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Other perks including nine-day fortnight and more planning time at home offered to attract recruits‘A brave new world for educators’: teachers respond to nine-day-fortnight proposalsTeachers in England are being offered a range of incentives to make the job more appealing, including two free periods a week to give them a lie-in, a nine-day fortnight and more planning time at home to help with work-life balance.An escalating crisis in teacher recruitment and retention is forcing schools and academy trusts to come up with novel ways to attract new recruits into the profession and keep experienced staff in front of classes. Continue

Body of Javion Magee, 21, discovered under tree in North Carolina last week as authorities say no sign of foul playThe family of a Black man found dead in North Carolina with a rope around his neck under a tree are demanding answers and transparency from authorities, who say there were no signs of foul play.The Vance county sheriff’s office, meanwhile, issued a statement on Wednesday saying an examination by the North Carolina chief medical examiner’s office has determined that there were no defensive wounds or signs of physical or sexual assault. Full autopsy results, including a determination on cause

Contentious government funding package championed by Mike Johnson was voted down 202-220A government funding package championed by Republican House speaker Mike Johnson failed to pass on Wednesday, with less than two weeks left to prevent a shutdown starting 1 October.The final vote was 202 to 220, with 14 House Republicans and all but three House Democrats opposing the bill. Two Republican members voted “present”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/speaker-johnson-funding-bill Author : Joan E Greve in Washington Publish date : 2024-09-18 23:02:26 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Homes evacuated in Emilia-Romagna region as pounding rain ‘well beyond the worst forecasts’ sweeps inHomes are being evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna as Storm Boris, which has killed at least 24 people in central and eastern Europe since last week, swept into the country, causing severe flooding and landslides.Pounding rain hit Emilia-Romagna late on Wednesday afternoon and the situation rapidly worsened as night fell. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/storm-boris-batters-northern-italy-bringing-severe-flooding-and-landslides Author : Angela Giuffrida in Rome Publish date : 2024-09-18 22:23:06 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Investigators working to identify body located in vicinity of I-75 exit where suspect Joseph Couch opened fireAuthorities have found a body near the rural south-eastern Kentucky site where a gunman opened fire on an interstate highway, hitting a dozen vehicles and wounding five people, police said Wednesday.Investigators were working to identify the body, Scottie Pennington, state police master trooper, said in a social media post. It was located in the vicinity of the Interstate 75 exit where the 7 September shooting occurred near London, a city of about 8,000 people about 75 miles (120km) south of Lexington. Continue reading... Source

Second judge refuses bail to music mogul, 54, citing possibility that he could tamper with witnessesA second judge has refused to grant bail to Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, citing the possibility that he will tamper with witnesses.The hip-hop mogul had returned to federal court in New York on Wednesday to ask a judge to free him on bail, after waking up for the second day behind bars following his arrest on Monday on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/18/sean-diddy-combs-bail Author : Guardian staff Publish date : 2024-09-18 21:18:04 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

The NSW government will accept all 19 recommendations made by the landmark gay hate crimes inquiry. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPrime minister Anthony Albanese will amp up his criticism of the Greens and Coalition’s decision to block Labor’s latest housing bills, continuing to blast what he derided as the “No-alition” on a visit to a Queensland housing project on Thursday.On his way to to the Quad leader’s meeting in the United States, the PM will stop off in Cairns today, to join premier Steven Miles at what the government says is

Two University of California professors also included in charges of failing to disperse after demonstrations in springProsecutors in southern California have charged 10 people, including two professors, with failing to disperse during a pro-Palestinian protest last spring at the University of California, Irvine, that led to a clash with police, officials said Wednesday.The Orange county district attorney’s office said those charged included two UCI professors and four students. All are due to appear in court on 16 October to be arraigned on misdemeanor charges, the office said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/uc-irvine-pro-palestine-protests Author : Associated Press Publish date :

Food campaign Bite Back says 10 firms account for more carbon emissions globally than aviation industryBritain’s biggest food and drink firms are doing too little to tackle the climate emergency and are producing “staggering” amounts of greenhouse gases, campaigners claim.The 10 companies that manufacture more of the UK’s food than anyone else produce more carbon emissions between them than even the aviation industry, a report says.Three of the firms increased their annual emissions in 2022 – Ferrero, Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo.Seven are on course to miss meeting emissions targets they have set themselves to achieve by 2050.Only four have a

Union motion to condemn cut could prove embarrassing for PM at party’s first gathering since taking powerUnite will attempt to force a vote at the Labour party conference to reverse the winter fuel payment cuts, in what could be an embarrassing row for Keir Starmer’s first conference in government.Unite, a strong critic of Starmer, is hoping to attract the backing of the largest union, Unison, for the motion to condemn the cut. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said the measure and others were necessary because of the state of Labour’s economic inheritance. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/18/unite-aims-to-force-vote-on-winter-fuel-payment-at-labour-conference Author : Jessica

What sources are saying about the techniques behind the simultaneous explosion of thousands of devicesAnalysis: Exploding pager attack in Lebanon is another blow for US peace hopesIn an unprecedented security breach, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkie radios belonging to members of Hezbollah detonated across Lebanon in simultaneous explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday, killing more than 26 people and wounding thousands of others.Hospitals across Lebanon were overwhelmed with an influx of patients after the pager attack on Tuesday, and a field hospital was set up in the southern city of Tyre to accommodate the wounded. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/hezbollah-pagers-what-do-we-know-about-how-the-attack-happened

Israeli commentators and analysts question timing of explosions and what they will lead toMiddle East crisis – latest news updatesNearly 24 hours after the simultaneous detonation of hundreds of pagers imported by the Lebanese group Hezbollah, followed by more explosions on Wednesday targeting walkie-talkies across Lebanon, in an attack attributed to Israel, Israeli political commentators and analysts were grappling with questions about the timing and what the consequences might be for the conflict on the Lebanese border.The blasts occurred shortly after the Israeli security cabinet had approved a decision to expand the goals of the war in Gaza to include

Thousands of pagers detonated across the country and in Syria, killing 12 people and wounding almost 3,000Middle East crisis – live updatesHezbollah has vowed revenge for an unprecedented and deadly attack in Lebanon, with Israel accused of carrying out the operation by planting explosives inside thousands of pagers imported by the group months earlier.Thousands of pagers detonated across Lebanon and in Syria, killing 12 people and wounding almost 3,000 others, including the group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani. Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad, said a young girl was among the dead, and that more than 200 people

Data shows more Americans supporting political violence in nation where firearms outnumber peopleAfter the second apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump in two months, gun safety advocates say the episode underlines the perilous political landscape of potentially lethal violence against public officials in a nation where firearms outnumber people.A 58-year-old man, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, was apprehended by authorities on Sunday after Secret Service agents spotted the barrel of a rifle peeking through foliage at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the former president was playing golf. Routh appeared in federal court in Florida on

Activists greet decision over killings of British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert with ‘indignation’Appeal judges in Brazil yesterday upheld charges against only two of the three men accused of murdering Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, in a decision “received with indignation” by Indigenous activists.The three judges ruled that there was “insufficient evidence of authorship or participation” by Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, a fisher, in the 2022 deaths of the Brazilian Indigenous expert and the British Guardian journalist. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/dom-phillips-bruno-pereira-murder-charge-dropped-one-of-three-suspects Author : Tiago Rogero, South America correspondent Publish date : 2024-09-18 15:15:15 Copyright for syndicated content

Major entertainment company gives Runway access to vast portfolio to help film-makers ‘augment their work’Lionsgate has signed a deal with the artificial intelligence research firm Runway, allowing it access to the company’s large film and TV library, to train a new generative model.According to the Wall Street Journal, the model will be “customized to Lionsgate’s proprietary portfolio” which includes hit franchises such as John Wick, Saw and The Hunger Games. The aim is to help film-makers and other creatives “augment their work” through the use of AI. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/18/lionsgate-ai Author : Benjamin Lee Publish date :

Minister approved Thames Water project at location prioritised by Sadiq Khan for wild swimmingLabour appeared to be in disarray on Wednesday over ambitions to clean up the River Thames for swimming.The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced plans to prioritise an area of the river in Teddington, south-west London, to make it safe and clean for swimming as part of a new 10-year strategy to reduce pollution in the river and encourage people to spend time in and around it. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/18/labour-in-apparent-disarray-over-thames-cleanup-plan Author : Sandra Laville Environment correspondent Publish date : 2024-09-18 13:59:56 Copyright for syndicated

Allies must face reality of strategic divergence under Orbán and country’s ‘doublespeak’, says David PressmanThe US ambassador in Budapest has said that Hungary’s democracy problems and foreign policy divergence from the west can no longer be dismissed as rhetoric and that the time has come for “a reckoning”.Since coming to power more than 14 years ago, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has concentrated political and economic power in the hands of his ruling party and a handful of businesspeople close to the government, while also nurturing relationships with Moscow and Beijing. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/18/hungary-us-ambassador-david-pressman-orban-west Author :

Emergency crews battle to reinforce defences around Wrocław, Poland’s third city, amid devastating rainfallSoldiers, emergency workers and volunteers battled through the night to reinforce defences around Wrocław, Poland’s third biggest city, as the EU said flooding in central Europe happening simultaneously alongside wildfires in Portugal showed climate breakdown in action.More than five times the average rainfall for the whole of September has fallen in five days on swathes of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, triggering devastating flooding that has killed 22 people in four countries. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/18/floods-in-poland-and-wildfires-in-portugal-show-reality-of-climate-breakdown-says-eu Author : Jon Henley Europe

Bar Standards Board case against Charlotte Proudman over criticism of judge will proceed to full hearingA tribunal has rejected a barrister’s request for it to throw out disciplinary proceedings brought against her for saying a judge had shown a “boys’ club attitude”, but it ruled that she can argue that the regulator discriminated against her because she is a woman.At a private hearing this month, lawyers for Charlotte Proudman argued that the Bar Standards Board (BSB) held her to different standards than male barristers and so the case against her should be struck out. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/sep/18/tribunal-barrister-charlotte-proudman-boys-club-disciplinary-case

DfT offer will mean rise of almost 15% over three years after dispute between unions and 16 operators in EnglandTrain drivers have voted to back a pay deal that will resolve the last remaining conflict between rail operators and unions after two years of strikes that have brought misery for passengers.Members of the driver’s union Aslef voted overwhelmingly to support the pay offer put forward by the Department for Transport (DfT) last month, which would result in a pay rise of almost 15% over three years. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/18/aslef-train-drivers-vote-to-back-pay-deal-and-end-two-year-stand-off Author : Jack Simpson Publish date : 2024-09-18

Author claims that 'progressive Black scholars in particular have been targeted’ after University of Washington rejects complaint over her 2004 doctoral thesisA plagiarism complaint filed last month against Robin DiAngelo, the author of a number of books on racism including White Fragility, has now been dismissed.The complaint – which cited 20 instances of alleged research misconduct in DiAngelo’s 2004 doctoral thesis – was lodged with the University of Washington, where the author completed her PhD and is now an affiliate associate professor of education. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/18/plagiarism-complaint-against-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelo-dismissed Author : Ella Creamer Publish date : 2024-09-18 10:07:25 Copyright

Law will ban campaigners from handing anti-abortion leaflets to people using the clinicsJames Cleverly, the Tory leadership candidate and former home secretary, has posted a message on X saying the party needs to chase Lib Dem voters.While he is not explicitly contradicting Kemi Badenoch (she told GB News the party should be making a pitch for Reform UK voters – Cleverly is implying he does not see it as an either/or), there is a clear difference of emphasis.Eves concluded there had been 19 incidents of mistreatment against detainees at the detention centre near Gatwick Airport in West Sussex over a

Running for president is ‘a dangerous business,’ Republican nominee says at a town hall event in Michigan, following Sunday’s apparent assassination bidDonald Trump touched on a range of topics during his town hall with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, that included – according to The Hill – the fate of the US auto industry, climate change (which he mocked) and a rejection of the ‘rambling’ label he’s been given by Kamala Harris.The Hill reports that, after giving a long and winding answer on Tuesday during which Trump spoke about the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, appeared to confuse Bagram airbase with

Former first minister makes prediction as senior political figures reflect on 10th anniversary of referendumNicola Sturgeon has predicted that Scotland will become an independent country as part of a “wider shake-up” of the UK, as senior figures across Scottish politics reflect on the 10th anniversary of the referendum.With support for independence stabilised at just below 50%, the former first minister told BBC Scotland News: “I believe that, perhaps as part of a wider shake-up of UK governance, the reunification of Ireland, perhaps, more autonomy in Wales, that I think we will see Scotland become an independent country.” Continue reading... Source