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- Germany election: SPD wins narrow victory as Merkel era ends in near-deadlock
- Covid has wiped out years of progress on life expectancy, finds study
- Cop26 climate talks will not fulfil aims of Paris agreement, key players say
- Tony awards 2021: Moulin Rouge! triumphs in a Broadway celebration
- Boris Johnson to consider using army to supply petrol stations
- Ambassador in limbo makes plea for Afghans to be allowed into EU
- China to limit abortions for ‘non-medical purposes’
- Five Palestinians shot dead in gun battles with Israeli troops in West Bank
- South Korean president suggests ban on eating dog meat
- Liz Cheney mocks Trump over bizarre insult: ‘I like Republican presidents who win re-election’
- Coronavirus live news: fourth Brazil UN attendee tests positive; life expectancy falls by most since second world war
- ‘A great loss’: tributes pour in for pioneering PNG female doctor who died from Covid
- How the US vaccine effort derailed and why we shouldn’t be surprised
- ‘Oh my gosh, the kittens!’ How the pandemic unleashed bedlam in veterinary clinics
- ‘You have to be a control freak’: Mike Leigh on 50 years of film-making
- Francis Bacon estate implies artist’s friend created parts of Tate collection
- The story of the fugitive homeless man who turned himself in after 29 years on the run
- Attack of the Hollywood Cliches! Charlie Brooker and Rob Lowe churn out a shoddy tropefest
- Songlines and stolen children: lessons from Indigenous Australians
- Fancy hunting a kangaroo? Or a zebra? In Texas, you can pay to play
- Home Office planned speedy removal of Vietnamese trafficking victims
- How we met: ‘It was love at first sight – for me’
- ‘I think about everyone I save’: the mine clearance hero of Kurdistan
- ‘It’ll kill me’: Zimbabwe counts cost of rise in illicit alcohol use
- In search of ‘Lithium Valley’: why energy companies see riches in the California desert
- Anne at 13,000ft review – a woman uses skydiving as therapy
- NSW Covid update: premier ‘confident’ Sydney lockdown will end for vaccinated residents on 11 October
- Fears for Afghan psychiatrist abducted by armed men
- Paraguay on the brink as historic drought depletes river, its life-giving artery
- Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
- Olaf Scholz and centre-left Social Democrats narrowly win German election – video
- At least three dead after Amtrak train derails in Montana – video
| Germany election: SPD wins narrow victory as Merkel era ends in near-deadlock Posted: 26 Sep 2021 08:55 PM PDT Social Democrats edge out Christian Democrats, according to preliminary results, but tight finish leaves third-placed Green party as kingmaker Germany is set for weeks or even months of protracted coalition talks after the race to succeed Angela Merkel after 16 years in power failed to produce a clear winner, with the centre-left Social Democrats just ahead of the centre-right conservative alliance according to official returns. Preliminary results released on the election commission's website showed that the Social Democrats (SPD) led by Olaf Scholz had won the largest share of the vote at 25.7%. Continue reading... |
| Covid has wiped out years of progress on life expectancy, finds study Posted: 26 Sep 2021 04:01 PM PDT Pandemic behind biggest fall in life expectancy in western Europe since second world war, say researchers The Covid pandemic has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy in western Europe since the second world war, according to a study. Data from most of the 29 countries – spanning most of Europe, the US and Chile – that were analysed by scientists recorded reductions in life expectancy last year and at a scale that wiped out years of progress. Continue reading... |
| Cop26 climate talks will not fulfil aims of Paris agreement, key players say Posted: 26 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Major figures privately admit summit will fail to result in pledges that could limit global heating to 1.5C Vital United Nations climate talks, billed as one of the last chances to stave off climate breakdown, will not produce the breakthrough needed to fulfil the aspiration of the Paris agreement, key players in the talks have conceded. The UN, the UK hosts and other major figures involved in the talks have privately admitted that the original aim of the Cop26 summit will be missed, as the pledges on greenhouse gas emissions cuts from major economies will fall short of the halving of global emissions this decade needed to limit global heating to 1.5C. Continue reading... |
| Tony awards 2021: Moulin Rouge! triumphs in a Broadway celebration Posted: 26 Sep 2021 09:06 PM PDT The adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's musical picked up 10 awards in a ceremony that also acted as a comeback for New York theatre Moulin Rouge! swept the board at the 2021 Tony awards, picking up 10 trophies during a ceremony that also acted as a celebration of the return of Broadway. The adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 2001 Oscar-winning musical, which reopened on 24 September, became the first Australian-produced show to win a Tony for best musical, beating Jagged Little Pill and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson to consider using army to supply petrol stations Posted: 26 Sep 2021 12:28 PM PDT Ministers to discuss emergency plan Operation Escalin after BP reveals a third of its forecourts have shortages Hundreds of soldiers could be scrambled to deliver fuel to petrol stations running dry across the country due to panic buying and a shortage of drivers under an emergency plan expected to be considered by Boris Johnson on Monday. The prime minister will gather senior members of the cabinet to scrutinise "Operation Escalin" after BP admitted that a third of its petrol stations had run out of the main two grades of fuel, while the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), which represents almost 5,500 independent outlets, said 50% to 90% of its members had reported running out. It predicted that the rest would soon follow. Continue reading... |
| Ambassador in limbo makes plea for Afghans to be allowed into EU Posted: 26 Sep 2021 09:00 PM PDT Former Afghan government's ambassador in Greece appalled by Athens' media blitz against 'illegal migrant flows' In other times, Mirwais Samadi would have welcomed a campaign to deter his compatriots from opting to become illegal migrants and embarking on the often dangerous trek from Afghanistan to Europe. By far the worst part of his job as Afghanistan's ambassador to Athens – apart from the strange limbo he has found himself in representing a nation whose leaders he refuses to recognise – is notifying families back home of loved ones who died along the way. Invariably they are the victims of smuggling networks motivated solely by profit. Continue reading... |
| China to limit abortions for ‘non-medical purposes’ Posted: 26 Sep 2021 10:13 PM PDT Government says clampdown is aimed at improving women's reproductive health, but it comes amid anxiety about the nation's falling birth rate China will reduce the number of abortions performed for "non-medical purposes", the country's cabinet announced in new guidelines issued on Monday. The state council said action would also be taken to avoid unwanted pregnancies and to encourage men to "share responsibility" in preventing them. Authorities aim to improve sex education and strengthen post-abortion and post-childbirth family planning services, the ruling body added. Continue reading... |
| Five Palestinians shot dead in gun battles with Israeli troops in West Bank Posted: 26 Sep 2021 05:53 PM PDT Two Israeli soldiers were also seriously wounded after violence erupted when troops tried to arrest suspected Hamas militants Five Palestinians have been killed after gun battles erupted when Israeli troops conducted a series of raids against suspected Hamas militants across the occupied West Bank. The fighting on Sunday was the deadliest violence between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the West Bank in several weeks. Two Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded. Continue reading... |
| South Korean president suggests ban on eating dog meat Posted: 27 Sep 2021 02:39 AM PDT Moon Jae-in, a dog-lover, says 'time has come' for traditional practice to end The South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has raised banning the eating of dogs in the country, his office said, a traditional practice that is becoming an international embarrassment. The meat has long been a part of South Korean cuisine with about 1 million dogs believed to be eaten annually, but consumption has declined as more people embrace the animals as companions rather than livestock. Continue reading... |
| Liz Cheney mocks Trump over bizarre insult: ‘I like Republican presidents who win re-election’ Posted: 26 Sep 2021 12:37 PM PDT Republican tweets picture just of George W Bush after Trump pac sends out image that spliced Cheney with former leader One of the less dignified spats in US politics has rumbled onwards as the Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney responded to a bizarre insult from Donald Trump. Related: 'He knows he lost': Georgia Republican opposes Trump before rally in Perry Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT Life expectancy of American men drops by more than two years; CEO of Brazilian state lender tests positive for Covid
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The British prime minister has finally agreed to meet the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group at Downing Street, well over a year after first promising to do so. Robert Booth, Social Affairs Correspondent reports that representatives of over 4,000 families bereaved by coronavirus will tomorrow afternoon press Boris Johnson to immediately start the public inquiry into the UK's handling of the pandemic and place them at the heart of the process. For months they have accused Johnson of avoiding them and refusing to meet despite saying he would do so 397 days ago. Continue reading... |
| ‘A great loss’: tributes pour in for pioneering PNG female doctor who died from Covid Posted: 26 Sep 2021 06:40 PM PDT Naomi Kori Pomat, the first female doctor in her province, died in country's first government-confirmed death of a health worker from virus Tributes have poured in for a doctor in Papua New Guinea's Western Province who died last week, in the country's first death of a healthcare worker from Covid-19 confirmed by the government. Dr Naomi Kori Pomat, 60, the director for curative health services at the Western Provincial Health Authority (WPHA), was medevaced to Port Moresby after contracting the virus and died on 19 September. Continue reading... |
| How the US vaccine effort derailed and why we shouldn’t be surprised Posted: 26 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Low vaccine rates may be the predictable outcome subject to entrenched social forces that have diminished American health and life expectancy since the 1980s, health researchers say Dr Claudia Fegan's patient was a congenial, articulate and unvaccinated 27-year-old deli worker who contracted Covid-19 and became so ill he required at-home oxygen treatments. Now recuperating, he told his doctor his 64-year-old boss had been vaccinated, and she too was sickened with a "breakthrough" case. However, she only had mild symptoms. Continue reading... |
| ‘Oh my gosh, the kittens!’ How the pandemic unleashed bedlam in veterinary clinics Posted: 26 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT Staff attrition, high demand for appointments and enraged human clients have strained vet practices across the US Early in the pandemic, Dr Monica Mansfield, a veterinarian based in Medway, Massachusetts, became haunted by a recurring nightmare. "There were these vulnerable kittens in my basement, and I forgot to feed them," Mansfield recalls. "I'd wake up, terrified. 'Oh my gosh, the kittens! Where are they?' I felt like I was missing details and forgetting things that were critical to a case – that were critical to an animal's life." Continue reading... |
| ‘You have to be a control freak’: Mike Leigh on 50 years of film-making Posted: 26 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT At 78, with three Baftas and a Palme d'Or under his belt, the director still sees himself as an outsider. He talks about Hollywood's obsession with big names, his determination to portray 'real people' – and being accused of pretension Interviewing Mike Leigh is a daunting prospect, not because of his intimidatingly central plinth in the pantheon of British cinema – well, maybe a bit of that – but because he is extremely exacting. You just couldn't work the way he does – his scripts are improvised, not written, resting on collaboration, trust, instinct, bravery – without weighing every word, cross-examining every sentence. Otherwise it would just be baggy. He takes this perfectionism into every interview, every conversation: Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh, a close textual and visual reading of his life's work by Amy Raphael, reissued next month, bristles with this energy. Then there's the incredible range of his output: since 1971, he has not just been making films and TV dramas, but breaking and recasting the expectations of form and genre. It bugs him when people always talk about the same few works – Abigail's Party, Life Is Sweet, Secrets & Lies – and neglect the films of which he is equally proud – Peterloo, or Meantime, a magnificent 1983 exploration of the hard edges of Thatcherism, which maybe didn't launch, but certainly put a rocket under the careers of Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. The British Film Institute (BFI) has a retrospective this autumn that includes every film he has ever made – "including the Play for Todays," he says, as if the world has finally recognised that you have to watch them all, like film-Pokémon – and a remastered Naked, which will go on general release in November. Continue reading... |
| Francis Bacon estate implies artist’s friend created parts of Tate collection Posted: 26 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT New book says many pieces in Barry Joule Archive bear 'scant resemblance' to artist's work, but donor insists they are real The Estate of Francis Bacon has launched an astonishing personal attack on Barry Joule, one of the artist's friends, and the vast collection he donated to the Tate in 2004 – even implying that he created works himself. In publishing a damning study of the Barry Joule Archive (BJA), it quotes a Tate curator saying that "the hand/s that applied the marks to the material may not have included Bacon to any substantial degree". Continue reading... |
| The story of the fugitive homeless man who turned himself in after 29 years on the run Posted: 25 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT After living in plain sight in Sydney's northern beaches and working as a handyman, Darko Desic has turned himself in to police and faces court this week Six weeks before Darko "Dougie" Desic handed himself in to Dee Why police, he shared his dilemma with one of the few mates he trusted in his adopted homeland. The 64-year-old had spent 29 years on the run after one of Australia's most audacious prison breaks. The dilapidated house he called home – so rundown he and his fellow tenants placed an umbrella over the outside loo – had been sold as Sydney's Northern Beaches property prices peaked in the pandemic, making Desic homeless. Continue reading... |
| Attack of the Hollywood Cliches! Charlie Brooker and Rob Lowe churn out a shoddy tropefest Posted: 26 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT It's got a fine lineup of film stars and critics, but this tedious tour of movie tricks feels like an opportunity missed. What were they all thinking? I have long made peace with the fact that I will never figure Netflix out. Maybe that is the point: Netflix, like the shining face of God, is not ever meant to be fully understood, just watched in awe from afar. But where once Netflix made sense – the first series of Orange is the New Black! The first three series of House of Cards! The mega-success of the Queer Eye reboot! – now some of the commissioning decisions seem to be made by a pulsing cluster of AI servers. This is why we have Nailed It!, for instance. Why He's All That with Addison Rae exists. Season 5 of Arrested Development and that nine-movie Adam Sandler deal. These were designed by a robot in a lab to make me wistful for an era when the company sent out DVDs in little square envelopes in the post. Anyway, Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! is up this week, and I do not know who it is for, why it got made (by Charlie Brooker no less), and who – beyond everyone who picked up a day-rate in its production – is benefiting. In short: it's one of those talking-head hours Channel 4 always seemed to do so well, only with that added layer (and layer … and yet another layer) of Netflix/Hollywood gloss. Rob Lowe hosts, doing an absolutely incredible performance of Rob Lowe, spraying out high-sheen writer's-room-polished comic lines with all the élan of a man giving his third best man's speech of the weekend. There is a sparkling cast of talking heads – Florence Pugh is there! Andrew Garfield! Richard E Grant! – plus a stacked bench of imposingly intellectual film critics who have actually seen more than one Hitchcock film and have a lot to say about tropes. Whoever did the casting on this special did their job. Whoever did the interviews nailed it. Whoever cut this thing together ruined everything. Continue reading... |
| Songlines and stolen children: lessons from Indigenous Australians Posted: 26 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT The UK/Australia Season is the largest ever cultural exchange between the two nations, including shell-covered slippers, a 19th-century Indigenous cricket team and uprising anthems linking Brixton to Palm Island Margo Neale is feeling proud. "Here we are," she says, "250 years after the British set out to colonise and civilise us, taking our culture to the British – to teach them how to survive in this fragmenting world." Neale, an Indigenous Australian from the Gumbaynggirr and Kulin nations, is just warming up. "It is our civilisation," she continues defiantly, "that had the resilience to survive over millennia: the ice age, sea rises, drought, invasion, violence, all sorts of oppression and pandemics. So, this is us showing Britain we have the knowledge to survive – knowledge held in the songlines." Neale, who is also of Irish descent, is talking about the plan to bring the National Museum of Australia's extraordinary 2017 exhibition Songlines, which she co-curated, to Britain. The show will have its European premiere at the Box in Plymouth – which is where, Neale can't resist pointing out, Captain James Cook set sail from in 1768, becoming the first European to set foot on the east coast of Australia. Continue reading... |
| Fancy hunting a kangaroo? Or a zebra? In Texas, you can pay to play Posted: 27 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT In 'canned' hunts, captive animals are shot for meat and trophies but ranchers say they need to make money and exotic animals offer a steady revenue In the rolling expanse of rural west Texas, a Southern white rhinoceros named Killian has learned to come when he's called. Killian stands there like a big fat puppy, hoping someone will dare to pet him. He and his rhino companion, Sebastian, like rubdowns far better than treats. We are standing on Ox Ranch, a more than 18,000-acre property in Texas crawling with exotic animals. Some are gunned down by paying guests for trophies. Others, like Killian and Sebastian, live here just for show. There are an estimated 8,000 animals on the land – but if CEO Jason Molitor has to pick his favorites, it's the two rhinos. Continue reading... |
| Home Office planned speedy removal of Vietnamese trafficking victims Posted: 27 Sep 2021 02:55 AM PDT Documents seen by Guardian refer to fast-track system not intended to be used in trafficking cases The Home Office detained more than 100 Vietnamese nationals who arrived on small boats in May but planned to speedily remove them from the UK despite them being potential victims of trafficking, the Guardian has learned. In an exercise codenamed Operation Ammonite, the Home Office chartered two deportation flights to Vietnam, one in April of this year and one in July. The flights carried 27 and 21 deportees respectively. However the Home Office plan was to fill the second plane with many more Vietnamese nationals. Continue reading... |
| How we met: ‘It was love at first sight – for me’ Posted: 27 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT Frances, 70, and Rien, 68, met on a European exchange visit in 1972. Having brought up their family in England, they now live in the Dordogne, France When Frances finished school, she took a college course in cartography, the study of maps. By May 1972, she had found a job as a cartographer with the civil service. As part of her work, she went to Delft in the Netherlands to visit the Dutch equivalent of Ordnance Survey. At the time, Kingston upon Thames (where she had studied) was twinned with Delft, a city in South Holland, and residents of the two regions were encouraged to do exchange visits, where they would stay with local families to get to know the area. Frances agreed to go, even thought she was terrified. "I was 20 and it was my first time out of the country. I didn't speak a word of Dutch," she says. Frances soon discovered she would be staying with Rien, who lived with his parents and siblings. When she arrived at the town hall, he was there to pick her up. They were introduced by the mayor of Kingston and the burgemeester of Delft. "My instant reaction was that she was beautiful and I needed to get to know her. It was love at first sight for me," he says. She was grateful that he was able to speak English and over the course of the next week a friendship blossomed. "He was friendly and handsome, but it was just friendship for me at first," she says. "I'm more pragmatic than romantic." Continue reading... |
| ‘I think about everyone I save’: the mine clearance hero of Kurdistan Posted: 26 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Hoshyar Ali has cleared more than 750,000 landmines in 104 villages, despite having lost both legs to landmines. Iraqi Kurdistan is one of the most contaminated countries for landmines and explosive remnants of war, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs A dust cloud trails behind a metallic grey Kia Sportage as it meanders along a rocky dirt road toward the last town on this thoroughfare before reaching the Iraq-Iran border. People walk along the road, waving at independent deminer Hoshyar Ali as he drives by, recognising him by the red flag on his antenna, indicating the vehicle is transporting explosives, and by the stickers of various landmines on his vehicle. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’ll kill me’: Zimbabwe counts cost of rise in illicit alcohol use Posted: 27 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT Lack of jobs and Covid lockdowns fuel boom in cheap but lethal hooch made in backyard stills It is 7pm and inside the shebeen, or unlicensed bar, in Harare, men and women clutch small bottles of "whisky" and talk animatedly as they dance to loud music. One man staggers and falls over, to the amusement of other drinkers. He mumbles inaudible words as he drifts into sleep. Nearby, two other men doze after spending hours in the bar on a sweltering September day. Continue reading... |
| In search of ‘Lithium Valley’: why energy companies see riches in the California desert Posted: 27 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT Firms say what's underneath the Salton Sea could fuel a green-energy boom. But struggling residents have heard such claims before Standing atop a pockmarked red mesa, Rod Colwell looks out at an expanse of water that resembles a thin blue strip on the horizon. The Salton Sea, California's largest lake, has come and gone at least five times in the last 1,300 years, most recently in 1905, when floodwaters from the Colorado River refilled its basin. A mid-century resort destination, the lake has since become an environmental disaster zone. Its waters, long fed by pesticide-laden runoff from nearby farms, have been steadily evaporating, exposing a dusty shoreline that kicks up lung-damaging silt into the surrounding communities of the Imperial Valley, where rates of asthma are alarmingly high. Continue reading... |
| Anne at 13,000ft review – a woman uses skydiving as therapy Posted: 27 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Confident microbudget feature zones in on one woman's unhappiness, and how skydiving provides an unlikely but dramatic release Deragh Campbell is an award-winning Canadian actor and film-maker whose recent movie MS Slavic 7 I have to confess to finding weirdly inert and indulgent. She has a starring role in this movie, which is a confident, intimate microbudget feature shot almost entirely in searching closeup, directed by Campbell's longtime collaborator Kazik Radwanski. It is a more approachable piece of work and Campbell's performance is unsettlingly real. She plays Anne, an unhappy young woman with a job in a children's daycare centre and an undiagnosed anxiety disorder, whose life is turned upside down when she tastes the ecstatic thrill of skydiving. Anne gets on pretty badly with her grumpy, humourless colleagues – who may nevertheless have a point about her unprofessional, casual and derisive attitude – and argues with her mother. She meets a nice guy called Matt (Matt Johnson) at a co-worker's wedding, though she may well be about to alienate him too. But all this is against the background of skydiving, which she took part in as part of the bachelorette party: the bride and all the maids-of-honour did it once, but Anne wants this amazing and passionate experience again and again. Could it be a miraculous therapy for her? Or is skydiving simply enlarging and intensifying her already troublesome and anarchic personality? Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Sep 2021 02:54 AM PDT Gathering limits and indoor mask rules to be abandoned from December when 90% of the adult population is expected to be fully vaccinated
Sydney's lockdown is set to end for fully vaccinated residents on 11 October, the premier says, when 70% of the adult New South Wales population is expected to have received two doses of a Covid vaccine. Gathering limits and indoor mask rules are to be abandoned from December, with unvaccinated residents forced to wait until then to reintegrate with society, under the latest reopening plan for NSW announced on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Fears for Afghan psychiatrist abducted by armed men Posted: 27 Sep 2021 02:38 AM PDT Dr Nader Alemi, who opened the country's first private psychiatric hospital, had received death threats before being taken on his way home from work last week One of Afghanistan's most prominent psychiatrists has been abducted on his way home from work by a group of armed men. Dr Nader Alemi, 66, who opened the country's first private psychiatric hospital in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, was stopped by seven men in a white car last week, said his family. Continue reading... |
| Paraguay on the brink as historic drought depletes river, its life-giving artery Posted: 27 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Severe drought that began in late 2019 continues to punish the region while experts say climate change and deforestation may be intensifying the phenomenon In the shadow of towering grain silos that line the bank of the River Paraná, South America's second-longest waterway, Lucas Krivenchuk stands watching workers rush to load a barge with soybeans. "Twelve barges had to leave today, but only six will make it out: there's no time, the water's dropping too fast", said Krivenchuk, general manager of the Trociuk private port in southern Paraguay. "It's the first time that any have left in two months". Continue reading... |
| Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children Posted: 26 Sep 2021 11:01 PM PDT Largest major survey of its kind finds 70% of respondents first saw child sexual abuse material when they were under 18 The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online. The survey, by Protect Children, a Finnish human rights group, was posted on the "dark web" so users would find it while actively searching for illegal content of children. The analysis was based on more than 5,000 people who responded initially to the survey about why and how they watched children being abused online, although 10,000 responses have been received so far. Continue reading... |
| Olaf Scholz and centre-left Social Democrats narrowly win German election – video Posted: 26 Sep 2021 10:53 PM PDT The centre-left Social Democrats party (SDP) have won the biggest share of the vote in Germany's national election, beating outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU in a closely fought race. The conservative rule in Germany under Angela Merkel has ended after 16 years as official preliminary results show SPD secured 25.7% of the vote and CDU won 24.1% . SPD leader and current finance minister Olaf Scholz said Germans have voted for the SPD because 'they want the name of the next chancellor to be Olaf Scholz' in a speech to his party on election night Continue reading... |
| At least three dead after Amtrak train derails in Montana – video Posted: 26 Sep 2021 05:05 AM PDT Seven cars of an Amtrak train travelling through north-central Montana came off the rails in an accident on Saturday. The cause of the derailment is not yet clear, and the National Transportation Safety Board has said it will investigate |
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