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• UK patients: are care shortages preventing you from being discharged from hospital?

  17-10-2022 13:53 via theguardian.com
  We would like to hear from people for whom a lack of social care in the community is preventing them or their relatives from being dischargedWe would like to hear from people who are well enough to be discharged from hospital but have no social care in place in the community, meaning they cannot leave.Were you, or a family member, independent before hospitalisation, or have requirements changed meaning it’s no longer possible to return to a previous care package? Do you, or your relative,
  
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• Made in Italy: the family baking thousands of panettones a day

  17-10-2022 12:18 via theguardian.com
  The Brandani family amps up panettone production in the run-up to Christmas, adding a special spiced twist to Uncle Bruno’s original recipe for M&S“My earliest memories are the wonderful sweet smells: toasted hazelnuts, the fruit, the yeast,” says Marco Brandani, recalling childhood visits to his family’s panettone bakery.Today he’s the CEO, and while the company, Maina, has grown – with its festive domed bread now finding its way to British tables at Chri
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: several blasts hit central Kyiv; conflict has pushed four million children into poverty, says UN

  17-10-2022 06:58 via theguardian.com
  Russia launched at least three strikes on Kyiv early Monday morning; 19% increase in children living in poverty in Europe and central Asia since 2021A large fire has broken out at an energy plant in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth largest city, following strikes early on Monday morning, Reuters reports, citing the Dnipro mayor. The Guardian’s Dan Sabbagh is sheltering in an underpass at Kyiv station, near to where this morning’s attacks occurred:Continue reading...
  
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• Chinese Communist party congress: who’s in and who’s out of Xi Jinping’s inner circle

  17-10-2022 06:20 via theguardian.com
  A major reshuffle will take place in the Chinese Commmunist party’s top echelon this week – here’s a who’s who of the main playersChina’s Communist party congress: everything you need to knowA major reshuffle will take place in the Chinese Communist party’s top echelon at the 20th party congress in Beijing this week, a twice-a-decade meeting that began in the capital on 16 October.The meeting brings together more than 2,000 party members in a process of select
  
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• New Zealand MP says Rocket Lab launches could betray country’s anti-nuclear stance

  17-10-2022 06:10 via theguardian.com
  The commercial space company rejects criticism of satellite launches for the US militaryA New Zealand commercial space company, Rocket Lab, has faced new opposition to its activities on behalf of foreign militaries, with one New Zealand Green MP saying its actions could fly in the face of the country’s anti-nuclear stance.The American-New Zealand company, founded by Peter Beck in 2006, provides rockets to deliver payloads into orbit from its launch site on the Māhia Peninsula, in New
  
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• Seth Green alleges Bill Murray dropped him in bin ‘by his ankles’ as a child

  17-10-2022 05:07 via theguardian.com
  Green is latest celebrity to make allegations about 72-year-old’s behaviour, after reports he straddled and kissed female crew member on setGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailSeth Green has alleged that Bill Murray once dropped him in a bin “by his ankles” when he was a child, making him the latest in a spate of celebrities coming forward with claims about Murray’s behaviour after it emerged he had paid a reported US$100,000 to settle a complaint about his conduct
  
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• Lula brands Bolsonaro ‘tiny little dictator’ in Brazil TV debate

  17-10-2022 05:04 via theguardian.com
  Leftist challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva calls incumbent Jair Bolsonaro a ‘shameless liar’ who ‘fooled around’ with Covid causing huge fatalitiesThe leftist frontrunner to become Brazil’s next president branded the far-right incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, “a tiny little dictator” and “the king of fake news and stupidity” during a television debate that will help define the political future of one of the world’s biggest democracie
  
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• Is it time to rethink the laws on assisted dying? - podcast

  17-10-2022 04:00 via theguardian.com
  Laws around assisted dying have long been contentious and euthanasia remains illegal in the UK. But campaigners such as David Minns are continuing to push for change David Minns is 74 years old and lives in Suffolk. A few years ago, doctors diagnosed him with multiple myeloma and amyloidosis. It means that excess proteins are building up in his organs and shutting them down. Doctors have given him only months to live.He tells Hannah Moore that he would like the right to decide for himself when h
  
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• Greece and Turkey trade blame after 92 naked migrants rescued at border

  17-10-2022 03:11 via theguardian.com
  UN calls for a full investigation, as Greek authorities brand Turkey’s behaviour a ‘shame to civilisation’The discovery of 92 naked migrants on the border of Greece and Turkey over the weekend has prompted accusations of blame between the two countries and condemnation from the United Nations.Greek police rescued the men who were discovered naked, some with injuries, close to the northern border with Turkey, police said on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• British woman fatally shot while hunting boar in France, prosecutor says

  17-10-2022 01:23 via theguardian.com
  The 67-year-old was wounded ‘above the heart’ as the hunting party crossed a corn field on SundayA British woman has died after she was shot by her companion during a wild boar hunt in France on Sunday, in what a prosecutor described as a “dramatic accident”.The 67-year-old was wounded “above the heart” and taken to hospital in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, where she died around midday, said the prosecutor, Nicolas Heitz. Continue reading...
  
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• UK joins international effort to uncover first moments of the universe

  17-10-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  US-led project examines fraction of a second after big bang and ‘how all the structures in the night sky started’Researchers from the UK are joining an international effort to uncover what the universe looked like a fraction of a second after it burst into existence, and how the cosmic order we see today emerged from primordial chaos.Six UK universities are to crunch data and build new instrumentation for the Simons Observatory, a group of telescopes that scan the heavens from a vant
  
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• UK house prices rise in October despite economic turmoil

  17-10-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Average price of a property coming to market up 0.9%, says Rightmove, but first-time buyer demand has droppedAsking prices for houses in the UK edged higher in October, although demand from first-time buyers has dropped as mortgage rates surge.Despite the economic turmoil since the government’s mini-budget last month, there has been little immediate sign of the housing market slipping, according to Rightmove. Continue reading...
  
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• UK can take lead in averting mass atrocity crimes, MPs’ report says

  17-10-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Government urged to develop cross-Whitehall strategy to warn world of potential crimes against humanityThe UK can take a lead in trying to forecast and avert mass atrocity crimes, MPs suggest in a report published on Monday.Calling on the government to develop a cross-Whitehall mass atrocity strategy, the international development select committee says Britain could deploy its diplomatic network to warn the world if conflicts are threatening to spill into greater crimes against humanity. Continu
  
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• Huge failings kept hundreds of corrupt officers in the force, admits Met chief

  17-10-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Casey report uncovers internal failings that let racist, corrupt and misogynist officers remain in their jobsMetropolitan police officers suspected of serious criminal offences including sexual assault and domestic abuse have been allowed to escape justice, a damning review has found, with the force’s leader admitting that hundreds of racist, women-hating and corrupt officers have been left in the ranks.Massive failings in how Britain’s biggest force roots out wrongdoing were exposed
  
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• Goldman Sachs expects worse UK recession in 2023

  17-10-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Bank tips economy to shrink 1% in downgraded forecast, but also predicts lower inflation and interest ratesThe UK is likely to enter a deeper recession than previously expected next year, while interest rates and inflation will be lower than forecast, according to revised analysis from Goldman Sachs.The US investment bank downgraded its outlook for Britain, in analysis released on Sunday, forecasting the UK economy would shrink by 1% next year, down from its previous estimate for a 0.4% contract
  
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• Endemic low pay threatens future of NHS, says union boss

  17-10-2022 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Unison’s Christina McAnea says winter strikes ‘inevitable’ as only way for workers to get message acrossEndemic low pay represents a threat to the very future of the NHS, the head of the biggest union representing health staff has warned ahead of an expected wave of strike action this winter.Strike action over pay seemed “inevitable”, said Christina McAnea, the general secretary of Unison, even though a formal ballot of staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland o
  
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• Bird flu found in poultry at site in Anglesey

  17-10-2022 00:41 via theguardian.com
  Case is first in Wales since 1 October and officials say risks to human health and food safety are very lowBird flu has been identified in poultry at a site in Anglesey, the Welsh government said on Sunday.The presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 was confirmed by Wales’s interim chief veterinary officer, Gavin Watkins, at the site. It is the first confirmed case of avian influenza in Wales since 1 October. Continue reading...
  
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• Liz Truss fights for survival as even allies say she could have only days left

  17-10-2022 00:03 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister to meet mutinous Tory MPs this week in effort to shore up her position after U-turns on taxLiz Truss is fighting for her political survival, with Conservative MPs threatening to oust her and even allies warning she has just days to turn around her premiership despite ripping up her economic strategy and appointing Jeremy Hunt as chancellor.The beleaguered prime minister will attempt to shore up her crumbling support by gathering her cabinet ministers at No 10 on Monday evening and
  
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