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• IOPC to investigate Met police officers after man Tasered and two dogs shot dead

  12-05-2023 23:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Police watchdog to launch inquiry after incident involving man with two dogs in east London An investigation will be launched after a man’s two dogs were fatally shot in front of him and he was Tasered by Metropolitan police officers, the police watchdog has announced.Louie Turnbull, the owner of the animals, appeared in court on Tuesday charged with dangerous dog offences after the incident that happened alongside a canal in Limehouse, east London, on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• New Hampshire governor ‘embarrassed’ by crowd’s behavior at Trump town hall

  12-05-2023 23:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Chris Sununu said the audience’s conduct ‘doesn’t shine a positive light’ on the state, which will hold the first Republican primaryThe governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu, said it was “embarrassing” that Republican voters from his state laughed and applauded when Donald Trump mocked E Jean Carroll during aCNN town hall this week.Sununu may yet have to court such voters in a presidential run of his own. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Clause IV on steroids’: Keir Starmer says his Labour must go further than Blair

  12-05-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Leader says party must ‘change our culture’ as it faces bigger task in government than his predecessorLabour will have to offer voters at the next general election a radical vision that “goes further and deeper” than Tony Blair’s government because of the scale of the crisis facing the country, Keir Starmer is to sayIn a speech on Saturday, he will say reforms are necessary because an incoming Labour government will have a bigger task than Blair faced, owing to the
  
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• 'Absolutely gargantuan': astrophysicist explains largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed – video - The Guardian

  12-05-2023 23:24 via news.google.com
  
  'Absolutely gargantuan': astrophysicist explains largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed – video  The GuardianAstronomers detect largest cosmic explosion ever seen  BBCAstronomers say they've seen the largest explosion yet – and we just had to talk to them  The RegisterLargest explosion ever seen spotted by astronomers  E&T MagazineLargest Cosmic Explosion Ever Observed And It's Baffling Scientists  Giant Freakin RobotView Full co
  
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• Sats exams ‘designed to be challenging’, DfE tells aggrieved parents and teachers

  12-05-2023 22:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Ministry responds to reports of children upset and teachers baffled by reading test for 10- and 11-year-oldsMinisters have said that tests for year 6 pupils in England are “designed to be challenging” after concerns from a headteachers’ union that this week’s Sats exams had left some pupils “in tears”.The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said some staff struggled to understand the questions and it planned to raise concerns about Wednesday’s r
  
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• Unaccompanied Honduran teen dies in US custody as Title 42 expires

  12-05-2023 22:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Investigators trying to determine cause for teen’s death, which occurred in a Florida shelter on WednesdayAn unaccompanied 17-year-old migrant from Honduras died in a shelter in Florida on Wednesday, according to authorities.Investigators on Friday were still trying to determine a cause for the teen’s death, which came as the US lifted immigration restrictions stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading...
  
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• Horror moment drunk driver four times over the limit ran over elderly cyclist with his 4x4 - Daily Mail

  12-05-2023 22:11 via news.google.com
  Horror moment drunk driver four times over the limit ran over elderly cyclist with his 4x4  Daily MailShock moment drunk ex-cricket star knocks OAP off her bike and crushes her under the wheels of his 4×4...  The SunDrunk driver ploughs into pensioner before driving over her in horrifying clip  ExpressMoment drunk driver knocks elderly cyclist down then drives over her  Metro.co.ukView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Linda Yaccarino: an advertising veteran enters the wild world of Musk's Twitter - Financial Times

  12-05-2023 22:08 via news.google.com
  
  Linda Yaccarino: an advertising veteran enters the wild world of Musk's Twitter  Financial TimesElon Musk names Linda Yaccarino new Twitter CEO  BBCCan Linda Yaccarino, the 'Velvet Hammer', save Twitter?  The TimesElon Musk Appointing Linda Yaccarino as Twitter CEO Won’t Change Much  BloombergMusk's X factor: How it became his favorite letter and could be new name for Twitter  Daily MailView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Are New Zealand’s marine heatwaves a warning to the world?

  12-05-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As seas around Aotearoa heat at an unparalleled rate, scientists are starting to understand what it might mean for marine ecosystems Continue reading...
  
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• Man charged with manslaughter over subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely in New York

  12-05-2023 21:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Daniel Penny, a former marine who surrendered to police in New York, could face up to 15 years in prison if found guiltyThe man who killed Jordan Neely after putting him in a chokehold while on a subway in New York City has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said on Friday.Daniel Penny, 24, could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty under the charge. Penny surrendered himself to New York police on Friday morning. Continue reading
  
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• Tens of thousands march in Belgrade after mass shootings

  12-05-2023 21:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Marchers in Serbian capital’s second protest in a week decried populist president Aleksandar VučićTens of thousands of people have marched through Belgrade, blocking a key bridge in the second large protest since two mass shootings that rattled Serbia and left 17 people dead, including many children.Protesters gathered in front of the parliament building on Friday before filing by the government’s HQ and on to a highway bridge spanning the Sava River, where evening commuter
  
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• Jamie Foxx released from hospital and ‘recuperating’, says daughter

  12-05-2023 21:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Corinne Foxx shares update after criticising media for running ‘wild’ with rumours actor was taking a turn for the worseJamie Foxx is out of hospital after an unknown “medical complication”.The Oscar-winning actor and singer’s daughter Corinne Foxx shared an update on Instagram after unsubstantiated reports that the 55-year-old’s condition had worsened. Continue reading...
  
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• Henny Beaumont on a very rum crew – cartoon

  12-05-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
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• Sunak and Starmer criticise decision to deny Zelenskiy a Eurovision speech

  12-05-2023 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Producers of event refuse Ukraine president’s request to speak over fears of politicising contestRishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have voiced their disapproval of a decision to prevent Volodymyr Zelenskiy from being able to address this year’s Eurovision.The prime minister and the Labour leader were united in criticising the decision to block the Ukrainian president’s request to speak at Saturday evening’s grand final. They were joined in their opposition by the former prime
  
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• Eton v Harrow: Father Time draws near for annual schoolboy Lord’s jolly

  12-05-2023 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  One of the last editions of the fixture played out on Friday with the youngsters largely given the run of the placeThey were the last hurrahs for Eton v Harrow at Lord’s, loud enough that you could hear them from way down Wellington Road. From that distance it sounded rather like the place had been taken over by a couple of hundred schoolboys shouting out Ten German Bombers, which wasn’t quite right; the bombers in this particular version of the song were actually from Harrow. It was
  
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• Jeremy Strong to follow Succession with a return to Broadway

  12-05-2023 20:08 via theguardian.com
  
  The actor will head up an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People once the hit HBO drama has endedJeremy Strong is going from a corporate boardroom on TV to a whistleblower on Broadway.The actor who plays Kendall Roy in the HBO television series Succession has signed on to play a man who tries to expose water contamination in a Norwegian spa town in Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People. Continue reading...
  
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• Julian Nagelsmann ruled out by Tottenham in hunt for new manager

  12-05-2023 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Nagelsmann available after sacking by Bayern MunichAmorim, Slot, Postecoglou and Alonso under considerationTottenham do not intend to push to appoint Julian Nagelsmann as their next manager. The club, who parted company with Antonio Conte on 26 March and are under the caretaker charge of Ryan Mason, have long admired Nagelsmann.They first considered a move for him after sacking José Mourinho in April 2021 but he had already agreed to join Bayern Munich – from where he was dismissed
  
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• Justin Welby: from crowning King Charles to conviction and speeding fine

  12-05-2023 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Archbishop of Canterbury’s week went from the sublime, presiding over the monarch’s coronation, to arraignment in a magistrates court It has been a momentous week for Justin Welby, the 105th archbishop of Canterbury.Last Saturday, he was on the global stage as he crowned King Charles III, anointing the sovereign with holy oil and issuing a resounding “God save the King!” before 2,000 people in Westminster Abbey and 20 million Britons watching on television. Continue readi
  
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• Portuguese parliament legalises euthanasia after long battle

  12-05-2023 19:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Decision to allow medically assisted dying has divided the deeply Catholic countryAfter a long battle, Portugal passed a law on Friday legalising euthanasia for people in great suffering and with incurable diseases, joining just a handful of countries around the world.The issue has divided the deeply Catholic country and was strongly opposed by conservative president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, a devout churchgoer. Continue reading...
  
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• Prince Harry has no evidence he was hacked by the Mirror, court told

  12-05-2023 19:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Mirror Group’s lawyers suggest newspaper’s stories about prince were instead leaked by royal press officersPrince Harry has no evidence he was the victim of phone hacking by Mirror journalists, the high court has heard, with stories about his private life instead secretly leaked by royal press officers.The Duke of Sussex alleges that dozens of news stories published in the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and People were obtained through phone hacking or other illegal behaviour. The a
  
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• Chelsea’s strength in adversity holds key to more Women’s FA Cup glory

  12-05-2023 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Emma Hayes’s injury-hit side have not been at their swaggering best this term but have the nous to claim a third straight doubleHeading into May, the gap between the Women’s Super League leaders, Manchester United, and second-placed Chelsea was four points and United had a goal difference superior by 10. Now, with the teams preparing to face each other in Sunday’s FA Cup final at a sold-out Wembley, that gap is one point and their goal difference is level. Chelsea played an add
  
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• Voldemort in charge of the Death Star: the glorious prospect of Mourinho at PSG | Barney Ronay

  12-05-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The Roma manager seemed so modern in his early years but has turned out to be the last of a lineWhat are they going to say about him? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans? That he sneakily jabbed an opposition coach in the eye during an unseemly touchline melee (that no one wants to see, but also really, really wants to see)?The faint whisper this week that José Mourinho may be a step closer to managing Paris Saint-Germain has already inspired a wildly overblo
  
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• The Guardian view on Tory housing policy: profits ahead of people | Editorial

  12-05-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  No 10 blocked a vote-winning proposal to end leaseholding – wary of picking a fight with wealthy donorsThe leasehold system of property ownership in England and Wales is a feudal relic, a hangover from the middle ages when powerful families wanted to retain ownership of their land while maximising their earnings from it. In recent years it had seen homes created merely to provide an income for whoever owns the freehold. These archaic laws ought to be reformed out of existence. It was heart
  
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• Ex-pupil, 16, charged after three teachers injured at school in Scotland

  12-05-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Officers were called to Johnstone high school in Renfrewshire after incident in which a 14-year-old was also hurtA 16-year-old girl has been charged after three teachers were taken to hospital as a result of a disturbance at a school in Scotland.Officers were called to Johnstone high school in Renfrewshire after a former pupil entered the school at about 10.45am on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on the Taylor Swift book rumour: a TikTok reckoning | Editorial

  12-05-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Fans bought into a false viral claim that a mystery title – actually on BTS – was by the star. They won’t be the last to be fooledHas there ever been such a flutter in the pop culture dovecote as the one provoked by the “leak” that an unknown book, due to be published in July, was by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift? A million copies were reportedly poised to roll off the presses of the mystery title, which was identified only as “4C Untitled Flatir
  
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• Gerald Rose obituary

  12-05-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Children’s illustrator whose picture books with his wife, Elizabeth, and authors such as Ted Hughes, are enjoyed worldwideThe illustrator Gerald Rose, who has died aged 87, was the youngest winner of the Kate Greenaway medal for children’s book illustration, in 1960. Then still in his mid-20s and barely out of art school, he would go on, often in partnership with his wife, Elizabeth, a writer, to become an influential artist in the field of children’s picture books. His painter
  
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• Downing Street downtime: how prime ministers like to relax

  12-05-2023 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  When not reading Jilly Cooper, Sunak enjoys cricket. Truss is a karaoke fan and Johnson claims to make model busesPainting buses, reading bonkbusters and playing tennis against a machine, are just a few of the ways British prime ministers have said they unwind and “chillax”.Rishi Sunak is said to be a keen gamer, a big fan of Jilly Cooper’s novel Riders, which he reads to relax, and a decent cricketer. As chancellor, he admitted to being a fan of “collecting Coca-Cola thi
  
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• Greek PM hails ‘tough but fair’ migration policy on election trail

  12-05-2023 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Kyriakos Mitsotakis says on visit to Lesbos he has kept his promise to protect land and sea bordersLess than 10 days before Greeks go to the polls, the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has sought to emphasise the impact of his centre-right government’s “tough but fair” migration policy.In a campaign trip to Lesbos, the Aegean island bearing the brunt of Europe-bound migratory flows, the leader claimed he had kept his promise to protect land and sea borders, with the arrival
  
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• Saturn regains status as planet with most moons in solar system

  12-05-2023 19:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Discovery of 62 new moons restores ringed planet’s lead after it was briefly overtaken by JupiterSaturn has regained its crown as the planet with the most moons in the solar system, just months after being overtaken by its fellow gas giant Jupiter.The leap-frog comes after the discovery of 62 new moons of Saturn, bringing its official total to 145. Jupiter, which added 12 moons to its tally in February, has 95 moons that have been formally designated by the International Astronomical Union
  
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• Manchester United plan to rival Arsenal in race to sign West Ham’s Declan Rice

  12-05-2023 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  David Moyes admits there is ‘a good chance’ Rice will moveArsenal still regarded as midfielder’s likeliest destinationManchester United intend to rival Arsenal for Declan Rice after David Moyes admitted the midfielder was likely to leave West Ham this summer.Arsenal have been leading the race to sign Rice and are still regarded as his likeliest destination. They have been laying the groundwork before a bid and the 24-year-old is interested in playing for Mikel Arteta. Continue
  
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• ‘It’s a scary time’: Alex Goode on state of Premiership after worrying year

  12-05-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Domestic rugby union is at a crossroads as the Saracens full-back gears up for their semi-final against NorthamptonAfter 15 years as a Saracens player, Alex Goode knows Premiership rugby inside out. At the age of 35, he is also among the league’s most respected and perceptive voices. Accordingly, his blunt assessment of the 2022-23 campaign to date has real resonance. “It’s been a worrying season,” Goode says, softly. “When you’re not sure about your livelihoo
  
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• Woman in Cornwall died four months after reporting rape, inquest hears

  12-05-2023 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Coroner raises concerns over police and mental health services’ response to case of Tamsin DolamoreA senior coroner has expressed deep concern over the way police and mental health services dealt with the case of a vulnerable woman who fell from a railway bridge four months after reporting she had been raped.Tamsin Dolamore, a 24-year-old carer, was found on the tracks near a railway station in Cornwall and died in hospital the following day having sustained head injuries and had a cardiac
  
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• Canada: extreme ‘heat dome’ temperatures set to worsen wildfires

  12-05-2023 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  System – extremely rare for this time of year – likely to fuel fires that have already displaced tens of thousands of residentsWestern Canada is bracing for a “heat dome” weather system that will push temperatures to new records over the weekend, and is likely to worsen wildfires that have already displaced tens of thousands of residents.Seventy-five active wildfires burned in Alberta on Thursday, with 23 listed as out of control. In some areas, oil and gas production, wh
  
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• ‘This is a crisis’: London reeling from three killings in eight hours

  12-05-2023 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The killing of Renell Charles, 16, in an attack outside his school was one of three in the capital on the eve of the coronation“People are dying out here,” said Renell Charles in a haunting video about knife crime filmed at his school last year.“Innocent people are being killed, and it’s young black boys just like me.” Continue reading...
  
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• Edinburgh University tries to defuse row after trans rights protests over film

  12-05-2023 18:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Executives holds talks with both sides after screening of gender critical documentary was cancelledEdinburgh University hopes to defuse a crisis involving gender critical and pro-trans academics after clashes over the screening of the film Adult Human Female.University executives are holding talks with both sides after pro-trans activists prevented the gender critical documentary from being screened on campus for the second time late last month, by blockading a theatre where it was due to be sho
  
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• Chances were missed to save man who starved in Nottingham, report finds

  12-05-2023 18:38 via theguardian.com
  
  DWP, GP surgery and social landlord failed to spot risks for Errol Graham, who had benefits cut despite being severely mentally illWelfare officials failed to properly identify the risk of harm to Errol Graham, a severely mentally ill man whose disability benefit payments they cut off and who died of starvation eight months later, an official report has found.An independent safeguarding review into the “shocking and disturbing” events leading to Graham’s tragic and lonely death
  
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• Rishi Sunak ‘ranks racy Jilly Cooper novel among his favourite books’

  12-05-2023 18:37 via theguardian.com
  
  McDonald’s-loving, sliders-wearing, Bublé-listening PM is also a reader of Riders, according to SpectatorIt seems Rishi Sunak is still embarking on his awkward journey of growth from being “out of touch” to fully integrating with the real world, as more of his apparent guilty pleasures have emerged.In his spare time, the sliders-wearing, McDonald’s-loving polished tech-bro apparently enjoys reading racy novels by the bestselling author Jilly Cooper. Continue readin
  
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• Mike Lynch: the rise and fall of the extradited tech tycoon

  12-05-2023 18:25 via theguardian.com
  
  The academic turned entrepreneur was once lauded as Britain’s Bill Gates but now faces 25 years in prisonAs Mike Lynch adjusts to life confined to a court-approved address in San Francisco, watched by armed guards as he awaits trial for criminal fraud, the tech tycoon once lauded as Britain’s Bill Gates will have plenty of time to contemplate his spectacular fall from grace.The 57-year-old, stripped of all travel documents and accompanied by US Marshals to court after being extradite
  
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• Tories demanding grassroots voice deny being a ‘Johnson revivalist group’

  12-05-2023 18:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Conservative Democratic Organisation founded by ex-PM’s allies insist it only wants party to be more accountable At the inaugural conference of a group promising to restore grassroots control to the Conservatives and ensure that the party’s MPs can never again impose their own leader, one pivotal figure is notable by his absence: Boris Johnson.The Conservative Democratic Organisation (CDO), which is gathering in Bournemouth on Saturday, insists it is not a Johnson-revivalist group, a
  
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• There is a clear and present danger of a new Trump presidency. Democrats must act now to prevent it | Jonathan Freedland

  12-05-2023 18:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Being found liable for sexual abuse hasn’t weakened the Republican’s grip on his party, while the polls are getting bleaker for BidenWe may come to remember this period as the interlude: the inter-Trump years. After the sigh of relief heard around the world when Donald Trump was defeated in November 2020, a grim realisation should be dawning: the threat of a Trump return to the White House is growing.His first task is to win the Republican party’s presidential nomination, but t
  
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• Amazon union members launch strike ballots at two UK sites

  12-05-2023 18:14 via theguardian.com
  
  GMB demands formal recognition at Coventry site as members in Rugeley and Mansfield vote on industrial actionUnion members at Amazon are stepping up their battle over pay and conditions, launching strike ballots at two more warehouses, as the GMB union demands formal recognition at the delivery company’s Coventry site.GMB members at Amazon fulfilment centres in Rugeley, Staffordshire, and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, are voting on whether to strike after signalling their readiness to take i
  
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• Greenlandic MP refuses to speak Danish in parliament debate

  12-05-2023 17:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam gives seven-minute speech in native Inuit language and refuses to repeat in DanishA Greenlandic MP has refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament in Copenhagen and instead spoke in her native Inuit language, frustrating uncomprehending lawmakers and highlighting strained relations between Denmark and Greenland.Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, one of two members of the Danish parliament representing Greenland, gave a nearly seven-minute speech in Gr
  
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• We need AI to help us face the challenges of the future | Letters

  12-05-2023 17:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond to Naomi Klein’s article that argued it is delusional to believe AI machines will benefit humanityNaomi Klein’s article about the dangers of generative AI makes many valid points about the economic and social consequences of the new technology (AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are, 8 May). But her choice of language about how to describe the mistakes that the new AI makes seems to suggest she is committed mainly to providing an id
  
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• ‘We’ve got everything in place’: Shabana Mahmood on Labour’s election hopes

  12-05-2023 17:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Party’s national campaigns coordinator was delighted by recent local poll results and lauds Keir Starmer as a ‘problem fixer’ For all that some pundits have tried to present Labour’s local elections as middling, Shabana Mahmood is having none of it. Asked how she would have viewed such results for 2023 when she became national campaigns coordinator two years earlier, the response is adamant.“I’d have bitten your arm off,” the Birmingham Ladywood MP says
  
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• Indiana Jones among elder statesmen set to descend on Cannes

  12-05-2023 17:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Martin Scorsese and Ken Loach – as well as a record-breaking number of female directors – have new films premiering at film festival, which starts next weekIndiana Jones is not the only octogenarian swinging triumphantly back to Cannes this year – though thanks to de-ageing technology, he may be the most fresh-faced.Harrison Ford’s archeologist takes the coveted “blockbuster spot” in the 2023 edition of the festival, which begins on Tuesday. Last year that hon
  
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• Not enough is being done to confront the tragedy of dementia | Letters

  12-05-2023 17:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Hilary Kitchin remembers the death of her brother and says that failings in health and social care must be addressed, while Melanie Blanksby emphasises support for unpaid carers Amelia Hill rightly reports that Alzheimer’s disease only contributes to between 60% and 70% of dementia cases (‘Part of you dies as well’: the toll of caring for loved ones with dementia, 8 May). As we are becoming ever more aware, dementia is a neglected area of health research and management, and soc
  
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• Russian troops fall back to ‘defensive positions’ near Bakhmut

  12-05-2023 17:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Moscow statement is first admission that Ukraine is successfully recapturing ground around eastern cityRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesRussia’s defence ministry has said some of its troops have fallen back “to more advantageous defensive positions” near a reservoir north-west of the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.The statement on Friday was the first admission by Moscow that Ukraine was successfully recapturing ground around Bakhmut, a largely destroyed city w
  
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• Dr Michael Mosley's clever breath trick that helps you get to sleep faster - The Mirror

  12-05-2023 17:43 via news.google.com
  Dr Michael Mosley's clever breath trick that helps you get to sleep faster  The MirrorThe Stages of Sleep Deprivation and Its Warning Signs  CNET4 Benefits of Sleep Meditation and How To Do It  Health EssentialsMichael Mosley shares important tips for better sleep when you're on a diet  Daily RecordHow to Combat 6 Common Sleep Disorders  CNETView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• ‘I still cry when I hear Ein Bisschen Frieden today’: readers’ favourite Eurovision songs

  12-05-2023 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  They may not have earned maximum points on the night but these varied – sometimes downright weird – Eurovision bangers all won a place in our readers’ heartsThe greatest Eurovision song that never won was One Step Further by Bardo, representing UK in 1982. It suffered from the “year-after-a-winner” curse, following Bucks Fizz’s triumph in 1981 – but in my opinion this should have won and Bucks Fizz should have come seventh instead. In my memory, One Step
  
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• AI is coming for Hollywood scriptwriters – this is how they are going to do it

  12-05-2023 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Artificial intelligence mashups of Lord of the Rings, Pixar and Wes Anderson are amusing novelties, but how long before the robots are generating whole screenplays – and can we be sure they’re not already?When the robots finally conquer Earth, it seems one of the first things they will be coming for is your slightly scratched boxset of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. And why not? Who wouldn’t want to see Frodo and his gang reimagined by AI “film-makers&rd
  
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