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Contact was reportedly at Trump-allied billionaire’s request and could be significant for dismal US-Iranian relationsElon Musk reportedly met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, a day before Donald Trump named the SpaceX founder as one of the heads of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.The meeting was a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States, according to two Iranian officials who spoke with the New York Times. One of the Iranian officials said that the Tesla executive requested the meeting and that the ambassador picked the site. Continue reading…



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Author : Coral Murphy Marcos

Publish date : 2024-11-15 00:00:31

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Andrew Bailey callls for relations with EU to be rebuilt as Trump plans US tariffsThe Bank of England governor has urged ministers to “rebuild relations” with the EU, warning that Brexit has undermined the UK’s economy.Speaking at the Mansion House dinner in the City of London on Thursday evening, Andrew Bailey said he took no position on Brexit “per se”, but added: “I do have to point out consequences.” Continue reading…



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Author : Heather Stewart Economics editor

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A scion of Democratic dynasty, RFK Jr is known for embrace of anti-vaccine beliefs and other conspiracy theoriesTrump transition – live updatesDonald Trump has announced he will nominate former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as the US secretary of health and human services (HHS) in his administration.Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, will be a contentious pick to lead the US health department, and the role will need to be confirmed by the Senate. Continue reading…



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Tens of thousands deported from Caribbean states, as Dominican Republic pledges to return 10,000 people a weekActivists have called on Caribbean governments to halt the mass deportation of Haitians fleeing escalating gang violence that has claimed thousands of lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.In the past month, tens of thousands of people have been deported to Haiti, including 61,000 from the neighbouring Dominican Republic, whose president recently pledged to deport 10,000 migrants a week. Continue reading…



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Author : Natricia Duncan, Anthony Lugg in Kingston and agencies

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Students ‘let down’ by cheat sheet fiasco, says minister. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Victorian government has announced another review of the state’s Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) after thousands of VCE students were given access to defacto cheat sheets.The education minister, Ben Carroll, said the Labor government had accepted all the recommendations from this year’s review of the system, but it was clear there were “ongoing issues relating to the production and distribution of exams”.Students deserve better. It is clear to me that some students have been let down as a result of these errors and that is completely unaccaptable. Continue reading…



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Author : Martin Farrer

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Urfan Sharif tells Old Bailey he is ‘a very bad father’ when asked why he lied about 10-year-old daughter’s deathSara Sharif’s father has admitted being “selfish” and a “bad father” by lying to protect himself over the death of his 10-year-old daughter.He told a court on Thursday that his previous lies about what happened meant he had no credibility, now that he had accepted responsibility for her death. It came a day after Sharif dramatically said he took “full responsibility” for Sara’s death and admitted beating her with a cricket bat and a metal pole. Continue reading…



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Author : Matthew Weaver

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Film director, who has fully recovered, backs campaign to address disproportionate impact of disease on Black menThe Oscar-winning film director and artist Steve McQueen has revealed that he paused the filming of his latest production Blitz in order to be treated for prostate cancer.McQueen, whose father died of the disease in 2006, has spoken for the first time about his own treatment, which led to a tumour being removed in November 2022. Continue reading…



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Author : Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

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Group says it has identified the Galix defence system on armoured vehicles imported from the UAE and calls for government to investigateFrance must investigate the use of its military systems by Sudan’s paramilitary forces, which could be in breach of an arms embargo, Amnesty International has said.The group said it had identified the French-made Galix defence system being used in Sudan on armoured vehicles manufactured in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – considered a key supplier of weapons to the Rapid Support Force (RSF). Continue reading…



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Author : Kaamil Ahmed

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Republicans express shock and concern after far-right Republican congressman Matt Gaetz nominated by TrumpAn independent central bank is “fundamental” to getting good economic outcomes, a senior Federal Reserve official said on Thursday, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).The Fed has a dual mandate from Congress to act independently to tackle both inflation and unemployment – primarily by raising and lowering interest rates. Anything that undermines the Fed’s independence could spook traders in the financial markets, who might come to question if it could effectively tackle inflation over the longer term. Continue reading…



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Author : Chris Stein (now) and Amy Sedghi (earlier)

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Celebrated authors discuss the somewhat connected stories of their shared surname at literary event in RioBorn more than 5,500 miles apart, the Booker prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, 65, and Brazil’s most celebrated living Black author, Conceição Evaristo, 77, share the same surname, though they are – as far as is known – unrelated.But their surnames’ stories are somewhat connected, and shed light on aspects of the history of Brazil, the country that received the largest number of enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade. Continue reading…



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Author : Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

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‘I’m disappointed that the health secretary came out to speak about the bill before he had even seen the bill,’ says Kim LeadbeaterA minister has criticised her Tory shadow for talking about “joy” in the health sector about the funding it received.Karin Smyth, a health minister, said it was a strange word to use given the state of NHS finances left by the last government.Many in the health sector would have been pleased to hear the announcement of the extra funding going into the NHS [in the budget], only for the joy to be struck down by the realisation of a broken manifesto promise not to raise national insurance contributions.This was only compounded further on the discovery that a raft of frontline care providers – care homes, hospices, care charities, pharmacies, GPS, to name but a few – found themselves not exempt from the NI rises, leaving them with crippling staff bills and the threat of closure and redundancies.He talks about joy. There was no joy when we inherited the mess that they left back in July.The chancellor took into account the impact of changes to national insurance when she allocated an extra £26bn to the Department of Health and Social Care.There are well established processes for agreeing funding allocations across the system, we are going through those processes now with this issue in mind.The British government needs to start now indicating for them what they believe is the tipping point at which they believe a referendum would be called. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

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Christian and Muslim groups say medics who refuse to help patients die not protected in England and Wales billA significant proportion of NHS medical staff are likely to exercise a conscience clause if assisted dying is legalised by parliament.Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s private member’s bill stipulates that no doctor would be under any obligation to participate in assisted dying. Continue reading…



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Author : Harriet Sherwood

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Louise Haigh says she hopes to ensure a repeat of the air traffic control failure of August 2023 never happens againBusiness live – latest updatesAirline passengers will benefit from tougher enforcement of consumer protection laws following an inquiry into the August 2023 air traffic control meltdown, transport secretary Louise Haigh has said.She said she wants to ensure “all passengers feel confident when they fly”. Continue reading…



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Course set to be taught by controversial British ‘anti-woke’ media commentator Andrew DoyleNew College of Florida reinstated a course on “wokeness” taught by controversial British media personality and culture warrior Andrew Doyle to its catalog, after appearing to remove it from an earlier version, amid an ongoing furore over the university’s transformation into a more conservative institution.The course was also restored to an internal enrollment system but without Doyle’s name attached, according to students with access to the system. The moves followed criticism of the course online and local media reports on Tuesday night. Continue reading…



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Author : Jason Wilson

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Report by Human Rights Watch says use of repeated evacuation orders against civilians amounts to crimes against humanityOvernight the IDF announced that six soldiers had been killed in clashes with Hezbollah inside southern Lebanon.The Times of Israel reports “it was one of the heaviest single-day losses in the operation that began in late September,” and that “according to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire with at least four Hezbollah operatives inside a building in a village in southern Lebanon.” Continue reading…



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Author : Martin Belam

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