Cross-party committee says ‘moonshot’ vow to end obesity epidemic in a decade will fail without personal leadership from PM The UK government’s promise to reverse rising obesity rates in the next decade is “doomed to fail” without a major rethink and a new plan led directly by the prime minister, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded. The health and social care select committee said in a re…
Next month’s poll no longer the contest it was, as Pedro Sánchez finds himself forced to defend government’s safety record One of the most dependable cliches of contemporary Spanish politics is that it never pays to bet against Pedro Sánchez. Time and time again – as leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) and as prime minister – Sánchez has shown an almost preternatural ability to p…
Conservative-run Hillingdon aims to save £100,000 but local people fear dog poo will ‘be dumped everywhere’ People in a west London borough fear it will become covered in dog poo after their cash-strapped council decided to remove 700 dog-waste bins to save money. “People are worried there’s going to be dog shit everywhere,” said Daniel O’Neill, the chief road steward at Ruislip Residents’ Associa…
Ryan Dinnage – who accompanied Reform UK leader on walkabouts before local elections – was later jailed, raising questions about vetting failure One of Nigel Farage’s security team who accompanied him on the local election campaign trail this year was facing a rape charge and was later jailed for eight years, raising questions about a failure of vetting. Ryan Dinnage spent time protecting Farage i…
Paul Nowak says ‘hundreds, if not thousands’ of employers could sign access agreements as ‘transformative’ rules come into force The TUC general secretary, Paul Nowak, is predicting a wave of union recognition deals in the private sector over the next year as “transformative” rules on accessing workplaces come into force. From Friday, as part of Labour’s Employment Rights Act, unions will have the…
काठमाडौँ । इरान समर्थित यमनको हुथी विद्रोही समूहले साउदी अरबका विभिन्न विमानस्थल तथा तेल केन्द्रलाई लक्षित गरी ६ वटा आक्रमण गरेको दाबी गरेको छ । हुथी सैन्य प्रवक्ता याह्या सारीले बिहीबार सामाजिक सञ्जाल एक्समार्फत आक्रमणमा रास
काठमाडौँ । नेपाल मौसम विज्ञान विभागले शनिबार अपराह्नपछि चक्रवात ‘अर्नब’ को प्रभाव र वर्षाको गतिविधि कम हुँदै जाने जनाएको छ । विभागका अनुसार कोशी, मधेस, बागमती र गण्डकी प्रदेशका धेरै स्थान तथा लुम्बिनी, कर्णाली र सुदूरपश्चिम
न्युयोर्क । सम्भावित प्राकृतिक विपत्ति, युद्ध र विश्वव्यापी संकटबाट बच्न विश्वका अर्बपति तथा चर्चित व्यक्तिहरूले भूमिगत विलासी बंकर निर्माण गर्न थालेका छन् । सामान्य आपत्कालीन आश्रयस्थलभन्दा फरक यी बंकरमा स्विमिङ पुल, जिम, आधुनिक स्वास्थ्य सुविधा
काठमाडौँ । बाइनान्स क्रिप्टोकरेन्सी एक्सचेन्जले सम्भावित सुरक्षा समस्या सार्वजनिक गरेपछि शुक्रबार बिटक्वाइनसहित प्रमुख क्रिप्टोकरेन्सीको मूल्यमा गिरावट आएको छ । रोयटर्सका अनुसार बिटक्वाइनको मूल्य घटेर ७७ हजार ६४६ अमेरिकी डलर पुगेको छ । यो पछिल्लो छ सातायताकै
नयाँ दिल्ली । भारतको दक्षिणी राज्य आन्ध्र प्रदेशमा आएको शक्तिशाली चक्रवात ‘अर्नब’का कारण पाँच जनाको मृत्यु भएको छ भने करिब ५७ हजार मानिस विस्थापित भएका छन्। आन्ध्र प्रदेशका मुख्यमन्त्री एन. चन्द्रबाबु नायडूले बुधवार चक्रवातका कारण पाँच जनाको ज्यान गएको पुष्टि गरेका हुन्। रुख, पर्खाल तथा विद्युत्का पोल खस्नुका साथै करेन्ट लागेर उनीहरूको मृत्यु भएको सरकारी
बेइजिङ । चिनियाँ कम्युनिस्ट पार्टीको महत्त्वपूर्ण वार्षिक राजनीतिक बैठक सकिँदा यसपटक अहिलेसम्मकै धेरै अर्थात् ३३ जना पार्टी सदस्यलाई निष्कासन गरिएको छ । निष्कासनमा परेका ३३ जनामध्ये १६ जना सेनासँग सम्बन्धित छन् । चिनियाँ कम्युनिस्ट पार्टीको पाँचौँ पूर्ण
Commons report calls on Foreign Office to bail out soft-power flagship reeling from job cuts and asset sales Ministers should explore writing off a crippling £197m loan to the British Council by converting as much of it as possible into “a grant or similar”, MPs have said. The Commons public accounts committee said the government lacked a “positive vision” for the council, whose soft power value t…
As thousands of datacentres are constructed across Europe, the Guardian and Investigate Europe have uncovered disturbing evidence that some workers building them are exposed to dangerous conditions and living in fear of speaking out Sandu* checked his watch. He was winding down the last 15 minutes of his shift at a vast Google datacentre site in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium, in March, when the call cam…
Swedish author was due to speak alongside Palestine Action co-founder at event discussing ban on the group Andreas Malm, the climate academic and author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, has been blocked from entering the UK before he was due to speak alongside a co-founder of the banned group Palestine Action. Malm was told by immigration officials his presence in the UK “may not be considered to be…
Critics cite Lana Nusseibeh’s denial of accusations the UAE is fuelling Sudan war by supporting paramilitary RSF Members of the Sudanese diaspora and international human rights monitors have denounced the candidature of an Emirati diplomat for the top job at the UN, citing her denial of accusations that the United Arab Emirates is fuelling the war in Sudan by supporting the paramilitary Rapid Supp…
There is no end in sight for the drivers of illegal mining, while police action appears ineffective Cora Bailey has been encountering illegal miners ever since she first started treating injured animals in the townships around Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, in 1991. But as the price of gold has soared, so too has activity in the abandoned mine shafts that mark the area. In late September, dozen…
About 25,000 members of public chip in £17m towards 3,800-hectare Rothbury estate, described as ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ One of the most ambitious nature recovery projects ever undertaken in England can go ahead after campaigners announced they had raised £30m to buy an estate in Northumberland. The Wildlife Trusts’ bid to buy the Rothbury estate, an area the size of Athens, had been cha…
वासिङ्टन । अमेरिकाले राष्ट्रिय सुरक्षाको कारण देखाउँदै चिनियाँ दूरसञ्चार कम्पनीहरूलाई अमेरिकी फोन नम्बरमा प्रत्यक्ष पहुँच गर्न प्रतिबन्ध लगाउने तयारी गरेको छ । बिहीबार अमेरिकी संघीय सञ्चार आयोग (एफसीसी)ले यससम्बन्धी प्रस्तावमाथि आगामी नोभेम्बर १९ मा मतदान गर्ने
