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The longtime chief of Positif film magazine started working there in 1968, and was a passionate advocate of cinema until his deathMichel Ciment, the celebrated French film critic and longtime editor of Positif magazine, has died aged 85. The magazine reported the news on social media, describing him as Positif’s “master architect” after a 60-year career.Born in Paris in 1938, Ciment fell in love with cinema as a student, and joined Positif in 1968, becoming editorial director in 1973; he said he admired Positif over Cahiers du Cinéma because the magazine was “left wing” and influenced by surrealism. Ciment published a string of books about prominent film directors, including Kazan by Kazan (1973), Conversations with Losey (1979) and Stanley Kubrick (1980). Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Pulver

Publish date : 2023-11-14 16:17:18

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House Republicans meet this morning to plan strategy as funding measure will need Democrats’ help to get across the lineHere’s some Mike Johnson news that isn’t related to his government spending proposal: somewhat predictability, the Donald Trump loyalist has endorsed the former president’s 2024 White House run.“I’m all in for President Trump. I expect he’ll be our nominee… we have to make Biden a one-term president,” the Louisiana Republican and House speaker told CNBC’s Squawk Box. Continue reading…



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Author : Richard Luscombe

Publish date : 2023-11-14 14:46:12

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Attacks increasing around Donetsk, Kupiansk and Avdiivka, Ukraine leader says; Boris Pistorius says ‘it is safe to assume’ goal will be missedSee all our Ukraine war coverageHere are some of images from the wires of leaders at a meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers at the European Council in Brussels today.The head of Russia’s state nuclear energy company, Rosatom, said on Tuesday that it had agreed a timetable for the construction of two new reactors at the Paks-2 nuclear plant in Hungary, Reuters reports. Continue reading…



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Author : Yohannes Lowe (now) and Mabel Banfield-Nwachi (earlier)

Publish date : 2023-11-14 13:18:55

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Chain under pressure to improve work culture after claims of sexual assault, racism and bullyingThe UK boss of McDonald’s said widespread cases of sexual harassment and bullying at its fast food shops were “truly horrific” and that the company was doing everything it could to eradicate them.McDonald’s, which has 1,450 outlets and employs close to 180,000 people in the UK, is under huge pressure to improve its work culture, after an investigation by the BBC into allegations of sexual assault, harassment, racism and bullying. It spoke to more than 100 current and recent McDonald’s workers, some as young as 17. Continue reading…



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Author : Julia Kollewe

Publish date : 2023-11-14 11:48:46

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Richard Holden insists the Conservative party is a ‘broad church’ with a ‘common goal’Here are pictures of some of the new ministers arriving for cabinet this morning.The reshuffle does not seem to be entirely over. Julie Marson, MP for Hertford and Stortford, says she is stepping down from her job as a whip for personal reasons. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2023-11-14 10:33:15

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Its insistence that customers need a police report to get a refund after goods fail to turn up could go against Consumer Rights ActAmazon has been accused of showing contempt for UK consumer law by insisting that customers whose orders fail to arrive submit a police report in order to qualify for a refund.Some buyers have been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket after the retail giant required them to report missing deliveries to police, then refused to accept their crime reference number. Continue reading…



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Author : Anna Tims

Publish date : 2023-11-14 09:00:01

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Education department will meet experts to decide if shark patrols and others measures are enough to let students back into the waterGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA snap ban on school trips to the beach has been called in South Australia after a shark attack occurred while children were in the water.The state government is now bringing forward shark patrols and looking at other measures to ensure it is safe to go back in the water following a series of incidents throughout 2023.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Tory Shepherd

Publish date : 2023-11-14 07:45:59

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Hundreds in desperate situation at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, aid agencies say; at least three killed in West Bank city of Tulkarm, reports Palestinian news agency Wafa Israel-Hamas war: what we know on day 40Israel and Palestine: a complete guide to the crisisVivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace activist believed to have been among the hostages taken by Hamas into Gaza on 7 October, was in fact killed in the initial attack, her family has told Canada’s CBC News.Silver’s son Yonatan Zeigen confirmed to the broadcaster that his mother’s remains had been among those found at kibbutz Be’eri, where she lived, but had only now been identified. Continue reading…



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Author : Helen Livingstone

Publish date : 2023-11-14 06:20:22

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NSW police took ‘adversarial’ approach to special inquiry, counsel assisting says in final addressNew South Wales police might have missed an opportunity to improve its relationship with the LGBTQ+ community as a result of a “defensive” and “adversarial” approach to an 18-month inquiry into possible gay hate-related deaths, the senior counsel assisting the commission said.“From the perspective of the special commission, the attitude of the NSW police force has sometimes appeared overly defensive, even adversarial,” Peter Gray SC said in his final address. Continue reading…



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Author : Australian Associated Press

Publish date : 2023-11-14 05:03:42

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The regional NSW council made the submission at a state parliamentary inquiry into the management of poundsSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityTamworth regional council has called for cat containment and desexing to be made mandatory across New South Wales at a hearing into a state parliament inquiry into animal pounds.The director of livable communities at Tamworth Regional Council, Gina Vereker, told the inquiry on Tuesday that the council would “encourage legislation to require a mandate for cats to be desexed and contained”.Sign up to receive Guardian Australia’s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter Continue reading…



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Author : Eliza Spencer

Publish date : 2023-11-14 03:29:16

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Victorian government may increase premiums paid by businesses if Labor’s WorkCover bill is defeated, Jacinta Allan saidThe Victorian premier has threatened to further hike premiums paid by businesses to fund the state’s worker’s compensation scheme if parliament does not pass proposed reforms she says will secure its financial future.The Coalition party room on Tuesday voted to oppose the WorkCover bill in its current form, joining the Greens and several other cross benchers in effectively denying Labor the numbers it needs to pass the legislation in the upper house. Continue reading…



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Author : Benita Kolovos

Publish date : 2023-11-14 02:43:12

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Member for Monash will remain in parliament as independent after losing Liberal pre-selection for next election Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVeteran MP Russell Broadbent is quitting the Liberal party and will sit on the crossbench as an independent after he lost preselection to re-contest his Victorian seat of Monash.Broadbent announced the decision in the party room on Tuesday, citing the margin of his defeat in his preselection (161 to 16) to Mary Aldred, a government relations executive at Fujitsu who will contest the seat for the Liberals at the next election.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Publish date : 2023-11-14 01:10:18

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Butchaski, a keen angler, has been missing since Sunday after he went on a solo fishing trip at Olive River on the Cape York PeninsulaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn air and land search is continuing after former radio host and angler Roman Butchaski went missing near crocodile-infested waters at the weekend.Butchaski, better known as “Butch”, has been missing since Sunday after he went on a solo fishing trip at Olive River, a remote waterway along the Cape York Peninsula in far-north Queensland.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…



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Author : Emily Wind

Publish date : 2023-11-14 00:11:32

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Authorities look into Jesús Ociel Baena’s cause of death as activists urge full investigation into gender identity-related threatsMexico’s first openly non-binary magistrate and prominent LGBTQ+ activist has been found dead at home in the central state of Aguascalientes.Jesús Ociel Baena, who used they/them pronouns, was celebrated across Latin America for their work to advance the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. Continue reading…



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Author : Staff and agencies in Mexico City

Publish date : 2023-11-13 22:47:38

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As protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict continue, government services and NDIS minister says ‘community leaders in Australia [have] got to dial it down a bit’. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastShorten reiterates support for two-state solutionPatricia Karvelas then raises with Bill Shorten what was said on Q+A last night, when Nasser Mashni, the president of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, argued that hopes for a two-state solution “ended years ago”.Oh, no, our policy has been to support a two-state solution.There was a policy which we developed many, many years ago about respecting the security of Israel and the right of Palestinians to have a say in controlling their own land. I don’t think that’s a radical policy.I think it’s unexceptional what the foreign minister said. We’re in very close step to the United States and other western nations. We’ve called for humanitarian pause, but we completely recognise that Israel’s dealing with Hamas who don’t want to negotiate, so the idea that we want an enduring peace, as Penny said, of course, is what we want.We all know we’re a long way off that and Hamas should be prevailed upon by world opinion to hand back the hostages to say that they’re going to stop trying to kill Israelis and destroy Israel. Continue reading…



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Author : Amy Remeikis

Publish date : 2023-11-13 21:12:51

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