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Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. BBC Qatar suspends role as mediator between Israel and Hamas Qatar has suspended its work as a mediator in ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas, officials say. The country said it would resume its work when Hamas and Israel "show their willingness" to negotiate. It comes after senior US officials reportedly said Washington would no longer accept the presence of Hamas representatives in Qatar, accusing the Palestinian group of rejecting fresh proposals for an end to the war in Gaza. Qatar said initial reports it had withdrawn from mediation talks and said that Hamas's political office in Doha "no longer serves its purpose" were "inaccurate". "Qatar will resume those efforts... when the parties show their willingness and seriousness to end the brutal war." AP A person is dead and 16 are hurt after a shooting at Tuskegee University; 1 arrest made ATLANTA (AP) — A shooting early Sunday during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said. One arrest was announced hours later. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Jaquez Myrick, 25, of Montgomery, was taken into custody while leaving the scene of the campus shooting and had been found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device. The agency said in a statement that Myrick faces a federal charge of possession of a machine gun. It did not accuse him of using the gun in the shooting or provide additional details. The agency did not say whether Myrick was a student at the historically Black university where the shooting erupted as the school’s 100th Homecoming Week was winding down. Authorities said an 18-year-old man who died was not a university student but that some of the injured were students. APNews Haiti replaces its prime minister, marking more turmoil in its democratic transition process PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti signed a decree Sunday firing interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and replacing him with Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a businessman who was previously considered for the job. The decree, set to be published on Monday, was provided to The Associated Press by a government source. It marks even more turmoil in an already rocky democratic transition process for Haiti, which hasn’t held democratic elections in years in a large part due to the soaring levels of gang violence plaguing the Caribbean nation. Fils-Aimé is the former president of Haiti’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry and in 2015 ran an unsuccessful campaign for Senate. The businessman studied at Boston University and was previously considered for the position as a private sector candidate for the post before Conille took the seat. The Guardian Nine boats carrying 572 people intercepted while crossing Channel Nine boats carrying 572 people have been intercepted while attempting to cross the Channel, according to the Home Office. The latest crossings come after Keir Starmer announced plans to tackle what he described as the “national security threat” of people smugglers, pledging an extra £75m and a new team of detectives. The arrivals on Saturday brought the total number of people who had made small boat crossings this year to 32,691. The figure is up 22% on the same time last year (26,699) but 18% less than had been recorded by November 2022 (39,929). There have also been more deaths in the Channel, with four bodies discovered off the coast of Calais on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the French coastguard. Excluding the latest deaths, which are still being investigated, there are believed to have been 60 fatalities among people attempting to cross the Channel, five times more than last year. NPR Containment increases for Mountain Fire, but high winds could return this week Firefighters continue to make progress with the Mountain Fire, increasing containment to more than 30 percent aided by weaker winds over the weekend. Since breaking out on Wednesday in Ventura County, the fire has destroyed and damaged more than 200 structures and forced thousands to flee. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday to support ongoing response and recovery efforts after he proclaimed a state of emergency in Ventura County. Despite progress made over the weekend, officials cautioned that high winds could return this week. Conditions this dangerous — gusty, dry and widespread — haven't been seen since 2020, according to the National Weather Service. Conditions are reminiscent of what we saw during the devastating Woolsey Fire in 2018 which ignited almost exactly 6 years ago on Nov. 8. NPR FEMA worker fired for telling hurricane responders to avoid homes with pro-Trump signs (Heroine) A Federal Emergency Management Agency worker has been fired after she told a team responding to hurricane survivors to not go to homes with yard signs showing support for President-elect Donald Trump, the agency said. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell called the employee’s action “reprehensible,” and said the matter had been referred to the Office of Special Counsel. “This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” Criswell said in a statement on Saturday, DeSantis said the federal worker’s behavior was "targeted discrimination" of Florida residents who support Trump and that he’s directed the Florida Division of Emergency Management to investigate the matter. Al Jazeera LIVE: Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria Palestinians and Lebanese are mourning their dead after Israeli forces killed 36 people in a single attack on Jabalia in northern Gaza and 23 people in another strike on the village of Almat, north of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. Medical sources in Gaza said Israeli forces killed at least 49 Palestinians across the enclave on Sunday. In Lebanon, the Health Ministry put the daily toll from Israel’s attacks at 38 people. Israeli forces also bombed Syria’s capital, Damascus, raiding a residential building and killing at least seven people, according to the Syrian Ministry of Defence. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,603 Palestinians and wounded 102,929 since October 7, 2023. Deutsche Welle Iran and Saudi Arabia pursue cautious rapprochement Iran and Saudi Arabia are intent on continuing their cautious course of rapprochement. After a Saudi-Iranian deal brokered by China in 2023, the erstwhile rivals want to deepen their relationship. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's visit to the Saudi capital Riyadh at the beginning of October indicates that relations are developing. He also met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. Rapprochement is a new approach for the two countries, whose relations have been considered particularly difficult since the Iranian revolution in 1979. The tensions originated in a fundamentally different understanding of the political role of religion. After 1979, Iran's approach to Islam was from the perspective of social revolution. For a long time, it positioned itself in the region as the leader of Shiite Muslims with rebellious tendencies. For its part, the Saudi royal family, which is Sunni, relies primarily on the role of religion to maintain its power. It bases its claim to leadership in the region on Islam and its role as the custodian of the holy sites in Mecca and Medina. Raw Story Trump orders senators to appoint 'no judges' for remainder of Biden's presidency President-elect Donald Trump moved to seize a measure of power months before being sworn in by demanding that the U.S. Senate not allow President Joe Biden to appoint any judges during his remaining time in office. In a social media post on Sunday, Trump avoided endorsing a Republican majority leader for the next Senate but put some conditions on his support for the position. "Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner," he wrote. Trump also had some demands that would limit Biden's ability to do his job in the remaining months of his presidency. "No Judges should be approved during this period of time because the Democrats are looking to ram through their Judges as the Republicans fight over Leadership," he said. "THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. THANK YOU!" USA Today House Freedom Caucus members block bipartisan bill to expand some Social Security benefits (This hurts a lot of folks, including me.) WASHINGTON - Two members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus blocked a bipartisan bill on Election night that would have repealed previous measures limiting Social Security benefits for certain retired public workers. The bill, introduced by Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Garret Graves, R-La., would have eliminated Social Security provisions that reduce benefits for retirees who've received a public pension working in a job not covered by the government program, and reduce benefits received by surviving spouses who collect a government pension. The bill would affect approximately 2.8 million Americans. It had received 330 cosponsors including House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. - more than the 218 needed for a petition to force the legislation to the floor. Washington Post Smoke moves through NYC after fires in New Jersey, Hudson Valley [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/10/2285174/-Overnight-News-Digest-November-10-2024?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/