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MP for Canterbury resigned Labour whip on Saturday; Tory party conference begins today in BirminghamThe Labour MP Nadia Whittome has posted a message on social media saying good riddance to Rosie Duffield.No matter your views on her stated reasons for quitting, Rosie Duffield has made a political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society. She should never have been allowed the privilege of resigning. Labour should have withdrawn the whip long ago. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/sep/29/labour-rosie-duffield-keir-starmer-tory-conference-birmingham-live-latest Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2024-09-29 07:29:44 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

A surge in claims for pension credit will make thousands more people eligible for the payments and other benefitsRachel Reeves has been warned that her cut to pensioner winter fuel payments risks saving hundreds of millions less than anticipated, in a new blow to her attempts to close the hole in Britain’s finances.The chancellor and her Treasury team are already re-examining parts of a plan to crack down on non-dom tax status over concerns that it may not raise any money. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/29/winter-fuel-cut-savings-will-be-far-less-than-reeves-expected-new-analysis-finds Author : Michael Savage Policy Editor Publish date : 2024-09-29 06:00:27 Copyright for

But the national carrier says contingencies are in place to prevent traveller chaos in capital cities on Monday morningFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than 1,000 Qantas engineers across Australia will walk off the job in industrial action they claim could kick the week off with peak-hour travel chaos, but the airline says it has contingencies in place and is not expecting any disruptions to travel.Flights between 7am and 9am across three timezones on Monday morning are set to be affected in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and

The state’s shadow treasurer, David Janetzki, says general practitioners would be exempt from payroll tax with David Crisafulli as premierFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland’s opposition claims visits to the doctor would be cheaper under an LNP government, but Labor said they haven’t explained how they will pay to make GPs exempt from payroll tax.The shadow treasurer, David Janetzki, announced on Sunday that the party would make general practitioners a special category under the payroll tax act.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source

Mechanical thrombectomy can save a patient from permanent disability or death, but its availability depends on where they liveMost stroke patients in England suitable for treatment that can save them from serious disability or even death cannot access it, new figures reveal.It is estimated that at least 10% of stroke patients can benefit from a treatment known as mechanical thrombectomy. Under the procedure, a wire and stent is manoeuvred towards the brain to pull out the clot blocking the blood flow. The treatment reduces the adverse effects of a stroke and in the best outcomes a patient could walk out

It follows a weekend of wild weather in NSW, where SES responded to 270 calls including two adults and a baby stranded in flood waters near Tweed HeadsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA cold front moving across southeast Australia is promising to bring more frosty temperatures through next week after parts of New South Wales and Victoria shivered through a cold, wet and windy spring weekend.Rain is expected for south-east Queensland, the New South Wales mid and north coasts over the next few days, but not in

Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg DornauMidway through Nikolai’s shift sorting onions alongside other political prisoners in a warehouse in western Belarus, a tall and bald foreigner entered the building.“He arrived in a car with German license plates. Then he came over and greeted us warmly,” Nikolai*, recalled in an interview with the Observer. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/german-far-right-politician-accused-of-using-political-prisoners-as-cheap-labour-in-belarus Author : Pjotr Sauer and Kate Connolly in Berlin Publish date : 2024-09-28 14:57:36 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Former prime minister’s claims about wanting to seize Covid vaccines being held in the EU ‘may have been a joke’Senior Tories have cast doubt on Boris Johnson’s claim that he seriously considered invading the Netherlands to seize vaccines during the pandemic, saying the story had obviously been overblown and reheated to boost sales of his memoirs.The former prime minister says in his new book, Unleashed, that he asked senior members of the armed forces about the possibility of conducting an “aquatic raid” on a warehouse in Leiden in March 2021 in order to get hold of 5m doses of the

Sana Chamseddin’s uncle, his wife and their three daughters died in IDF bombing of TyreA British woman returning to the UK from Lebanon has said Israeli airstrikes killed five members of her family.Sana Chamseddin’s uncle, his wife and their three daughters, all in their 20s, were killed when their home in the city of Tyre was bombed by the Israel Defense Forces, she told the PA news agency. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/israels-strike-on-lebanon-killed-five-of-my-family-members-says-british-woman Author : Tom Ambrose and agency Publish date : 2024-09-28 17:01:37 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Israel’s airstrike on Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon has far-reaching implications for Tehran and WashingtonWhen Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, told reporters in New York on Friday that the coming days will determine the future path of the Middle East, he could not have been more prescient, even if at the time he was hoping that Hezbollah and Israel could be persuaded to step back from the brink.Now, with the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah confirmed killed, the region, after 11 months, has finally stepped over the brink and into a place it has truly never been before. Continue reading...

Residents from Michoacán to Oaxaca evacuate after storm ravages Pacific coastline, bringing floods and landslides Residents in south-western Mexico on Saturday evacuated from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane John that ravaged the Pacific coastline for a week, bringing deadly floods and landslides that left 22 people reported dead.In Guerrero, the worst-hit state and one of Mexico’s poorest, 18 people were killed, according to local media, many due to mudslides that crushed houses. To the south, local media reported three deaths in Oaxaca, and a young boy died in a river to the north in Michoacán state. Continue reading...

Sergei Lavrov accuses west of using Ukraine ‘to defeat’ Russia days after Putin shifts Moscow’s nuclear postureRussia’s top diplomat warned on Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power”, delivering a UN general assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere – including inside the United Nations itself.Three days after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, aired a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine, his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused the west of using Ukraine – which Russia invaded in February 2022 – as a tool to try “to defeat” Moscow

Noisy miners, butcherbirds and masked lapwings will also go on the offensive to protect their eggs and youngFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s infamous magpies have started to attack – but they’re not the only birds you might fall victim to this swooping season.Lesser known suspects including noisy miners, butcherbirds and masked lapwings also swoop to protect their eggs and young, typically between August and October.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/29/australia-magpie-swooping-season-birds-miners Author : Sharlotte Thou Publish date : 2024-09-29

Ex-president speaks in Prairie du Chien flanked by anti-immigrant posters and lobs insults at Harris and BidenDonald Trump spoke on Saturday in the battleground state of Wisconsin, escalating his anti-immigrant rhetoric and taking his personal insults against Kamala Harris up a notch.Trump’s speech in the small community of Prairie du Chien, where a Venezuelan in the US illegally was detained in September for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman and attacking her daughter, was unusually devoted almost entirely to undocumented immigrants. He wrongfully claimed that immigrants in the US are violent criminals, referring to them as “stone-cold killers”, “monsters” and “vile

British government says it has been securing extra flights as it asks UK nationals to register their presenceThe British government has been securing extra flights for UK nationals to make their way out of Lebanon, as ministers continued to urge citizens still in the country to “leave now”.Official advice has been warning British nationals to leave the country for months. But with the escalation of tension following the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, there have been fresh appeals to Brits to urgently secure a place on a flight. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/28/leave-now-foreign-office-urges-britons-in-lebanon

Rescue services say they saved 27 of the 84 people aboard the vessel believed to have come from MauritaniaNine people are confirmed drowned and at least 48 are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Spain’s Canary Islands overnight, rescue services said on Saturday, the latest in a series of such disasters off the west coast of Africa.Sea rescue teams said in a statement they had answered a distress call off El Hierro, one of the islands in the Atlantic archipelago, shortly after midnight. They managed to save 27 of the 84 people on board. Continue reading... Source link

Exclusive: Breaches linked to ‘social engineering’ rise by more than 440% after nine reported last yearGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastServices Australia has seen a massive surge in data breaches by scammers harvesting information from previous hacks and using it to access customer accounts, Guardian Australia can reveal.Data obtained under freedom of information by a user, known as CR, on the transparency website Right to Know reveals that, as of 5 July, Services Australia had reported 49 data breaches as a result of social engineering – where people call an agency pretending to be someone

Thousands of public transport users are having to rethink their schedules, commutes and lives as the T3 line metro conversion beginsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhile it only takes Alexander Saroussidis 20 minutes to get to uni this week, his commute could balloon out to more than 90 minutes come Monday, much to his frustration.The 19-year-old is among the thousands of residents who will be affected by the closure of the T3 train line from Bankstown to Sydenham, and is not looking forward to depending on the replacement buses.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news

Australia’s lack of transparency and funding leave it on the outer as researchers worldwide explore alternatives for training, study and testingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA global shift in scientific and medical research is under way as countries hope to phase out experimentation on animals – but Australia risks being left behind.The transition from using animals to alternatives based on human cells, tissue and data is driving multibillion-dollar growth in new technologies and methods. However, industry leaders and insiders warn Australia will miss those opportunities due to a lack of funding, opaque record keeping and

Residents of Lebanon’s capital flee their homes and seek shelter as the death toll from Israel’s airstrikes risesGunshots fired into the air, women wailing in the streets, the ever-present buzz of drones and the distant thud of Israeli airstrikes: this was the sound of mourning in Beirut on Saturday. Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for 32 years, was dead, killed in an Israeli airstrike on Dahieh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the day before.For many in Lebanon, his killing had been unimaginable. But Israel’s war with Hezbollah had long surpassed what was previously thought possible. Pagers had exploded in

Latest Opinium poll for the Observer shows Labour leader got the opposite of a ‘bounce’ from Liverpool party conference Keir Starmer’s personal ratings dropped further during his first Labour conference as prime minister, according to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer.While party leaders hope for a conference bounce as a result of wall-to-wall media coverage, Starmer suffered the reverse effect, as his ratings plunged to their lowest ever level, and well below those of Rishi Sunak. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/28/keir-starmer-hits-new-low-in-personal-popularity-ratings Author : Toby Helm Political editor Publish date : 2024-09-28 19:00:10 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Politician cites ‘cruel and unnecessary policies’ as she lambasts prime minister’s ‘managerial and technocratic approach’A Labour MP has resigned from the parliamentary party after criticising Keir Starmer’s “cruel and unnecessary” policies and lambasting the prime minister’s “managerial and technocratic approach” to politics.In a furious letter announcing her decision, Rosie Duffield, the Canterbury MP, said she felt relief in making the decision. She said the row over freebies handed to Starmer and his top team demonstrated that “sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/28/rosie-duffield-resigns-as-labour-mp-with-scathing-attack-on-keir-starmers-leadership Author : Michael Savage Policy Editor Publish date :

Incident at London’s National Gallery came just hours after other members of group jailed over similar protestThree protesters have been charged with criminal damage and will appear in court after soup was thrown at two Vincent van Gogh paintings on Friday.Just Stop Oil activists poured soup over two paintings in the National Gallery, London, just hours after other members of the group were jailed for damaging the gold frame of the artist’s Sunflowers painting. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/28/three-just-stop-oil-activists-charged-after-soup-thrown-at-van-gogh-paintings Author : Tom Ambrose Publish date : 2024-09-28 17:47:48 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Rain has been pouring since Friday night and is expected to continue over the weekendFlooding and landslides caused by continuous rainfall has killed at least 66 people in Nepal, and a further 69 are missing, officials said Saturday. Rain has been pouring down since Friday night and is expected to continue over the weekend. Home ministry spokesperson Rishiram Tiwari told reporters there were 66 people reported dead across the country, of whom 34 were in the capital, Kathmandu. Sixty people were injured and 3,010 rescued across the Himalayan country, he added. He said all divisions of security forces in the

Schools that are part of the Harris Federation accused of taking too long to help staff get UK teaching qualificationTeachers recruited from Jamaica to work for a major chain of academy schools in London have spoken of their “devastation” on finding out that they are being paid thousands of pounds a year less than English-trained recruits with similar levels of experience.The Harris Federation, England’s second largest academy chain, with 54 state-funded schools, has been recruiting from Jamaica in recent years, bringing teachers to the UK who are attracted by higher salaries than they can earn in the Caribbean. Continue reading...