World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk |
- Unions warn Tony Burke against potential debate on the better-off-overall test
- Federal government accused of ‘railroading’ traditional custodians over Burrup peninsula rock art site
- Boy, 10, among three people dead after ‘raging’ Sydney house fire
- Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine pushes to restart grain exports from Odesa after missile attack – live
- Dover travel chaos enters third day as queues also block access to Eurotunnel
- Puzzle of prized white truffle finally yields to science
- Home Office ‘mistakes and delays’ mean girl, 4, must stay trapped in Ukraine
- HS2 is a ‘killer whale’ for next prime minister, says Kit Malthouse
- Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss vow dramatic expansion of Rwanda asylum scheme
- Children could be radicalised over summer break, Met police warn parents
- Liz Truss accused of ignoring British activist on hunger strike in Egypt
- UK restaurants plan more ‘heatwave menus’ of salads and cold meat
- UK rape victim left feeling ‘suicidal’ after five-year wait for case to come to trial
- ‘US democracy will not survive for long’: how January 6 hearings plot a roadmap to autocracy
| Unions warn Tony Burke against potential debate on the better-off-overall test Posted: 24 Jul 2022 12:21 AM PDT Workplace relations minister opens door to considering industrial relations changes as he announces gutting of building watchdog
Workplace relations minister Tony Burke has confirmed the current better-off-overall test that ensures workers do not go backwards will be on the table for discussion at the Albanese government's jobs summit in September. Burke said on Sunday he had been "sceptical" about having a conversation with employers and unions about the test, known as the Boot, at the September summit because he wanted Australian workers to have higher wages and conditions. The minister told the ABC he would "take some convincing" to overhaul the test. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2022 11:45 PM PDT Custodians fighting to stop construction of a WA fertiliser plant say environment department gave just three days to respond to a 180-page document
Traditional custodians behind a push to halt construction of a fertiliser plant on the Burrup peninsula that would require the removal of Indigenous rock art say they have been given just three days to respond to a 180-page document. Construction work on the $4.5bn urea plant planned by multinational company Perdaman has been paused for 30 days while the federal environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, considers a request to intervene to protect ancient petroglyphs. Continue reading... |
| Boy, 10, among three people dead after ‘raging’ Sydney house fire Posted: 23 Jul 2022 10:37 PM PDT Five other people, including two firefighters, taken to hospital from blaze in south-western suburb of Hinchinbrook
Two women and a 10-year-old boy are dead after a house fire in Sydney. Five other people, including two firefighters, were taken to hospital from the scene of the overnight blaze in the south-western Sydney suburb of Hinchinbrook. Continue reading... |
| Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine pushes to restart grain exports from Odesa after missile attack – live Posted: 24 Jul 2022 03:03 AM PDT Ukraine minister says preparations to resume grain shipments ongoing as strikes on the port draw international condemnation
Without port blockades, Ukraine would be able to export 60m tonnes of grain in eight to nine months, according to Ukraine's economic adviser, Oleh Ustenko. Ustenko said Russia's strike on the port of Odesa showed it would definitely not be that easy, according to Reuters reports of his appearance on television. Continue reading... |
| Dover travel chaos enters third day as queues also block access to Eurotunnel Posted: 24 Jul 2022 02:40 AM PDT Holidaymakers hoping to cross Channel on Sunday told to expect delays of at least two hours Holidaymakers hoping to travel to France have been told to expect a third day of disruption as the Eurotunnel was hit by long queues of traffic trying to reach Dover. Passengers hoping to cross the Channel on Sunday were told to expect delays of at least two hours due to miles of tailbacks to get to the ferry terminals. Continue reading... |
| Puzzle of prized white truffle finally yields to science Posted: 23 Jul 2022 11:45 PM PDT No one has been able to farm the rare, expensive fungus on a commercial scale – until now They emit intense aromas of garlic, fermented cheese and methane, and are so rare that they can fetch up to £9,000 a kilogram. Now, the puzzle that has confounded experts for more than half a century, of how to cultivate the elusive white truffle on a commercial scale, appears to have been solved. This week, scientists from France's National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), will reveal that, at a secret location in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, western France, they have cultivated 26 white truffles. Continue reading... |
| Home Office ‘mistakes and delays’ mean girl, 4, must stay trapped in Ukraine Posted: 23 Jul 2022 10:45 PM PDT Alika has a UK sponsor, and applied for visa in March, but is one of few children left in her Kharkiv neighbourhood A four-year-old girl remains stranded in a block of flats on the Ukrainian frontline four months after attempts began to bring her to the UK, a delay campaigners have blamed on a series of government "blunders". Efforts to rescue Alika Zubets from the city of Kharkiv began on 21 March when her UK sponsor applied for a visa under the Homes for Ukraine scheme and expected her to reach north Staffordshire by mid-April at the latest. Instead, she remains one of the few children left in her Kharkiv neighbourhood, with no schools or nurseries open and the constant threat of shelling from Russian forces nearby. Continue reading... |
| HS2 is a ‘killer whale’ for next prime minister, says Kit Malthouse Posted: 24 Jul 2022 02:52 AM PDT Cabinet Office minister says rail project 'waiting to breach waves and rip arm off' Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak The Cabinet Office minister Kit Malthouse has described the HS2 rail project as a "killer whale" that could "rip the arm" off the next prime minister. In an intervention that will alarm supporters of the multibillion-pound rail upgrade, Malthouse said it could "derail" the premiership of Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss. Continue reading... |
| Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss vow dramatic expansion of Rwanda asylum scheme Posted: 24 Jul 2022 02:32 AM PDT Two leadership candidates appeal to right of Conservative party with pledges charities say are cruel Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have pledged to dramatically expand the Rwanda scheme for removing asylum seekers, as they bid with growing ferocity for Conservative members' votes in the party leadership race. Both are appealing to the right of the party with pledges on immigration branded "cruel" by charities. Continue reading... |
| Children could be radicalised over summer break, Met police warn parents Posted: 24 Jul 2022 02:15 AM PDT London force takes unusual step of writing to schools urging families to look out for signs of extremism The Metropolitan police force has taken the unprecedented step of writing to parents of school-age children, urging them to look out for signs of radicalisation because it fears the six-week summer holiday could lead to a rise in extremism. Det Supt Jane Corrigan, of the Met's counter-terrorism command and lead officer in the anti-terrorist Prevent programme, sent a letter to primary and secondary schools in London – the first time such a step has been taken – to distribute to parents last week. In it she expresses concern that children would be spending more time online during the summer holidays, and that this would create the risk they could come into contact with those attempting to radicalise young people. Continue reading... |
| Liz Truss accused of ignoring British activist on hunger strike in Egypt Posted: 24 Jul 2022 02:05 AM PDT Family of Alaa Abd El Fattah say it feels as if foreign secretary has 'abandoned' him since she started leadership campaign The family of the British activist Alaa Abd El Fattah have accused the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, of ignoring his case in favour of her bid to lead the Conservative party, as he reached his 114th day of a hunger strike inside Egypt's Wadi El Natrun desert prison. Abd El Fattah, a figurehead of Egypt's 2011 uprisings, has spent most of the last decade behind bars and last December was sentenced to a further five years in prison on charges of terrorism and "spreading false news" after sharing a social media post. He gained British citizenship while incarcerated last year, but British officials have since been stonewalled by the Egyptian side when attempting to visit him in prison. Continue reading... |
| UK restaurants plan more ‘heatwave menus’ of salads and cold meat Posted: 24 Jul 2022 02:00 AM PDT Many eateries turned their ovens off last week to save their chefs from the heat Restaurants and gastro pubs are planning to offer more "heatwave menus" in the future amid concerns that soaring temperatures will make it impractical and potentially unsafe for chefs to cook hot food in summer. Last week, commercial ovens and grills across the UK were switched off and menus offering hot pies, burgers and steaks were ditched in favour of summer salads, open sandwiches and cold soup. "We swapped hot cooked fish for chilled octopus mussels and olives, and cold poached skate salad," said Nick Gibson, owner of the Drapers Arms in Islington, north London, which tore up its usual bill of fare to offer an entirely cold menu during the heatwave. Continue reading... |
| UK rape victim left feeling ‘suicidal’ after five-year wait for case to come to trial Posted: 24 Jul 2022 01:00 AM PDT The woman's case is among thousands that have been affected by a record-breaking backlog of hearings likely to increase amid barrister strikes A rape victim who will have been waiting five years by the time her case comes to court has said navigating the justice process has had a worse impact on her mental health than the crime itself, leaving her feeling "suicidal". The woman, known as Debbie, recently had her case listed but it was pulled the day before she was due to appear in court. She now faces a further eight-month wait. Continue reading... |
| ‘US democracy will not survive for long’: how January 6 hearings plot a roadmap to autocracy Posted: 23 Jul 2022 11:00 PM PDT Trump's efforts to subvert the elections laid bare the system's weaknesses, exposing it to greater exploitation They promised the January 6 hearings would "blow the roof off the house", presenting America with the truth about Donald Trump's attack on democracy culminating in the US Capitol insurrection. In the end, the roof of the House, where the summer season of hearings reached their finale on Thursday night, remained intact, though mightily shaken. It will take time for historians to assess whether the eight public sessions were comparable to the 1973 Watergate hearings, as Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of the January 6 committee, predicted. Yet it's already clear that after 19 hours and 11 minutes of testimony, filmed depositions, documentary evidence and raw footage of the Capitol attack the hearings have generated a mountain of words and images that will linger long in the collective memory. Continue reading... |
| You are subscribed to email updates from World news | The Guardian. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
Posting Komentar