The Guardian - October 14, 2024

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October 14, 2024

UN: Israeli tanks have forced way into base

The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said two Israeli tanks had destroyed a gate and forcibly entered a base in the south of the country as Israel's ground operation against Hezbollah moved deeper into Lebanese territory.

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Cuts risk wiping out UK's black scholarship

Redundancies and course closures risk wiping out black scholarship in the UK, leading academics have warned.

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Safety fears as Starmer pledges to slash red tape for investors

Keir Starmer will promise to slash red tape and \"rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment\" as he hosts hundreds of global business executives at a major summit in central London today.

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Housing targets are unrealistic and unfair, English councils say

Councils have raised the alarm over what they describe as unrealistic government targets for new housing, saying these penalise local authorities when the fault often lies with developers sitting on sites that already have planning permission.

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Fancy talking to a dodo? AI project lets you ask museum exhibits about their lives

If the pickled bodies, partial skeletons and stuffed carcasses that fill museums seem a little, well, quiet, fear not. In the latest coup for artificial intelligence, dead animals are to receive a new lease of life to share their stories - and even experiences of the afterlife.

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Passing the baton: the debut of a three-armed robot conductor

She is not long on charisma or passion but keeps perfect rhythm and is never prone to temperamental outbursts. Meet MAIRA Pro S, the next-generation robot conductor who has made her debut in Dresden.

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‘We fear Gaza will be forgotten’

Despair grows as focus turns away

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‘Huge risk of hunger’ UN expert raises fears of starvation in Lebanon

Hunger and malnutrition rates could rise “exponentially” in Lebanon if Israel follows through with threats to escalate the current military operation, which has so far killed more than 2,000 and displaced as many as a million people, according to a leading UN expert.

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Post Office may resume court cases over branch shortfalls

The Post Office has recently explored resuming the practice of taking branch owner-operators to court, as mounting losses from shortfalls in its network of 11,500 outlets hit £12m a year.

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Temperatures to rise this week but only briefly, says Met Office

Parts of England could feel a 10C bump in temperatures as a short period of fine weather is predicted for midweek.

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Essex & Suffolk Water tells drinks makers they cannot increase usage

Small-drinks manufacturers in Suffolk have been told to keep a lid on their water usage for most of the next decade, amid concerns at their supplier that they would be unable to meet rising demand.

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UK immigration system inflicts mental health harm, say doctors

Top doctors have identified Britain's immigration system as a \"public mental health concern\" that inflicts harm on asylum seekers, and risks \"re-traumatising\" those already affected by psychological distress.

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BBC World Service important for global democracy, says Davie

The BBC director general will warn that the retreat of the World Service because of funding cuts has helped Russia and China broadcast \"unchallenged propaganda\".

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Budget Increase in employer NICs not ruled out

The business secretary has said Labour's manifesto pledge not to raise national insurance applied to employees but he did not rule out raising employers' contributions in the budget.

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HS2 'light' Osborne backs alternative for northern link

George Osborne has thrown his weight behind a proposal nicknamed \"HS2 light\" that would provide new high-speed train links between Manchester and Birmingham.

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"'She's bang on' Ex-Tories prefer Badenoch over more of the same Jenrick"

Winning back voters lost in the summer's disastrous general election performance will be top of the to-do list for the newly installed Conservative party leader when they are appointed in a little over three weeks' time.

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Tributes paid to Alex Salmond's 'colossal contribution' to politics

John Swinney has paid tribute to Alex Salmond's \"colossal contribution\" to Scottish and UK politics as allies of the former first minister mourned his sudden death on Saturday.

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‘Echo of today’ Eerie parallels in film about Lennon and Ono in US

From sit-ins for peace to avant-garde happenings and covert surveillance of revolutionary sympathies, the world of John Lennon and Yoko Ono can seem removed from that of our own. But a new documentary about the couple exposes the eerie similarities between the 1970s and now, its Oscar-winning director has said.

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Met urged to investigate death of British woman in Spain

The family and friends of a British IT executive who fell to her death from an apartment block in Spain on the evening of her 50th birthday have called on the Metropolitan police to intervene in a Spanish police investigation into the fatality.

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Elation at SpaceX as booster rocket is 'caught' as it falls

Elon Musk's SpaceX company achieved a milestone yesterday by catching the massive booster stage from its Starship rocket in a pair of robotic arms as it fell back to the firm's launchpad in southern Texas.

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Mission to moon of Jupiter will explore 'world that might be habitable'

Nasa is poised to send a spacecraft to a frosty moon of Jupiter, where extraterrestrial life may eke out an existence in an enormous ocean hidden beneath its ice-covered surface.

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NHS guidelines on prostate cancer PSA tests 'driving late diagnosis'

Men at a higher risk of prostate cancer should be given the option to have a test by their GP even if they have no symptoms, a charity has said, as it warned current NHS guidelines were \"driving late diagnosis\".

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Strategy to halt the decline of hedgehogs in UK launched

Wildlife charities have launched the first national hedgehog conservation strategy to halt the species' decline across Britain.

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Assisted dying bill 'no use' to people with Parkinson's

An assisted dying bill that would only allow help for people with less than six months to live would be no use at all to many people who are facing intolerable suffering, according to a retired high court judge.

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US election How Harris win could depend on Democrats overseas

On a chilly afternoon in central London, the battle for the US presidential election is being waged with no less fervour than if the campaigners were on the other side of the Atlantic.

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Met launches investigation after man in 30s shot dead

Police launched a murder investigation yesterday after a man was shot dead in east London.

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‘Superwoman is dead’: professionals advise against aiming for perfect work-life balance

Women should stop striving for work-life balance to avoid living in a constant state of guilt, the ITV presenter Charlene White has said.

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Hundreds take part in charity World Conker Championships

Conkers were once more in swinging action as competitors descended on a pub near Peterborough for the World Conker Championships yesterday.

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Columbus was probably Spanish and Jewish, DNA study suggests

A 20-year genetic investigation of the remains of Christopher Columbus has turned conventional historical wisdom on its head by concluding that the explorer whose voyage to the New World changed the course of global history may have been a Spanish Jew rather than a son of Genoa.

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Labour pledge The action needed to halve violence against women

In his pitch to voters in March last year, Keir Starmer said he wanted to \"imagine a society where violence against women is stamped out everywhere”. His government would, he promised, halve violence against women and girls in a decade. It was a bold, simple statement, widely welcomed for its ambition.

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Westminster 'whirlwind' Green MP's first hundred days - and his Starmer spat

When Adrian Ramsay confounded more than a century of Conservative hegemony in rural East Anglia to win Waveney Valley for the Greens on a wave of local enthusiasm, he might have expected to enjoy a pleasant political honeymoon.

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Disasters Trump withheld aid to 'hostile' states, say ex-officials

Donald Trump deliberately withheld disaster aid from states he deemed politically hostile to him as US president and will do so again if he returns to the White House, several former officials from his administration have warned.

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Harris appeals to hurricane-hit voters with presidential race neck and neck

Kamala Harris yesterday spent a second day in North Carolina, a state hard hit by Hurricane Helene and a crucial battleground in the presidential election.

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Democratic health report on EU states 'paints too rosy a picture'

The European Commission's annual audit of democratic standards across the bloc is overly positive and ultimately ineffective because it is not tied to any kind of enforcement mechanism, a leading civil liberties network has said.

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Biden to meet Scholz in Berlin to discuss Ukraine and Middle East

Joe Biden will visit Berlin this week, senior German officials say, after he cancelled a planned trip last week over Hurricane Milton.

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Religious attack fears as Indian eateries told to show staff names

Muslims in India say they have been fired from their jobs and face the closure of their businesses after two states brought in a \"discriminatory\" policy making it mandatory for restaurants to publicly display the names of all their employees.

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Mining firm faces record claim over 2015 Brazilian dam collapse

The mother of a seven-year-old boy who was torn from the arms of his grandmother and drowned in one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters is among more than 620,000 claimants who will have their case heard this month in the largest group claim in English legal history.

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Equatorial Guinea Dozens of islanders detained over letter

Earlier this year, residents of the small island of Annobón began noticing withering plants on their farmland and large cracks in their houses. They attributed the damage to years of dynamite explosions linked to mining operations on the island, a province of Equatorial Guinea that lies in the Gulf of Guinea, about 220 miles west of Gabon off the west coast of Africa.

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Families seek pardons for Dutch who refused to fight to keep colony

Families of 20 men who were jailed for refusing to fight to preserve the Dutch colony in Indonesia have formally asked for their names to be cleared, arguing that instead of “deserters, traitors and cowards” their relatives deserve to be recognised as having been on the right side of history.

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Deported children Real, raw stories of Ukraine's agony told in new play

In a small, underground theatre in central Kyiv, an audience is watching - at times with perfectly still attention, at times with roars of laughter - a story that is so raw and painful that it is hard to believe it has already found its way on to the stage.

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Mulberry's owner rejects increased bid from Frasers

The owner of the Mulberry fashion brand has rejected an increased £111m bid from Mike Ashley's Frasers Group to buy the British luxury handbag maker, saying it has \"no interest\" in selling its shares.

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Reeves urged to keep Labour promise on business rates

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has been urged to keep her promise to ease the pressure from business rates on high street businesses amid warnings of a looming £2.7bn tax hike that would mainly hit smaller retail, leisure and hospitality firms.

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China Economic 'bazooka' likely to misfire without essential reforms

The economist and author George Magnus says Beijing's new stimulus strategy is the very definition of fiscal insanity

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Sky to appeal planning decision on film studio

The TV company Sky plans to appeal against a council decision that blocked the expansion of its film studios amid signs the Labour government is willing to allow building on the greenbelt to prioritise economic growth.

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Seeds of success

The moment when a lad half my age sent his second consecutive ace flying past my racket was probably the moment I wondered if it had been a mistake to rekindle my tennis career for the first time in a decade.

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All-conquering Wigan look to future after clean sweep

If there is one man who knows a thing or two about building a sporting dynasty, it is Sir Alex Ferguson. To that end, had we known the legendary former Manchester United manager was the one to deliver Wigan Warriors' motivational speech on the eve of the Super League Grand Final, the result would have felt like a formality before a ball had been kicked.

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Williams flourishes in Chicago's popular win

Bears see off Jaguars and delight crowd in their first UK fixture for five years

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England survive Canada scare and secure title

England secured back-to-back WXV1 titles with a 21-12 comeback victory against Canada. It was a 20th successive win for the Red Roses and confirmed them as the favourites for the 2025 Rugby World Cup in August.

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Bouchier blitz takes England to verge of semi-finals

The Battle of Sharjah yesterday was more Culloden than Bannockburn: England romped home as winners by 10 wickets in their World Cup match against Scotland.

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GB pay penalty for near-crash as New Zealand tighten their grip

The odds of Britain securing the America's Cup for the first time lengthened a little further yesterday after the New Zealand team established a three-race lead in the first-to-seven, 13-race competition.

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Newcastle spoil party to aid top-flight case

Visitors look likelier side to give WSL a north-east outpost after win in front of a record Championship crowd

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Roundup Shaw double keeps City top as United extend run

Manchester City remain top of the Women's Super League after two goals from Khadija Shaw helped them to come from behind to secure a 2-1 win against Liverpool.

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' I don't want players coming off feeling like I did, that's the truth'

Head coach Bellamy speaks of desire to allow 'everybody to show their true talent' as Wales prepare for Montenegro

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Alexander-Arnold magic restores order after chaos

It was precisely what Lee Carsley needed. After the mayhem of the Wembley defeat against Greece on Thursday and the fallout, chiefly the uncertainty around his longer-term role within the England setup, this was a return to the tranquil progress of his first camp in September.

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