US may soon impose sanctions as organisations say Israel has failed to help relieve dire humanitarian situation

A coalition of international aid organisations have accused Israel of ignoring a US ultimatum that threatened sanctions if Israel did not implement a series of measures to counter the acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The 30 day ultimatum– due to expire on Tuesday or Wednesday – was delivered on 13 October, and almost none of its demands have been met, the humanitarian groups say.

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Saved from the Holocaust, this supremely modern painter captured the devastation of postwar Britain as if its wounds were his own – but he ultimately found salvation in painting
• Frank Auerbach dies aged 93
• I’ll die with a brush in my hand: Frank Auerbach – a life in pictures

When I found out Frank Auerbach was dead I thought once more of the heartbreaking story of his parents Max Auerbach and Charlotte Nora Borchardt, who saved his life by putting their child on a train from Berlin to London in 1939. Auerbach told his friend William Feaver they packed things he would need in his future life, including linen for when he married. They knew they would never see him grow up, or be there for any of his future. They believed they would soon die. And they did, in the Holocaust of Europe’s Jews.

What a future they missed. The son they saved became one of the greatest British artists of modern times who painted with a fury for life and a gravitas of grief, as if his lust and sorrow were fighting it out in each mighty brushstroke. Slashes of red or black streak across a pair of mid-period canvases, bringing savage bolts of lightning to a lime parkland or a grey heath in violent pastoral scenes that make a spring day seem like pure agony. And that’s in his mature art, when he was more reconciled to life and the healing act of painting itself.

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• Niels Wittich leaves role with three Grands Prix left
• Follows string of exits of senior FIA officials in recent months

The Formula One race director, Niels Wittich, has stepped down from his post with immediate effect in an unexpected decision announced by the FIA on Tuesday. He will be replaced by Rui Marques, who was previously the race director for Formula Two and Formula Three.

Wittich’s departure came as a surprise to F1 and is highly unusual in its timing given there are three races of the 2024 season still remaining. The FIA did not give any reason for him leaving but stated: “The FIA can confirm that Niels Wittich has stepped down from his position as F1 Race Director to pursue new opportunities”. Portugal’s Marques will take over from the next round in Las Vegas.

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• Player had been placed into artificial coma
• Midfielder was married with a young son

Ecuador and FC Cincinnati midfielder Marco Angulo has died from his injuries sustained in a car crash that also killed his former youth team teammate Roberto Cabezas, the Ecuadorian Football Association said on Tuesday.

The 22-year-old Angulo was a passenger in the car that crashed into a metal barrier on the Rumiñahui highway southeast of Quito on 7 October. The driver and Cabezas, who played for Independiente Juniors, were killed in the incident.

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Prime minister stayed out of hot water by being short on detail – or opinions

If it’s Tuesday, it must be Baku. Keir Starmer’s Rolling Thunder Permatour has now hit Azerbaijan for Cop29. Next week he will be off to Brazil for the G20. And who knows, he might even drop in to see Joe Biden and Donald Trump on the way back.

After all it’s been almost a month since he was last in the US having dinner with The Donald in his understated golden penthouse. He wouldn’t want to appear too needy, of course, but why pass up an opportunity to persuade the president-elect that he had never really meant any of those beastly things he had said about him in the past. Just a joke. Hahaha. Lols.

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The hit new thriller, about a psychopath toying with missionaries, has sparked conversation within the community it focuses on

What is the one true religion? That is one of several leading questions posed by Hugh Grant’s professorial villain Mr Reed in the hit new film Heretic , which twists examinations of faith into viciously entertaining psychological horror.

Mr Reed’s targets are, at least externally, representatives of religious certainty: two sister missionaries from the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who knock on his door with hopes to convert him. Sister Barnes (Yellowjackets’ Sophie Thatcher), a convert from Philadelphia, is quieter, more droll and naturally skeptical. Sister Paxton (Chloe East), raised Mormon in Utah, is more stereotypically chipper, polite and credulous. Both believe Mr Reed – at least enough to step inside and escape a downpour – when he says that his wife is baking pie in the other room and will join them shortly; sister missionaries are not allowed to be alone with a man unless another woman is present.

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One of the great postwar figurative painters who was a leading light of the School of London

Frank Auerbach’s paintings, each one wrested from chaos over weeks and months of struggle, place the artist firmly in the English tradition stemming from Constable, who had the same feeling for the material world and the materials of art.

Auerbach’s almost lumpen approach to his subject matter (portraits, nudes and cityscapes), mediated by his teacher, David Bomberg , who advised his students to seek “the spirit in the mass”, changed almost imperceptibly during his 70-year career, yet his reputation never faltered; in fact it increased.

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Born in Berlin in 1931, Frank Auerbach dedicated himself to his work 364 days a year, capturing himself and his surroundings in vivid works. The great painter once told the Guardian he hoped to keep painting until his final breath
• News: Frank Auerbach dies aged 93

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Antisemitism, hooliganism and anger over Gaza war all factors in trouble that broke out last week, report says

The violence that erupted in Amsterdam last week was sparked by “a toxic cocktail” of hooliganism and antisemitism, according to a detailed report published by the city’s mayor.

The city remains gripped by high tensions days after violence flared around a football match last Thursday between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

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