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Fears for democracy and state of economy top issues for voters, exit polls suggestUS election results 2024: live map and trackerSenate and House results 2024: live maps and trackerWhen will we know the result of the US presidential election?The state of American democracy and the economy were the top issues on voters’ minds as they cast their ballots in the 2024 presidential election, according to an NBC News exit poll.The poll’s preliminary results show 35% of voters said democracy mattered most to their vote, while 31% said the economy. Continue reading…



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Author : Chris Stein (now) and Léonie Chao-Fong (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-11-05 23:43:42

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Valencia authorities say search efforts continue as prime minister announces €10.6bn fund to help victims of disasterAt least 89 people remain missing after deadly floods in eastern Spain, regional judicial authorities in Valencia have confirmed, as the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said he was earmarking €10.6bn (£8.9bn) to help victims.The number includes only those who have been reported missing by family members who have also provided personal information and biological samples to allow for their identification, the superior court of justice of the Valencia region said in a statement on Tuesday. It added that there could be more cases of people who have disappeared whose details have not yet been registered. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2024-11-05 22:42:22

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In the seven swing states that could decide whether Harris or Trump wins the election, voters feel fought overUS election 2024 – latest updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerAmerica had previously always been “somebody else’s country,” said Christopher La Rose, a health researcher, as he waited just before 7am in Pine Lake, a village that’s too small for postal delivery just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.But that changed recently for La Rose, who is of Guyanese descent, when he became an American citizen. He had the jitters on Monday night, before using his first-ever vote in a US election to back Kamala Harris. Continue reading…



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Author : George Chidi in Pine Lake, Georgia

Publish date : 2024-11-05 21:33:14

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Federal police execute three warrants and could lay charges after scouring video evidence. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA “dangerous anti-abortion bill” before the senate should be withdrawn, if opposition leader Peter Dutton wants credibility on women’s healthcare, minister for women Katy Gallagher says.Dutton has warned his MPs on speaking out on abortion, after shadow Indigenous Australians spokesperson Jacinta Nampijinpa Price spoke out, and abortion was back on the agenda in the lead up to the Queensland election.It is typical of Peter Dutton to view this purely as a matter of winning or losing votes, rather than any genuine commitment to women’s healthcare.If Peter Dutton wants any credibility on women’s healthcare, he must immediately ensure Senators [Matt] Canavan and [Alex] Antic withdraw their dangerous anti-abortion bill currently before the Senate. Continue reading…



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Author : Tory Shepherd (now) and Martin Farrer (earlier)

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Documentary about Billy Mail’s connection with orphaned pup Molly airs on National Geographic next weekNational Geographic will be streaming a new documentary about an unlikely bond between a man and an otter in Shetland.Billy Mail met Molly, a starving pup, in 2021 when he saw her jumping off a pontoon into the sea near his Shetland home. Mail wanted to see how close he could get to her before she fled. But it turned out that Molly had no intention of running away.Billy and Molly: An Otter Love Story will be available from 14 November on Disney+, and will air on 15 November on National Geographic Continue reading…



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Author : Rachel Keenan

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Saltburn actor tells Louis Theroux podcast about his difficult childhood and decision to keep his child offlineOscar nominee Barry Keoghan has hit back at “disgusting” online trolls who he claimed use his relationship with his son as “ammunition” against him.The 32-year-old Irish actor, who is dating US singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter, has a two-year-old son, Brando, with his former partner. Continue reading…



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Author : Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

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Industrial action by Aslef members threatened to halt all London Underground servicesA planned strike by tube drivers that threatened to halt all London Underground services on Thursday has been called off, their union announced.Talks between Aslef officials and Transport for London management on Tuesday led to a “significantly improved offer”, according to the union. Continue reading…



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Author : Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

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Woman claims civil damages against McGregor and another man, alleging she was sexually assaulted in 2018The Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor raped a woman in a Dublin hotel, the city’s high court has been told.Nikita Ni Laimhin is claiming civil damages against McGregor and another man, alleging she was sexually assaulted in 2018. Continue reading…



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Court told that Urfan Sharif had tried to call an ambulance for his daughter, but his wife told him to ‘leave it’The father of Sara Sharif denied killing his daughter as he claimed the 10-year-old’s stepmother was the “true villain of the piece”, a court was told.

Urfan Sharif tried to save his “limp” daughter and begged for an ambulance, only to be told: “Leave it, she’s dead,” jurors heard.

Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of carrying out a violent “campaign of abuse” before Sara was found dead in a bunk bed at the family home in Surrey on 10 August 2023.

The defendants allegedly killed Sara on 8 August before fleeing to Pakistan, from where Sharif called police to say he had “beat her up too much”. He had left a handwritten “confession” near her fully clothed body saying: “I swear to God that my intention was not to kill her. But I lost it.”

In his speech to the jury outlining Sharif’s case, the defence barrister Naeem Mian KC suggested to jurors that Sharif had wrongly been cast as the “villain of the piece”. But he said that Sharif has accused Batool of being the “true villain”.He said Sharif was “extremely hardworking” and the sole breadwinner of the family before adding: “Let me make plain I’m not suggesting that he’s unimpeachable, that he’s some sort of an angel.”

The barrister said there were times when Sharif would discipline the children “with a slap”, adding: “You may think that as somebody that’s working all the hours, seven days a week, and you’re constantly being told there are issues with the children, you inevitably lose you patience sometimes.” Continue reading…



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The dollar figure of superannuation that went unpaid after recovery efforts rose to $5.2bn from $4.8bn in 2022-23Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian workers missed out on a record $5.2bn of superannuation that employers failed to pay last financial year, according to the Australian Taxation Office.The ATO has released the data on the superannuation “gap” in its annual report, which also reveals that $1.4bn is likely to go unpaid because it is owed by insolvent companies.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading…



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Author : Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Publish date : 2024-11-05 13:59:53

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Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer Standing in blinding sunlight on an archipelago above the Arctic Circle, the photographer Christian Åslund looked in shock at a glacier he had last visited in 2002. It had almost completely disappeared.Two decades ago Greenpeace asked Åslund to use photographs taken in the early 20th century, and photograph the same views in order to document how glaciers in Svalbard were melting due to global heating. The difference in ice density in those pictures, taken almost a century apart, was staggering. Continue reading…



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Author : Helena Horton

Publish date : 2024-11-05 12:55:16

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Activities of those aged 0 to three often involve sensory exploration and embodied cognition, researchers findAlthough it has been argued that under-threes should not have any screen time at all, research has found that digital tech can offer “rich opportunities” for young children’s development.A two-year study, Toddlers, Tech and Talk, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and led by researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), working with Lancaster, Queen’s Belfast, Strathclyde and Swansea universities, looked at children’s interactions with everything from Amazon Alexa to Ring doorbells, in diverse communities across the UK, to find out how tech was influencing 0- to three-year-olds’ early talk and literacy. Continue reading…



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Author : Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

Publish date : 2024-11-05 11:47:45

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Palestinian health officials say two children among those killed in multiple strikes as Israeli military orders Beit Lahiya residents to evacuateAl Jazeera reports that the death toll from an Israeli strike on tents housing displaced people in central Gaza has risen to six, and includes a six-year-old and a four-year-old child.Lebanon’s Nation News Agency has reported that the Israeli army, which has been staging incursions inside the south of the country, “is booby-trapping and destroying entire neighbourhoods in cities and towns, such that more than 37 towns have been wiped out and their homes destroyed, and more than 40,000 housing units have been completely destroyed.” Continue reading…



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Author : Martin Belam

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Priti Patel becomes shadow foreign secretary with Mel Stride as shadow chancellor and Robert Jenrick as shadow justice secretaryIn a statement commenting on her shadow cabinet appointments, Kemi Badenoch, the new Conservative leader, said:I am delighted to have appointed my shadow cabinet, which draws on the talents of people from across the Conservative party, based on meritocracy and with a breadth of experience and perspective, just as I promised during the campaign.Our party’s problems will only be solved with a team effort, and I am confident my shadow cabinet ministers will deliver effective opposition as we seek to win back the trust of the public.The thing that was very clear to me was that the One Nation side of the party, having been almost completely excluded from ministerial office under the new administration, felt no obligation whatsoever to defend the Truss government – it wasn’t theirs. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

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Music and film stars celebrate late entertainment icon, with Smith calling him ‘the true definition of a mentor, a father and a friend’• How hit-making legend Quincy Jones created superstars and changed pop history
• 10 of Quincy Jones’s greatest productionsStars including Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder have paid tribute to Quincy Jones, who died this week aged 91.Following a career as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, conductor as well as a film producer, in 1990 Jones produced the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which gave Smith his first ever acting role. Jones brokered the casting in an impromptu audition by Smith – then known purely as a rapper – to NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff at a party at Jones’s home, with a contract drawn up that night. Continue reading…



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Author : Ben Beaumont-Thomas

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