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National Audit Office says government attempts to tackle misogynistic violence are hampered by poor coordinationAn “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the UK is getting worse despite years of government promises and strategies, a highly critical report from Whitehall’s spending watchdog has said.The National Audit Office report comes four years after a major government response to violence against women and girls (VAWG) was launched after the murders of Sabina Nessa and Sarah Everard.The Home Office did not have “centrally coordinated funding” for VAWG, unlike that for the 2021 illegal drugs strategy, and had underspent on its own VAWG

Vessel commissioned by previous Tory government to house asylum seekers was decommissioned in NovemberEighteen months after it arrived at Portland Port in Dorset, the empty asylum seeker barge Bibby Stockholm has been towed away from its mooring.The barge, which only ever provided accommodation for about 400 single male asylum seekers a night, at maximum occupancy, has cost the taxpayer at least £34.8m, according to the National Audit Office.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988,

Bodies of 28 people have been retrieved from Potomac River after collision of passenger jet and military helicopterWashington DC plane crash – latest updatesFirst confirmed victims include figure skating championsA collision on Wednesday between an American Airlines jet and a US military helicopter near Washington DC killed all 67 people onboard both aircraft and sparked questions over whether understaffing in an air traffic control tower played a role in the United State’s worst aviation disaster in years.As it approached Reagan National airport around 9pm, American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a US army Black Hawk helicopter, plunging wreckage of the

Former chief resigned 10 days ago, after Elon Musk, a close adviser to Donald Trump, called for him to quitWashington DC plane crash – latest updatesFirst confirmed victims include figure skating championsQuestions swirled in Washington on Thursday as the Federal Aviation Administration began its investigation of the Reagan airport crash without a permanent leader – its former chief resigned 10 days ago, after Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO and close adviser to Donald Trump, called for him to quit.Michael Whitaker, a 30-year aviation industry veteran, was unanimously confirmed as FAA administrator by the Senate in October 2023. He resigned last

Adam Bandt to announce $8.1bn plan to make all public transport fees just 50c a ride. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictorian police have charged a man over a series of ‘Pam the Bird’ images graffitied on city landmarks.The 21-year-old man, from Yarraville, was arrested on 30th January, police said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jan/31/australia-news-live-antisemitism-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-dural-caravan-frydenberg-adam-bandt-greens-public-transport-ntwnfb Author : Martin Farrer Publish date : 2025-01-30 19:57:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Steve Samson given whole-life order and Gemma Watts at least 30 years after killing and dismembering 38-year-oldA couple who killed a woman and dumped her dismembered body in different parts of south London have been jailed for murder.Steve Samson was out of prison on a life licence for the murder of a taxi driver in 1998 when he and his partner, Gemma Watts, killed Sarah Mayhew, 38, at his flat in Sutton last spring. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/30/couple-jailed-murder-sarah-mayhew-london Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2025-01-30 18:53:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

UN aid agency says work in West Bank and Gaza will continue despite order to halt operations at East Jerusalem HQMiddle East crisis – live updatesInternational staff working for the UN’s main agency serving Palestinians have been forced to leave after Israel’s ban on Unrwa came into effect.The UN flag flew above the headquarters building in Jerusalem on Thursday morning, but Palestinian staff were also not present at the site over security concerns amid a planned “celebration” by Israeli rightwingers, some of whom later vandalised signs and replaced the UN flag with an Israeli one. Continue reading... Source link :

Trump’s pick for health secretary says ‘I don’t think anybody can say’ Covid vaccines saved millions of livesRobert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination to lead America’s top health agency faced strong headwinds as he struggled to provide clear answers on his past vaccine statements for a second straight day of bruising hearings on Capitol Hill.In a tense back-and-forth before the Senate health committee on Thursday morning, Kennedy dodged direct questions about whether he still believes vaccines cause autism, despite extensive scientific evidence to the contrary. When pressed by Senator Bernie Sanders about studies showing Covid-19 vaccines saved millions of lives, Kennedy

Refugee Council says ‘many refugees themselves could also be prosecuted’ under proposalsRichard Madeley goes next.Q: The Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary says you are wrong, and the third runway won’t be built until you are 70. You are 45 now. Why is he wrong?We’re signing off decisions on wind farms, on solar farms, a commitment to a new stadium at Old Trafford. We are upgrading the Transpennine route to make journey times easier between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield. Those things are happening right now. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jan/30/rachel-reeves-keir-starmer-heathrow-growth-latest-politics-news Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2025-01-30

Hundred-metre wide asteroid rises to top of impact risk lists after being spotted in December by automated telescopeA 100 metre-wide asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedures for the first time after telescope observations revealed it has a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.Asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted by an automated telescope in Chile on 27 December last year but has since risen to the top of impact risk lists maintained by the US and European space agencies. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/30/asteroid-spotted-chance-colliding-with-earth-2032 Author : Ian Sample Science editor Publish date : 2025-01-30 14:25:00 Copyright for syndicated content

US president signs executive order to prepare huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay he says could hold 30,000 immigrantsRights groups were swift to condemn Donald Trump’s announcement that he would order the construction of a migrant detention facility in Guantánamo Bay.Amnesty International said Guantánamo has been a “site of torture, indefinite detention without charge or trial and other unlawful practices”.Sending scores of immigrants to an inaccessible military base in Cuba could enable the government to deprive them of basic human rights, far from lawyers, the press, and Congressional oversight. Unfortunately, that appears to be the point.If that’s what conditions at

Online gambling firm’s service ‘issues’ left bettors apparently unable to ‘cash out’ on busy night in European footballThe online gambling company Bet365 has been flooded with complaints after it suffered an outage during one of the busiest nights of European football this season.Customers claimed to have lost out on thousands of pounds due to what the company called “issues with our service” during the second half of Wednesday night’s 18 Champions League games. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jan/30/bet365-gamblers-complain-tech-issues-champions-league-matches Author : Rob Davies Publish date : 2025-01-30 12:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

EU migration commissioner says bloc is working on ‘tighter rules’ following German plan chancellor describes as ‘unforgivable’… and as the ministers go to talk behind the closed doors, let us take a look at what’s happening elsewhere in Europe.Ingrid Gercama spoke with students protesters in Serbia to give you an idea on what is happening on the ground after the country’s prime minister Miloš Vučević resigned earlier this week following months of protests over the fatal collapse of a train station roof in November.Sitting on the balustrade of a viaduct in Belgrade, Uroš Pantović wasn’t in the mood to mince

Israel will reportedly free 110 Palestinian prisoners in exchange; Unrwa likely to close in face of Israeli banA female Israeli soldier has been seen waving from a podium set up at the hostage handover location in Gaza, reports Reuters. Live TV showed the soldier being led by armed men to the stage, according to the news agency.Here are a couple of images that have come in via the newswires: Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/30/israel-gaza-war-live-israel-thai-hostages-palestinian-prisoners-unrwa-ceasefire-latest-news Author : Amy Sedghi (now) and Philip Wen (earlier) Publish date : 2025-01-30 08:10:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

As retailers record 55,000 thefts a day, we talk to a supermarket worker, a security guard and a shopkeeper about their jobsCrime ‘spiralling out of control’ in stores, warns British Retail ConsortiumUK retailers are warning that crime in their stores is “spiralling out of control” with 55,000 thefts a day and violent and abusive incidents rising by 50% last year to 2,000 a day.What is it like to be on the frontline? We speak to a supermarket worker, a security guard and an independent shopkeeper. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/30/some-steal-to-order-on-the-frontline-of-uk-shoplifting-epidemic Author : Sarah Butler Publish date : 2025-01-30 06:11:00

Economic data shows food and beverage prices still rising faster than long-term average, even as inflationary pressures easeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHigh food prices are now embedded in the economy, a retail analyst has warned, after new inflation data released on Wednesday.Egg prices surged 11% last year, and the cost of cooking oil is up 7%; lamb prices have jumped 17%, while shoppers are paying about 6% more for fruit and vegetables. Beer prices have lifted by 4%.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue

PSA Airlines regional jet collided midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Reagan Washington National Airport, aviation agency saysMultiple media including the New York Times, Reuters and CNN are saying the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. No senior army officials were onboard, they reported, citing US defence officials.Multiple sources are now saying that about 60 people were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with the helicopter. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/30/plane-crashes-near-washington-dc-after-mid-air-collision-with-military-helicopter-follow-live Author : Helen Livingstone Publish date : 2025-01-30 04:04:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Emergency personnel were responding to the scene with multiple helicopters flying over the Potomac River An aircraft went down near Ronald Reagan national airport in Virginia on Wednesday night, and all takeoffs and landings have been halted, according to the airport and law enforcement.Multiple helicopters, including those from the US Park police, the DC Metropolitan police department and US military, were flying over the scene of the incident in the Potomac River. DC Fire and EMS said on X that fireboats were on the scene. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/aircraft-crash-ronald-reagan-airport-virginia Author : Associated Press Publish date : 2025-01-30 03:04:00

Settlement originates from lawsuit by president against the platform, one of several filed after 6 January violenceMeta has agreed to pay $25m to settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump. The suit originated in 2021 when Trump sued the social media company for suspending his accounts after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The settlement was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and has been confirmed by a Meta spokesperson.The majority of the settlement, $22m, will go toward a fund to pay for Trump’s presidential library, according to the Wall Street Journal. The remainder will pay for legal

Rise was partly due to more households using their credit and debit cards overseas as travel bounces back, analyst from central bank saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian households paid almost 10% more in bank fees in the 2023/24 financial year, with credit card and personal loan use soaring amid the rising cost of living.That contributed to banks enjoying a 5% jump in fee revenue in 2023/24 – the first annual increase in fee earnings in seven years, the Reserve Bank said in its January bulletin. Continue

Speaking at a press conference, Karen Webb said the point of the investigation was to be ‘covert’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastChalmers says fear of mass casualty event ‘extraordinarily serious development’Asked whether he fears “we could see a deadly attack in the coming weeks and months” on ABC News Breakfast, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said:We know from the counter-terrorism teams that they consider this to have been a potential mass casualty event. That is obviously an extraordinarily serious development and this is why we’re working so closely with them and with

Zuckerberg likely to be asked about plans to spend $60-65bn in ballooning AI investments in 2025 as tech firm faces increased competitionAfter an unprecedented delay, Meta reported earnings more than half an hour after market close on Wednesday. The company posted $48.39bn in fourth-quarter revenue and and earnings per share of $8.02, handily beating Wall Street projections of $46.9bn and $6.75 in earnings-per-share.“We continue to make good progress on AI, glasses and the future of social media,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. “I’m excited to see these efforts scale further in 2025.” The day before, an internal memo