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New support service managed 339 cases of workplace wrongdoing in its first nine months, report showsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe health minister, Mark Butler, says Parliament House is still “an unsafe place to work” after figures revealed there were at least 30 instances of serious wrongdoing – including sexual assault and sexual harassment – reported to its new HR body in the past year.The “deeply concerning” figures published in the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service’s first annual report, reported by Nine newspapers on Sunday, show it managed

Alexta Francis, 26, was arrested two days ago after MP Asot Michael found dead at his home on Caribbean islandAntigua police have charged a man over the fatal stabbing of a member of parliament in his seaside home.Police on the Caribbean island charged Alexta Francis, 26, two days after the landscaper was arrested and questioned about the killing of Asot Michael. Francis was due to make his first appearance in court on Monday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/police-in-antigua-charge-suspect-over-fatal-stabbing-of-politician Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2024-11-09 23:38:42 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Olympians and Paralympians attended a Buckingham Palace reception, but only the former were asked to a following event hosted by the luxury food retailerFortnum & Mason has apologised for a “failure of communication” to Paralympians who were not invited to a party which Olympians attended, after the Paris medallists met the king at Buckingham Palace.Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes were hosted at a reception at the royal residence on Thursday 7 November to celebrate Britain’s success this summer. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/09/fortnum-mason-apologises-for-party-snub-to-uk-paralympians Author : Jane Clinton Publish date : 2024-11-09 22:23:29 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

South Australian to debut at top of batting order in first match in PerthIn-form Josh Inglis also picked as batter in 13-player squadAustralia have settled on Nathan McSweeney to be Usman Khawaja’s opening partner for the start of the blockbuster Test series against India. After an outstanding start to the domestic season, McSweeney has beaten Marcus Harris for the vacant spot in the Australian XI.Harris, who last played a Test in January 2022, has even missed out on being part of the extended squad after selectors chose Australia’s white-ball wicketkeeper Josh Inglis to be the spare batter. Left-hander Harris top-scored

Ten people have been injured so far by the Mountain fire, which was 17% contained by Saturday morningAs firefighting crews continued to battle the Mountain fire on Saturday, some residents were allowed to return to areas destroyed by the blaze to sift through the destruction to their homes.As of 7am Pacific time on Saturday, the fire had been 17% contained, according to Cal Fire, the state’s wildfire-fighting agency. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/09/california-mountain-fire-destroyed-homes Author : Maya Yang and agencies Publish date : 2024-11-09 20:50:44 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Spokesperson for Trump’s presidential transition effort said Bryan Lanza had not been speaking on behalf of president-electUS elections 2024 – live updatesA senior adviser to Donald Trump said that the incoming US administration’s priority for Ukraine will be achieving peace rather than helping it regain territory captured by Russia in the almost three years of the war.In an interview with the BBC, broadcast on Saturday, Bryan Lanza, who has been a political adviser to Trump since his 2016 presidential campaign, began to elaborate on the strong signals the now president-elect had been sending to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on

Fema chief calls action ‘reprehensible’ while Florida governor calls it a ‘weaponization of government’A employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has been fired from her job and is being investigated because she told a disaster relief team she was directing in Florida after Hurricane Milton to avoid homes displaying election campaign signs supporting Donald Trump, conduct that the agency head on Saturday called “reprehensible”.Deanne Criswell, the administrator of the federal agency, posted on X: “More than 22,000 Fema employees every day adhere to Fema’s core values and are dedicated to helping people before, during and after disasters, often

Exclusive: Animal advocates condemn culling method used in response to bird flu outbreakGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAbout 30,000 farmed ducks were killed using firefighting foam as part of the Victorian government’s effort to contain bird flu, a method Animal Justice party MP Georgie Purcell has condemned as “nothing short of barbaric”.The state’s agriculture minister, Ros Spence, confirmed Agriculture Victoria used Phos-Chek, a class-A foam, while responding to a highly contagious strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, which emerged earlier this year at several poultry farms.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best

Wars in Gaza and Lebanon set to intensify after Israeli PM’s position is reinforced by Trump’s victory and ousting of defence ministerBenjamin Netanyahu is set to stay in power in Israel until elections due in 2026 and possibly longer, analysts and officials now believe, after a tumultuous week in which the 75-year-old veteran politician successfully fired his defence minister and was boosted by the results of the US election.Netanyahu’s newly reinforced position could lead to further intensification of Israel’s campaign in Lebanon, and prolong the conflict in Gaza, critics fear – although the incoming US president Donald Trump has said

Tallies are 83% complete, with Trump at 52.7%, but 602,000 uncounted votes give Harris a chance to catch upUS elections 2024 – live updatesArizona remained in a tense waiting game on Saturday for its election results, even as neighboring Nevada declared for Donald Trump overnight, giving the president-elect six out of seven swing states after election day on 5 November.In Arizona, official tallies were 83% complete by mid-morning on Saturday with Trump leading at 52.7% and Harris at 46%, or about 180,000 votes ahead. But enough ballots remain uncounted – 602,000 as of late Friday night – for the state

Trump’s win in the state gives him 301 electoral votes, even as Democratic incumbent is re-elected to Senate US elections 2024 – live updatesDonald Trump has won his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election, flipping the state for the Republicans early on Saturday, by beating Kamala Harris in Nevada.Trump won by 51% of the vote to the Democrat’s 47%, the first time the GOP has won the state in the presidential vote since the 2004 election won by George W Bush.Trump wins the presidency – how did it happen?With Trump re-elected, this is what’s at stakeAbortion ballot measure results

Call for industry reform as latest results support belief that products are being bulked out with cheaper sugar syrupThe honey industry faces new demands to overhaul its supply chain after more than 90% of sampled products bought from large British ­retailers failed pioneering authenticity tests.The UK branch of the Honey Authenticity Network sent 30 samples last month from Britain for a novel commercial test based on the DNA profiles of genuine honey. Five were from UK beekeepers and 25 from big retailers, including supermarkets. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/09/nine-in-ten-honey-samples-from-uk-retailers-fail-authenticity-test Author : Jon Ungoed-Thomas Publish date : 2024-11-09 14:54:11 Copyright

The president-elect tapped into a fierce anti-establishment sentiment – and the Democrats didn’t have enough to sayThe party was buzzing, the confidence was surging and Kenneth Stewart was riding the Trump train. “He’s masculine,” explained Stewart, an African American man from Chicago. “He brings a lot of energy. He talks about things that we can understand. He talks about building. He talks about the auto industry. He talks about a lot of stuff that people in the Rust Belt care about.”Stewart was a guest at Donald Trump’s election watch event in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday night and celebrated

Two buses crash on Rochdale Road with people taken to hospitals across region although none seriously hurtA crash between two doubledecker buses in Manchester has left 17 people needing hospital treatment.The buses collided on Rochdale Road at 8.34am on Saturday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/09/doubledecker-bus-collision-manchester-rochdale-road Author : Guardian staff Publish date : 2024-11-09 13:21:08 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

‘Insecurity and instability can spread to other regions, even far away,’ says Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi Israeli air strikes on the Lebanese coastal city of Tyre have now killed seven people.Reuters reported that Lebanon’s health ministry said the death toll has risen from three to seven after the attack on Friday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/nov/09/middle-east-live-israel-gaza-war-hamas-lebanon-hezbollah Author : Harry Taylor Publish date : 2024-11-09 12:24:17 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Former Tory defence minister says leadership of Sunak era is lacking and bureaucracy is holding up equipmentMomentum on Ukraine has “dropped back” since Labour took office, according to the ex-Tory defence minister and former army officer Sir Ben Wallace.Responding to recent comments by Kyiv officials that Ukraine’s relationship with the UK has “got worse” since Keir Starmer was elected prime minister, Wallace said that was because “the leadership that Britain showed right from the start has started to drop back into the pack”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/uk-has-lost-momentum-leadership-labour-ukraine-ben-wallace Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2024-11-09 11:44:53 Copyright for

Cambridgeshire trial found workers’ performance improved and staff turnover fell, while London Underground also plans to introduce four-day week optionCouncils in England will have the right to adopt a four-day working week after the government dropped concerns raised by the Conservatives when they were in power.For more than a year, South Cambridgeshire district council has defied Conservative opposition to its policy to introduce a four-day working week, after a controversial 15-month trial indicated in March that the performance of its workers mostly improved or remained the same, while the council simultaneously saved more than £370,000 in a year.Staff turnover fell

Pelosi told the New York Times that had Biden left sooner, the party could have had an open primaryRussia’s foreign ministry sees no grounds for talking about resuming dialogue on strategic stability and arms control with the US at the moment, Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing Russia’s deputy foreign minister.Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow and Washington “are exchanging signals on Ukraine” through closed channels at the military and political levels, according to Interfax. He also said that Russia was ready to listen to US president-elect, Donald Trump’s proposals on resolving the crisis in Ukraine, adding that there could

Gangs use online promotion to follow movements of footballers, striking while they are away from home“The best year of my life in football now doesn’t feel like something I can celebrate,” said Manchester City’s Jack Grealish after burglars raided his Cheshire house while his family was home.The invasion of the England football player’s home was one in a recent string of burglaries targeting the homes of high-profile sports stars when they are on the field or overseas. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/09/the-lower-your-profile-the-better-social-medias-role-in-rise-of-high-profile-uk-burglaries Author : Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent Publish date : 2024-11-09 09:00:43 Copyright for syndicated content

Charity relaunches advice page recommending volunteering and getting involved in local civic causes during traumatic world eventsAfter Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory this week, a briefing handily re-appeared in the “most popular topics” section of the Mental Health Foundation website: “Tips to look after your mental health during traumatic world events.”The briefing has been well-read before, at times of war, conflict, violence and social tension – and people were turning to it for advice once again as Trump’s win ushered in a phase of deep despondency and political uncertainty for many people. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/09/mental-health-tips-on-how-to-handle-trump-blues-and-anxiety Author

Echoes Within These Walls aims to dispel myths about the religion by telling story of temple at St Agnes PlaceThe headquarters of the Rastafarian faith in the UK is being brought back to life with an exhibition its organiser hopes will help to dispel myths about the religion, which continues to be a big influence in popular culture from music and food to fashion.Echoes Within These Walls will tell the story of the temple at St Agnes Place in south London, which was founded in 1972 after Rastafarians took control of the building. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/09/exhibition-brings-london-hq-of-rastafarian-faith-back-to-life Author

‘Looming catastrophe’ will ‘dwarf anything we have seen so far’ in Gaza since 7 October 2023, famine review committee saysThere is a “strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas” of the northern Gaza Strip, a committee of global food security experts warned on Friday, as Israel claims to be pursuing a military offensive against Palestinian militant group Hamas in the area.“Immediate action, within days not weeks, is required from all actors who are directly taking part in the conflict, or have influence on its conduct, to avert and alleviate this catastrophic situation,” the independent Famine Review Committee (FRC) said

Lewis Parkin, 23, was found with life-threatening injuries and taken to hospital after an incident at a unit complex in the CBDGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA man who allegedly stabbed another man to death in central Adelaide has been charged with murder.Police say they responded to reports a 23-year-old man had been stabbed at an accommodation complex on Hindley Street in the Adelaide CBD just before 8pm on Friday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/09/man-charged-after-stabbing-death-in-adelaide-ntwnfb Author : Australian Associated Press Publish date : 2024-11-09 04:27:32 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

BoM expects hot weather to continue across parts of Queensland, Western Australia and Northern Territory next weekGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than half of Australia is sweating through a heatwave, with scorching temperatures in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory expected this weekend.Huge stretches of outback across northern Australia had been warned by the Bureau of Meteorology to expect heatwave conditions stretching into next week. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/09/australia-heatwave-weather-bom-forecast-scorching-temperatures-queensland-western-australia-northern-territory Author : Mostafa Rachwani Publish date : 2024-11-09 03:13:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Two men had also planned to go to Texas and kill asylum seekers as well as border agents who would try to stop themTwo men who co-founded a militia group have been convicted of attempting to murder federal agents ahead of a trip to Texas where they intended to shoot people attempting to cross the US-Mexico border.Jonathan S O’Dell, 34, of Warsaw, Missouri, and Bryan C Perry, 39, of Clarksville, Tennessee, also planned to shoot any federal agents who tried to stop them as they targeted migrants, according to the prosecution. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/border-immigration-federal-agents-militia-cofounders-criminal-convictions Author : Associated