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• NHS: Ambulance delays as paramedic holds for GP

  01-12-2022 20:59 via bbc.co.uk
  When ambulance crews bring patients to hospital they are meant to be able to handover their patients to A&E staff within 15 minutes.
  
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• Rishi Sunak: We've made progress on racism but job not done

  01-12-2022 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM reflects on his own experiences of racism amid a Buckingham Palace race row.
  
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• ‘They could just evict us’: the tenants hit by huge hikes in UK rents

  01-12-2022 20:04 via theguardian.com
  From Manchester to London, three people tell of stress, fear and eviction as cost of private renting rockets• Soaring rents making life ‘unaffordable’ for private UK tenants£8,000 a year; £300 a month; 60%. These are just some of the rent rises demanded from private tenants as winter approaches. The alternative can be eviction, sofa surfing or scrambling in an overheated market for another place. With homelessness the fear, it is extremely stressful.The already expen
  
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• Why protesters in Iran are risking everything for change – video explainer

  01-12-2022 17:38 via theguardian.com
  People across Iran have been protesting for nearly three months, defying a deadly crackdown by regime forces. The demonstrations are seen as a fierce challenge to four decades of hardline clerical rule. The protesters' cry of 'Woman, Life, Freedom' has galvanised the movement, which has travelled around the world, but within Iran there have been more than 18,000 arrests, violence and a rising death toll. With protesters refusing to back down, we look at what they want and why they are willi
  
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• Croatia v Belgium: World Cup 2022 – live

  01-12-2022 17:28 via theguardian.com
  World Cup updates from the 3pm GMT / 10am ET kick-offFollow our minute-by-minute coverage of Canada v MoroccoAnd you can email Rob with your thoughts on the matchSign up for our rebranded daily football email, Football Daily!Belgium’s tactics (II) Continue reading...
  
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• Canada v Morocco: World Cup 2022 – live

  01-12-2022 17:27 via theguardian.com
  World Cup updates from the 3pm GMT / 10am ET kick-offFollow our minute-by-minute coverage of Croatia v BelgiumAnd you can mail Barry or tweet @bglendenning on the gameCanada v Morocco: John Herdman makes three changes to the team that started against Croatia. Jonathan Osorio, Mark-Anthony Kaye come into the centre of midfield, while Junior Hoilett starts up front. Stephan Eustaquio, Atuba Hutchinson and Jonathan David drop out. There are two changes to the Morocco side that beat Belgium. Yassine
  
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• Biden tells Macron US ‘could not ask for a better partner’ than France – live

  01-12-2022 17:27 via theguardian.com
  Pair expected to discuss war in Ukraine and US-EU relationsSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailJoe Biden and Emmanuel Macron have been previewing what’s going to be on the agenda at their meeting today. The leaders were sat in armchairs before a roaring log fire in the Oval Office at the White House, mulling the “close coordination” between the countries, as the French president describes it.Macron says Russia’s war in Ukraine will be “
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: Russia pulls back forces from towns opposite Kherson, says Ukraine

  01-12-2022 17:26 via theguardian.com
  Statement gave only limited details and made no mention of any Ukrainian forces having crossed the DniproRussia-Ukraine war at a glanceA bridge is seen collapsed over a river near Lyman city, Ukraine.Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov also accused Nato of trying to drag India into what he called an anti-Russian and anti-Chinese alliance at a time when he said the West was attempting to squeeze out Russian influence. Continue reading...
  
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• Ian Blackford stepping down as SNP’s leader at Westminster – UK politics live

  01-12-2022 17:25 via theguardian.com
  Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon pays tribute after Scottish MP announces he will not stand again for positionThe Guardian’s political editor Pippa Crerar has the full story so far on Ian Blackford’s stepping down – one party insider told her it was a “generational” issue and there was a “need to look to the future”.Rory Carroll, the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent, has some detail on an interesting report in the Irish News: Continue readin
  
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• Boris Johnson will stand again at next general election, source says

  01-12-2022 17:25 via theguardian.com
  Former prime minister to seek re-election for Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituencyBoris Johnson will stand again in Uxbridge at the next election, a source close to the former prime minister has confirmed, though this may mean he faces a tough fight to retain his seat in the Commons.The source said Johnson had decided to contest the west London seat for a fourth time, despite polling suggesting he would lose it to Labour if the election were held now. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Being queer is amazing’: LGBTQ+ artists take the stage at this year’s Art Basel Miami

  01-12-2022 17:25 via theguardian.com
  In a state where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation has recently dominated the headlines, the annual gathering of artists sees queerness out in frontThis year’s Art Basel Miami brings queer openness and potential to Florida, despite the best efforts of those who govern the state to do the exact opposite. In 2022, Florida became an epicenter of anti-LGBTQ+ hate legislation, with Governor Ron DeSantis and his Republican allies infamously passing a “Don’t Say Gay” law, virtually erasin
  
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• Charity boss felt palace’s Lady Hussey tried to make her ‘denounce citizenship’

  01-12-2022 17:24 via theguardian.com
  Ngozi Fulani says Buckingham Palace yet to reach out to her since incident with royal aide at receptionA black British charity leader has said she felt she was being forced to denounce her citizenship when she was “interrogated” by the late queen’s lady-in-waiting about where she “really came from”.Ngozi Fulani, who founded the domestic abuse charity Sistah Space, was questioned repeatedly about her background by the royal aide Susan Hussey at a Buckingham Palace re
  
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• ‘I’m not sorry’: Luis Suárez back in eye of the storm for Ghana rematch

  01-12-2022 17:06 via theguardian.com
  Uruguay’s ‘devil himself’ says he does not regret handball that broke a continent’s heart as he prepares for grudge matchJust in case Ghanaian memories were fading, Uruguay granted them an audience with a ghost. Luis Suárez was not obliged to be the player put up for pre-match media duty but in he walked, 15 minutes before his manager Diego Alonso, and held court on his own. It was less a red rag to a bull than an open invitation to set it charging but the unspoken
  
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• Michael Rosen writes poem in tribute to NHS nurses after Covid recovery

  01-12-2022 17:03 via theguardian.com
  Children’s author who spent 48 days in hospital with virus calls NHS ‘a brilliant and wonderful invention’Michael Rosen doesn’t remember much of his 48 days in an intensive care ward when he was struck down with Covid-19 two years ago. But thanks to a patient diary diligently kept by his nurses, the poet and former children’s laureate knows how faithfully and compassionately he was cared for.“They were wonderful. In the diary they tell me how they held my hand
  
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• Scientists develop motion-powered health monitors for cows

  01-12-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Wearable devices powered by kinetic energy of cows will gather data to help track cattle wellbeingCows on farms could soon have their health, reproductive readiness and location monitored by smart technology powered by the kinetic energy of the animal’s movements.Devices that monitor the health of each cow or keep them within invisible fences are already used on farms but these smart tools are often powered by chemical batteries, which add to energy used by an emissions-intensive industry.
  
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• Lost and found: twitchers delight at sweet song of the black-browed babbler

  01-12-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Since the bird was ‘rediscovered’ by accident in Borneo in 2020, ornithologists have returned to study the melodious species last documented more than 170 years agoFor more than 170 years, and despite its name, scientists and birdwatchers heard no babbling, chirping, tweeting or any other sounds from the black-browed babbler. The bird was long assumed to be extinct, until an accidental discovery by two local men, Muhammad Suranto and Muhammad Rizky Fauzan, in the forests of Borneo&rs
  
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• In Ukraine, Russia is trying to freeze us into submission or death. It will fail | Andriy Yermak

  01-12-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Mass starvation killed millions in the Holodomor 90 years ago. Now Russia has again chosen the path of terrorAndriy Yermak is head of the Ukrainian presidential officeThe Holodomor is one of the most terrifying words ever coined: no movie or book can convey its horrors. Have you ever tried to imagine mass starvation? Millions of slow, torturous, painful deaths. It’s difficult even to conceive of it – but it’s there in the historical record.Picture it: people cling to life with
  
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• A merry Medea? Inside Lost Dog’s Ruination at the Royal Opera House – in pictures

  01-12-2022 16:59 via theguardian.com
  For an ‘alternative festive show’, Ben Duke and his dance company have created a witty version of the Greek myth in London’s Linbury theatre Continue reading...
  
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• Mother Earth, musical prodigy or steely powerhouse? The enigma of Christine McVie

  01-12-2022 16:51 via theguardian.com
  Through Fleetwood Mac’s most turbulent times, she held the line – and wrote some of their most beautiful, bittersweet songs. We pay tribute to Christine McVieAccording to a handwritten note Stevie Nicks posted on social media on Wednesday, Christine McVie’s bandmates in Fleetwood Mac hadn’t even known she was ill until a few days before her death. “I wanted to be in London; I wanted to get to London,” Nicks lamented. “But I was told to wait.”It&rsq
  
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• Hawkish Estonia under pressure to accept higher cap on Russian oil price

  01-12-2022 16:50 via theguardian.com
  Baltic state has held out against cap set at level it believes would have no impact on Putin’s war machineRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesEstonia is under pressure to abandon its threat to veto a US-advocated cap on the price of Russian oil exports that it believes is set too high to have an impact on the Russian war machine.The level of the cap on the price of seaborne oil has been the subject of fraught negotiations within both the European Union and the G7 group of industr
  
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• Big high street banks slow to react to recent money market movements

  01-12-2022 16:47 via theguardian.com
  UK high street banks are accused of not passing on benefits of money market movements to savers and borrowersBig high street banks stand accused of failing to pass on to customers the recent movements in the money markets that should have improved mortgage and savings rates.Some lenders are offering fixed-rate mortgage deals that are 50%-60% more expensive than those they were selling three months ago – despite the fact the money market “swap rates” that largely determine the p
  
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• Number of graduates in teacher training in England at ‘catastrophic’ level

  01-12-2022 16:38 via theguardian.com
  Initial DfE figures show just under 29,000 graduates have signed up this year, a 20% fall on last yearUK politics live – latest news updatesThe number of graduates training to be teachers in England has slumped to “catastrophic” levels, with the government missing its own recruitment targets by more than 80% in key subjects such as physics.The Department for Education’s initial teacher training figures show that just under 29,000 graduates have signed up this year, a 20%
  
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• Obama heads to Georgia as Herschel Walker faces new violence claim

  01-12-2022 16:35 via theguardian.com
  Former president to rally for Raphael Warnock against Trump-backed Republican as early voting closes in Senate runoffBarack Obama will campaign for Raphael Warnock in Georgia on Thursday night, as early voting in the US Senate runoff closes and as Herschel Walker, the Republican challenger to the Democratic incumbent, faces yet more controversy.On Thursday, a former girlfriend told the Daily Beast that in 2005, when she caught Walker with another woman, he “grew enraged, put his hands on h
  
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• ‘Citizen rewilders’ invited to buy shares in Scottish Highlands projects

  01-12-2022 16:35 via theguardian.com
  Firm restoring nature on two estates hopes to give ordinary investors 5% annual return over 10 yearsOrdinary people are being invited to invest in projects to rewild the Scottish Highlands by a company that is restoring nature on two estates and seeking to expand its rewilding portfolio.“Citizen rewilders” can invest a minimum of £50 and up to £200,000 in £10 shares in Highlands Rewilding, which hopes to provide a 5% annual return on the investment over 10 years. Co
  
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• World Cup organisers consider ditching three-team group format for 2026

  01-12-2022 16:30 via theguardian.com
  Alternative plan for 12 groups of four would result in 104 gamesUS, Mexico and Canada World Cup will be first 48-team eventWorld Cup organisers are increasingly open to discarding the new three-team group format for the 2026 tournament in the US, Mexico and Canada. It comes after concerns that too many dead rubbers in the last round of matches could dilute the expanded, 48-team event.Although Fifa’s official position remains unaltered, multiple sources say there have been “informal t
  
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• Tell us: do you live in a household that includes different ethnic groups?

  01-12-2022 16:20 via theguardian.com
  We would like to hear from people in England and Wales who live in households that include members from different ethnic groupsIs your household among the 2.5m identified in the census this week as including members who identify as being from different ethnic groups?A quarter more households identified as such than in the 2011 census and we would like to ask about your experience, at home, going about daily life and dealing with challenges such as prejudice and bias. Continue reading...
  
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• Landowners condemn Tory government for ‘stifling’ rural businesses

  01-12-2022 16:08 via theguardian.com
  Criticism of past 12 years comes as minister admits fresh delay to post-Brexit farm payment schemesLandowners have told the environment secretary they are “running out of patience” with the Conservative government after 12 years of the rural economy being “stifled” and delays to nature-friendly farming payment schemes.At a conference organised by the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), the largest rural landowner group in the country, Thérèse Coffey
  
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• BrewDog loses its ethical B Corp certificate

  01-12-2022 16:01 via theguardian.com
  Status lost after BBC film and open letter from workers alleging ‘culture of fear’ at self-styled ‘punk brewery’The controversial beer brand BrewDog has lost its status as a B Corp less than two years after joining the scheme, which offers certification of a company’s ethical commitment to the environment, community and staff.The company, which was recently called hypocritical for running a World Cup ad campaign highlighting Qatar’s poor human rights record de
  
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• Jamie Chadwick joins Indy NXT and Andretti team in latest drive towards F1

  01-12-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  British driver to join feeder series in US next year‘The ultimate goal is F1 however that route is taken’Jamie Chadwick has never shied away from bold moves on track and is showing similar nerve as she steps up to a new challenge in the new world. In pursuing her ambition of making it to Formula One, the British driver will race for the Andretti team in the US Indy NXT championship in 2023, a vital return to racing against men and a chance to prove her abilities on a hugely competiti
  
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• Colombian police used ‘gender-based violence’ to repress protests – Amnesty

  01-12-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Police tortured and sexually harassed women and LGBTQ+ people as they cracked down on nationwide protests in 2021Colombian police used sexual harassment, torture and forced nudity to target women and LGBTIQ+ people as they cracked down on a nationwide wave of protests in 2021, a report by Amnesty International has found.National and anti-riot police units committed hundreds of acts of gender-based human rights violations in its response to protests, the Amnesty investigation revealed. Continue r
  
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• Beef broth and body shaming: the punk drama about why Empress Elisabeth was the Meghan Markle of her time

  01-12-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Director Marie Kreutzer talks about her latest film, which aims to portray a complex female character – whose story resonates with modern pressures on royal women under the glare of media scrutinyMarie Kreutzer grew up in Vienna, where the 19th-century empress Elisabeth of Austria is a tourist-shop darling. She smiles from tea towels, chocolate boxes and all manner of tat. “Her face is on every other souvenir. She is not someone who is cool or interesting here,” the director sh
  
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• Sturgeon rejects UN concerns about reform of Scotland’s gender law

  01-12-2022 15:56 via theguardian.com
  First minister says special rapporteur’s disquiet about changes to how people change their legal sex ‘not well founded’Nicola Sturgeon has described the concerns of a UN special rapporteur about plans to reform how people change their legal sex in Scotland as “not well founded”.During a robust session of first minister’s questions, Sturgeon also said Shona Robison, the minister in charge of the controversial gender recognition reform bill, would meet the speci
  
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• France backs plans for tribunal for Russian officials over Ukraine war

  01-12-2022 15:43 via theguardian.com
  France is first major western country to publicly support proposal for special court to try for crime of aggressionRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesFrance has become the first major western state to publicly back the creation of a special tribunal to try senior Russian officials – potentially including Vladimir Putin – for the crime of aggression in Ukraine.The French foreign ministry said on Wednesday that it was working with its European partners on the proposal. The s
  
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• London ‘school street’ at centre of dispute dismantled by council

  01-12-2022 15:37 via theguardian.com
  Tower Hamlets removes play space in long-running row with parents over traffic near primary schoolAn east London council has sent construction workers in the middle of the night to dismantle a wooden structure protecting a “school street”.Children at Chisenhale primary in Bow arrived on Thursday morning to find the structure and play space outside the school entrance gone. Continue reading...
  
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• Sheku Bayoh inquiry lawyer allegedly watched World Cup game during session

  01-12-2022 15:34 via theguardian.com
  Gordon Jackson KC, representing three police officers, alleged to have started watching match as evidence was givenOne of Scotland’s most senior lawyers has been accused of showing contempt for an inquiry into the death of a man in police custody after he allegedly began watching a World Cup football match during the proceedings.Gordon Jackson KC, who is representing three of the six police officers involved in the arrest of Sheku Bayoh at an inquiry into his death, is alleged to have star
  
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• Football Daily | Will anyone rival Denmark as the biggest disappointment of this tournament?

  01-12-2022 15:29 via theguardian.com
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Denmark made an impression on Mexico 86 in every way – their breathtaking football, their futuristic kit and even their team song, the jaunty earworm Re-Sepp-Ten. “We are red, we are white, we stand by side,” was the simple but memorable chorus. The comedian Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen, who wrote the lyrics, suggested a B-side to be played in the event of, say, a shocking 5-1 defeat against an inferior Spain team. The chorus was subtl
  
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• Man found guilty of murdering two women at East Sussex farm

  01-12-2022 15:28 via theguardian.com
  Mark Brown convicted of killing Alexandra Morgan and Leah Ware, whose body has not been foundA builder who described himself as a “psychopath with a conscience” has been found guilty of murdering two women, one of whom he kept semi-captive in a shipping container.Mark Brown, 41, killed Leah Ware, 33, and Alexandra Morgan, 34, six months apart last year at a remote farm near St Leonards, in East Sussex, a jury at Hove crown court found. Continue reading...
  
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• Netflix releases Harry & Meghan documentary trailer amid royal race row

  01-12-2022 15:16 via theguardian.com
  Teaser shows images of Meghan apparently in tears and Harry talking of protecting his familyAn emotionally charged trailer of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s forthcoming Netflix documentary series has been released, as Buckingham Palace reels from a racism incident and during a key visit to the US by the Prince and Princess of Wales.In the 1 min 12 sec “teaser”, Harry and Meghan share previously unseen intimate photographs, some showing the duchess apparently crying, with one
  
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• Only fair pay and job security can end waves of UK strikes, say unions

  01-12-2022 15:06 via theguardian.com
  Calls from across communications, health, education and rail sectors come as dispute at Royal Mail escalatesUnion leaders across the communications, rail, health and education sectors have said only fair pay and job security can end the UK’s waves of strike action amid a fresh war of words in the bitter dispute at Royal Mail.Dave Ward, the secretary general of the Communication Workers Union, which is midway through a series of strikes running up to Christmas, accused bosses of “goad
  
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• We have the tools to end HIV, so why is England falling behind its 2030 goal? | Deborah Gold

  01-12-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  A wildly successful new NHS scheme shows how easy this could be. But a lack of funding and resources is holding us backDeborah Gold is chief executive of the National Aids TrustToday is World Aids Day: a time to show solidarity with people living with HIV/Aids across the world, and remember those we have lost. But solidarity and remembrance have limited purpose if they’re not combined with a meaningful commitment to fighting this epidemic. Earlier today, the government published new data t
  
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• ‘When he talks, people listen’: Tyler Adams is a formidable USA captain

  01-12-2022 14:52 via theguardian.com
  The youngest skipper at the Qatar World Cup has starred in midfield for the Americans while winning praise for his wisdom and leadership off the pitchAs the youngest United States men’s national team in generations plotted their return to soccer’s biggest stage after an eight-year absence, manager Gregg Berhalter relied on a captaincy-by-committee approach. More than a dozen different American players took on the role of captain over the past three and a half years as Berhalter rotat
  
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• Guns, death and Daddy issues: why SAS Rogue Heroes is one of the year’s most emotional TV shows

  01-12-2022 14:43 via theguardian.com
  This brilliant series from the Peaky Blinders creator might be a high-octane, action-packed riot – but it’s also tender, touching and funny. Its finale will not disappointI did not expect SAS Rogue Heroes to be as much of a blast as it has turned out to be. Obviously, anything by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight is unlikely to be a snoozefest, but this high-octane series has been a total triumph. Each of the five episodes has ramped up the pace, the heart and the drama so much tha
  
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• ‘It’s absolute hell’: a paramedic in England on why he backs strike

  01-12-2022 14:40 via theguardian.com
  Joshua describes the pressures of the job and feeling poorly treated and underpaidAmbulance workers across England have voted to strike over pay and staffing levels, and action is expected before Christmas. Thousands of 999 call handlers, ambulance technicians, paramedics and others working for ambulance services are expected to take part. Joshua, a paramedic in northern England, shares why he’s striking.“I’ve been a paramedic since 2016 and it’s absolute hell doing this
  
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• Billionaire Modi ally on verge of taking over independent Indian news channel

  01-12-2022 14:39 via theguardian.com
  Gautam Adani’s takeover of NDTV is ‘serious threat to democracy’ in India, says news anchorOne of India’s few remaining news channels known for independent reporting is about to be taken over by a billionaire ally of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.In recent years, NDTV (New Delhi Television) has earned a reputation as one of the last bastions of independent journalism among India’s mainstream media, which have increasingly been put under pressure to toe the gover
  
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• Hair salon owners of Goma, DRC – in pictures

  01-12-2022 14:18 via theguardian.com
  Hair salon owners pose in front of their colourful shopfronts in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as normal life goes on despite tensions in the city, which borders Rwanda. Renewed advances by the M23 rebel movement have led to the arrival in recent weeks of international troops in the region as reinforcements Continue reading...
  
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• Uruguay's Luis Suarez will not apologise to Ghana for handball that knocked them out of 2010 World Cup - Sky Sports

  01-12-2022 14:07 via news.google.com
  Uruguay's Luis Suarez will not apologise to Ghana for handball that knocked them out of 2010 World Cup  Sky SportsLuis Suarez refuses to apologise for handball that sent Ghana out of 2010 World Cup  Daily MailLuis Suarez refuses to apologise for infamous World Cup handball: ‘Ghana player missed a penalty, not me’  The IndependentRevenge Mission: Ghana renews rivalry with Uruguay on December 2 at 2022 World Cup - News Desk  JoyNewsSuarez refuses
  
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• Girls Aloud’s 20 best songs – ranked! - The Guardian

  01-12-2022 14:06 via news.google.com
  Girls Aloud’s 20 best songs – ranked!  The Guardian
  
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• LeBron James queries why media asked him about Irving but not Jerry Jones

  01-12-2022 14:04 via theguardian.com
  Controversial photo of Jones as a teenager has emergedJames suggests that reporters are guilty of double standardsLeBron James took reporters to task on Wednesday for their failure to ask him about a controversial photo featuring Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.The Washington Post recently unearthed a photo from 1957 in which a teenaged Jones is in the crowd while a mob of white boys blocks six Black students from entering Arkansas’ North Little Rock High. The photo was taken in a period
  
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• Girls Aloud’s 20 best songs – ranked!

  01-12-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Twenty years since their debut single Sound of the Underground, we assess the ITV talent show winners’ tracksBallads were seldom Girls Aloud’s forte – they were better at songs with bolshie attitudes, which seemed to suit their personalities – but No Regrets is the exception that proves the rule, dispensing with the usual pop-ballad cliches in favour of a tinny vintage drum machine, a French chanson-inspired melody and I Will Survive strings. Continue reading...
  
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• Rutting deer and a restored Nativity: Thursday’s best photos

  01-12-2022 13:58 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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