How Iraq’s displaced Yazidis suffocate in Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism faith hotchpotch
Iraqi officials say more than 5,000 Yazidis, most of them men and older women, were killed in the initial assault in August 2014, their bodies dumped in mass graves. Some 6,400 others, mainly women and children, were captured. Sold into domestic and sexual slavery or trained as fighters and suicide bombers, they were passed from owner to owner across the group’s “caliphate,” which at its peak spanned roughly a third of Iraq and Syria.
America’s choice: In every state it was on the ballot, reproductive health was more popular than Kamala Harris
Even in New York, which Harris won with 55 per cent of the vote, she underperformed in comparison to the abortion-related amendment, which got 62 per cent support. (Harris also significantly underperformed recent Democratic presidential candidates in the state.)
Manchester City’s poor run has raised concerns about club manager Pep Guardiola’s future: Is he leaving or staying?
Sources also believe that Pep Guardiola would be more likely to stay if Manchester City were found guilty and did receive a harsh punishment; as he has said, he wants the best for the club in every aspect, whether that comes to how much they spend on players or whether he considers himself to ever become a burden. By the same token, he would not want to leave them in a vulnerable position if they were, for argument’s sake, relegated or docked points.
Reporter’s diary: Tossed between wars, South Sudanese are soothed by hope amidst misery
Over the past 18 months, I have interviewed dozens of returnees like Gatdet who have fled the bruising battle between Sudan’s army and the South Sudanese returnee from Sudan speaks with a medical worker at a transit centre in the town of Malakal. More than 600,000 South Sudanese have returned home since Sudan’s conflict erupted last year.
Democratic staffers: Harris campaign had hoped economic recovery would be a winning issue, instead it became her achilles heel
Kamala Harris sought to reassure voters about the cost of living. Trump’s proposals to raise tariffs would amount to “a 20 per cent national sales tax” on imported goods, she said. She vowed to “protect hard-working Americans who aren’t always seen or heard.” In the end, not enough of those Americans believed her.
Harris’ failure to halt Trump’s return to White House bears testimony to democracy and politics as strange bedfellows
Following Biden’s dramatic withdrawal just months before Election Day, Harris threw her campaign together as if it were an airplane being built while in flight, her advisers told reporters. The 60-year-old former prosecutor and US senator pressed a case that Trump was a threat to democracy and women’s rights, while promoting a populist economic platform and reproductive freedoms.
Rot in Man United goes beyond manager, INEOS’ underwhelming track record in football demands critical look
There is so much work to be done. United will hope that a new coach can unlock something in those players the same way Klopp, Arteta and Emery – all of them mid-season appointments – got so much more out of the squads they inherited at Liverpool, Arsenal and Villa.
Detail in the Devil: Manchester United spent far too much of past decade drifting, going nowhere
Ten Hag was in some ways the quintessential modern-United managerial tenure: a challenging first transfer window, early struggles, a call to arms, back-to-basics football, an improved work ethic, a significant upturn, a trophy success, an upbeat declaration that “this is only the start”… and then looking helpless as the whole thing unravelled, a dysfunctional group of players reverted to type and another would-be saviour was quietly ushered away.
How world’s richest man Elon Musk became US’ top security risk, tests role of money in US politics
Over the summer, America PAC struggled to reach its voter contact goals. Musk brought in a new team of political consultants, Generra Peck and Phil Cox, who worked on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ’ losing Republican presidential primary bid.
Elon Musk’s US citizenship hangs in balance after 1,300 posts on X about immigration and voter fraud, bribing voters
Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell Law School and faculty director of its Immigration Law and Policy Program, says that it’s not clear that if Musk worked in the US without authorisation and attested he hadn’t, that would be considered important enough to denaturalise him.
