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The Gazette moves in-house

From today the khoshra Gazette carries only writing from this desk — no wires, no syndication.

The wire feeds have been retired. Every piece printed here is written and edited by hand, and the front page changes only when there is something worth setting in type.

Notes from the margins: what stayed, what was abandoned, and what is waiting on the shelf.

Some weeks the reading goes slowly and that is its own report. This column keeps track of the books that kept coming back.

The second series of the hit series reached its climax on Friday after attracting 15 million viewers.

Hundreds of slaves were killed by colonial leaders in the Demerera rebellion of 1823, with many survivors executed.

Front page

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The second series of the hit series reached its climax on Friday after attracting 15 million viewers.

Hundreds of slaves were killed by colonial leaders in the Demerera rebellion of 1823, with many survivors executed.

The American-made interceptors are the only effective weapon for downing Russia's ballistic missiles.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband confronted his Russian counterpart at the meeting and accused his government of killing innocent civilians in Ukraine.

World

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Novaya Gazeta has been one of the most high-profile independent news outlets in Russia over the last three decades.

Alliance for the Future, unveiled at Montreal summit and open to other countries, conceived for world ‘shaken by new storms’ Canada and Europe have announced a new alliance of like-minded nations to serve as both a “protective canopy under which our citizens can thrive” and a powerful hedge against the unpredictable nature of geopolitics, while welcoming other countries to join. Speaking to report

Cryptocurrency theft is estimated to generate half of the country’s foreign currency income North Korea plays by its own rules. The isolated, secretive and autocratic country is largely cut off from the world’s economic system – but when it comes to generating foreign earnings it relies on some of the world’s most sophisticated hacking. Experts, such as TRM Labs, quickly attributed the extraordina

A 55-year-old dog rescue programme that has found missing hikers and children in the Canadian wilderness was axed as part of government budget cuts.

Business

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This live blog is now closed. How big a deal is the $6.3bn Binance crypto heist, who did it, and are investments safe? Tell us: have you been affected by the Binance hack? Full story: North Korean group blamed for biggest ever crypto heist Most major cryptocurrencies have fallen in value since news of the Binance theft broke, Coinmarketcap data shows . That includes: Bitcoin : -2.35% over the last

Ian Thomas, who heads the City of London Corporation, tops the Black Powerlist in its 21st year.

Oil giant comes under fire from climate campaigners, as its earnings reach $8.46bn while ‘innocent civilians suffer’ BP’s quarterly profits have been labelled “obscene” after they hit an 18-year high of $8.46bn (£6.3bn), as the war in the Middle East drove up oil and gas prices. The energy company hailed a “banner quarter” on Friday, with its underlying ​replacement ⁠cost profit – a key measure of

With the chain on the brink of administration, its low-profile US owners face questions about their conduct ‘It was a very successful and simple proposition,” laments one former Poundland boss. With every product in the shop sold at £1, and the price in its name, its proposition to shoppers was the clearest of any UK high street chain. Now the UK’s first and biggest nationwide single-price retaile

Politics

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A Surrey coroner raises concerns over HM Treasury procedures following the death of Chloe Moffat.

The meeting involved representatives from the UK's four nations to discuss devolving more powers to regions and cities.

Rhun ap Iorwerth says new powers for more cash matter of how and when, after meeting.

The new government office in Manchester has launched 50 job adverts for roles including a "rewiring the state deputy director".

Science

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Richard Dawkins’ first work has thrilled fans and frustrated critics for five decades. The science has moved on, but any writer looking to supplant its place must learn its lessons Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene was not predicted to be a success. Its initial print run, published this week in 1976, was just 5,000. It went on to sell millions, and is perhaps the most influential work of pop-scien

The purchase of the vast Rothbury Estate by wildlife groups is hailed as "something very special".

Archaeologists uncover jewellery, cosmetics and coins in cabinet sealed since eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 Fragments of personal objects, from makeup tools and a perfume bottle to coins and a child’s necklace, have been found tucked away in a wooden wardrobe sealed off for almost 2,000 years in the ruins of Pompeii. The artifacts provide an intimate glimpse of daily life in the ancient Roman

The aircraft reportedly took off from the Hindu pilgrimage site of Badrinath on Friday afternoon before losing contact.

Tech

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Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors. The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3 beta that's set to launch on November 4th, with a full iOS 27.3 release scheduled for December. This launch doesn't bring […]

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers can apply their AI training preferences across multiple AI companies, instead of setting them individually. The shared "policy token" signal […]

Akai teased its new MPC Sample Key on Instagram earlier this week, and said it plans to open-source its software so the modding community can hack it to their hearts' delight. While there's no word yet on when the device will launch or how much it will cost, The Verge has received exclusive images of […]

Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he also commented on AI's impact on math, Altman said: "A lot of people want […]

Culture

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The Love Island host's journey from leaving Bristol as a teenager to reaching the BBC show's finale.

Lauren Bennett, who featured on LMFAO's hit song, was found dead by her husband.

The women involved in the case had "nothing to gain" apart from "some closure", the prosecutor says.

It influenced The Simpsons and sparked the careers of Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy and many others. Now this extraordinary Canadian series is finally getting its due SCTV – short for Second City Television – is one of most influential comedy shows ever created. In the 1970s and 80s, while North American comedy fans worshipped at the altar of Saturday Night Live, the comedy nerds loved

Books

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The Nobel Prize-winning novelist says he honed his skills while working as a songwriter. Now, Ishiguro's 2021 novel Klara and the Sun has been adapted to film. Originally broadcast March 17, 2021.

Minihorror by Barbi Marković; Paradise Burns by Pol Guasch; Hafni Says by Helle Helle; Googling for Soul by Hamid Ismailov Minihorror by Barbi Marković, translated by Jen Calleja (Faber, £14.99) This eccentric and fantastical collection of very short stories is bursting with weird life. Mini and Miki (the Disney mouse names in Serbian) are a sometime boyfriend and girlfriend living in Austria. The

The British novelist on discovering Molly Keane, coming to Dickens late, and the books that taught her the importance of writing about history My earliest reading memory My mother always read me a bedtime story, but by around age three, I was not looking at the pictures but reading the text. After that, I read to myself, and would read four books a week from the library. My favourite book growing

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize, this compelling interrogation of memory, justice and truth offers no easy answers The Goldsmiths prize-shortlisted debut from British-Greek author Aea Varfis-van Warmelo opens with a confession: “I have never told this story before.” The narrator, who bears the author’s name, goes on to tell the reader that she is a liar. From Humbert Humbert’s self-justifying

Sport

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After a 1-1 draw in his first match as Glentoran manager, Duncan Ferguson speaks of his "relief" in a week filled with WiFi and homework.

Great Britain's Kadeena Cox sets a new world record as she wins C4 1km gold at the Para-cycling Track World Championships in the Netherlands.

Leicester take maximum points to go top of the Prem before the rest of the weekend fixtures with a 22-16 win away at Bristol.

Under-pressure Aberdeen manager Stephen Robinson has an excellent record in Hampden semi-finals. But is Saturday's meeting with Rangers a bridge too far?

Journal

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Why a private newspaper is a better archive than a feed you do not control.

A feed forgets. A paper keeps. The Gazette exists so the small news of a life has somewhere to be printed.

Notice

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From today the khoshra Gazette carries only writing from this desk — no wires, no syndication.

The wire feeds have been retired. Every piece printed here is written and edited by hand, and the front page changes only when there is something worth setting in type.

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