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      German paper industry denies claims paper shortage could hinder election

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Head of electoral commission had said timing of early election could be affected by shortage of paper to print ballots

    Paper industry bosses in Germany have hit back at claims by the national electoral commission that a lack of paper might hinder the timing of the country’s early elections.

    “We have paper,” the seemingly exasperated head of the trade association for the German paper industry, Alexander von Reibnitz, told the state broadcaster ZDF, adding: “The German paper industry is very productive … we can deliver as long as the order is submitted in a timely manner.”

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      Woman, 87, died after being blown over by helicopter at Plymouth hospital, inquest told

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Jean Langan suffered fatal head injuries while leaving Derriford hospital in Plymouth, jury hears

    An 87-year-old woman suffered fatal head injuries when she was blown over by a search and rescue helicopter as it landed at a hospital, an inquest jury has heard.

    Jean Langan had attended Derriford hospital in Plymouth, Devon, to have a hearing aid fitted and was walking with a relative back to their vehicle in the hospital car park.

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      Maresca making squad balancing act work as Chelsea play the long game

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Italian’s impressive start has come despite seeming to have a surplus of players but the situation remains delicate

    For Malo Gusto, it was possible to fear the worst as he waited for Enzo Maresca to name his Chelsea team for Sunday’s Stamford Bridge derby against Arsenal . Gusto had been substituted at half-time in the previous weekend’s 1-1 draw at Manchester United , Marc Cucurella coming on at left-back, Reece James swapping over to his favoured position of right-back.

    Gusto had been squeezed out. Cucurella is in form and James, well, he is the club captain, the homegrown favourite; available again, at long last, after his hamstring problems. It would be him and Cucurella against Arsenal, right?

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      Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’

    Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey are the bookies’ favourites to win the 2024 Booker prize.

    American author Everett was Ladbrokes’ frontrunner before the company closed bets on Monday morning, with 2/1 odds of taking home the £50,000 award for his novel James – a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved Jim.

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      Brighton stun City and Liverpool go five clear: Football Weekly - podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , Seb Hutchinson and Nick Ames to discuss all the weekend’s action

    Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts , Soundcloud , Audioboom , Mixcloud , Acast and Stitcher , and join the conversation on Facebook , Twitter and email .

    On the podcast today: Pep Guardiola oversees an unprecedented fourth straight defeat with Manchester City’s 2-1 loss at Brighton . Fabien Hürzeler’s second-half adjustments turned the tide, leaving Liverpool five points clear at the top . Was Aston Villa’s set-piece strategy a disaster, or is Austin McPhee simply out of ideas?

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      Trump 2.0 could make even the most optimistic climate observers cynical - but it's not the whole story | Adam Morton

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Much is unclear about how Donald Trump’s return to power will affect efforts to tackle global heating, but there are a few things we can say

    You’ve likely already heard the worst-case takes: that a second Trump presidency is a disaster for the climate, and will almost certainly lead to emissions being higher than they otherwise would have been. There’s obvious truth in that. But it’s also true that Trump 2.0 will almost certainly not play out in line with immediate post-election predictions.

    We have been here before. As the writer and analyst Ketan Joshi points out , in 2016 it was projected that Trump’s policies would lead to a steep rise in US emissions – a fork in the road at odds with the decline forecast if Hillary Clinton had won.

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      First came the bots, then came the bosses - we’re entering Musk and Zuck’s new era of disinformation | Joan Donovan

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Tech leaders’ politics are encoded into their platforms – and with Trump’s ascent, they have direct access to the Oval Office

    I’m a researcher of media manipulation, and watching the 2024 US election returns was like seeing the Titanic sink.

    Every day leading up to 5 November, there were more and more outrageous claims being made in an attempt across social media to undermine election integrity: conspiracy theories focused on a tidal wave of immigrants plotting to undermine the right wing , allegations that there were millions of excess ballots circulating in California, and rumors that the voting machines were already corrupted by malicious algorithms.

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      Gladiator II review – Paul Mescal slays in Ridley Scott’s gobsmacking reboot

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Scott’s return to the Roman arena is something of a repeat, but it’s still a thrilling spectacle and Mescal a formidable lead. We are entertained

    What’s Latin for “Groundhog Day”? Once upon a time, Russell Crowe’s beefy hero Maximus in Ridley Scott’s sword-and-sandal classic Gladiator was the honest soldier outside the snickering metropolitan elite, out to gain vengeance and redeem Roman honour in the blood-spattered arena, his raw courage exposing the politicians’ contemptible decadence. His defiant cry “Are you not entertained?” spoke to the showbiz-political complex of our own time and when it was alleged last year that most men thought about ancient Rome every day , the suspicion was that what they were actually thinking about was … that film.

    Now we are a generation along, and little has changed, in fact almost nothing. This sequel is watchable and spectacular, with the Colosseum created not digitally but as a gobsmacking 1-to-1 scale physical reconstruction with real crowds. Yet this film is weirdly almost a next-gen remake, effectively reincarnating almost every single narrative component of the original in a variant form, the events of the first film echoing in franchise eternity.

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      Former Harris aide suggests Biden resign so she can serve as president

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November, 2024

    Jamal Simmons says move would help Democrats seize public’s attention before Trump begins term in January

    A former communications director for Kamala Harris has made the unlikely suggestion that Joe Biden resign so she can become the first woman to serve as US president after her defeat to Donald Trump in the 5 November election.

    Jamal Simmons offered the thought during an appearance as a panelist Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union news show when asked what should be the top priority for the US before Trump begins his second presidency in January.

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