Gazprom could stop flow of gas into continent as result of their legal battle with Austrian company OMV

Europe’s gas market rose by as much as 5% on Thursday to its highest price in a year after one of the continent’s biggest gas traders said that there could be a halt on gas supplies from Russia.

Austrian gas trader OMV has said that a court decision awarding the company compensation after its dispute with a subsidiary of Russia’s Gazprom could lead the state-owned gas giant to halt supplies.

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• ‘I would pay for the privilege to play in the Ryder Cup’
• Europeans feel fee would be better spent on World Tour

Rory McIlroy has admitted he would pay to play in the Ryder Cup after it emerged US team members could collect $400,000 each for taking on Europe in New York next year. McIlroy believes such a move could undermine the “purity” of the biennial contest.

After pressure from leading players, the PGA of America’s board is seriously considering a move to break with Ryder Cup tradition and pay the 12-man American team by pooling a $5m fund. No such plan is being or will be considered in Europe; a situation McIlroy, the continent’s leading player, is fully behind.

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Report also refers to Israel ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’ and running ‘apartheid system’ in West Bank

• Middle East crisis – live updates

A UN special committee has said that Israeli policy and practice in Gaza is “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.

The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

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California and other states must mount aggressive, multipronged response to defend immigrants, advocates warn

California , home to the largest immigrant population in the US, is bracing for Donald Trump’s plan to enact the “ largest deportation operation in American history ”, with advocates pushing state leaders to find new and creative ways to disrupt his agenda.

The Golden state led the fight against Trump’s first term, shielding many non-citizen residents from removal by restricting local cooperation with federal immigration authorities. But the threat this time, immigrant rights groups say, is more extreme, and blue states across the US are facing pressure to mount an aggressive, multipronged response.

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Condition of roads near singer’s Harlow home makes it difficult to drive the prestige vehicles

Rod Stewart has said he is considering selling his five sports cars because there are so many potholes on the roads near his home.

The singer’s love of sports cars has endured for more than half a century – and he now owns five. But now Stewart says he may sell them because the potholes have worsened near his home in Harlow, Essex.

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Chris Hemming, 46, charged with murdering Cheryl McKenna, 44, found by police on Monday morning

A man has been charged with murder after a woman was found fatally stabbed at a house in Redditch, Worcestershire.

Cheryl McKenna, 44, was found by police officers at a property in Other Road, near Redditch town centre, at about 9.30am on Monday.

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Lead singer Mica Tenenbaum bounces around with huge and winning energy, promising great, dramatic things we never quite reach

‘Welcome to Magdalena Bay’s magical mystery tour!” exclaims Mica Tenenbaum, one half of the LA electro-indie-pop duo, as she stands before a screen filled with a psychedelic mix of symbols. There’s a spinning sun reminiscent of a CD (an object the young crowd may only be dimly familiar with), a pair of chrome hands, and a silver orb resembling Harry Potter’s golden snitch. It’s strange and wonderfully surreal, with Tenenbaum bouncing around like a children’s TV host, promising to draw the audience into a fantastical narrative that, unfortunately, never fully materialises.

The duo have had a big breakthrough year after successful second album Imaginal Disk, and this show has been upgraded to a bigger venue. Imaginal Disk is a concept album that follows an alien named True (played by Tenenbaum in their music videos) who rejects said disk implanted in her and embarks on a journey to understand what it means to be human.

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Where Big Website goes, other wishy-washy, left-leaning hipster havens naturally follow, so it came as no surprise that following Wednesday’s announcement that we would no longer be posting content on the particular Social Media Abomination that known as TwiXer from official accounts, one of Europe’s most right-on football clubs duly followed suit . A traditionally left-wing outfit that was founded in 1899, St Pauli play their football near Hamburg’s Reeperbahn and are famous for their iconic skull and crossbones logo. They were the first Bundesliga club to sign a black player, the first to officially ban right-wing nationalist activities at their games and almost certainly the first purported socialists to charge an eye-watering €37 for a snow shovel in their official club shop.

With all due respect, isn’t it time for the massively overused phrase ‘door marked Do One’ (Football Daily passim) to, well, do one? I mean it was funny the first few times, was getting trite on about its 100th appearance, but after about 178,357 uses, it really has become tedious” – Ric Arthur (and one other).

If Alanis Morissette is looking for an updated line to add to her biggest hit, may I suggest: ‘It’s like Rick Parry accusing the Premier League of undervaluing the football pyramid .’ Admittedly, it doesn’t scan, but the man who helped to create the English game’s ‘global entertainment product’ saying this seems a tad more ironic than rain on your wedding day” – Joe Stafford.

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Temperatures in Guangzhou fail to drop below level that meteorological service uses to mark change in season

One of China’s biggest cities is still officially in summer, despite it being mid-November, as temperatures have failed to drop below the threshold considered necessary to mark the change in season.

This week, Guangzhou, a hot and humid city of nearly 19 million people in southern China’s Guangdong province, broke a three-decade heat record, according to the local meteorological service. As of Wednesday the city had experienced 235 summer days, beating 1994’s 234-day season.

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