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Latest figures come days before the government’s temporary early release scheme is due to come into effect on 10 SeptemberFormer chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick appeared on the media this morning, and said that recently visiting prisons for the first time he felt concerned about his own personal security.He told listeners of the BBC Today programme:I’ve been in a lot of prisons, what I’ve noticed in some I’ve visited recently is for the first time I’ve felt concerned for my own personal security – they’re dangerous and frightening places, and staff are struggling to keep control.That will remove the

Designer rolls out signature styles and western-inspired pieces for show opening New York fashion weekAs a broke sales assistant in his early 20s, Ralph Lauren would drive to the eastern end of Long Island just to breathe the affluent air. The son of Jewish immigrants grew up in the Bronx and now has a net worth of $7bn (£5.3bn). For many, his story is the epitome of the American dream.So it felt fitting that Thursday night’s show of his latest collection, which kicked off New York fashion week, stuck to the classics, including Lauren’s polo player logo which has become

Justice ministry reportedly considering sending criminals in England and Wales to Baltic stateA government minister has refused to deny reports that officials are looking at sending criminals convicted in England and Wales to Estonia to serve their prison sentences.The Daily Telegraph reported that the Ministry of Justice was investigating “all viable options” to increase capacity after the Baltic state said it had offered to rent out spare capacity to other countries. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/06/estonia-prisons-uk-criminals Author : Jamie Grierson Publish date : 2024-09-06 08:51:11 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

French Socialists’ Olivier Faure says no one from his party would participate in Barnier-led governmentThe French Socialists’ Olivier Faure said no one from his party would participate in a Michel Barnier-led government, arguing that Barnier depends on the far right.Michel Barnier, France’s new rightwing prime minister, has vowed to address the nation’s feelings of anger, abandonment and injustice, promising a “new era” and a break with the past. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/06/france-michel-barnier-french-prime-minister-emmanuel-macron-europe-live Author : Lili Bayer Publish date : 2024-09-06 08:09:26 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Former construction union bosses claim forced administration is unconstitutional because it prevents or limits political donationsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer construction union officials challenging the government’s law putting the union into administration will get their day in the high court as early as November, after the court agreed to expedite the case.On Friday, the acting chief justice, Michelle Gordon, ordered a timetable that will allow the case to be heard this year after the plaintiffs argued the law prevented them giving political donations and campaigning ahead

It follows similar wage theft class actions in Western Australia, where $165m was awarded, and in Queensland, where $190m was awardedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government will pay up to $202m compensation to thousands of Indigenous workers whose wages were stolen while working in the Northern Territory last century.The payout is part of the settlement of a class action on behalf of workers and their families who were subject to Commonwealth wage control legislation between 1933 to 1971. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/06/nt-indigenous-worker-stolen-wages-class-action-pay-out-albanese-government Author

In today’s newsletter: Record numbers of pupils are being removed from class, with dire consequences for their attainment levels in later life. But is the pandemic solely to blame for this increase in bad behaviour? • Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.School suspensions have been steadily rising since 2015, but in the last few years there has been a particularly sharp increase in the suspension and exclusion rate in England and it is getting worse. Using the most recent data available, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found that up to the Easter holidays

María Corina Machado wants struggle against Maduro’s ‘criminal tyranny’ to mirror anti-apartheid movementThe Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has called for a global movement, similar to the international campaign against apartheid in South Africa, to help rescue her country from Nicolás Maduro’s “criminal tyranny”.Speaking to foreign journalists as Maduro stepped up his post-election crackdown, Machado said she hoped Venezuela’s struggle for democracy would become “a world cause” just as South Africa’s did in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/venezuelas-opposition-leader-calls-for-global-movement-to-rescue-country Author : Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Publish date : 2024-09-06 05:00:18 Copyright for

‘There is no death which accords with the scripture’ , Toowoomba religious group member says in closing statementFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMembers of a Toowoomba religious sect on trial over the death of eight-year-old diabetic Elizabeth Struhs have told a court that they still believe she will come back from the dead.All 14 adult members of the Saints, from Toowoomba, are on trial for either murder or manslaughter for denying Struhs insulin before her death in January 2022.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue

NSW, Victoria, south-western Queensland and parts of central Australia had temperatures climb by 6C to 12C above average, BoM saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastParts of Sydney and south-west New South Wales faced elevated fire danger on Friday as high winds and unseasonably warm temperatures pushed through south-eastern Australia before a cooler, more settled weekend.New South Wales, Victoria, south-west Queensland and parts of central Australia experienced temperatures between 6C and 12C above average on Friday, with damaging wind warnings for parts of New South Wales and Victoria.Sign

Dusky sea snake was placed on threatened species list this week and is known only to exist on a small number of reefs off the Kimberley coastlineConservation scientists advising the federal government have called for fossil fuel activity in the location of Woodside’s proposed multibillion gas project to be urgently reviewed to protect the stronghold of an endangered sea snake.The dusky sea snake, Aipysurus fuscus, was placed on the country’s threatened species list this week and is known only to exist on a small number of reefs off the Western Australia Kimberley coastline.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email

Police still searching for more than a dozen antique handguns after charging trio over Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum robberyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThree men have been charged over the theft of more than two dozen antique handguns from a regional museum.The commemorative handguns were stolen from the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum, in the New South Wales Blue Mountains region, early on 25 August by a group of men who had their faces covered.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link

Russian-born billionaire detained last month in France denies app is ‘anarchic paradise’ The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, under investigation in France, has said that French authorities should have approached his company with their complaints rather than detaining him, calling the arrest ‘“misguided”.Durov, writing on his Telegram channel early on Friday in his first public comments since his detention last month, denied any suggestion the app was an “anarchic paradise”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/06/pavel-durov-telegram-founder-post-comments-arrest-france Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2024-09-06 00:20:02 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Georgia bureau of investigation says it has arrested Colin Gray in connection with Apalachee high school shootingThe father of the teen suspected in the Georgia school shooting has been arrested, the Georgia bureau of investigation has said.Colin Gray, 54, was arrested by the bureau in connection to the shooting at Apalachee high school. Colin is the father of Colt Gray, the 14-year-old who is suspected of fatally shooting two students and two teachers with an assault-style rifle at the high school on Wednesday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/georgia-school-shooting-father-arrested Author : Abené Clayton and agencies Publish date : 2024-09-06 00:30:16

Parents and campaigners have called on education and health authorities to end the practice of requiring children to strip off for school health checks“My chest was completely exposed and I felt embarrassed,” writes a Japanese girl after undergoing an annual health checkup at her middle school. Another says: “Before the exam our teacher told us we would have to lift up our tops and bra … I didn’t want to do it but I couldn’t say no.”The testimony from two 13-year-olds, seen by the Guardian, is typical of the discomfort – and in some cases trauma – felt by children

Health charities call for taxes on salty products and bans on junk food sponsorship of sport to help cut deaths from heart diseaseHard-hitting cigarette-style warning labels should be put on everyday foodstuffs, new taxes imposed on salty products and junk food sponsorship of sport banned to cut rising deaths from heart disease, health campaigners have said.These “bold” measures should be imposed as part of a determined drive to reduce the number of people dying prematurely from heart attacks and strokes, they said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/06/warning-labels-food-taxes-rising-deaths-heart-disease-health-campaigners Author : Denis Campbell Health policy editor Publish date : 2024-09-05 23:01:09

Cabin crew member’s sacking has been overturned by the Fair Work Commission, but experts say case raises questions about workplace surveillanceFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVirgin Australia may have invaded the privacy of a cabin crew member when it accessed hotel CCTV footage and room swipecard records which revealed he had organised a Grindr hookup, legal experts say.The Fair Work Commission in August overturned the sacking of the crew member, Dylan Macnish, after two separate incidents in 2023. Experts say the case raises serious questions about the

Maj Gen James Roddis admitted indecent behaviour after drunkenly touching and kissing woman against her willA major general who drunkenly touched and kissed a woman in a karaoke bar after she indicated she wanted him to stop has been dismissed from the army and given a six-month suspended prison sentence by a court martial board for his indecent behaviour.Maj Gen James Roddis, 53, was leading a military delegation overseas when he made his unwanted advances, with the early part of the incident captured on camera with a mobile phone. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/05/british-army-major-general-dismissed-for-unwanted-advances-in-karaoke-bar Author : Donna Ferguson and

Former prime minister says other parties should preference the minor party last. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe education minister has warned there is “a lot at stake” in the coming months as time dwindles for a number of states to sign up to his proposed funding deal.This week, the Western Australian government signed up to the next National School Reform Agreement, following the NT. The proposal increases the commonwealth funding share to public schools from 20% to 22.5%, and double for the NT due to additional need.This unfair private school

Accounting firm tells its 26,000 workers move is to ensure workers spend ‘minimum of three days a week’ in officeThe consultancy PwC has told its employees it is going to begin tracking their working locations to ensure that all workers spend “a minimum of three days a week” in the office or at client sites.In a memo sent to its 26,000 UK employees, the big four accounting firm announced that it will start monitoring how often employees work from home in the same way it monitors how many chargeable hours they work. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/pwc-to-start-tracking-working-locations-of-all-its-uk-employees Author :

It comes as the White House targets Kremlin influencers ahead of the US presidential electionsUS investigators have indicted a prominent Russian state television personality and his wife for violating sanctions and money-laundering as the White House targets Kremlin influence operations ahead of the US presidential elections.Dimitri Simes, a television presenter and producer for Russia’s state-owned Channel One, was charged with receiving over $1m (£759,000) in compensation, a personal car and driver, a stipend for a flat in Moscow, Russia, despite the television station’s designation in 2022 by the US’ Office of Foreign Assets Control. He and his wife, Anastasia, were

Rightwing prime minister promises ‘new era’, saying priorities will be education, security and controlling immigrationEurope live – latest updatesMichel Barnier, France’s new rightwing prime minister, has vowed to address the nation’s feelings of anger, abandonment and injustice, promising a “new era” and a break with the past.Barnier, the EU’s former Brexit negotiator, took office hours after Emmanuel Macron appointed him to form “a unifying government in the service of the country” – an attempt to put an end to two months of political paralysis after a snap election. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/05/michel-barnier-named-prime-minister-france Author : Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Because bats feed on crop pests, their disappearance led to a surge in pesticide use. Research found a rise in infant mortality in areas where the bats had been wiped outIn 2006, a deadly fungus started killing bat colonies across the United States. Now, an environmental economist has linked their loss to the deaths of more than 1,300 children.The study, published in Science on Thursday, found that farmers dramatically increased pesticide use after the bat die-offs, which was in turn linked to an average infant mortality increase of nearly 8%. Unusually, the research suggests a causative link between human and

Competition and Markets Authority to look at how ‘dynamic pricing’ may have been used to increase pricesThe competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the Oasis ticket sales fiasco.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will investigate Ticketmaster’s handling of sales for the band’s forthcoming tour, including how “dynamic pricing” may have been used to adjust the price. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/watchdog-to-investigate-ticketmaster-over-oasis-ticket-sales Author : Ben Quinn Publish date : 2024-09-05 17:40:06 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Ex-president diverts resources from states he boasted about winning while Biden was Democratic candidateUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump has quietly wound down his presidential campaign in states he was targeting just six weeks ago amid polling evidence showing that Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race has put them out of reach and narrowed his path to the White House.The Republican presidential nominee’s campaign has diverted resources away from Minnesota, Virginia and New Hampshire – states Trump was boasting he could win while Joe Biden was the Democratic candidate – to focus instead on a small number of