The Guardian - October 11, 2024

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October 11, 2024

Capital gains tax could rise as high as 39%

Rachel Reeves is considering raising capital gains tax as high as 39% in the budget, the Guardian can reveal, in the scramble to raise funds for crumbling public services.

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UN says Israel deliberately fired on its peacekeepers

Alleged attacks on Unifil would be 'grave violation of international law'

4 mins

Trump will need Nato if he wins presidency, says Rutte

Mark Rutte, the new head of Nato, has brushed off anxieties about the possible election of Donald Trump, arguing that the US would risk isolation in \"a harsh, uncompromising world\" if he sought to withdraw from the military alliance.

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Nadal calls time on tennis career 'more successful than I could have imagined'

Rafael Nadal, one of the greatest tennis players of all time, has announced he will retire from professional tennis at the end of the season after next month's Davis Cup finals.

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Theatregoers taken ill at opera with sex, gore and skating nuns

Eighteen theatregoers at Stuttgart State Opera required medical treatment for severe nausea over the weekend after watching a performance that included live piercing, excrement, unsimulated sexual intercourse and copious amounts of fake and real blood.

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'We were very nervous' - Sarasota residents who sat out the hurricane

Carla Simionescu was reassuring relieved relatives yesterday morning on the phone, while she took photos of the tree branches, rocks, bits of wood and other debris littering the front yard and gravel driveway of her Sarasota house.

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Deaths expected to rise as Florida begins to assess the destruction

The death toll from Hurricane Milton rose to at least 10 yesterday as Florida continued to assess the damage from the category 3 storm that left more than 3.4m homes and businesses without power.

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Another 65 women report claims of abuse by Al Fayed

Another 65 women have come forward with allegations of abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed going as far back as 1977. Since the broadcast of the BBC documentary Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods, in which five women claimed to have been raped by the billionaire, more women have come forward with claims of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape, the BBC reported.

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Nobel literature prize goes to South Korean author Han Kang

The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean novelist Han Kang for her \"intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life\". Her works include The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts and Greek Lessons.

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Disgraced surgeon refuses to attend inquest into his patients' deaths

The disgraced former breast surgeon Ian Paterson has refused to give evidence at an inquest into the deaths of 62 of his patients, in a move labelled “atrocious” by family members of the deceased.

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BFI boss 'sorry' over way racial discrimination complaint was dealt with

The chief executive of the British Film Institute has apologised to a prominent Pakistani film-maker for mishandling his complaint about racial discrimination.

1 min

Breaking news: spinning may go to your head, report warns

Going breakdancing today? If so, maybe go easy on the headspins. Unless you want to end up looking like a conehead, that is.

2 mins

Amazon criticised after Tommy Robinson book tops bestsellers

Amazon has been accused of funnelling \"thousands of pounds into the pockets of Britain's best known far-right extremist\" after Tommy Robinson's latest book topped its bestseller chart.

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Only respite holiday provider in UK to close amid social care crisis

Britain's only respite holiday provider for severely disabled people and their carers is to close because of financial difficulties, in what has been called a bellwether example of the UK's growing social care crisis.

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Music review - Pitch-perfect solo set plus the big hits with Wyclef

Lauryn Hill apparently knows what most people in the room are thinking. Punctuating an amped-up Final Hour, she cocks her head towards the front row and announces: \"Lauryn Hill is in Cardiff, it's real.\"

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Digger stolen from Dorset is found in Poland

A digger stolen from a development site in Dorset has been found five months later and 1,200 miles away in a rural town in south-eastern Poland.

1 min

Labour Don't amend government bills, whips warn MPs

Labour MPs have been warned that they must not put down any amendments on government bills and must resolve disagreements privately with ministers, in a crackdown on discipline in parliament.

1 min

Gray's new role in doubt after missing first summit with nations

Keir Starmer's inaugural gathering of the council of nations and regions, intended to reset relationships and boost growth, risks being overshadowed by the absence of his new envoy Sue Gray.

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'It's night and day' - How the new broom in No 10 soured the mood and caused a rebellion

Clashes between powerful figures inside Downing Street and special advisers are not new. Dominic Cummings - Boris Johnson's right-hand man inside No 10 - had several high-profile bust-ups with spads, as they are known, which even led to the departure of a cabinet minister.

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The Tories don't want 'normal'. Let the insanity continue with KemiKaze and Honest Bob

A day on from the latest leadership ballot and still no one in the Tory party can quite work out how Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick made it through to the last two. So what chance do the rest of us have? All we can do is applaud them for their comic timing.

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Conservatives could split if new leader tries to outflank Reform, centrists warn

Senior Conservatives have warned that the party could split if Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick pursue an overtly populist path as leader, after the party's main centrist group refused to endorse either candidate.

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England's harvest is second worst on record after heavy rain

England has suffered its second worst harvest on record - with fears growing for next year - after heavy rain last winter hit production of important crops including wheat and oats.

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Lucy Letby - Police and CPS handling of case adds to concern over convictions

When the public inquiry into the crimes of the former nurse Lucy Letby opened in Liverpool last month, its chair, Lady Justice Thirlwall, dismissed concerns about the safety of the convictions as “noise”. The judge cautioned that questions being raised were increasing the distress of parents whose children had died or been harmed.

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Protection for workers from sexual harassment in new bill

Employers will have to protect their workers from sexual harassment - including from customers and clients - under the government's sweeping employment rights bill.

2 mins

Netflix criticised for proposing One Day plaque in Edinburgh

Heritage campaigners have criticised a proposal by Netflix to install a plaque commemorating its hit show One Day on a historic tenement in Edinburgh.

1 min

Deep tones - Mineshaft recording captures carbon

“It was odd, but really fun,” said Adam Cooper of his time spent helping to record the sound of an empty coalmine. “To put it in one word, I’d say it sounds cavernous. But it also has its own complexities and depth.”

2 mins

Man jailed for life for pushing stranger on to tube tracks

A man who pushed a stranger on to the tracks of a London tube line was jailed for life with a minimum term of eight years yesterday.

1 min

Four soldiers jailed after selling colleagues £100,000 of cocaine

A group of British army soldiers were yesterday jailed after selling almost £100,000 of cocaine to fellow military personnel.

1 min

CEO wants Post Office stripped of Horizon payouts role

The Post Office's chief executive has said the state-owned company should be stripped of any responsibility for handling financial redress for victims of the Horizon IT scandal.

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Plaid Cymru must take advantage of Labour's 'chaos', urges its leader

Plaid Cymru can build on its progress at the UK general election and make significant gains in traditional Labour heartlands, says its leader.

3 mins

Boy, 15, pleads guilty to murder of teenager in Bristol double stabbing

A 15-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to the murder of another teenager in Bristol who had been mistakenly identified as the perpetrator of an attack on a house, a court has heard.

1 min

Endurance - 3D scans show Shackleton's ship on seabed 'like she sank yesterday'

More than a century after it sank below the icy Weddell Sea in Antarctica, forcing its crew to embark on one of the most celebrated survival quests in history, new images have revealed the remarkable state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance.

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Spanish couple detained in Singapore over football protest

A Spanish couple have been detained after a man held a banner to protest against Peter Lim, the billionaire Singaporean owner of Valencia football club.

1 min

Asylum seekers' ID and phones 'burned by Croatian officers in border pushbacks'

Croatia's border police force have been accused of burning clothing, mobile phones and passports seized from asylum seekers trying to cross into the European Union before pushing them back to Bosnia.

3 mins

Trump did send Covid-19 tests to Putin, says Kremlin

The Kremlin has confirmed that Donald Trump sent Vladimir Putin Covid-19 tests early in the pandemic, as reported this week in a book by a veteran US political journalist.

1 min

North Korea 'supplying missiles and soldiers' to support Russia in Ukraine

North Korean military engineers have been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine with ballistic missiles, with some fighters operating in occupied areas of the war-torn country having already been killed, senior officials in Kyiv and Seoul said.

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Tributes paid as social activist Ethel Kennedy dies aged 96

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F Kennedy who raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family's legacy for decades thereafter, has died at the age of 96, her family said yesterday.

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'The shift is seismic' - Could younger voters propel Harris to a victory in Michigan?

So few students wanted to join the campus Republican party when Abigail Sefcik began studying at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) that she was rapidly voted in as its president.

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French energy company seeks £4bn to finish Hinkley Point C

The French energy company EDF is reportedly in talks with investors to raise up to £4bn to finish the delayed Hinkley Point C project in Somerset, Britain's first new nuclear reactors in a generation.

1 min

Portugal tries to stop brain drain with 100% tax breaks for young

Portugal is proposing a novel way of stemming the country's brain drain: a decade of progressive tax breaks for young people including paying nothing at all during their first year of work.

2 mins

Road pricing may be needed to replace fossil fuel tax in EV transition, says expert

Britain must prepare for the widespread use of road pricing to make up a £35bn shortfall in tax revenues from the transition to electric vehicles, the country's top infrastructure adviser has said.

3 mins

Unilever exits Russia after sustained criticism for 'sponsoring Kremlin's war'

Unilever has sold off its Russian operations to a local manufacturing group after pressure from campaigners who said the presence of the Dove and Ben & Jerry's owner in the country was supporting the war in Ukraine.

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Not all credit goes to Ratan Tata - but he did shape his group's investment in UK steelmaking

In India, Ratan Tata is being mourned as a towering business leader who took the sprawling family-controlled Tata Group into international markets while retaining its founding spirit of capitalism laced with philanthropy. But the UK has its own reasons to be grateful to the chair of the group from 1991 to 2012. Two heavy industries in the UK - steel and carmaking - would almost certainly have shrunk even further without his style of long-termism.

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After the match - I was sexually assaulted on a train while a dad and his sons laughed

Last month I took the overground to sit in my season ticket seat at the best football club in the country, in my home of north London. I sat with the middle-aged men I've learnt to love over the past three seasons, watching a team I've loved since I was a child and celebrated a buoyant 3-1 win over Brentford under the sunshine. So how come, 30 minutes after the final whistle, I was surrounded by police officers, sobbing my eyes out in a Transport for London office at Seven Sisters?

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Reading sale blocked by owner's debt to bank

The Reading owner Dai Yongge's repeated attempts to sell the club are being jeopardised by his failure to repay previously undisclosed debts of more than £55m to a state-backed Chinese bank, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

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Morata opens up on depression

Álvaro Morata says he has experienced depression and panic attacks as a result of being a footballer, to the point that he feared he would not be able to play in the European Championship last summer.

1 min

Johnson has let his 'football do talking' after online abuse

Ben Davies has praised in-form Brennan Johnson for letting his \"football do the talking\" after his Wales and Tottenham teammate's extraordinary goalscoring run since deactivating his social media.

1 min

Havertz thrives in Arsenal's new line of attack

The German is reaping the rewards from leading the line in a manner that lightens the load on his team's star, Saka

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Southgate will not return to coaching over the next year

The former England manager Gareth Southgate has ruled out a return to coaching for the next year. The 54-year-old, who resigned after England lost to Spain in the Euro 2024 final, has been heavily linked as a potential successor to Erik ten Hag as the Dutchman continues to struggle at Manchester United.

1 min

Friends lock horns as the north seeks a younger audience

Newcastle visit Sale on the back of 24-match losing streak in a region where the sport must fight for a future

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King of Paris became a superstar after epic 2008 Wimbledon win and changed tennis for the better

There are some moments in sport that stand above all others. For Rafael Nadal, that moment came in the early evening at Wimbledon in 2008. With natural light fast running out, Roger Federer's final forehand landed in the net and Nadal fell on his back, joy unconfined. At 22, the Spaniard was Wimbledon champion, something he - and many others - had thought might be beyond him.

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Cavendish to saddle up for last race at Criterium in Singapore

Mark Cavendish is set to compete in his final professional race at the two-day Tour de France Criterium in early November, according to the organisers of the Singapore race.

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823-7 Brook 317 Root 262

Records tumble as Yorkshire pair lead England to fourth-highest Test score in history - before Woakes triggers Pakistan collapse to leave tourists close to famous win

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Federer leads tributes to Nadal after rival retires

\"Legend\", \"role model\", \"inspiration\", \"friend\": Rafael Nadal's announcement that he is to retire after next month's Davis Cup Finals prompted an outpouring of affection across the sporting world and beyond.

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