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Edmundo González pledges to push for freedom and democracy for Venezuela after going into exile in Spain amid fears for his safetyThe US secretary of state has said Edmundo González “remains the best hope for democracy” in Venezuela after the former presidential candidate went into exile in Spain.Antony Blinken said on X on Sunday that González’s departure from Venezuela “is the direct result of the anti-democratic measures that Nicolás Maduro has unleashed on the Venezuelan people”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/edmundo-gonzalez-exile-spain-venezuela-opposition-nicolas-maduro Author : Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, Jon Henley in Paris and agencies Publish date : 2024-09-09

Group praises nearly 70% of UK adults who bought Fairtrade products in past year despite cost of living crisisNearly 70% of UK adults have bought Fairtrade products such as bananas, tea or coffee in the past year despite pressure on personal finances, as concern that the climate crisis could push up the price of imported food drives “conscious consumerism”, the charity said.Against the backdrop of this year’s big spikes in the price of coffee and cocoa, a YouGov poll, commissioned by the Fairtrade Foundation, revealed that 79% of Britons were concerned that climate breakdown could affect the price of food

Crews completed repair work to the rail by 10am but delays were persisting into Monday afternoonFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA broken rail triggered widespread delays and canceled services across the Sydney train network on Monday.Crews completed the repair work to the rail at Central, in the heart of the network, by 10am, however, major delays were continuing into Monday afternoon.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/09/broken-rail-in-central-sydney-causes-delays-and-cancelled-trains-across-network Author : Emily Wind Publish date : 2024-09-08 23:35:26 Copyright for syndicated content

Reports of loud bang before blaze in Sydenham on Sunday night, with detectives and an arson chemist investigatingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThree children have been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a house fire in Melbourne’s north-west.There were reports of a loud bang and a fire near Fergus Court in Sydenham about 9.40pm on Sunday.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/09/three-young-children-in-critical-condition-after-melbourne-house-fire Author : Emily Wind Publish date : 2024-09-09 01:25:43 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

National and swing-state polling indicates a narrow race, with support for Trump remaining solid despite his change of Democratic rivalDonald Trump and Kamala Harris are in effect tied heading into the final weeks of the election campaign, according to a national poll conducted by the New York Times and Siena College, raising the stakes of Tuesday’s presidential debate.Trump is up one percentage point, 48%-47%, over Harris, according to the survey released on Sunday, a difference that is within the survey’s three-percentage point margin of error, meaning a win for either candidate in the election on 5 November is well within

Apollo Quiboloy, who is wanted by the FBI on charges of child sexual abuse trafficking, surrendered after a police ultimatum, officials sayA pastor wanted in the US for the alleged sex trafficking of children has been arrested two weeks into a huge police manhunt for the self-proclaimed “appointed son of God”, officials in the Philippines have said.Apollo Quiboloy is the founder of the Philippines-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) church, which claims millions of members. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/09/celebrity-son-of-god-pastor-surrenders-to-philippines-police-after-two-week-manhunt Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2024-09-09 00:07:38 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Conservative MPs’ ratings trail behind Starmer’s as second round of voting for contest to come on TuesdayVoters believe James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat are the Conservative leadership candidates most likely to make a good prime minister, although both are still trailing behind Keir Starmer, polling has shown as another crunch week in the campaign begins.A series of party sources have predicted that Cleverly, the shadow home secretary, could pick up support among MPs in Tuesday’s second round of voting, when the five remaining candidates will be whittled down to four. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/09/cleverly-or-tugendhat-would-make-best-pm-poll-on-tory-leadership-candidates-shows Author : Peter Walker

Stade de France transformed into huge electronica dance party with world’s elite para athletes doing farewell congaWith an explosion of fireworks, laser beams, breakdance and a thumping set by the giants of French electronica, France bid goodbye to the Paralympic Games on Sunday night with the biggest party it had ever thrown.The feelgood summer of athletic achievement in Paris had turned crowds hoarse from so much cheering and for ever changed the nation’s attitude to sport and disability, and now Parisians were desperately sad to say goodbye to it all. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/sep/08/paris-gives-paralympics-games-a-send-off-for-the-ages Author : Angelique Chrisafis

Super on paid parental leave, childcare worker pay rise and Hecs indexing legislation to be introduced. Follow today’s news liveWestpac has announced a new CEO: Anthony Miller will be stepping into the role following Peter King’s retirement.Miller is currently the bank’s chief executive for its business and wealth division, but before joining Westpac, he was head of the Australia/New Zealand division for Deutsche Bank and co-head of the investment bank, Apac. He was also a partner at Goldman Sachs. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/sep/09/australia-politics-live-parental-leave-hecs-veteran-suicide-royal-commission-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-question-time-nsw-victoria-qld Author : Amy Remeikis Publish date : 2024-09-08 21:55:13 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Trump recently gave garbled answer to question on childcare, while Vance said extended family should help outWith the Republican presidential ticket led by Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance recently drawing scrutiny over their answers to questions about how they would address the high cost of childcare in the US, the far-right Project 2025 manifesto offers some suggestions to them.The plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home family care because it claims children who go to childcare are more likely to suffer from anxiety, depression and neglect. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/08/project-2025-trump-vance-childcare Author : Michael

Official says dead given mass burial after after collision in Agaie area in north-central Niger stateA fuel tanker has collided head on with another truck in Nigeria, causing an explosion that killed at least 48 people, the country’s emergency response agency has said. The tanker was also carrying cattle in the Agaie area in north-central Niger state, at least 50 of which were burned alive, Abdullahi Baba-Arab, director-general of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, said. He added that search and rescue operations were under way at the scene of the accident. Baba-Arab said initially that 30 bodies were found,

‘We have to do everything possible to ensure that he’s not re-elected,’ ex-congresswoman saysThe former congresswoman Liz Cheney called Donald Trump an “unrecoverable catastrophe” on Sunday and urged fellow Republicans to vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in November’s election.“We see it on a daily basis – somebody who was willing to use violence in order to attempt to seize power, to stay in power, someone who represents unrecoverable catastrophe, frankly, in my view, and we have to do everything possible to ensure that he’s not re-elected,” Cheney said in an interview on ABC News This Week, a show on

Dozens said to be considering abstaining from Tuesday’s vote over pensioners’ payments, as PM says dealing with dissent is ‘matter for chief whip’As many as 50 Labour MPs could refuse to back the government’s controversial plan to cut the winter fuel allowance, despite Keir Starmer urging back benchers to get behind a measure he has conceded is “unpopular”.While few on the government benches are expected to vote against the policy in Tuesday’s vote, dozens are believed to be considering abstaining or being absent – though rebels say the numbers in their ranks are very hard to predict. Continue reading... Source

Platform run from industrial estate in Cumbria and catering to alternative relationships has expanded globallyA dating app aimed at alternative relationships nearly doubled its revenues last year as non-monogamous, queer and kinky users helped the UK-based business expand its reach across the world.Feeld, founded by an entrepreneur couple in an open relationship, has said it is “on a mission to elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships” from its registered office on an industrial estate in Carlisle, Cumbria. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/08/throuples-dating-app-feeld-nearly-doubles-turnover-to-395m Author : Rob Davies Publish date : 2024-09-08 17:00:52 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Harris campaign seeks to press advantage on powerful motivator, especially in states with abortion on the ballotAs Kamala Harris and Donald Trump prepare to meet on the debate stage in Philadelphia, the battle over abortion rights has vaulted to the center of the 2024 presidential election campaign, the first since the supreme court’s decision overturning Roe v Wade.At the party’s convention last month, Democrats spotlighted the harrowing stories of women placed in medical peril as a result of post-Roe abortion bans in their states. Last week, the Harris campaign launched a 50-stop “reproductive freedom” bus tour across several battleground states,

Big exhibition will reflect life and loves of artist, from his first professional print in 1904 to 1960s masterpiecesThe British Museum is putting on a major exhibition on Pablo Picasso, one of the finest graphic artists of the 20th century, it will announce on Monday.About 100 prints will reflect the life and loves of the artist with an extraordinary vision, whose best-known masterpieces include Guernica, one of the most powerful anti-war paintings. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/sep/08/picasso-the-printmaker-takes-centre-stage-at-british-museum Author : Dalya Alberge Publish date : 2024-09-08 16:01:22 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

About 1,000 of those affected work in London and 4,500 at the bank’s new Milton Keynes headquartersSantander has joined the ranks of employers herding reluctant British workers back to the coalface, telling office staff they must turn up in person for at least three days a week on average.While the bank’s back-office staff will still be able to work from home more regularly than before the pandemic, the minimum requirement now tips the balance in favour of the traditional workplace rather than home. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/08/santander-to-insist-uk-workers-are-in-office-three-days-a-week Author : Gwyn Topham Publish date : 2024-09-08 15:18:52 Copyright for

Exclusive: More than 70 guards at the London attractions taking part after ‘years of real-terms pay cuts’Security guards at two of the UK’s most prestigious museums – the Science and Natural History museums – are balloting for strike action in a dispute over wages.More than 70 guards who, unlike many other museum staff, are not employed in house but are outsourced to a company called Wilson James, are taking part in the strike ballot which opened on Friday (6 September). Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/sep/08/security-at-science-and-natural-history-museums-to-ballot-for-strike-action Author : Diane Taylor Publish date : 2024-09-08 14:50:04 Copyright for syndicated content belongs

Report into state of health service in England expresses fears that 50 years of progress is ‘beginning to reverse’Decades of progress in tackling heart disease and strokes risks unravelling in part because of NHS failures under the last government, a report into the state of the health service in Englandwill argue.The statistics on cardiovascular disease from the report by the eminent surgeon and Labour peer Ara Darzi, were released by the health department before its launch on Thursday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/08/progress-in-heart-disease-treatment-at-risk-after-tories-nhs-failures-say-experts Author : Peter Walker Senior political correspondent Publish date : 2024-09-08 13:53:48 Copyright for syndicated content

Message represents latest threat to use the office of the presidency to exact retribution if he wins second termWith just days to go before his first – and likely only – debate against Kamala Harris, Donald Trump posted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny.“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” the former president wrote,

PM reveals why he removed painting of late Tory leader from No 10 study, along with name of family’s new Siberian kitten – PrinceKeir Starmer urges Labour MPs to back ‘unpopular’ plan to cut winter fuel allowanceStarmer removed Thatcher portrait as he dislikes ‘pictures of people staring down’Keir Starmer has said that he ordered a portrait of Margaret Thatcher to be moved out of his Downing Street study not out of dislike for her, but because he dislikes working with pictures of anyone looking down at him.In another personal revelation in a BBC interview aired on Sunday morning, Starmer said

Bombing near Gaza City happens on same day gunman kills four Israeli security guards at border with JordanMiddle East crisis – live updatesAn Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed a senior aid official and four members of his family on the same day that a gunman killed three Israeli security guards at the crossing between Jordan and the West Bank.Gaza’s civil defence group, which fights fires and rescues people trapped in rubble, said its deputy director for northern Gaza, Mohammed Morsi, had been killed in an airstrike. The organisation said our members of his family also died in the

As the Thirwall hearings approach, the Guardian has discovered concerns were repeatedly raised about alarming shortcomings at Countess of ChesterAt Liverpool town hall on Tuesday, a public inquiry will begin into the tragic deaths and collapses of babies eight years ago at the Countess of Chester (CoC) hospital for which the former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder.One of the inquiry’s principal aims is to give the babies’ bereaved families a sense that lessons will be learned. Led by the senior court of appeal judge Lady Justice Thirlwall, it will consider the experiences

Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president’s xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideologyNeo-Nazi groups and the online far right are latching on to the anti-immigration rhetoric coming from Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House in an effort to recruit new supporters and spread their extremism to broader audiences.After the Republican national convention in July, where supporters waved “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!” placards, it became clear that Trump’s xenophobia has become part of the Republican establishment. Upon his return to X, formerly known as Twitter, Trump released a stream of images targeting Vice-President Kamala Harris’s stance on the border

Refurbishing Newcastle’s Bolbec Hall could be first step in a mission to build up region’s creative industries“This will be the cafe and bar,” said Claire Malcolm on the ground floor of a grand, deserted building in Newcastle she hopes will become an international powerhouse of writing creativity. “We’re thinking of making it a wifi dead zone. You’ll have to pick up a book or a newspaper. Or talk to someone.”Malcolm is giving the Guardian an exclusive tour of a forgotten 100-year-old building that is a key part of a bold project to propel north-east England to becoming a centre for