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Visitors will need to pay up to €15 to stroll – and take photos – along romantic 900-metre walkway in Liguria, ItalyStifling though the crowds of tourists can be at the height of summer, a hint of love is in the air across the five villages of Italy’s Cinque Terre as a Ligurian riviera coastal path famed as a meeting point for courting couples reopens after an almost 12-year closure.Sculpted into the steep cliffs wedged between the villages of Riomaggiore and Manarola, the Via dell’Amore (Path of Love) had been closed since being damaged by a September 2012 landslide that

US president also to seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholdersJoe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, adding that the US president was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics.Biden said earlier this week during an Oval Office address that he would call for reform of the court. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/biden-to-announce-plans-to-reform-us-supreme Author : Reuters Publish date : 2024-07-27 04:06:02 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Police allege the man used an encrypted messaging service to deal drugs and coordinate a network of runners outside the Sydney facilityGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn immigration detainee and another man have been charged over an alleged drug ring operating from inside a detention facility.Police say the 49-year-old dealt large amounts of methylamphetamine using an encrypted messaging service from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney’s west Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/27/immigration-detainee-charged-over-alleged-drug-ring-operating-from-inside-villawood-detention-centre Author : Australian Associated Press Publish date : 2024-07-27 02:13:44 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The Park fire in the north of the state, only 3% contained, has burned more than 160,000 acres, including structuresA massive wildfire in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada has grown into the state’s largest this year, destroying buildings and forcing the evacuations of thousands of people in a region reeling from a spate of devastating wildfires in recent years.The blaze started on Wednesday on the outskirts of Chico, a tree-lined university town of about 110,000 people in the Sacramento Valley. By Friday morning, the blaze, known as the Park fire, had burned more than 160,000 acres (64,700 hectares) across

The film-maker has been accused of acting inappropriately on the set of his self-funded sci-fi epic MegalopolisVideos have emerged of director Francis Ford Coppola trying to kiss female extras on the set of his new film Megalopolis.Variety obtained footage of the film-maker taken by a crew member during a nightclub scene on set last year. The Guardian had originally reported that the 85-year-old was seen as “old school” in his behaviour around women while shooting, pulling women to sit on his lap and kissing extras to get “them in the mood”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/26/francis-ford-coppola-video-kissing-female-extras-on-set Author : Benjamin

Ex-president gives backing in major boost for Democratic contender as her Republican rival set to meet Israeli PMFull story: Obama endorses Harris for president in 2024 US electionIn a fiery tirade on Truth Social, Donald Trump hit back at the FBI director, Christopher Wray, who raised questions on Thursday about whether Trump was actually shot by a bullet during his assassination attempt.Following Wray’s testimony at a Capitol Hill on Thursday during which he said: “There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Trump wrote:“FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he

Former work and pensions secretary joins James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick in announcing he will standThe cost of England’s four biggest killer diseases could rise to £86bn a year by 2050, prompting calls for a crackdown on alcohol, junk food and smoking.The ageing population means the annual cost of cancer, heart disease, dementia and stroke combined will go from the £51.9bn recorded in 2018 to £85.6bn in 2050 – a rise of 61%.More importantly, you must now come clean on where the axe will fall under your plans and whether you intend to cut public services, raise taxes

Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara had been subjected to torture and denied medical treatment, Palestinian governmental body saysHello and welcome to the Israel-Gaza war live blog.We start with news that a Hamas leader in the West Bank has died in Israeli custody after a deterioration in his health condition, a Palestinian governmental body has said.Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has pressed Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on the “dire” humanitarian situation in Gaza in talks that she described as frank, adding “I will not be silent.” In comments that were closely watched for signs of a shift from Joe Biden’s policy

Former NSW premier sought review of corruption watchdog decision that she failed to declare a personal conflict of interest regarding two government grantsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe former New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has lost her legal challenge against an anti-corruption watchdog finding that she engaged in “serious corrupt conduct”.Berejiklian had argued the finding by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) was invalid because the commissioner was no longer at Icac when the findings were handed down.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning

Ukraine’s foreign minister calls on Hong Kong to prevent Russia from using region to circumvent sanctions; drone debris lands in Romania. What we know on day 884The Pentagon has found $2bn worth of additional errors in its calculations for ammunition, missiles and other equipment sent to Ukraine, increasing the improperly valued material to a total of $8.2bn, a US government report revealed on Thursday. In 2023, the Pentagon said staff used “replacement value” instead of “depreciated value” to tabulate the billions in materials sent to Ukraine. The $6.2bn error created a path for billions more to be sent to Kyiv.Ukraine’s