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- Rosario v Newell’s Old Boys delayed after ‘number of grenades’ damage pitch
- Scott Morrison signals budget measures to counter soaring petrol prices and cost of living
- Australia news live updates: Malinauskas sworn in as SA premier; at least six Covid deaths recorded
- NSW announces inquiry into flood crisis after criticism of state’s response
- Australians urged to make Uluru Statement from the Heart an election issue
- ‘Stunning pay rise’: commodity boom to fuel improved Australian budget
- ‘Shocked’: Geelong ensemble of disabled actors wins one of the world’s richest theatre prizes
- Ukrainian mother seriously wounded while shielding baby from missile strike
- Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 26 of the invasion
- Kyiv says ‘no question’ of surrender in Mariupol after Russia sets 5am deadline
- David Beckham hands Instagram account to Ukrainian doctor in Kharkiv
- US not optimistic about Ukraine talks as Zelenskiy ups pressure on Biden
- British-Iranian Morad Tahbaz moved from prison in Iran to hotel room
- Average house price in Great Britain exceeds £350,000 for first time
- Raise benefits and pensions to help lower earners, thinktank tells Rishi Sunak
- Wales introduces ban on smacking and slapping children
- NHS rollout of second Covid booster jabs begins in England
- PM to chair roundtable on boosting UK’s nuclear power output
- Labour urges Kwasi Kwarteng to launch legal action against P&O Ferries
- US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas in hospital with ‘flu-like symptoms’
- Republican Hawley’s attack on supreme court nominee Jackson is wrong, says senator
- Chinese article urging country to cut ties with Putin gets 1m views
- Liz Cheney does not regret vote against Trump Ukraine impeachment
- Marina Ovsyannikova, Russian TV protester, decries Putin propaganda
- US likely to see Covid cases rise from Omicron subvariant, Fauci says
| Rosario v Newell’s Old Boys delayed after ‘number of grenades’ damage pitch Posted: 20 Mar 2022 12:52 PM PDT
The derby game in Argentina's top flight between Rosario Central and Newell's Old Boys kicked off late on Sunday after "a number of grenades", which had been thrown on to the field by fans, blew holes in the playing surface. The fixture, a local derby between two fierce rivals in the Santa Fe province, is one of the major dates in the country's football calendar. Continue reading... |
| Scott Morrison signals budget measures to counter soaring petrol prices and cost of living Posted: 20 Mar 2022 06:40 PM PDT Prime minister says government 'very conscious' of the impacts of fuel prices as Liberals ponder SA election loss Scott Morrison has signalled further measures to counter the rising cost of living, potentially including temporary petrol excise cuts, as the Coalition mulls federal implications from the Liberal loss in South Australia. The prime minister travelled to Brisbane on Monday campaigning on the commonwealth's $667m investment in the south-east Queensland city deal, primarily for transport projects, ahead of the federal budget on 29 March. Continue reading... |
| Australia news live updates: Malinauskas sworn in as SA premier; at least six Covid deaths recorded Posted: 20 Mar 2022 06:32 PM PDT At least six Covid deaths recorded; Morrison and Palaszczuk announce infrastructure funding package; Lismore flood victims to dump debris at protest; Morrison signals petrol price relief in budget; Peter Malinauskas sworn in as new SA premier. Follow all the day's news
For almost four years Suzanna Sheed has started each parliamentary sitting week by moving the same motion. The independent MP for Shepparton, a rural electorate of almost 50,000 people in northern Victoria, asks for a non-government business program to be reinstated in the state's lower house. They're having a real impact on people right now, so we've been conscious of that. But what we do as a government is we don't have knee-jerk reactions, we think through carefully how we can best provide the sort of support that we believe the federal government can deliver. Continue reading... |
| NSW announces inquiry into flood crisis after criticism of state’s response Posted: 20 Mar 2022 03:55 PM PDT Acting premier says review will investigate preparedness for such catastrophic events, as well as response and recovery The former New South Wales police commissioner Mick Fuller and the state's chief scientist and engineer, Mary O'Kane, will head an inquiry into the state's flood crisis. The state's acting premier, Paul Toole, announced the independent inquiry to investigate the causes of, preparedness for, response to and recovery from the catastrophic flood event. Continue reading... |
| Australians urged to make Uluru Statement from the Heart an election issue Posted: 20 Mar 2022 02:54 PM PDT 'Forget the government,' Referendum Council co-chair says, calling instead for 'a people's movement' The authors of the Uluru Statement from the Heart are calling on Australians to make constitutional change an election issue, saying the only chance for reform is if voters, not the government, start to demand it. "Look, forget the government," said Pat Anderson, a Alyawarre woman who co-chaired the Referendum Council, which designed the process that resulted in the Uluru statement. "They are not going to do it, even the people five years ago … we know that they are not going to do it. That's why we have to appeal to the Australian people now." Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| ‘Stunning pay rise’: commodity boom to fuel improved Australian budget Posted: 20 Mar 2022 12:49 PM PDT Export revenues and low jobless rate combine to cut almost $90bn from projected federal budget deficit Soaring commodity prices and a shrinking jobless rate will combine to slice almost $90bn from projected federal budget deficits out to 2024-25, although excessive pre-election promises would undermine the government's fiscal repair efforts, according to Chris Richardson, a senior economist at Deloitte. The predicted improvement compares with forecasts in the government's mid-year outlook (Myefo) released last December. The current year's deficit alone will be cut almost a third from a projected $99.2bn to $69bn as the economy's rebound from Covid disruptions quickens, Richardson said. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ‘Shocked’: Geelong ensemble of disabled actors wins one of the world’s richest theatre prizes Posted: 20 Mar 2022 12:00 PM PDT Back to Back wins DK2.5m Ibsen prize for their 'exciting, unsettling and thought-provoking' work A small Australian theatre company made up of neurodiverse and disabled actors has won one of the world's richest theatre prizes, the DK2.5m (AU$384,000) Ibsen award. Back to Back, which was established in 1987 and is based in Geelong, were announced as the winners of the biennial prize on Sunday night in Norway. The pioneering theatre company is the first Australian recipient of the award, dubbed "the Nobel prize for theatre", which goes to an individual or company "that has brought new artistic dimensions to the world of drama or theatre". Continue reading... |
| Ukrainian mother seriously wounded while shielding baby from missile strike Posted: 20 Mar 2022 06:27 PM PDT Olga recalls horror of seeing blood covering her six-week-old daughter after shrapnel blasts in Okhmatdyt Children's hospital in Kyiv Olga, a 27-year-old Ukrainian woman seriously wounded while sheltering her baby from shrapnel blasts in Kyiv, recalled the shock as she saw blood covering her child after a missile strike that shattered glass across the room. "I was wounded in the head, and blood started flowing. And it all flowed on the baby," said Olga, sitting on a bed at the Okhmatdyt Children's hospital where she was being treated. Continue reading... |
| Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 26 of the invasion Posted: 20 Mar 2022 05:58 PM PDT Moscow has given Mariupol a deadline to surrender amid alarm that residents have been 'kidnapped' and sent to remote parts of Russia Continue reading... |
| Kyiv says ‘no question’ of surrender in Mariupol after Russia sets 5am deadline Posted: 20 Mar 2022 03:14 PM PDT Moscow, saying 'terrible humanitarian catastrophe' is unfolding in city, offers safe passages to fighters who give in Russia has given Ukrainian forces a deadline of 5am Moscow time (2am GMT) on Monday to lay down their arms in the eastern port city of Mariupol, where it said a "terrible humanitarian catastrophe" was unfolding. "Lay down your arms," Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the director of the Russian National Defence Management Center, said on Sunday in a briefing. "A terrible humanitarian catastrophe has developed," he said. "All who lay down their arms are guaranteed safe passage out of Mariupol." Continue reading... |
| David Beckham hands Instagram account to Ukrainian doctor in Kharkiv Posted: 20 Mar 2022 02:59 PM PDT Unicef ambassador's 71.5m followers shown tenacious perinatal work with pregnant women and newborns in besieged city David Beckham has handed over control of his Instagram account to a Ukrainian doctor working in the city of Kharkiv. Throughout Sunday, the former footballer's Instagram Stories were inundated with videos and photographs following Iryna, a child anaesthesiologist and head of the regional perinatal centre, through a day at work in the midst of the conflict. Continue reading... |
| US not optimistic about Ukraine talks as Zelenskiy ups pressure on Biden Posted: 20 Mar 2022 11:16 AM PDT
Joe Biden's ambassador to the United Nations warned on Sunday there was little immediate hope of a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine, as pressure continued to build on the US president ahead of a crucial Nato summit in Europe this week. Linda Thomas-Greenfield was reacting on CNN's State of the Union to an interview with Volodymr Zelenskiy in which the Ukrainian president told the same network only talks would end the war and its devastating toll on civilians. Continue reading... |
| British-Iranian Morad Tahbaz moved from prison in Iran to hotel room Posted: 20 Mar 2022 03:37 PM PDT Conservationist detained since 2018 left behind when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori released Morad Tahbaz, the British-Iranian-American citizen left behind last week when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were allowed to return home to the UK, has been taken from Evin prison to a hotel in Tehran after representations by the British and American governments, the Foreign Office has said. The department added that it was lobbying the Iranian authorities at the highest levels to allow him to return to his Tehran home immediately as the Iranian government had previously committed to do. Continue reading... |
| Average house price in Great Britain exceeds £350,000 for first time Posted: 20 Mar 2022 05:01 PM PDT Asking prices up 1.7% in March, biggest monthly rise for this time of year in 18 years, according to Rightmove The average price tag on a home in Great Britain has topped £350,000 for the first time, according to Rightmove. Typical asking prices hit £354,564 in March, up 1.7% or £5,760 compared with February, the property website said. It was the biggest monthly rise for this time of year in 18 years, and pushed the annual rate of growth in asking prices to 10.4%. Continue reading... |
| Raise benefits and pensions to help lower earners, thinktank tells Rishi Sunak Posted: 20 Mar 2022 05:01 PM PDT Resolution Foundation says pegging benefits to inflation will target help to needy better than scrapping NI rise Rishi Sunak should consider raising benefits and pensions to keep pace with inflation, research has suggested, as the chancellor faced increasing pressure to tackle the cost-of-living squeeze in this week's spring budgetary statement. Increasing benefits by an extra five percentage points, by 8.1% rather than the 3.1% currently planned, would give four times as much help for low-to-middle income households for every pound spent as scrapping the planned national insurance rise, the Resolution Foundation said. Continue reading... |
| Wales introduces ban on smacking and slapping children Posted: 20 Mar 2022 05:01 PM PDT Welsh government hails 'historic moment' for children's rights amid calls for England to follow suit Smacking and slapping children has been outlawed in Wales, with people told to contact social services or police if they see a parent or carer meting out physical punishment. The law change, which came into force first thing on Monday, was hailed as "historic" by the Labour-led Welsh government and a number of child protection champions, who called for England to follow suit. Continue reading... |
| NHS rollout of second Covid booster jabs begins in England Posted: 20 Mar 2022 05:01 PM PDT Offer of top-up dose to over-75s, care home residents and those who are immunocompromised follows JCVI advice last month The NHS in England will on Monday start giving a second booster vaccine to millions of people who are at higher risk from Covid-19 to help combat the latest resurgence in infections. Over-75s, care home residents and those who are immunocompromised – 5 million in all – will be contacted by the NHS and then be able to book an appointment online or by calling 119. Continue reading... |
| PM to chair roundtable on boosting UK’s nuclear power output Posted: 20 Mar 2022 03:30 PM PDT Meeting comes as Boris Johnson prepares to publish his energy security strategy amid soaring prices and Ukraine war Boris Johnson will chair a meeting on how to increase the UK's nuclear power output on Monday, as he prepares to publish his energy security strategy this month amid soaring prices. The prime minister will discuss domestic nuclear projects with leaders from the nuclear industry at a roundtable meeting at Downing Street, No 10 said. Continue reading... |
| Labour urges Kwasi Kwarteng to launch legal action against P&O Ferries Posted: 20 Mar 2022 03:30 PM PDT Letter to business secretary calls firm's sacking of 800 workers 'scandalous' and a criminal offence Labour has urged the business secretary to launch legal action against P&O Ferries over its "scandalous" decision to sack 800 workers without warning, which the party said is a criminal offence. Shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh, deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds have written to Kwasi Kwarteng, asking if he will begin proceedings for what they called the "scandalous action" of the ferry company. Continue reading... |
| US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas in hospital with ‘flu-like symptoms’ Posted: 20 Mar 2022 05:17 PM PDT Court says 73-year-old could be released in next couple of days after infection symptoms began abating Justice Clarence Thomas has been admitted to hospital because of an infection, the supreme court said on Sunday. Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley memorial hospital in Washington DC since Friday after experiencing "flu-like symptoms", the court said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Republican Hawley’s attack on supreme court nominee Jackson is wrong, says senator Posted: 20 Mar 2022 11:01 AM PDT Senate judiciary committee chair Dick Durbin says Hawley's attacks should be ignored in confirmation hearings this week The Missouri Republican Josh Hawley is wrong to attack Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden's supreme court nominee, and should be ignored in confirmation hearings this week, the Senate judiciary chair said. Hawley, the Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin said, is "part of the fringe within the Republican party … a man who was fist-bumping the murderous mob that descended on the Capitol on 6 January of the last year. Continue reading... |
| Chinese article urging country to cut ties with Putin gets 1m views Posted: 20 Mar 2022 10:32 AM PDT Essay on US site republished in China before being censored, reflecting balancing act between Russia and west When an essay from a prominent Shanghai scholar suggested China needed to cut ties with Vladimir Putin as soon as possible over the Ukraine war, the online reaction was swift. Despite being published late on a Friday evening in the Carter Center's US-China Perception Monitor, Hu Wei's essay soon gained a million views in and outside China, and was republished into Chinese blogs, non-official media sites and social media accounts. Continue reading... |
| Liz Cheney does not regret vote against Trump Ukraine impeachment Posted: 20 Mar 2022 09:37 AM PDT January 6 committee member splits from fellow Republican Adam Kinzinger but says first impeachment informs panel's work Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the January 6 committee, does not regret her vote against Donald Trump's first impeachment, for withholding military aid to Ukraine in an attempt to extract dirt on rivals including Joe Biden. But Cheney also said on Sunday she was focused on lessons learned from that impeachment as she pursues the investigation of the deadly Capitol attack, the event which led to Trump's second Senate trial. Continue reading... |
| Marina Ovsyannikova, Russian TV protester, decries Putin propaganda Posted: 20 Mar 2022 09:09 AM PDT 'I could see security dragging people away,' says editor fined for walking into shot with sign saying 'No War' The Russian TV editor who interrupted a news broadcast to protest the Ukraine war said on Sunday she acted out of dissatisfaction at propaganda disseminated by Vladimir Putin's government, and said she had turned down an offer of asylum in France despite fearing further retaliation. Marina Ovsyannikova, who describes herself as "a patriot", was fined 30,000 roubles ($280) by a court in Moscow last week for the "spontaneous" act of rebellion in which she appeared during the live newscast with a sign saying "No War". Continue reading... |
| US likely to see Covid cases rise from Omicron subvariant, Fauci says Posted: 20 Mar 2022 08:40 AM PDT Biden's chief medical adviser also says the US is 'clearly going in the right direction' on the pandemic The US is likely to see an increase in Covid cases like that in Europe and the UK thanks to the BA.2 virus subvariant but not a dangerous surge, Anthony Fauci said on Sunday. Joe Biden's chief medical adviser also said the US was "clearly going in the right direction" on the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading... |
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