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Abu Mohammed al-Jolani says those behind the country’s notorious prison system will not evade justiceNo pardons for prison torturers, says Syrian rebel leaderUncertainty in Golan Heights as Israeli troops drive deeper into SyriaPalestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza early on Thursday has killed at least 13 people, including seven children and a woman. The strike flattened a house in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al-Balah, where the casualties were taken. An Associated Press reporter saw the bodies at the hospital’s morgue.Hello, welcome to our

Country also votes with vast majority of nations to demand Israel reverse its ban on Palestinian aid agency UnrwaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia has voted with more than 150 countries at the United Nations to demand that Israel reverse its ban on the Palestinian aid agency Unrwa and to call for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, in a move which could further increase tensions with Israel.While the decision has been lauded by humanitarian aid groups, it has angered some Jewish groups in Australia,

Experts from Imperial College London cite ‘alarming declines’ in 12 key metrics of patient safetyThe NHS is forced to spend a “staggering” £14.7bn a year treating people who have been harmed by mistakes made during their care, a report reveals.And a stark north/south divide on patient safety has opened up across England, with double the amount of death and disability caused by medical negligence in the north-east than in London. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/12/nhs-spends-147bn-a-year-treating-patients-in-england-hurt-by-care-mistakes-says-report Author : Denis Campbell Health policy editor Publish date : 2024-12-12 05:00:09 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The immigration hardliner has echoed Trump’s criticism of ‘fake news’ and has never acknowledged her defeat in race to be governor of ArizonaPresident-elect Donald Trump has picked Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist and immigration hardliner to head the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides independent news reporting around the world.Lake, who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat, was a television news anchor in Phoenix for nearly three decades until she left in 2021 after making a series of controversial statements on social media, including sharing Covid-19 misinformation during the pandemic. Continue

Albanese government unveils charge to incentivise digital platforms to pay publishers Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDigital platforms will be forced to pay for Australian news regardless of whether they enter new deals with publishers, preventing companies like Meta side-stepping the news media bargaining code.On Thursday the Albanese government unveiled its “news bargaining incentive”, a charge applied to digital platforms which they are effectively refunded by an offset if they pay news companies directly instead. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/12/meta-tiktok-and-google-to-be-forced-to-pay-for-australian-news Author : Paul Karp, Amanda Meade

Yoon Suk Yeol disputes insurrection charges and calls martial law decreee an ‘act of governance’ ahead of expected second impeachment voteSouth Korea’s president has defended his martial law decree as an act of governance and denied insurrection charges, rejecting the opposition-led impeachment attempts against him and investigations into last week’s move.In a televised statement, Yoon Suk Yeol said: “I will fight to the end, to prevent the forces and criminal groups that have been responsible for paralysing the country’s government and disrupting the nation’s constitutional order from threatening the future of the Republic of Korea.” Continue reading... Source link :

ABS reveals robust market as unemployment rate drops from 4.1% to 3.9%, its lowest since MarchFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA surprisingly robust labour market in November, including more than 50,000 additional full-time jobs, has set back hopes of an early move by the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates. Stocks sank and the dollar rose.The jobless rate last month dropped to 3.9%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Thursday. Economists had forecast the rate would rise to 4.2% from October’s 4.1% level. Continue reading... Source

UK Energy Research Centre says there is ‘very little room for error’ to avoid delays and protect vulnerable peopleLabour’s plan to switch to a clean power system by 2030 faces “significant challenges” to avoid delays and prevent vulnerable households paying higher bills, experts have warned.The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has said there is “very little room for error” in meeting the government’s plan to create a 95% low-carbon electricity grid by the end of the decade. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/12/labour-green-energy-goal-uk-energy-research-centre Author : Jillian Ambrose Publish date : 2024-12-12 00:01:03 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Criminal complaint charging Ryan Borgwardt details how the 45-year-old pulled off disappearance to Georgia countryA Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children for eastern Europe willingly returned to the US after four months and was charged Wednesday with obstructing an intense lake search for his body.The criminal complaint charging Ryan Borgwardt with misdemeanor obstruction offers a detailed account of how the 45-year-old pulled off his disappearance, including how he struggled to emerge from the water, almost didn’t make it through customs on his way overseas and was living in the country of Georgia

Motion will demand reversal of Unrwa ban and call for Gaza ceasefire. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNews bargaining code announcement expected todayThe youth minister, Anne Aly, spoke with ABC News Breakfast just earlier ahead of the news bargaining code announcement, expected today.What I can say is that the government believes that journalists should be fairly compensated for the work that they do, that there is a current regime in place but that’s not working. And so that’s why the government has turned its attention to updating this code and ensuring

World Cup hosts will be ratified during the Fifa CongressA history of World Cup sportswashing | And email NiallGianni Infantino is seated alongside the general secretary, Mattias Grafström, who confirms 201 nations are in virtual attendance, and that all 211 eligible nations have voted on the World Cup bids.“I do not even know where to begin. But if I look back at the unbending arc of compromised integrity the writing, as they say, has been on the wall,” writes Krishna Moorthy. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2024/dec/11/world-cup-2034-saudi-arabia-fifa-award-gianni-infantino Author : Niall McVeigh Publish date : 2024-12-11 14:44:57 Copyright for syndicated content

Federal reserve could cut rates for third time this year as prices rise 2.7% compared with a year beforeThe rate of US inflation barely moved in November, the last piece of major economic news before the Federal Reserve weighs whether to cut interest rates for the third time this year at its meeting next week.Prices rose 2.7% in November compared with a year before, according to consumer price index (CPI) data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Wednesday measuring the prices of select goods and services. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/11/november-inflation-interest-rates Author : Lauren Aratani Publish

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks came after leading rebel group named an interim prime minister, who urged calm. Plus, Luigi Mangione to plead not guilty and fight extraditionGood morning.Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has blamed the US, Israel and Turkey for the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, after a lightning offensive by rebels toppled the regime.How is HTS being received? It remains on the UN’s list of designated terrorist groups – but the organization said it would consider removing HTS from the list if it forms an inclusive transitional government.What charges does he face? In Pennsylvania, he faces

Bulgaria also among more affordable choices as vacations remain a priority Business live – latest updatesCash-strapped consumers are still prioritising spending on holidays but are choosing more affordable destinations including Egypt, Bulgaria and Tunisia for their annual break, according to Europe’s biggest package trip operator.Tui said new customers with smaller budgets who are not able to find a package holiday in more traditional locations such as Spain are looking elsewhere. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/11/holidaymakers-on-smaller-budgets-turning-to-tunisia-and-egypt-says-tui Author : Joanna Partridge Publish date : 2024-12-11 11:36:30 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Rescuers gathered at first light to scour banks of river from ford between Bolton and Abberwick to sea at AlnmouthSearches are continuing for the missing former England wing Tom Voyce, who is believed to have died while driving across a flood-swollen river during Storm Darragh. The 43-year-old’s car has been recovered from the River Aln, near Alnwick, Northumberland, which he had been trying to cross using a ford.Searchers gathered from first light on Wednesday and will scour the banks of the river from the ford between Bolton and Abberwick all the way to the sea at Alnmouth. Continue reading... Source

Demand rising faster than any supply ‘could possibly catch up with’, justice secretary saysGood morning. Labour inherited many problems with public services when it took office, but few were worse than the prison overcrowding crisis. This was so dire that it prompted Rishi Sunak into holding an early election. With the Ministry of Justice just days away from ordering a fresh early release system (which would have been unpopular with voters), this was one of the main reasons for Sunak holding the election in July, not last autumn.Today, as part of the government’s response, Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, is

Parties also considering supporting single candidate in re-run of annulled presidential electionRomania’s pro-European parties have reached a commitment to form a governing majority that cordons off the hard right and potentially endorses a single candidate for a rerun of the country’s annulled presidential election.The ruling leftist Social Democrats won the most seats in the parliamentary election on 1 December, which also resulted in three ultranationalist and hard-right groupings, some with overt pro-Russian sympathies, winning more than a third of seats. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/11/romania-pro-european-parties-agree-form-broad-coalition-government Author : Reuters Publish date : 2024-12-11 07:49:01 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Mohammed al-Bashir chairs cabinet meeting of new transitional government and will lead interim authority until 1 MarchSyrian rebels name new PM as outside powers move to shore up interestsThe UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) has laid out some of the healthcare challenges in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli military action in its latest update. It wrote:Ongoing hostilities and attacks in North Gaza, particularly those that have directly affected Kamal Adwan hospital, have seriously jeopardidsed the access of trauma patients to health services.A lack of non-communicable disease (NCD) medications and laboratory reagents threatens to further disrupt

Thinktank founder says recent attempts to build new towns are ‘depressing, unsustainable and stupid’Labour should build 12 new towns in England that are not car-dependent or built on flood plains, a former government adviser has said in a report.A detailed plan for a dozen new towns, proposed by thinktanks Britain Remade and Create Streets, would mean 550,000 well-designed and appropriately located homes. The new homes would boost the economy by £13-28bn annually by improving access to high-paying jobs in well-connected cities, according to the report. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/11/englands-new-towns-must-be-walkable-and-green-say-campaigners Author : Helena Horton Environment reporter Publish date :

The man, 35, was the subject of a current AVO and has been arrested after the woman was found dead at an apartment on Knox Street, BelmorePolice say they expect to charge a man who was the subject of an apprehended violence order with murder, after the body of a woman was found in a south-west Sydney apartment in a “very violent scene”.Emergency services were called to a unit on Knox Street in Belmore on Wednesday morning, where they found a 31-year-old woman dead. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/11/police-expect-to-charge-man-with-after-womans-body-found-in-south-west-sydney-unit Author : Mostafa Rachwani Publish date : 2024-12-11 05:07:32 Copyright

The 26-year-old appears to have spondylolisthesis, a fracture or weakness in the vertebrae of the spineLuigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, appears to have suffered from a rare back condition called spondylolisthesis, according to posts linked to him on the social media site Reddit.While not confirmed, archived Reddit posts under the username “Mister_Cactus” and elements of Mangione’s other social media accounts, as well as an account by a friend, seem to confirm that he suffered from a back condition that caused him chronic pain. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/10/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect-back-condition-explained Author :

Special unit says it has raided the presidential office as well as police agencies as part of insurrection investigationSouth Korean police have raided the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his role in declaring martial law last week – a move that plunged Asia’s fourth-biggest economy into crisis and caused alarm among its allies.South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said the search on Wednesday was part of an attempt by law enforcement agencies to establish whether Yoon’s actions, supported by other senior figures in his administration, amounted to insurrection – a crime that does not carry presidential immunity and can

Ferguson, already one of five commissioners of the body, will replace Lina Khan, who fought big tech over antitrustPresident-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Andrew Ferguson as the next chair of the Federal Trade Commission.He will replace Lina Khan, who became a lightning rod for Wall Street and Silicon Valley by blocking billions of dollars’ worth of corporate acquisitions and suing Amazon and Meta while alleging anticompetitive behavior. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/10/trump-names-ftc-chair-andrew-ferguson Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2024-12-11 01:47:57 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Guilfoyle, whose nomination would require Senate confirmation, has not served in any foreign policy or diplomacy roleDonald Trump has named Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host who has been engaged to Trump’s eldest son, to be the US ambassador to Greece.“For many years, Kimberly has been a close friend and ally,” Trump wrote in a statement. “Kimberly is perfectly suited to foster strong bilateral relations with Greece, advancing our interests on issues ranging from defense cooperation to trade and economic innovation.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/10/trump-kimberly-guilfoyle-greece-ambassador Author : Maanvi Singh Publish date : 2024-12-11 00:50:40 Copyright for syndicated

Campaigners say NAO report shows impact of DWP staffing decisions and failure to address flaws in benefit’s designHundreds of thousands of unpaid carers were hit with ruinous penalties for minor breaches of carer’s allowance rules in the five years after senior welfare officials promised to fix the scandal-hit benefit, an official audit has revealed.Campaigners said the National Audit Office (NAO) report highlighted the scale of the misery and hardship inflicted on carers over the period as well as the extent of the failure by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle overpayments. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/11/hundreds-of-thousands-hit-by-ruinous-carers-allowance-penalties-audit-shows