The Guardian - October 09, 2024

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October 09, 2024

Reeves presses ahead with plans to borrow billions for investment

Rachel Reeves is pushing ahead with plans to borrow billions of pounds extra for infrastructure investment, the Guardian has learned, despite concerns about the rising cost of UK government debt.

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"'Stay and you die': Florida braces for Hurricane Milton

Florida's west coast was making emergency preparations last night for the impact of Hurricane Milton, with thousands of evacuees clogging roads with their vehicles and the mayor of Tampa warning residents bluntly \"you are going to die\" if they stayed behind.

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Cleverly in top spot as Tories drop Tugendhat

James Cleverly shot to the top of the latest MPs' vote in the Conservative leadership contest yesterday, leaving Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick facing a battle to reach the final two.

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Earth's 'vital signs' show humanity's future in balance, say top scientists

Many of Earth's \"vital signs\" have hit record extremes, indicating \"the future of humanity hangs in the balance\", a group of the world's most senior climate experts have said.

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Art review Whirligig of horrors reveals painter's genius and humanity

Teeth. We all have them, or start out with them. We're supposed to take care of them, so we can flash a smile. But for Francis Bacon, they are a glimpse of death in a living human face, a white hardness that will persist when all our soft matter is gone. In Study of the Human Head, a man in a dark jacket smiles out with perfect teeth. Then you realise Bacon has superimposed an X-ray image of the human head on to this living man. It is the grin of a skull.

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Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight inspired by Bacon, says film's director

Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker was based on one of Francis Bacon's triptychs, the Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan has said before an exhibition of Bacon's work.

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Prosecutors to appeal as separate trial of Madeleine McCann suspect ends in acquittal

The main suspect in the disappearance of the British toddler Madeleine McCann is likely to be released from prison next year after he was found not guilty of all charges in a separate rape and sexual abuse trial.

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Far right seeking donations for those jailed over riots

Far-right activists are trying to raise funds for people jailed over their roles in the summer riots, describing them as political prisoners, in an attempt to generate support by giving money to their families.

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Ofwat orders water firms to give back almost £158m to customers

Water companies in England and Wales will have to return nearly £158m to customers through lower bills next year after falling further behind on key targets including sewage spills and leaks.

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Northern border security Decades of conflict

Since 1978 a series of Israeli military operations in southern Lebanon, including a years-long occupation, have failed to bring security to northern Israel.

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Israeli military expands ground operation in Lebanon to 15,000 troops

Israel has said it is expanding its ground operation in Lebanon with the deployment of a fourth division, bringing the likely number of troops to 15,000, after another night of intense airstrikes across the south and east of the country.

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ICC inquiry Dutch urged to open case over alleged interference

Prosecutors in the Netherlands are considering a request to open a criminal case against senior Israeli intelligence officials for allegedly interfering with an investigation by the international criminal court (ICC).

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‘The survivor's guilt is overwhelming'

Israel-Gaza war One year on

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MI5 'has hell of a job' halting threats from Russia, Iran and IS

The head of MI5 has said his agency has \"one hell of a job\" to do as the threat from Islamic State has returned while Iran and Russia engage in intensifying efforts to carry out assassination and sabotage plots in the UK.

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Ex-soldier who fled jail 'wanted to be an MI6 double agent'

A former British soldier accused of escaping prison by strapping himself to the underside of a delivery truck had contacted Iranian intelligence before offering to work as a \"double agent\" for MI6, his trial has heard.

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Dartmoor picnicking is trespass, landowner's lawyers tell court

Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, according to the lawyers for a landowner who is challenging the right to wild camping on the moors.

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Flyfishers' Club votes to admit female members after 140 years

Members of the 140-year-old Flyfishers' Club have voted to allow women to join after decades of resisting calls to reform its rules.

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Pupils starting reception with poor skills after pandemic, says Ofsted report

Primary schools are having to teach infants how to communicate as they struggle to make friends or cope with lessons because of speech and language difficulties, a report says.

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More than 9m Britons vulnerable to relying on food handouts

More than 9 million people in the UK experience levels of poverty and hunger so extreme they may have to rely on charity food handouts, according to research.

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More deaths than births for first time in nearly 50 years excluding pandemic

Deaths have outstripped births in the UK for the first time in nearly half a century, excluding the pandemic, official figures showed yesterday.

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No misconduct by Rooney legal team in 'Wagatha' case - judge

Coleen Rooney's lawyers did not commit misconduct, a judge has ruled, after the lawyers were accused of \"knowingly misleading\" Rebekah Vardy by allegedly deliberately understating her \"extraordinary\" legal costs during their libel fight.

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TV review Jilly Cooper goes supersonic with 1980s camp

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that no television series in history has been able to communicate exactly what it is faster than Rivals. Its opening shot is a man bonking a red-stilettoed woman in the toilet of a Concorde to the rhythm of Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love, while the passengers outside eat prawn cocktails and chain-smoke as if their lives depend on it. At the moment of climax, the plane goes supersonic, a champagne bottle pops its cork and everyone cheers. From this point onwards, you can't say you didn't know what you were in for.

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Labour's early missteps were pinned on Sue Gray - but now there's nowhere left to hide

Office politics can be complicated. And Westminster can get obsessed with personalities behind the scenes and where someone sits on the office floor plan. But with all that being said, it is true to say that relations between Sue Gray, Keir Starmer's former chief of staff, and some others in the early days of Keir Starmer's government were, if anything, worse than reported.

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Workers' rights Proposals can win over voters, says TUC

Labour can use its overhaul of workers' rights to win over disaffected Conservative and Reform voters, the TUC has said, as the government prepares to introduce landmark legislation that will grant new rights to 7 million workers.

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No 10 looked like a crack den? That's what the former PM says - and we know he wouldn't lie

It's been less than a week since Johnson began the publicity round of interviews for his memoir but it feels so much longer

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‘Unbelievable’ Johnson wades into Starmer freebies row

Keir Starmer's decision to accept clothing freebies “looks greedy”, according to Boris Johnson. The former prime minister criticised his Labour successor's decision to accept gifts of clothing and glasses, and said Starmer “must be worth a bob or two” as a result of his legal career.

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Climbers tell of being stranded in Himalayas after losing kit

A British mountaineer and her American companion who were stranded in the Himalayas for three days without food have described the long silence between them after most of their equipment plunged into a ravine.

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Art review Turbine of dripping goo too low on energy to be disgusting

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commission is always a daunting prospect for an artist.

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Two pioneers of AI win Nobel prize in physics for work on machine learning

Two researchers who helped lay the foundations for modern artificial intelligence - although one later warned of its potential harms - have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in physics.

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Building HS2 to Euston and Crewe could pay for itself, analysis finds

Building HS2 all the way to London Euston and Crewe could save the government money by enabling it to lease the line out for much more, rail industry leaders have told ministers, as the Treasury weighs up whether to fund tunnels to central London.

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Grieving family of poet denied entry to council flat to retrieve his work

The family of a council housing tenant who recently died fear losing his life's work because bureaucracy has barred them from entering his flat.

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Disgraced surgeon's colleague raised concerns 20 years ago

A colleague of the disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns about him carrying out \"incomplete\" breast cancer operations two decades ago, an inquest has heard.

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Eyes on the £1m prize: AI glasses on dementia shortlist

With thick plastic frames and wide arms, the chunky glasses look like 3D specs handed out in a 1990s cinema - not the kind of technology you associate with 21st-century science prizes. But put them on, and the real world takes on a new dimension.

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Harris promises Medicare to cover long-term care at home

The Democratic US presidential nominee, Vice-President Kamala Harris, has announced a plan for long-term, at-home care services through Medicare, the public health insurance programme for Americans older than 65.

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Trump secretly sent Covid test machines to Putin, reporter claims in book

Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 testing machines to Vladimir Putin in the early stages of the pandemic when such resources were in short supply, the veteran reporter Bob Woodward claims in an eagerly awaited new book.

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Orbán would celebrate a Trump win with 'bottles of champagne'

Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orbán said he will open \"several bottles of champagne\" if Donald Trump is re-elected to the White House next month.

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Mexican city's mayor beheaded in attack days after taking office

Mexico's new government has been shaken by the murder of a city mayor who was attacked and beheaded just days after taking office.

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More European countries join cold-case push to identify dead women

Police have expanded a cold-case campaign aimed at identifying dozens of women who were murdered or who died in suspicious circumstances across Europe, taking in three new countries and more than doubling the number of cases.

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‘Bands put Iceland on the map’ Tourism forces music venues to close

Tourism forces music venues to close

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Beer cans binned by mistake at museum are an artwork

A Dutch museum has recovered an artwork that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the rubbish bin.

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Beijing wins library of the year award for 'spectacular' green design

Beijing library has the world's largest climatised reading space and a 'nature-infused design'

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Myanmar military kills dozens in heaviest run of airstrikes since coup

Myanmar's military last month launched some of its heaviest aerial campaigns since the 2021 coup, killing at least 26 people in seven airstrikes.

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Profit alert wipes £1.2bn off value of homebuilder Vistry

More than £1bn was wiped off the value of the homebuilder Vistry yesterday after it said building costs on some of its projects had been \"understated\" and issued a profit warning.

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Channel 4 chiefs accept hefty bonuses as revenues fall by record 10%

Channel 4's bosses accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds in bonus payments last year, despite the broadcaster suffering the steepest fall in revenues in its 41-year history.

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Shein profits double in UK after 40% leap in sales

The online fast fashion retailer Shein doubled profits at its UK arm last year as sales jumped almost 40% to £1.5bn - making it about the same size as its rival Boohoo.

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Beijing slaps tariffs on brandy in escalating trade row with the EU

China has imposed tariffs on European Union brandy imports in an escalating trade row with Brussels over extra levies on Chinese-made electric vehicles.

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China to lead rollout of renewable energy capacity this decade

China is expected to account for almost 60% of all the renewable energy capacity installed worldwide between now and 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.

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SFO reaches settlement deal in legal tussle with Kazakh firm

The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Kazakh mining company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation have agreed a settlement to end one part of a years-long legal battle.

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Crawley and Root rebuild after another day of toil and mishaps for England

For the best part of two days England toiled in the field, hours of perspiration and very occasional inspiration in which Pakistan accumulated a score that many opponents - though perhaps not these, who beyond their general proclivity to positivity have won the last two games in which they had conceded more than 500 - would find completely daunting. England kept calm, kept trying, pushing, working, making occasional inroads but very few mistakes. And then, in the space of just a few minutes, that all changed.

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'I would have liked to have played until 90'

Andrés Iniesta brings curtain down on his glorious playing career after more than 1,000 matches across 22 years.

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‘It's tough’ Duckett expected to be fit to bat

England are monitoring the fitness of Ben Duckett after the opener sustained a suspected dislocated thumb on his left hand while fielding on the second day of the opening Test against Pakistan, forcing him to sit out the start of his team's first innings.

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Ramírez rises to the occasion as Real fail to stop Blue tide

A 3-2 defeat of Real Madrid ensured Chelsea cruised to a 10th unbeaten home group game, as they began their first campaign under new manager Sonia Bompastor at Stamford Bridge.

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Greenwood targets win against 'world best' Barcelona

Manchester City face huge test of mettle at Joie Stadium during their first appearance in the group stages

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Grealish thanks Carsley for trusting in his abilities

Jack Grealish has said he is grateful for the trust Lee Carsley has placed in him after being left out of England's Euro 2024 squad, but predicted that the interim head coach could suffer from sleepless nights as he attempts to fit into one team all the talented players at his disposal.

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Colwill reaping benefits of leaving the Cobham bubble

Moving back to the family home in Southampton has motivated the defender to star for club and country.

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'We've nothing to lose - it's the opportunity of a lifetime'

Four-time Olympic champion is relishing the biggest challenge of his career: toppling New Zealand to win Britain's first America's Cup

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García weighs up Ryder Cup return after Donald talks

Sergio García could be in line for a Ryder Cup return at Bethpage next year after Luke Donald revealed he has spoken recently with the Spaniard about rejoining the DP World Tour.

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El-Abd vows to build on Jones' England legacy

Joe El-Abd has promised evolution rather than revolution after taking over from Felix Jones as England defence coach - but he revealed the team will not be using the \"B-word\" on his watch.

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United talks fail to provide clarity on Ten Hag's position

No clarity has been offered regarding Erik ten Hag's future at Manchester United following a summit meeting of the club's hierarchy yesterday during which the Dutchman's position as manager was discussed.

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Guardiola alert City manager's future in flux with Begiristain set to leave

Txiki Begiristain is poised to depart as Manchester City sporting director at the end of the season, in a move that may influence Pep Guardiola's own decision regarding whether to remain as the club's manager.

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