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President tells Fox ‘I think they want to get that letter … because we can’t let another nuclear weapon’Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has scrambled to convince Donald Trump to lift tariffs on his country, which together with Mexico and China is one of the US’s largest trading partners.That effort included a phone call between the two leaders on Wednesday, which appears to have had some effect – on Thursday, Trump exempted Canada from some of the tariffs he had imposed, along with Mexico.Trudeau responded Tuesday by placing tariffs on the US, and he questioned whether further negotiations would make

Judge says cofounder Roger Hallam’s term was ‘manifestly excessive’ as she cuts his and six other activists’ sentencesA lengthy jail sentence handed to the Just Stop Oil cofounder Roger Hallam was “manifestly excessive”, the country’s most senior judge has said, as she reduced his and five other climate protesters’ sentences on appeal.Hallam was originally jailed for five years for conspiring to disrupt traffic by having protesters climb on to gantries over the M25 for four successive days in 2022. His sentence was reduced to four years. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/07/just-stop-oil-protesters-jail-sentences-shortened-after-appeal Author : Damien Gayle Publish date : 2025-03-07

Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content‘I’ve very felt lost and insecure’: TV producers despair as work dries upSenior television producers with decades of experience are working as high street shelf-stackers, car park attendants and in pubs, as a prolonged crisis continues to sweep through the TV world.The Guardian has spoken to dozens of experienced figures in the UK who are working entry-level jobs as a result of a drawn-out work drought. Some said they had been forced to sell their houses or spend their life savings. Senior industry figures estimated

Exclusive: What appears to be a vast burial site found at former Rapid Support Forces base in Sudan, while rescued detainees speak of torture, starvation and deaths of fellow inmates‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support ForcesMore than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum, according to evidence seen by the Guardian.A visit to a base belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shortly after it was retaken by the Sudanese military found a previously