Protests and fringe violence expose sharp divide between marginalised and immigrant youth and those with greater prospects Martina Miccichè was filming riot police kicking and beating a teenager with batons as they dragged him along Piazza del Duomo, the central Milan square hosting its cathedral, when she was struck by a flying object, causing a deep gash and bruising near her right eye. The jour…
Exclusive: West Streeting says MoD in talks amid legal challenge by LGBT staff forced out of military Wes Streeting is pursuing an out-of-court resolution to a legal battle over compensation for gay veterans who were forced to resign from the armed forces because of their sexuality. The defence secretary told the Guardian the Ministry of Defence was holding talks this week in the midst of a high c…
Visa quotas, university fees and NHS surcharges remain sticking points ahead of post-Brexit negotiations next month A deadline for a youth mobility scheme between the EU and the UK could be deferred by six months in a bid to ensure Andy Burnham has a successful “reset” summit on 20 November, diplomats have said. EU ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday heard that the UK was still insisting on inter…
High inflation, low growth and rising unemployment can be added to the federal treasurer’s wall of worries Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Jim Chalmers in a speech last week offered the scant encouragement that the economy would be “a bit better” in a year’s time. Fast forward to Friday morning, and the treasurer revealed that his officials were busy downgrading their f…
न्युजिल्यान्ड । न्युजिल्यान्डको रक्षा बलका प्रमुख एयर मार्शल टोनी डेभिसले पदमा रहँदा भएको ‘अनुचित सम्बन्ध’बारे जानकारी नदिएको विषयमा शुक्रबार राजीनामा दिएका छन्। न्युजिल्यान्डको रक्षा बलले जारी गरेको विज्ञप्तिअनुसार डेभिसले रक्षामन्त्री पल गोल्डस्मिथलाई आफ्नो राजीनामाबारे जानकारी गराएका
Search and rescue efforts under way after quake strikes region’s north, officials say, while at least seven aftershocks recorded A magnitude-7 earthquake has hit China’s Tibet region, killing at least 16 people, injuring 54 and collapsing hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media said. Search and rescue efforts continued after the collapse of at least 339 homes and 2…
People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, new research suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths. Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August as the heat added by planet-bakin…
Alois uses the first veto of his reign to quash parliament-approved bill backed by a national petition The hereditary prince of Liechtenstein has used his veto for the first time in his reign to quash a bill aimed at bringing abortion laws in line with much of Europe. The legislation was approved by Liechtenstein’s parliament last month after the presentation of a citizens’ initiative signed by ro…
Will Donald Trump accept a ‘blue wave’ if it happens? Have young people turned away from centrist politics for ever? Will the US ever recover its image on the world stage? Jonathan Freedland is joined by the Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan to answer these questions and more Buy your tickets to the Guardian’s post-midterms live event, hosted by Jonathan Freedland Watch Jonathan Freedland on our…
Economic fallout from war in Middle East adds to pressures on consumers and on chancellor before budget Consumer confidence in the UK has fallen at the fastest rate outside the Covid pandemic since the 2016 Brexit vote as the escalating economic damage from the war in the Middle East hits Britain. With less than a week before John Healey’s first budget, the latest barometer from the data company G…
Michelle Landry announces she will not recontest her Queensland seat of Capricornia at the next election Matt Canavan could attempt a switch to the House of Representatives after a colleague announced her looming retirement, as a leading pollster said the Nationals leader had a “zero per cent” chance of holding his Senate seat if the One Nation polling surge remains unchanged. Veteran Nationals MP…
ताइपेई । शक्तिशाली समुद्री आँधी ‘सुपर टाइफुन चाम्पी’ ताइवानतर्फ अघि बढेपछि पूर्वी एसियामा सयौँ हवाई उडान रद्द गरिएका छन् । आँधीको जोखिमलाई ध्यानमा राख्दै ताइवानमा विद्यालय, सरकारी कार्यालय र सेयर बजार बन्द गरिएका छन् भने
Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching The mother of the youngest alleged victim of Alan Jones continued to seek advice from the broadcaster after the teenager was allegedly indecently assaulted at Jones’s Fitzroy Falls farm, a Sydney court has heard. The divorced mother told the Downing Centre court she had developed a pattern of not trusting herse…
इजिप्टको दक्षिणी क्षेत्रमा रहेको तीन हजार वर्ष पुरानो मन्दिरको भित्री भागमा वर्षमा दुई पटक सूर्यको सुनौलो किरण प्रवेश गरी मूर्तिहरूलाई उज्यालो पार्ने दुर्लभ खगोलीय दृश्य हेर्न बिहीबार बिहान सयौँ पर्यटक र स्थानीयवासी भेला भए । रामसेस
इक्वेडरका दुई जेलमा बिहीबार भएको झडपमा आठ कैदीको मृत्यु भएको छ भने अन्य १० जना घाइते भएका छन् । सुधार अधिकारीहरूका अनुसार कोटोपाक्सी कारागारमा चार र पिचिनचा कारागारमा थप चार जनाको मृत्यु भएको हो । इक्वेडरका
