protests calling on the government to fulfil its promises to overhaul the country’s laws.</p><p>The new measures, which are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/06/poland-women-donald-tusk-abortion-promises">likely to be vetoed</a> by Poland’s nationalist president, would remove some of the criminal penalties for those who help women to access abortion care and allow terminations in cases of foetal abnormalities.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/poland-parliament-votes-ease-abortion-ban-likely-veto-president">Continue reading...</a>