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The United States economy lost 41,000 jobs in October and November, and the unemployment rate has ticked up to its highest level since 2021 as the labour market cools amid ongoing economic uncertainty driven by tariffs and immigration policies.
In November, the US economy added 64,000 jobs after shedding 105,000 in October, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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The unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent, up from 4.4 percent in September. Because of the government shutdown in October and November, the US government was unable to gather key data used to gauge the state of the economy, including the unemployment rate for October.
October’s job losses reflected the 162,000 federal workers who lost their posts, a result of deferred buyouts of their contracts, which expired at the end of September.
In November, there was a loss of another 6,000 government jobs. Gains were seen in the healthcare, social assistance and construction sectors. Healthcare added 46,000 jobs – higher than the 39,000 jobs gained in the sector on average each month over the past 12 months.
Construction added 28,000, consistent with average gains over the past year. The social assistance sector added 18,000 jobs.
Transportation and warehousing lost 18,000. Manufacturing jobs are also on the decline. The sector shed 5,000 jobs in November after cutting 9,000 jobs in October following a 5,000-job loss in September.
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told reporters on Tuesday to expect to see more manufacturing jobs in the next six months.
His assessment was driven by growth in construction jobs and manufacturing investments, which signal job growth is on the way.
People working part time for economic reasons also rose to 5.5 million, which is up 909,000 from September.
“Today’s long-awaited jobs report confirms what we already suspected: [President Donald] Trump’s economy is stalling out and American workers are paying the price,” Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, said in a statement.
“Far from sparking a manufacturing renaissance, Trump’s reckless trade agenda is bleeding working-class jobs, forcing layoffs, and raising prices for businesses and consumers alike.”
The data was released after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.5-3.75 percent as labour conditions cool.
“The labour market has continued to cool gradually, … a touch more gradually than we thought,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said after the rate cut decision last week.
Wilfried Nancy says “I don’t have to prove anything to anybody” amid criticism of his losing start as Celtic manager, is “grateful” for the continued support of the club hierarchy and is “really confident” of better times ahead.
The Frenchman had already become the first Celtic manager to lose his opening two matches in charge before suffering defeat by St Mirren in Sunday’s Premier Sports Cup final.
But Nancy claims the Scottish champions knew there could be initial hard times after he left Columbus Crew to take over from interim boss Martin O’Neill.
“I’m very grateful with the people that I work with,” the 48-year-old said. “They know why I am here, they protect me, they know what I want to do for the club.
“They know where we are at this moment and we knew this moment could happen.
Nancy tries to shield himself from the criticism but stressed he is “a human being” with “emotions” as he prepares his side to visit Dundee United on Wednesday.
“The only thing that I know is I receive a lot of messages from my family to ask me if I’m OK,” he said. “So it means that maybe I get killed, but it’s OK.
“Don’t forget I come from Europe, so I know the way it works and, to be fair, in the MLS it is the same – not with same intensity obviously.
“The fans, the media, you don’t have results, this is normal. You might think I am crazy, but I am embracing this adversity because I know I’m getting better.
“I don’t have to prove anything to anybody, simple as that. I just have to be coherent with my team and to do my job as best as I can and, after that, it will be more positive.”
Some have criticised Nancy’s decision to change to his preferred 3-4-3 system from the one adopted by O’Neill during the veteran’s seven wins in eight games in charge.
“It is nothing about the system,” he said. “It is not rocket science what I’m saying.
“I am the coach, I have ideas and they did it before. I am just asking them to play with a few nuances, but I don’t try to invent football.”
Nancy admitted “for the moment, I have nothing” to prove to fans or media that he has what it takes to change his team’s fortunes.
However, he pointed out that “it is 10 days that I am here” and he knew it could be a problem considering “the fact it is the first time for everyone to have a coach coming in in the middle of the season like this” but had no regrets about taking over when he did.
Nancy said his task was “to get this connection with the players” and “every day I see there is an improvement”.
“I am going beyond winning,” he added. “For me, it is about character, it is about personality, it is about coherence, it is about how we want to play defensively and offensively.”
Lawyers acting for eight Palestine Action hunger strikers held in UK prisons say the lives of the detainees are at risk. The hunger strikers are charged in connection with direct action protests against a defence firm and a Royal Air Force base.
The Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have carried out a systematic, weeks-long campaign to erase evidence of mass killings in the city of el-Fasher, according to a recent report released by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL).
“RSF’s mass killing campaign targeted civilians attempting to flee the city and those seeking refuge in the Daraja Oula neighborhood,” the report, released on Tuesday, said, referring to a neighbourhood in el-Fasher where massacres occurred. “RSF subsequently engaged in a systematic multi-week campaign to destroy evidence of its mass killings through burial, burning, and removal of human remains on a mass scale. This pattern of body disposal and destruction is ongoing.”
El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was formerly the Sudanese Armed Forces’s last stronghold in the region and had been besieged by the RSF for more than 18 months before falling on October 26. At least 1,500 people were killed in 48 hours after the RSF took control of el-Fasher, according to monitoring groups.
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In Sudan, a civil war has been raging between the SAF and the RSF since April 15, 2023. The country has become home to the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, according to the UN and humanitarian groups. Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed in the war, while more than 13 million are displaced, and at least another 30 million are in need of vital humanitarian aid.
The Yale report, titled the “RSF’s Systematic Mass Killings and Body Disposal in el-Fasher, North Darfur between October 26 and November 28, 2025, relied on satellite imagery, open source data, local news reporting, and remote sensing data. Yale researchers, who have spent years tracking the war in Sudan, also found that the RSF engaged in certain patterns of killings, including the murder of people as they fled attacks, mass killings including door-to-door and execution-style killings, mass killings at sites affiliated with detention, and mass killings at military installations.
The researchers identified clusters of what they termed objects consistent with human remains in and around the vicinity of el-Fasher.
HRL found that in 72 percent of the incidents it observed by November 28, the size of these clusters had gotten smaller, while 38 percent were no longer visible at all, indicating an effort to conceal the killing of people.
It also recorded “at least 20 instances of burning objects and 8 instances of disturbed earth”.
The RSF paramilitary force grew out of a notorious government-linked militia called the Janjaweed. The Janjaweed were accused of carrying out a genocide during the Darfur conflict in the 2000s, and the RSF has been accused by the United States and others of committing genocide in the current war.
Earlier this month, a prominent Sudanese doctor’s group accused the RSF of raping at least 19 women as they overtook el-Fasher. As el-Fasher fell to the RSF in late October, the paramilitary group simultaneously launched an offensive against the Kordofan region, potentially further expanding the territory under its control.
Some experts have said they fear more massacres could occur in the fight for Kordofan. More than 116 people, including children, were killed in a recent attack on a pre-school and other sites in South Kordofan’s Kalogi.
Exclusive: Iran’s foreign minister sits down with Fault Lines to discuss the nuclear standoff and diplomatic deadlock.
In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview recorded in October with Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines documentary programme, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells correspondent Hind Hassan that strikes by Israel and the United States in June caused “serious damage” to Iran’s nuclear facilities but insists its nuclear programme will continue.
“Technology cannot be eliminated by bombing,” he says, arguing that Iran’s scientific knowledge remains intact.
As Iran remains locked in a standoff with the US and refuses to renew negotiations while zero uranium enrichment demands remain in place, Araghchi says European snapback sanctions have undermined future cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Iran would reconsider how it cooperates in the future.