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📣 Hamas is to disarm, and Israel will withdraw its forces from Gaza, President Donald Trump has claimed on Truth Social overnight. “The deal includes the “COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza,” he wrote.

It has been confirmed Hamas has agreed to the terms of a “multi-step road map”. And the Israeli military will pull back its troops from Gaza in phases, according to President Trump.

But briefings from both sides indicate big gaps remain in the detail of the implementation. At send time, Israel has yet to comment on the record. (Independent) (AP) (WSJ)

📣 Global football body FIFA has hit back after its European counterpart, UEFA, agreed to boycott future FIFA tournaments - including the World Cup - over controversial plans to sell stakes in the lucrative tournament to private investors. “Nobody is selling football,” the organisation said in a late-night statement. (BBC)

📣 The family of a Scottish woman found dead in a suitcase in Greece have paid tribute to the “beautiful” and “loving” 38-year-old. Elisabeth Jane Ross was found dead inside a suitcase on July 18. She is believed to have died between five and seven days before she was discovered.

Greek police are now trying to piece together her last movements, a task which is being made more difficult by their fear that her phone was used to send messages suggesting she was still alive, to buy her killer more time. (Mail)

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📣 ScotRail has apologised for the shambolic launch of its new app, which sparked an outcry yesterday when users found they could not book tickets. (Scotsman)

📣 Members of the Scottish Government's Tax Advisory Group (TAG) privately told officials the body had no discernible bearing on real tax decisions and suggested ministers only kept it running because scrapping it “might have become a media story”. (The Herald has the exclusive)

📣 Only days after being jailed for murder, the killer of schoolboy Kayden Moy has managed to use a mobile phone to record a rap video celebrating his crime. Police Scotland and the Scottish Prison Service are investigating. (Daily Record)

📣 A vet in Falkirk has told of the moment he was left covered in blood after a racist assault in the town. Police were called: he says they took 45 minutes to turn up. (Daily Record)

📣 Scottish Rugby chief executive Alex Williamson has been sacked after an investigation into his conduct. The Mail reports he had an undisclosed relationship with a more junior employee. (Mail)

📣 Andy Burnham has confirmed he is ready to ditch the government’s Net Zero stance on oil and gas extraction in the North Sea. (Mail)

📣 Spain is deploying its military at its border with Morocco in Ceuta, after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory through the sea, with at least nine dying in the attempt. (AP)

📣 Another day, another escaped AI: now we hear Anthropic’s Claude model hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after an error gave it access to the internet. (Telegraph)

📣 Ten climbers, led by renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja, are feared missing after an avalanche in northern Pakistan where they were on a climbing expedition. (Al Jazeera)

⚽️ A new season of the Scottish Premiership gets underway tonight: Dundee United host Rangers, with the visitors’ new manager Derek McInnes hoping to get his new-look side off to a flyer. United manager Jim Goodwin says he knows what to expect. (Sky Sports)

⚽️ Motherwell completed a professional job on Faroese side Havnar Boltfelag, winning 3-0 away in the Conference League qualifiers. They face HJK Helsinki next. (BBC)

🏅 Scots cyclist Neil Fachie won his sixth Commonwealth Games gold medal, inspired by his son. Later, the women’s team sprint trio of Lauren Bell, Iona Moir and Maddy Silcock beat Australia for bronze.(BBC)

🗣️ Tens of thousands of British private school pupils will see their school close forever this summer, reports Lara Brown in The Spectator. The 30,000 or so who will have to continue their education elsewhere are far greater in number - more than double - the expected fallout when VAT was first imposed on fees.

But, as Brown puts it, “St Joseph’s College in Reading survived two world wars, the Great Depression and a pandemic. But it could not weather two years under this Labour government.”

Brown writes that Labour promised to fund 6,500 extra state teachers with the money it raised from the new VAT. But the number of teachers in England has fallen by 1,900, she reports. And in Scotland, the VAT raid has already cost more than it raised - because every child costs £8,850 to educate in the state sector.

“Where we once had Victorian institutions, we will now have Chinese-owned schools vulnerable to asset stripping, and private equity-backed special schools sucking at the taxpayer’s teat.” (The Spectator (£))

🗣️AI is getting better at writing, notes The Economist. But that only means humans must get better at editing, and they offer some tips. For better copy from your LLM, they suggest giving it very clear instructions, pay attention to the verbose detail (and cut it out), and be careful to think of your audience. (Economist (£))

🗣️An essay in the New Statesman by JB Priestley, “Britain and the Nuclear Bombs”, led to the creation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and it’s a subject the magazine returns to on its cover this weekend.

The spectre of nuclear weapons stalks the world in a way it has not since the end of the Cold War, writes Katie Stallard in the cover story, thanks to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. His threats to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine in 2022 sparked a diplomatic scramble, where Joe Biden’s US administration had to warn Russia of consequences should it use the bomb.

These days, the US is a less reliable partner to its allies: the nuclear deterrent less potent, suggests Stallard. That could lead to proliferation of weapons, as nations decide the only way to guarantee their future is to have a few of their own. (New Statesman (£))

🗣️ The Economist’s Big Mac index is 40 in September, and the newspaper celebrates the anniversary in this week’s edition. “What began as a playful thought experiment has taken on a life of its own,” it notes in a leader. “It has amused readers, intrigued currency traders and irritated central banks.”

Why does the index exist? The Big Mac is universal, explains the Economist. “You can buy it almost anywhere and it tastes much the same everywhere. That makes it a good measure of the bang you can get for your buck.

“In America $100 buys about 16 Big Macs. That is roughly the same burger-buying power as 100 euros, 426 Chinese yuan, or 8,039 Japanese yen. Yet $100 in fact buys about €87 in the foreign-exchange markets, or 677 yuan, or over ¥16,000, showing how far from their purchasing power the world’s currencies have strayed.” (The Economist (£))

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