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Arab-led parties won a record 19 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament in last week's general election.
Arab-led parties won a record 19 seats in Israel's 120-seat parliament in last week's general election.
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<p>Foreign Office says 10-year sentence shows city’s security law is being used to ‘target individuals for political expression’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/05/hong-kong-joshua-wong-sentenced-national-security-case">Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 years in prison in national security case</a></p></li></ul><p>The UK and the US have condemned the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/05/hong-kong-joshua-wong-sentenced-national-security-case">10-year sentence</a> given to Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong under a controversial national security law.</p><p>Wong, 30, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to “foreign collusion” under the law. He is the only person to have been prosecuted twice under the legislation that critics say has been used to silence political opposition in the city.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/05/uk-and-us-condemn-second-jail-term-handed-to-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Telecoms group reports £1.1bn pre-tax profit in six months to end of September and share price touches five-year high</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/nov/05/bank-of-england-interest-rate-decision-pound-inflation-oil-iran-stock-markets-latest-news-updates">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>BT has cut almost 8,000 jobs from its workforce since the end of March, as it pushes ahead with sweeping cost cuts across the business.</p><p>The telecoms group said its workforce had fallen by 7,731 to 90,000, excluding staff in its international business, which is being spun out in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/29/bt-verizon-joint-venture-deal-telecoms-international">a joint venture</a> with the US telecoms company Verizon. It had a workforce, including contractors, of about 130,000 people two years ago.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/05/bt-cuts-jobs-cost-saving-programme-profit-share-price">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Concerns remain that media industry is still failing to confront troubling behaviour</p><p>Even within the culture of casual misogyny and sexism that pervaded the TV world in the mid-noughties, Naomi Harvey and her colleagues concluded they needed to do something about Russell Brand.</p><p>Harvey was one of a team of researchers tasked with finding fans of Big Brother, Channel 4’s reality TV juggernaut, to appear on the discussion show Big Brother’s Big Mouth, hosted by Brand.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/nov/05/misogyny-and-sexism-of-russell-brand-case-have-not-gone-away-say-tv-insiders">Continue reading...</a>
Former army surgeon and Gaza volunteer Hamawy is the first Muslim American elected to the US Congress from New Jersey.