There are no suggestions of extraterrestrial origin, but that won’t settle any debates over the existence of alien life

The Pentagon ’s latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new sightings of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin.

The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds and satellites as well as some that defy easy explanation, such as a near-miss between a commercial airliner and a mysterious object off the coast of New York .

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Raab paid £16,876 for ‘loss of office’ after report found he had acted in ‘intimidating’ manner towards civil servants

Dominic Raab received a near-£17,000 ministerial payout on resigning as justice secretary in 2023 after an official report found he had acted in an “intimidating” manner towards civil servants, newly published accounts have shown.

Raab, who opted to not contest his Esher and Walton seat in Surrey in the general election, was paid £16,876 as “compensation for loss of office”, the 2023-24 annual report for the Ministry of Justice showed.

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Concerns anti-vaccine pick for US health secretary could pursue ‘anti-science positions’ on life-saving interventions

The appointment of a US health secretary with anti-vaccine views could cause deaths and have profound consequences around the world, global health experts fear.

Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s pick for the position , has a history of spreading misinformation on vaccines and questioning the science of HIV and Aids.

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Biden is as free from political constraints as he’s ever been. Yet he has chosen to seal his legacy as Israel’s tepid enabler

When the histories of his administration are written, it will be clear that Joe Biden held onto his callous disregard for Palestinians until the end of his presidency. How else to explain why Biden would refuse a final chance to stop Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and save Palestinian lives, when he has nothing to lose?

On Tuesday, the Biden administration quietly ignored its own deadline for Israel to increase the minuscule amount of humanitarian aid it allows to enter Gaza. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, imposed the 30-day deadline in a letter sent to Israeli officials on 13 October, which warned that they must take “concrete measures” to ensure that Palestinian civilians in northern Gaza have access to food, medicine and other necessities. The administration said it could suspend US military support to Israel if conditions did not improve. Despite the US ultimatum, the amount of aid reaching the besieged territory in October had dropped to its lowest level in 11 months.

Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian center for near eastern studies, and a journalism professor at New York University

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Trump back in the White House, the aftermath of the floods in Valencia, Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon and Rafael Nadal’s farewell: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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Ministers told they risk more miscarriages of justice by not backing bill to replace indefinite jail terms with fixed ones

Peers have warned the government is failing to deal with a miscarriage of justice akin to the Post Office scandal, after ministers refused to back legislation that would give new sentences to thousands of prisoners jailed indefinitely.

James Timpson, the prisons minister, said the 2,964 people currently serving indeterminate sentences would in future have a better chance of being released, with more regular reviews of their readiness every six months.

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Versatile poet and music producer co-founded King Crimson, produced Roxy Music’s debut album and had a long partnership with Greg Lake

Peter Sinfield, a co-founder of prog rockers King Crimson who went on to a successful pop songwriting career for artists such as Céline Dion, has died aged 80.

King Crimson announced the news, describing him as the band’s “original roadie, lyricist, lights operator and live sound engineer”. No cause of death was given.

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From an anti-vaxxer running health to a suspected sex abuser as attorney general, the president-elect has picked a team designed to ensure his domination

He wasn’t kidding. Donald Trump really does want to rule as an extremist strongman, with contempt for the planet, for America’s allies and for the rule of law. He’s made that crystal clear this week, announcing one bombshell appointment after another, each one a declaration of intent. Few things tell you more about a president than their hires – personnel is policy, as they used to say in Ronald Reagan’s White House – and Trump is telling us exactly who he is.

The latest name added to the roster is a storied one: Robert F Kennedy Jr, now lined up for the role of health secretary . You may have known of Bobby Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy may be a hero of yours. But, boy, his son is no Bobby Kennedy . Once an admired environmental campaigner, now he is an anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist who promotes treatments that don’t work – such as hydroxychloroquine for Covid – and rails against those that do, spreading the long-debunked claim that childhood vaccines are linked to autism and opposing fluoridation of water to prevent tooth decay. Apparently unchastened by the pandemic, Kennedy believes US public health officials have been too focused on infectious diseases. Or as he memorably put it: “We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.” If deadly pathogens could lick their lips, they would.

Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist

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CQC official says managers showed a ‘lack of transparency’ during inspection nine months after Lucy Letby’s first murder

Hospital managers showed a “lack of transparency” by failing to tell a healthcare watchdog about a spike in baby deaths during an inspection that took place nine months after Lucy Letby’s first murder, an inquiry has been told.

A senior manager at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said executives at the Countess of Chester hospital had a “professional obligation” to alert inspectors to concerns about the rise in neonatal mortality during its review in February 2016.

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