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Meloni’s party is pleased by the appointment but Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has surprised before – not least by adopting IslamWhen Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the incoming new president of the Venice Biennale, was once asked in an interview whether he was a fascist, the Italian rightwing journalist and public intellectual replied: “I am not a fascist. I am something else.”After Buttafuoco was this week officially nominated to lead the oldest and largest cultural exhibition in the world, it is not just the artists, actors, architects, film-makers, dancers and musicians whose work will be shown at the coming biennales’ six events who are asking themselves what exactly that “something else” may be. Continue reading…



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Author : Philip Oltermann and Lorenzo Tondo

Publish date : 2023-11-18 05:00:12

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Two parties, KMT and TPP, are trying to decide which should field candidate for president and which for vice-president A potential joint ticket for Taiwan’s presidency by the two main opposition parties was in disarray after the smaller of the two said no consensus had been reached on how to use opinion polls to make that decision.After weeks of sometimes acrimonious talks on joining up for the presidential election, the Kuomintang (KMT) and the much smaller Taiwan People’s party (TPP) agreed on Wednesday to look at an aggregate of opinion polls to decide which party’s candidate would run as president and which as vice-president. Continue reading…



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Author : Reuters in Taipei

Publish date : 2023-11-18 03:41:38

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Michael Lacey, Scott Spear and John Brunst, all men in their 70s, created complicated system to try to outwit US governmentThree former owners of the website Backpage, a site mainly known as a place where sex workers advertise their services, have been convicted for federal crimes including promoting prostitution and money laundering, the US Department of Justice announced on Friday.The recently convicted trio, Michael Lacey, 75, Scott Spear, 72, and John “Jed” Brunst, 71, came to own Backpage in 2010. Since then, the government says, they encouraged sex work ads by creating a system for “johns”, or customers, to leave reviews about the sex workers they had engaged with. Website workers and an automated system filtered out words that made it obvious that sex was being offered in exchange for money. Continue reading…



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Author : Abené Clayton

Publish date : 2023-11-18 02:17:10

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Shooter who entered the facility was also shot dead by a state police officer on security dutyAn armed individual walked into the lobby of a state psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire on Friday and shot dead one person before a state police officer on security duty at the facility shot and killed the suspect, officials said.New Hampshire state police initially had reported “multiple victims” from the shooting, but no one else, including the trooper who confronted the suspect, was injured in the gun violence, which erupted at about 3.30pm ET at the New Hampshire state hospital in Concord, the state capital, according to Mark Hall, the state police colonel. Continue reading…



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Author : Reuters

Publish date : 2023-11-18 01:04:32

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Victim-survivor shocked by education department’s admission it moved accused paedophile teachers to other state schoolsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhen the dark history of Victoria’s education department was laid bare this week in public hearings, Glen Fearnett sat metres away from bureaucrats as they divulged the state’s failings to protect children.Fearnett is a victim-survivor of abuse and has been central in pushing for a formal apology for the abuse he and other victim-survivors suffered at Beaumaris primary school, in Melbourne’s south-east.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Adeshola Ore

Publish date : 2023-11-17 23:00:05

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Convicted South Carolina murderer says: ‘I agree that I wrongly took all of that money … I am guilty’Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars from vulnerable legal clients in schemes lasting over a decade under an agreement that all but ensures more prison time for the longtime lawyer who was convicted of killing his wife and younger son in South Carolina.Murdaugh agreed to plead guilty to 22 total counts, including money laundering, breach of trust and financial fraud, in exchange for a 27-year sentence. Judge Clifton Newman said he intends to officially accept the plea deal during a sentencing hearing set for 28 November so that victims or their families may attend. Continue reading…



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Author : Associated Press

Publish date : 2023-11-17 22:31:12

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Former first lady, 96, who married husband in 1946, three decades before White House victory, enters hospice care at home in GeorgiaJimmy Carter’s wife Rosalynn has entered hospice treatment at home, the former first lady joining the 99-year-old ex-president in end-of-life care at the couple’s Georgia residence, her family said on Friday.The news came in a brief statement released by the human rights non-profit Carter Center, on behalf of Jason Carter, the grandson of the 39th president and his 96-year-old wife. Continue reading…



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Author : Richard Luscombe in Miami

Publish date : 2023-11-17 21:26:37

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Pro-ceasefire demonstrators also detained outside investment company accused of helping supply weapons to IsraelMore protests demanding a ceasefire in Gaza were under way in the US on Friday morning, with police breaking up crowds and arresting demonstrators in various locations.Such demonstrations come as recent polling shows that US public support for Israel is dropping, while the Hamas authorities in Gaza reported on Friday that more than 12,000 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians and mostly women and children, had now been killed since Israel declared war on Hamas in October. Continue reading…



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Author : Gloria Oladipo in New York

Publish date : 2023-11-17 19:57:29

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Glass, 22, was experiencing a mental health crisis when officers responded to his call for helpSix Colorado law enforcement officers have been charged with failing to intervene during a standoff that ended with the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man suffering a mental health crisis last year, prosecutors said Friday.The announcement came a day after a former sergeant who had previously been charged in the killing of Christian Glass pleaded guilty to failing to intervene, a misdemeanor crime created by state lawmakers in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd. Continue reading…



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Author : Associated Press

Publish date : 2023-11-17 18:46:54

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Families say council has urged them to stay quiet despite children getting sick because of damp hotel roomsResidents evacuated from a structurally unsound tower block claim they have been given little support by Bristol city council and were urged not to protest over their treatment.Some of the 400 people moved out of the stricken Barton House tower block on Tuesday gathered in the foyer of the Bristol city hall on Friday demanding an independent investigation into what happened, compensation and a local rehousing plan. Continue reading…



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Author : Tom Wall in Bristol

Publish date : 2023-11-17 17:23:27

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Combination of vaccines, screening and treatment could lead to a cancer being effectively eliminated for the first timeAmanda Pritchard, NHS England’s chief executive, announced an ambition this week to eliminate cervical cancer in England by 2040. The UK is not unique in its pledge to banish cervical cancer to the realms of historical diseases, the first time this would be achieved for any cancer.The WHO has a target of eliminating cervical cancer globally by the end of the century, which would mean the prevention of the deaths of millions of women. The moonshot has been propelled by two facts: cervical cancer affects a huge number of women (more than 600,000 cases and 340,000 deaths globally in 2020) and yet nearly all these cases are preventable. Continue reading…



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Author : Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Publish date : 2023-11-17 16:12:58

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FCA censures former FTSE 100 company but stops short of a fine as no funds are expected to be leftThe financial watchdog has found that collapsed hospital operator NMC Health committed market abuse by understating its debts by as much as $4bn (£3.2bn).The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) censured the former FTSE 100 company on Friday for misleading the market but stopped short of fining it as no funds are expected to be left at the business once outstanding debts to creditors are paid out. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2023-11-17 15:05:20

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The acclaimed author of novels including Possession and The Children’s Book, has died, her publisher has confirmed.The writer and critic AS Byatt, who explored family, myth and narrative in a career spanning five decades, has died aged 87. Her publisher Chatto & Windus confirmed that she died peacefully at home surrounded by close family.Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, who wrote under the name AS Byatt, authored complex and critically acclaimed novels, including the Booker prize-winning Possession and her examination of artistic creation, The Children’s Book. Over her career, she won a swathe of literary awards, from the Booker to a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters. Continue reading…



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Author : Richard Lea

Publish date : 2023-11-17 14:05:57

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Rules, still subject to formal approval, stop exports to non-OECD countries and limit them elsewhereThe EU has struck a deal to stop ships of waste plastic landing in ports of poor countries.European lawmakers and member states agreed on Friday to ban exports of plastic rubbish to countries outside the OECD group of mostly rich countries from the middle of 2026. The deal comes as diplomats meet in Nairobi, Kenya, to hammer out a global treaty on plastic pollution. Continue reading…



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Author : Ajit Niranjan

Publish date : 2023-11-17 12:30:31

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David McBride claimed leak of classified material detailing alleged war crimes in Afghanistan was in public interestAn Australian military whistleblower who leaked classified material detailing alleged war crimes committed by special forces soldiers has pleaded guilty to stealing and sharing secret information.David McBride gave a trove of military documents to journalists at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) because, prosecutors said, he was concerned about what he believed was the “over-investigation” of troops over alleged war crimes. Continue reading…



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Author : Ben Doherty in Sydney and Sarah Basford Canales in Canberra

Publish date : 2023-11-17 11:40:06

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