Giorno: 30 Giugno 2023

Editorial: Young people cut out of politics

Read More (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G) The ANC Youth League goes into its long-awaited 26th national conference this weekend with scant fanfare, eight years after it last held an elective meeting. It does so with little expectation that the gathering — if it sits — will deliver much in the way of decisions, or leadership, that […]

Global pact needed to reset the climate finance system

Read More Dire: An Amazigh woman looks after sheep near Amellagou village in the blistering desert of Morocco, where Morocco’s last nomads live. They say their lifestyle has become impossible to sustain because climate change brings ever more intense droughts. Photo: Fadel Senna/ Getty Images Last week I attended the Africa Editors’ Climate Forum in […]

Young Lions no longer roaring as ANC Youth League congress teeters

Read More Purr: Former youth league leader Malusi Gigaba will eat his lunch even if he didn’t outwit Chief Justice Zondo. Photo: Simon Dawson/Getty Images Thursday. Like many of my fellow South Africans — or, to be precise, those among us who are participating in or tasked with covering the ANC Youth League’s long-awaited and […]

Rishi Sunak urged to heed criticism on climate after Zac Goldsmith quits

Read More Rishi Sunak is embroiled in an extraordinary standoff with Zac Goldsmith after the Tory peer quit the government, accusing Sunak of being “simply uninterested” in the environment and the climate emergency. Lord Goldsmith resigned as a Foreign Office minister with a highly personal attack, warning that voters would punish the prime minister at […]

Alan Arkin, Oscar winning actor in Little Miss Sunshine, dies aged 89

Read More Alan Arkin, the veteran US actor whose multi-decade career spanned the likes of Catch-22, Edward Scissorhands and Little Miss Sunshine (for which he won an Oscar), has died aged 89. His sons confirmed the news in a statement to People magazine, saying: “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as […]

France riots: Macron tells parents to keep teenagers at home; policing unions criticised over inflammatory language – latest updates

Read More From 7h ago Emmanuel Macron says social media is fuelling copycat violence in France and that state agencies would ask platforms such as Snapchat and TikTok to remove the most “sensitive content”. Speaking after a second government crisis meeting, the president said violence was being organised online. Commenting on the young people involved, […]

Biden attacks Republican ‘hypocrisy’ after supreme court blocks student debt relief – live

Read More From 3h ago Joe Biden is accusing the Republicans who led the successful effort to block his plan to cancel some federal student loan debt of “stunning” hypocrisy, and vowed to keep fighting to help more Americans afford college degrees. “The hypocrisy of Republican elected officials is stunning,” the president said in a […]

Plans to shorten medical training put quality of NHS care at risk, doctors say

Read More Plans to shorten medical training could dilute the calibre of doctors entering the NHS in England and damage the quality of care patients receive, doctors’ leaders have warned. Government proposals to cut doctors’ time in medical school from five to four years, and to introduce medical apprenticeships, could “water down” training for health […]

Justice Roberts Rebukes Liberal Justices on Loan Dissent

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday took aim at the court’s liberal justices in a note at the end of his majority opinion striking down the Biden administration’s $400 billion student loan debt relief plan, in response to Justice Elena Kagan’s strong…

Popular tourist destination wants total suitcase ban as travel surges post-pandemic

A popular Croatian city plans to introduce new rules that will ban tourists from dragging suitcases in the Old Town as residents complain about the racket it causes during peak tourism season. “They will leave their bags at the designated point, and we will, of course, for a fee, bring their things to the address […]