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Private was sentenced to 12 months of confinement and dishonourably discharged from army but has been released because of time already servedA US soldier who fled into North Korea last year has been sentenced to 12 months of confinement after pleading guilty to desertion as part of a plea agreement, his lawyer has said.Because of good behaviour and time served, the soldier was released, the lawyer, Franklin Rosenblatt, said on Friday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/21/us-soldier-travis-king-sentenced-for-desertion-after-fleeing-into-north-korea Author : Agence France-Presse Publish date : 2024-09-21 00:54:28 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Nominee emphasizes support for abortion rights at rally in key state, and declares herself ‘the underdog in this race’ Kamala Harris campaigned in Madison, Wisconsin, the deep blue capital of the state and college town that Democrats hope will turn out enough voters to turn the election in the presidential nominee’s favor.“We know this is gonna be a tight race until the very end,” said Harris. “We are the underdog in this race, and we have some hard work ahead of us.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/kamala-harris-trump-abortion-wisconsin Author : Alice Herman in Madison, Wisconsin Publish date : 2024-09-21 00:07:15

Ruling out of rises to four main taxes could lead chancellor to make ‘economically damaging’ decisions, says thinktankRachel Reeves has “one hand tied behind her back” as she considers how to balance the books next month in her first budget, a leading economic thinktank has said, after she ruled out increases to the four main taxes that account for 75% of all revenues.The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said Labour had promised not to raise income tax, national insurance, VAT or corporation tax before the budget, heightening speculation that Reeves will seek to increase revenues from rises in capital gains

Cal Fire says Robert Hernandez ignited blazes while off duty in forest land in north of stateA California department of forestry and fire protection employee was arrested on Friday on suspicion of starting five brush fires in northern California in recent weeks, officials said.Robert Hernandez, 38, was arrested at the Howard forest fire station in Healdsburg, California, on suspicion of arson to forest land, the state agency said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/cal-fire-engineer-arrested-arson Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2024-09-20 22:29:25 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

ICC requested arrest warrants for Israeli PM and his defence minister in May for alleged war crimes in GazaIsrael has submitted an “official challenge” to a request from the international criminal court prosecutor for an arrest warrant against its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.In May the ICC’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, requested the court issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/sep/20/israel-challenge-international-criminal-court-icc-arrest-warrant-benjamin-netanyahu Author : Agence France-Presse in Jerusalem Publish date : 2024-09-20 21:28:12 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

About £300m added to deal for UK’s biggest online real-estate portal after first proposal unanimously rejected The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Australian property group REA has upped its proposed offer for Rightmove, the UK’s biggest online property portal, to £5.9bn.REA, in which Murdoch’s News Corporation has a 61% stake, has sweetened its initial proposal by about £300m after Rightmove’s board last week unanimously rejected the first offer as “fundamentally undervaluing” the company. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/20/rupert-murdochs-rea-group-ups-offer-for-rightmove-to-59bn Author : Mark Sweney Publish date : 2024-09-20 21:41:01 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Benny and Susanne Anguiano are back home in California with Rayne Beau, who ran into woods during camping tripFor two months, a California couple was heartbroken, worrying about the whereabouts of their beloved cat after losing him in Yellowstone national park, a wilderness larger than some US states.But as summer came to a close, so did their tragic story. Benny and Susanne Anguiano reunited with their lost feline Rayne Beau last month after an animal welfare group called to let them know their cat had been found in Roseville, California, about 800 miles (1,287km) from Yellowstone. Continue reading... Source link

Vice-president speaks after news breaks that two women died after being unable to access procedure legally in stateIn her first speech dedicated exclusively to abortion rights since becoming the presidential nominee, Kamala Harris spoke on Friday afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia, blaming Donald Trump for the abortion bans that now blanket much of the United States.Harris spoke days after news broke that two Georgia mothers died after being unable to access legal abortions and adequate medical care in the state. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/trump-harris-election-abortion-georgia Author : Carter Sherman Publish date : 2024-09-20 20:25:23 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Performer was first black actor to land leading role at National Theatre and to be cast in regular role on UK soap operaThe “trailblazing” actor Cleo Sylvestre has died aged 79, her agent has confirmed.Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, had been a feature of film, stage, television and music since the 1960s, and played Melanie Harper, Meg Richardson’s adopted daughter, in ITV’s Crossroads – making her the first black actor to have a regular leading role in a UK soap opera. She was also the first black actor to land a leading role at the National Theatre. Continue reading...

Jamar Powell says PC Connor Jones should be sacked rather than receiving written warning over traumatising actionA Metropolitan police officer who put a Taser to the neck of an innocent black child after he had been forced to kneel in the street has been found guilty of gross misconduct but allowed to keep his job.Jamar Powell told the Guardian he had feared he might die during the incident in September 2020, was left traumatised and would struggle to ever trust the police again, having been stopped and searched more than 30 times with nothing ever being found. Continue reading... Source

Ronald Rowe says ‘lack of diligence’ contributed to shooting at ex-president’s rally and vows to not repeat mistakesThe US Secret Service had a “complacency” problem and was responsible for multiple security failures that preceded Donald Trump being shot by an attempted assassin during an election rally in Pennsylvania, the acting director of the agency said on Friday.Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement and a “lack of diligence” hampered the Secret Service’s performance ahead of the July assassination attempt on the former US president, according to a new report that lays out a litany of missed opportunities to stop a gunman

Pennsylvania plant was site of most serious nuclear meltdown and radiation leak in US history in 1979A nuclear reactor at the notorious Three Mile Island site in Pennsylvania is to be activated for the first time in five years after its owners, Constellation Energy, struck a deal to provide power to Microsoft’s proliferating artificial intelligence operations.The plant was the location of the most serious nuclear meltdown and radiation leak in US history, in March 1979 when the loss of water coolant through a faulty valve caused the Unit 2 reactor to overheat. More than four decades later, the reactor is

IDF claims it assassinated Ibrahim Aqil and other commanders in strike on suburbs of Lebanese capitalIsrael carried out an airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday that killed at least 12 people and wounded 66, in what it said was a targeted assassination of a senior Hezbollah leader.The Israeli military said the strike killed Ibrahim Aqil, a figure on the group’s top military council who is wanted by the US for his alleged connection with the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/top-hezbollah-leader-airstrike-beirut-israel Author : William Christou in Beirut and Lorenzo

Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner will also not accept donations for work outfits after row over Waheed Ali giftsKeir Starmer and his top team will no longer accept free gifts of clothes from Labour donors, as it emerged that Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner also received donations for work outfits.After the row over the Labour peer Waheed Alli funding Starmer’s work wardrobe, the prime minister is understood to have decided he will not take donations to pay for clothes in future. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/20/keir-starmer-labour-stop-taking-clothes-gifts-from-donors Author : Pippa Crerar and Rowena Mason Publish date : 2024-09-20 16:36:24 Copyright

Val Harris refused to move the painting, by Poppy Baynham, inside the art gallery after locals complainedWith its literary festival and numerous bookshops, Hay-on-Wye may attract the biggest talents in the arts but, seemingly, not all artistic talent is appreciated by some locals.The owner of The Chair gallery in the town has been warned by police that she could be committing a public order offence after exhibiting a painting of a naked women in the front window of her high street shop. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/20/police-called-to-hay-on-wye-gallery-after-it-puts-painting-of-naked-woman-in-window Author : Caroline Davies Publish date : 2024-09-20 15:52:56 Copyright for syndicated

Republican majority eager for hand-counts of voting tallies, which experts say are time-consuming and unreliableForty-six days before the election, Georgia’s state election board is considering new rules for poll managers, requiring a hand count of paper ballots on election day before tabulating votes.The Republican majority on the board is expected to vote on a rule that would require three people in every precinct to check machine-vote tallies by hand-counting the election results. Voting experts have long warned that hand-counts are time consuming, costly and less reliable than machines. It’s a process that nonetheless has been favored by conservative activists who

Vladimir Kara-Murza tells Keir Starmer that further exchanges are a matter of ‘life and death’Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesVladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian dissident freed in the biggest prisoner swap since the cold war, has appealed to Keir Starmer during a meeting in Downing Street to not let hundreds of political prisoners in Russia and Belarus quietly “die off”.Kara-Murza, who was released last month two years into a 25-year sentence after speaking out against the war in Ukraine, said he had told the prime minister on Friday that organising further such swaps was a matter of “life and death”. Continue

Officials trying to avoid repeat of Afghan chaos as Israel strikes and foreign secretary tells UK nationals to leaveMiddle East crisis – latest news updatesDavid Lammy chaired a Cobra meeting to discuss preparations to evacuate remaining Britons from Lebanon, having already urged UK nationals to leave the country amid hostilities with Israel.The foreign secretary led meetings in Whitehall on Friday as officials try to avoid a repeat of the chaos in which British people scrambled to leave Afghanistan when the Taliban took over in 2021. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/david-lammy-scrutinising-evacuation-plans-for-britons-in-lebanon-after-attacks Author : Rowena Mason and Dan Sabbagh Publish date

Chief executive confirms company with contracts for prisons has filed for administration and its sites are closingBusiness live – latest updatesThousands of jobs could be at risk and dozens of government construction projects paused as ISG, one of the UK’s largest contractors, filed for administration.In the biggest collapse of a UK construction company since Carillion, the ISG chief executive, Zoe Price, confirmed in an email on Thursday that the company had filed for administration and shut down all of its sites. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/20/jobs-risk-construction-firm-isg-heads-for-collapse-administration-sites Author : Jack Simpson Publish date : 2024-09-20 13:25:57 Copyright for syndicated content

IDF says its is reviewing the incident, which took place during a raid in the town of QabatiyaMiddle East crisis – latest news updatesIsraeli soldiers have been filmed pushing three apparently lifeless bodies from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, in the latest in a series of suspected violations by Israeli forces since the start of the Israel-Hamas war that rights groups say show a pattern of excessive force toward Palestinians.The incident took place in the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, where the Israeli military has been carrying out large-scale raids

As the Museum of London announces a mudlarking exhibition, mudlarker Lara Maiklem says combing the foreshore can transport you back in timeEarlier this week, Lara Maiklem climbed down to the foreshore of the River Thames at low tide to spend several hours gently scrabbling at its surface in pursuit of a 20-year obsession.Known on social media as the London Mudlark and the author of three books on larking, Maiklem is at the forefront of a growing number of people spending their spare time combing through the mud of the capital’s river searching for historical artefacts. Continue reading... Source link :

Ukrainian president tells press conference with Ursula von der Leyen that Ukraine plans to use EU loan for air defence, energy and weapons purchasesUkraine’s “victory plan” in the war against Russia depends on quick decisions being taken by allies this year, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday during a visit by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.Zelenskyy told a joint press conference with von der Leyen that Ukraine planned to use a proposed multi-billion dollar European Union loan for air defence, energy and domestic weapons purchases. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/20/russia-ukraine-war-live-italy-calls-for-fair-peace-and-says-defence-of-ukraine-must-not-lead-to-world-war Author : Tom Ambrose Publish date :

Review had criticised support service, run by a trans woman, for not providing women-only spaces for 16 monthsThe chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland has apologised to rape survivors who were let down by failings at the network’s support service in Edinburgh.Sandy Brindley said a review had found “significant failings” at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre during the tenure of its chief executive Mridul Wadhwa, who quit this month after being censured over her stance on women-only provision. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/20/crisis-scotland-boss-apologises-for-edinburgh-centre-failings Author : Severin Carrell Scotland editor Publish date : 2024-09-20 10:49:01 Copyright for syndicated content belongs

Bridget Curtis, 70, admits charge related to death of eight-month-old Mabli Cariad Hall in PembrokeshireA woman has pleaded guilty to causing the death by dangerous driving of a baby girl who was hit by a car outside a hospital.Bridget Curtis, 70, of Begelly in south-west Wales, appeared at Swansea crown court on Friday, where she admitted the charge relating to the death of eight-month-old Mabli Cariad Hall. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/20/bridget-curtis-pleads-guilty-to-causing-death-of-baby-mabli-cariad-hall-by-dangerous-driving-in-wales Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-09-20 10:29:26 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Republican candidate claims Israel would cease to exist if Harris wins as explosive allegations emerge that North Carolina’s Mark Robinson referred to himself as a ‘black Nazi’The story also could threaten Donald Trump’s chances of winning North Carolina, a key battleground state, Associated Press reports. It says that Mark Robinson was already already running well behind his Democratic opponent in public polls before CNN claimed he referred to himself as a “black Nazi” on a pornographic website. “This story is not about the governor’s race in North Carolina. It’s about the presidential race,” said Paul Shumaker, a Republican pollster. He