The Guardian - November 14, 2024

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November 14, 2024

Israel 'committing crimes against humanity' in Gaza, warns report

US-based Human Rights Watch condemns use of forced evacuation orders

4 mins

Barbados PM: climate action will benefit US

Mia Amor Mottley, the climate champion prime minister of Barbados, has invited Donald Trump to a face-to-face meeting where she would seek \"common ground\" and persuade him that climate action was in his own interests.

5 mins

Guardian to stop posting on 'toxic' X from official accounts

The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk's social media platform, X, from its official accounts.

2 mins

Pharmacies Vote to Cut Hours Within Weeks in Funding Row

Pharmacies have said they will halt a number of services within weeks, including free medicine deliveries and extended opening hours, unless the government drastically increases funding for the sector to stem an \"escalating crisis\".

2 mins

'Positive story of hope': Guardian readers help save wildlife haven

A unique farm that was \"accidentally\" rewilded 35 years ago and is now a haven for endangered nightingales and other rare wildlife has been saved, thanks in part to the generosity of Guardian readers.

1 min

John Lewis hopes its festive TV ad will help ease pressures

Over the years its Christmas adverts have featured a menagerie of lovable creatures, but this year John Lewis is tugging on heartstrings with a Narnia-inspired tale of two sisters that, for the first time, gives its struggling department stores a starring role.

3 mins

Trump's early second-term appointments fuel fears of push for extremist agenda

Donald Trump may have won a second term as president just last week, but his recent administration appointments have already heightened fears among some who believe his return to the White House will lead to an extremist agenda.

4 mins

US sketch President treats successor with dignity - a courtesy missing last time

Democrats, who 10 days ago were proclaiming Trump a fascist, are now treating him like just another politician

3 mins

'Out of the blue' US military shocked as Fox News host picked for defence secretary

The Pentagon has been stunned by Donald Trump's pick for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, a national guard veteran and Fox News presenter who has called for a purge of generals for pursuing \"woke\" diversity policies.

2 mins

Transition Biden offers a smooth handover in meeting with bitter rival

Donald Trump met Joe Biden yesterday in the White House and promised a transfer of power that is \"as smooth as it can get\".

2 mins

'Bully' rebuke to Trump over China strikes blow to Mandelson's hopes of US ambassador role

Peter Mandelson's position as the frontrunner to be US ambassador has been questioned after it emerged he criticised Donald Trump for being a \"bully\" and too hostile towards China on trade policy.

2 mins

Gene-editing research cracks the code for growing sweet tomatoes

It is a common complaint in the produce aisle: tomatoes today may be big, but they are tasteless. Now researchers say they can remedy the problem by tweaking genes that affect sugar levels in the fruit.

1 min

Bafta to strip awards for cases of 'proven dishonesty' from 2025

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will be able to strip future award winners in cases of \"proven dishonesty\", or if they are convicted of a serious criminal offence.

1 min

Timothy West, beloved star of screen, and stage, dies at 90

The actor Timothy West, whose career ranged from Shakespeare, Ibsen and Pinter on stage to TV appearances in Brass, EastEnders and Great Canal Journeys (with his wife, Prunella Scales), has died aged 90.

3 mins

Cost of assisted dying could force cuts to other NHS care, says Streeting

Civil servants are looking at the extra costs that legalising assisted dying would put on the NHS, with a warning from Wes Streeting that some services may be cut to fund any expanded end-of-life care.

4 mins

Whitehall Robbins one of 10 in running to lead civil service

The former Brexit negotiator Oliver Robbins is one of 10 applicants on the longlist to take over from Simon Case as the UK's most senior civil servant, the Guardian understands.

2 mins

Pensions - Actors urge chancellor to boost green investment with overhaul

Leading British actors including Mark Rylance, Olivia Colman, and Benedict Cumberbatch have called on the chancellor to increase investment in clean energy by reforming pensions.

2 mins

It may be early days but Kemi Kaze is the gift that keeps on giving - to the Labour party

On balance, Keir Starmer can probably live with this. The first four months of his time in office may not have been quite as straightforward as he would have liked, but at least he can tick off prime minister's questions as something he doesn't have to worry much about.

2 mins

Sara Sharif's father tells court he takes 'full responsibility' for daughter's death

Sara Sharif's father told a court yesterday that he took \"full responsibility\" for the 10-year-old's death and admitted striking her across the abdomen with a metal pole as she lay dying.

3 mins

'Minuscule' quantity of Salisbury novichok was enough to kill, inquiry hears

A \"minuscule\" amount of the nerve agent used in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal - as small as a sixth of a grain of salt - could have been enough to prove fatal, a government scientist has told an inquiry.

1 min

Cleric who knew of Smyth abuse may help select Welby successor

A retired clergyman who could be part of the selection process for the next archbishop of Canterbury knew about the sadistic abuse of boys and young men in the early 1980s but failed to take action, according to the report that triggered Justin Welby's resignation.

3 mins

'Potentially powerful' What the report says on the role of four bishops

The review into abuse carried out by John Smyth suggested a number of senior Church of England figures failed to act on concerns and disclosures about sadistic abuse. This is what the report says about four serving and former C of E bishops.

4 mins

British Museum given record £1bn collection of Chinese ceramics

The British Museum has been given a private collection of Chinese ceramics worth about £1bn, the highest value object donation in UK museum history.

2 mins

Most TV ads for sweets and crisps shown before watershed

Most TV adverts for sweets, crisps and chocolate shown when children are likely to be watching are made by firms who claim not to promote their products to that age group.

2 mins

Number of people with diabetes has doubled in 30 years, global study says

The number of people with diabetes has doubled over the past 30 years to more than 800 million worldwide, according to an international study.

2 mins

Exiles ask King Charles to rescind honour given to Bahrain's monarch

King Charles has been asked by exiles from Bahrain to rescind an honour he bestowed this week on the ruler of the Gulf kingdom.

2 mins

Will written on boxes of mince pies and frozen fish is valid, court rules

A will written on the back of cardboard food packaging has been found to be valid by the high court, meaning a charity stands to inherit £180,000.

1 min

Music review Freewheelin' Dylan keeps band on alert

You could infer a lot from the way Bob Dylan's backing band arrange themselves on stage.

2 mins

Delaying climate finance till 2035 'damaging' to poor countries - study

Poor countries need $1tn (£787bn) a year in climate finance by 2030, five years earlier than rich countries are likely to agree at ongoing UN climate talks, a new study has found.

3 mins

'I was so hot' Weather that ended a longed-for pregnancy

Mariama, not her real name, is a Burkinabe musician who lives in Ouagadougou. During the heatwaves earlier this year she went into early labour, and lost her baby.

3 mins

'Put yourself in my hands' Manet is revealed as world-class mansplainer

Almost 140 years before a term was belatedly coined for the practice of men patronisingly setting women right on how certain things ought to be seen or done, it seems that a certain French painter had already become adept at the art of what must be called Manetsplaining.

2 mins

Undercover police officer set fire to Debenhams store, public inquiry told

Evidence has emerged to suggest that an undercover police officer set fire to a high street department store while posing as a committed animal rights activist, causing damage worth £340,000, a public inquiry has heard.

2 mins

Apple faces near-£3bn lawsuit over cloud storage 'monopoly'

Apple is facing a near-£3bn lawsuit over claims it breached competition law by effectively locking millions of UK customers into its cloud storage service at excessive prices.

2 mins

Windmill and 15th-century school added to register of at-risk sites

In April 1913, two women broke into the 15th-century Old Grammar School in Kings Norton near Birmingham with the intention of burning it to the ground in a protest for the cause of women's suffrage.

2 mins

Fayed accuser files claim in US to force brother to give evidence

A woman who claims to have been raped and trafficked while working for Mohamed Al Fayed has filed a legal claim in a US court to oblige his surviving younger brother to give evidence about his alleged knowledge of the crimes.

2 mins

Scholz delivers plea for German unity ahead of confidence Vote

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has defended his decision to oust his finance minister, which has led to the breakup of his government, arguing that to have kept the alliance going would have been at the expense of national stability and international security.

2 mins

Top Unrwa official says plan to shut agency is unrealistic and would add to suffering

Israel's plan to close the UN Palestinian relief agency, Unrwa, within three months is impossible and unrealistic without causing further untold suffering to Palestinians, its director of operations in Gaza has said.

2 mins

Chinese ask questions over delayed reports of fatal attack

After a 63-year-old man rammed his car into a sports centre on Tuesday in Zhuhai, killing 35 people and severely injuring 43 others, questions have swirled on Chinese social media about why it took the authorities so long to reveal the details.

1 min

'I've lost everything Drought fuels hunger in southern Africa

Emmanuel Himoonga paced his dry field, picking up stalks of maize that had been bleached almost to bone white. The 61-year-old chief of Shakumbila, a mainly agricultural community of about 7,000 people roughly 70 miles west of Zambia's capital, Lusaka, had seen droughts before. But since 2010 they have been happening once every three to four years, instead of every five years.

2 mins

South African farms breeding tigers for sale in Asia, says report

The largest tiger farms outside Asia are operating freely in South Africa, facilitating the illegal smuggling of tiger parts, according to a report by the animal welfare charity Four Paws.

1 min

Swedish firm rebuked for using C-word in vaginal health advert

The Swedish advertising ombudsman has criticised a company for using the C-word in posters to promote vaginal nutritional supplements, saying the use of the \"gross profanity\" is offensive to consumers.

1 min

Macron to visit Notre Dame before cathedral's reopening

As firefighters doused the embers of the blaze that threatened to destroy Notre Dame Cathedral on 16 April 2019, Emmanuel Macron promised that the church would be restored and made \"more beautiful than ever\" within five years.

1 min

Schools shut and people evacuated as torrential rain returns to Spain

Authorities in eastern and southern Spain have closed schools and begun evacuating residents as the country was hit by further torrential rains two weeks after catastrophic floods killed at least 215 people and unleashed a bitter political blame game.

3 mins

Darknet dealing Russia's click and collect drugs industry

At any one moment in towns and cities across Russia, thousands of drug packages lie buried in the ground, attached by magnets to lamp-posts or taped underneath window sills, waiting to be picked up by their intended customers.

3 mins

Naval officer accused by Kyiv of war crimes killed in Crimea car bombing

A senior Russian naval officer was killed in a car bombing in Crimea yesterday, marking the latest in a series of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel and pro-Kremlin figures in occupied Ukrainian territory and inside Russia.

1 min

Trump's win will hit offshore wind investment, firm warns

Donald Trump's election victory has increased the risks of investing in offshore wind projects, a German energy company has warned, even as a UK developer said his return to the White House could help bolster Britain's renewables sector.

2 mins

Key measure of inflation in US rises for first time since March

A key measure of US inflation has risen for the first time since March, underlining its bumpy ride down to lower levels.

1 min

Thousands of jobs at risk as Homebase collapses into administration

The struggling DIY chain Homebase has collapsed into administration, leaving thousands of workers facing an uncertain future, despite the purchase of the bulk of its stores by the owner of the homeware retailer The Range.

1 min

Creditors back £3bn package designed to save Thames Water from collapse

Thames Water has gained support from its top-ranking creditors to proceed to the next stage of securing a £3bn emergency funding package intended to stave off its collapse for at least a year.

2 mins

Thames Water should explain its murky logic on fundraising

Congratulations to Thames Water: it is not going bust early in the new year. Probably.

2 mins

Reeves to lay out plans to merge pension pots of local authorities

Rachel Reeves will announce plans to merge local government retirement schemes into \"megafunds\" as she tries to revive long-running efforts to reform the public pension system.

1 min

Klarna to float in New York in another snub to London stock market

The buy now, pay later company Klarna has filed for a flotation in the US, a move that marks another blow for the London market.

1 min

Just Eat to sell US arm Grubhub for loss of more than $6.5bn

The food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway is selling Grubhub to the delivery-focused restaurant chain Wonder for $650m (£510m), only four years after buying the US app in a multibillion-dollar tie-up.

1 min

Debt-stricken P&O Ferries spent £47m on mass sackings in 2022

P&O Ferries spent more than £47m on sacking hundreds of UK seafarers in 2022, according to its long-overdue accounts that will be published in the coming days.

2 mins

Meeting of minds: Cricket societies keep faith during testing times for domestic game

\"Is this the right place for the cricket meeting?\" I enquire. \"It is,\" one of them replies. \"And I'm guessing by the fact you're half the age of anyone else coming tonight that you're the guest speaker.\"

3 mins

'Salads don't win scrums' Nché is icing on the Boks' front-row cake

A member of South Africa's 'Bomb Squad', loosehead was crucial to World Cup win in 2023 and is a hero back home

3 mins

Slade vows 'not to shut up shop' against Springboks

England are looking to banish their autumn frustrations at South Africa's expense this Saturday and have vowed \"not to shut up shop\" against the reigning world champions.

2 mins

Lineker leaves second BBC presenting role

Gary Lineker has stepped down from his role as presenter of Sports Personality of the Year (Spoty), the BBC has confirmed.

1 min

Coe pulls no punches with his IOC pitch

Sebastian Coe has promised to introduce an \"uncompromising and clearcut\" policy to protect women's sport and to look into awarding prize money to all Olympic medallists if he is elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president.

2 mins

Tyson offers reminder of boxing's glory days before weary return

Former Baddest Man on the Planet is reflective but determined in open workout as he gears up for inglorious fight with YouTuber, reports

4 mins

Paul's big-money fight is a circus but the YouTuber is no clown

Despite the absurd persona, his business savvy and support of female fighters must be acknowledged

4 mins

Gordon heeds England's call as no-shows hinder Carsley

While a depleted side face tricky tests against Greece and Ireland, there will be big opportunities for some

4 mins

Lawrence caps quick Chelsea comeback after Agnew's early strike

Chelsea's aspiration of claiming this season's Women's Champions League was hardly in danger as Murphy Agnew handed Celtic a shock lead.

3 mins

Infantino to avoid scrutiny with virtual 2026 draw

Gianni Infantino will avoid any scrutiny of the controversial decision to give the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia next month after Fifa opted to stage the qualifying draw for the 2026 tournament as a virtual event.

2 mins

Bentancur to get long ban over alleged racist remark

Tottenham are resigned to Rodrigo Bentancur being given a lengthy ban of at least six matches by the Football Association for making an allegedly racist remark about Son Heung-min.

1 min

Kane faces Carsley axe Shock as captain set to be left out for crunch Greece match

Harry Kane is set to be a shock omission from Lee Carsley's England team for tonight's must-win Nations League match against Greece in Athens.

3 mins

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