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Oversupply and deflation are spooking markets, while falling demand for coal and iron ore threatens to further hamper anaemic Australian growthGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“Because most Chinese are satisfied with the economy’s performance, Beijing would probably resist major adjustments in savings, consumption and investment incentives that did not serve its industrial policy goals.“Only the prospect of closed foreign markets or deep recession at home, neither of which Beijing believes is likely in the near term, would change this view.”Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/15/whats-causing-chinas-economic-downturn-and-what-does-it-mean-for-australia Author :

State department says allegations of American collusion are ‘categorically false’ as US navy member identified among foreign citizens detainedThe US state department rejected wild allegations of CIA involvement in an alleged assassination plot against Nicolás Maduro after Venezuelan officials announced the arrest of three Americans, two Spaniards and a Czech on Saturday.The claims of a plot against Maduro – the Venezuelan president, whose recent re-election is contested – were made on state television by Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister. Cabello said the foreign citizens including a US navy member were part of a CIA-led plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government

Mixed messaging for government as they try to conquer the ‘Queensland paradox’ – wooing both urban and regional votersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSix weeks out from the Queensland election, two polls dropped this week. They both told remarkably different stories.Resolve Strategic, published in the Brisbane Times, put Labor’s primary vote across the state at 23%. That’s disaster territory. For context, when Anna Bligh’s Labor government was obliterated at the 2012 election, its primary vote was 26.7%. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/15/queensland-election-labor-polls-steven-miles Author : Ben Smee

Arson charges filed against Justin Wayne Halstenberg in San Bernardino county, which has burned 38,000 acresThe mother of the 34-year-old man accused of starting the Line fire in southern California – which has scorched at least 38,000 acres (15,378 hectares) and destroyed one home – has spoken out in defense of her son, telling the Los Angeles Times on Thursday that “he did not light that fire”.Arson-related charges have been filed against Justin Wayne Halstenberg, who is accused of starting the San Bernardino county blaze on 5 September. He is due to be arraigned on Monday according to the San

More than 40 others were injured in crash in the city of Zagazig, according to the country’s health ministryTwo passenger trains have collided in Egypt’s Nile delta, killing at least three people, two of them children, authorities have said.The crash happened on Saturday in the city of Zagazig, the capital of Sharqiya province, the country’s railway authority said. Egypt’s health ministry said the collision injured at least 40 others. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/three-dead-as-two-passenger-trains-collide-in-egypts-nile-delta Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2024-09-14 20:04:52 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Two hospitals sent into lockdown, government buildings shut down and local schools evacuatedTwo hospitals in Springfield, Ohio, were sent into lockdown after bomb threats, police said Saturday, marking the fourth such case in as many days that appears linked to false claims circulating among the far right that Haitian immigrants there are eating domestic pets and wildlife.Saturday’s threats came even after the woman who started the rumors acknowledged to NBC News that they were unfounded and publicly apologized. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/more-bomb-threats-hit-springfield-ohio-after-trump-elevates-false-claims-about-haitians Author : Edward Helmore Publish date : 2024-09-14 20:29:56 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Danny Torres, 27-year veteran who forcibly arrested Hill in Florida on Sunday, suspended for total of about 50 daysThe police officer who detained NFL player Tyreek Hill in Florida had racked up six suspensions and multiple reprimands before his encounter with the Miami Dolphins wide receiver, records from his agency show.According to employee records reviewed by NBC, Danny Torres, the Miami-Dade police department officer who forcibly arrested and handcuffed Hill last Sunday, has a tainted disciplinary record that includes being suspended for as many as 50 days between 2014 and 2019. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/tyreek-hill-nfl-police-disciplinary-record Author : Maya

Nicholas Prosper is suspect in deaths of three people believed to be Juliana Prosper, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13An 18-year-old has been charged with the murders of a woman and two teenagers who were found dead at a flat in Luton on Friday, Bedfordshire police have said.Nicholas Prosper, of Leabank, Luton was arrested on Friday morning in Bramingham Road after police discovered three bodies at a flat in Leabank, off Wauluds Bank Drive, at about 5.30am. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/14/man-18-charged-with-murders-of-a-woman-and-two-teenagers-in-luton Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-09-14 21:11:05 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

The prime minister made a late declaration of a personal shopper and clothes for his wife from party donor Lord AlliKeir Starmer is alleged to have broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare donations of clothing for his wife from the Labour donor Waheed Alli.The gifts to Victoria Starmer were not initially declared in the register of MPs’ interests, the Sunday Times reported. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/14/keir-starmer-alleged-to-have-broken-parliamentary-rules-over-gifts-to-wife Author : Nadeem Badshah Publish date : 2024-09-14 20:50:05 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Mother hopes case will ‘shine a light’ on family courts and CafcassA convicted rapist who was previously allowed to have unsupervised time with his child has been stripped of his parental responsibility.Kristoffer White, who has been described as a “danger to women and children”, failed to turn up to court last week for a hearing, attended by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), to determine the involvement he could have in his daughter’s life. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/14/father-who-is-convicted-rapist-stripped-of-parental-responsibility-for-daughter Author : Hannah Summers Publish date : 2024-09-14 20:10:23 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Despite his convictions for corruption and human rights abuses, many see the president who has died at 86 as the country’s greatest leaderAt 11.45 on Thursday morning, six white-gloved pallbearers carried a coffin holding the body of the most divisive, beloved and reviled Peruvian politician of the last four decades. They passed the mourners, the cameras and the flag-topped lances of the Húsares de Junín cavalry regiment, and set it down in the hall of Lima’s brutalist culture ministry.Behind the coffin, holding hands and dressed in black under a pale but warm spring sky, came its occupant’s eldest daughter and

US president Joe Biden and British PM Keir Starmer fear secret arms link-up amid talks in Washington over UkraineBritain and the US have raised fears that Russia has shared nuclear secrets with Iran in return for Tehran supplying Moscow with ballistic missiles to bomb Ukraine.During their summit in Washington DC on Friday, Keir Starmer and US president Joe Biden acknowledged that the two countries were tightening military cooperation at a time when Iran is in the process of enriching enough uranium to complete its long-held goal to build a nuclear bomb. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/14/alarm-in-uk-and-us-over-possible-iran-russia-nuclear-deal Author : Dan

Family members and political leaders gather in Turkish Aegean coastal city of Didim to mourn activist slain by IDFHundreds of people waving Turkish and Palestinian flags gathered on Saturday for the funeral of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Cevdet Yılmaz, Turkey’s vice-president; Hakan Fidan, the foreign minister; Numan Kurtulmuş, the parliament speaker; and Özgür Özel, the main opposition leader from the Republican People’s party (CHP) were among mourners at the ceremony in the Turkish Aegean coastal city of Didim. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/14/aysenur-ezgi-eygi-funeral-turkey Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date

Warwickshire police officers were responding to an urgent incident on Friday evening when the collision occurredA pedestrian in his 60s has died after being hit by a police vehicle, Warwickshire police have said.Officers were responding to an emergency incident in Nuneaton when their vehicle collided with the man at about 8.45pm on Friday, the force said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/14/pedestrian-in-his-60s-dies-after-being-hit-by-police-vehicle-in-nuneaton Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-09-14 17:18:15 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Secret Service and police failed to relay concerns while agency also guarded Kamala Harris in same state that dayAn internal Secret Service investigation has confirmed that multiple, substantial communication breakdowns preceded the 13 July attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.The Washington Post, citing unnamed officials, reported on Saturday that the former president’s security detail failed to direct local police to secure the roof of the building used by the gunman. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/trump-assassination-attempt-inquiry-secret-service Author : Edward Helmore Publish date : 2024-09-14 15:01:24 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Two cameras in Chingford were twisted around to face roads outside the low-emission zone boundaryTransport for London (TfL) has said it will refund drivers wrongly issued with ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) charges because of vandalised enforcement cameras.The transport body confirmed two cameras in Chingford, north-east London, “became misaligned” for a short period and many fines were issued incorrectly. It is understood the cameras were twisted the wrong way so that they were facing roads outside the Ulez boundary. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/14/tfl-refund-drivers-wrongly-issued-ulez-fines-cameras-vandalised-london Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-09-14 15:48:10 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Victims were impeded in their evacuation routes by deteriorating infrastructure and lack of preparations by officialsThe wind pushed flames from house to house as a group of neighbors tried to escape their blazing subdivision, abandoning their cars in a blocked road and running to an industrial outbuilding for safety. All six perished just blocks from their homes.Members of the group, including an 11-year-old and his parents, were among the victims whose desperate attempts to escape Hawaii’s Lahaina wildfire were detailed for the first time in a report released on Friday. The investigation by the Fire Safety Research Institute for the

A new book charting the party’s path to power reveals that Keir Starmer and his team were told the landslide election win was down to a fragile coalition of voters• ‘Corbyn had flown to close to the sun’: how Labour insiders battled the leftKeir Starmer’s cabinet has been told to behave as if it is now “nil-nil” in the battle with the Tories, despite Labour’s landslide election win, amid warnings the party won with the support of an extremely fragile coalition of voters.The prime minister and his top team were given the warning just weeks after clinching the decisive election

Longtime independent politician thanks community for support in face of misinformation and ‘awful’ campaignClover Moore has claimed a historic sixth term as the Sydney lord mayor despite a swing against her in a campaign she described as the “toughest” of her career.The longtime independent politician secured another four years in the top job on Saturday evening, declaring victory in front of supporters at the Arthouse hotel in Sydney’s CBD. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/14/clover-moore-claims-historic-sixth-term-as-sydney-lord-mayor Author : Tamsin Rose NSW state correspondent Publish date : 2024-09-14 14:08:03 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The five-star Poets and Lovers show at the National Gallery will dispel the tortured genius labelVincent van Gogh’s maverick talent has put him at the centre of European culture for more than a century. His works make headlines when they sell, from the record-breaking moment his Irises went for £27m at Sotheby’s in 1987, right up to this month’s predicted hoopla in Hong Kong, where Christie’s are to auction his riverside scene, Moored Boats, painted two years earlier, for an estimated $30-50m – likely to set a record for works from his later, Parisian period.The Dutch artist’s dramatic renderings of

Met Office predicts dry and settled weather over coming days, though Scotland and Northern Ireland may get wind and rainTemperatures are forecast to soar this weekend, driving away the chilly start to the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.Autumnal sunshine and highs of 21C were expected in some areas of southern England, the Met Office predicted – a far cry from the overnight low of -2.7C recorded in North Yorkshire on Thursday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/14/uk-weather-autumn-chill-forecast-to-end-as-warmer-conditions-return Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2024-09-14 11:43:19 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumorsWhile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed.He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock. Continue reading... Source

Man released on Tuesday appeared in court on sexual assault charges on Thursday, according to PA MediaA man is alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman on the day he was freed from prison under the government’s early release scheme.The controversial scheme, which allows some prisoners to be released after serving 40% of their sentence, came into force on Tuesday to ease overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/14/man-freed-early-uk-prison-allegedly-assaulted-woman-same-day-release Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2024-09-14 11:20:13 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Campaign group challenges industry regulator over price rises for customers that will pay to upgrade infrastructureThe water industry regulator has been accused of overseeing a “stealth bailout of water companies” over proposals to increase bills by up to 44% over the next five years.Campaign group Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (Wasp), which exposed suspected illegal discharges of sewage across England and Wales, has challenged Ofwat, the industry regulator, over the proposed price rises. The final determinations are due to be announced in December. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/14/billpayers-in-england-and-wales-tricked-into-stealth-bailout-of-water-companies Author : Jon Ungoed-Thomas Publish date : 2024-09-14 10:00:25 Copyright for syndicated

Archdiocese’s proposal comes as survivors of sexual abuse by clergy request ‘very reasonable’ $1bn to settle claimsWith a self-imposed deadline looming to file a plan to reorganize New Orleans’ bankrupt Roman Catholic archdiocese, a committee representing about 500 survivors of clergy sexual abuse in south-east Louisiana on Friday proposed that the organization, its affiliated churches, ministries, schools and their insurers should pay more than $1bn to settle their claims.The archdiocese quickly answered with its counter-proposal: $62.5m, or more than $900m less. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/new-orleans-catholic-church-abuse-victims Author : Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans and David Hammer of WWL