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Trump’s win has given angry incels enormous power | Arwa Mahdawi

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

The masks were never exactly on to begin with – social media was a hotbed of bigotry long before Trump’s victory. But winning has emboldened his followers

Well that didn’t take long, did it? As soon as it became clear that Donald Trump had won the election, social media saw a major spike in gleeful misogyny. And it seems Trump’s army of angry incels have found a favourite new catchphrase to taunt women with: “Your body, my choice.”

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Pompeii limits visitors to protect ancient city from overtourism

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Tickets to visit ruins buried by Mount Vesuvius, seen by 4 million this summer, to be capped at 20,000 a day

Pompeii plans to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalised tickets from next week in an effort to cope with overtourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said.

This summer, a record 4 million people visited the remains of the ancient Roman city, buried under ash and rock after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.

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West Ham v Everton, Wolves v Southampton, and more: clockwatch – live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Updates from Premier League 3pm kick-offs and more
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Crystal Palace (3-4-3): Henderson; Clyne, Lacroix, Guehi; Munoz, Chalobah, Devenny, Mitchell; Sarr, Kamada, Mateta.

Fulham (4-2-3-1): Leno; Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson; Berge, Pereira; Nelson, Smith Rowe, Iwobi; Jimenez.

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NHS in ‘last-chance saloon’, says former health secretary Alan Milburn

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Milburn set to take senior health department role and says crisis is ‘million times worse’ than when he was in office

The NHS is “drinking in the last-chance saloon” and needs to change, the former health secretary Alan Milburn has said as he prepares to take up a senior role in the Department of Health.

Milburn, who brought about radical changes, such as the introduction of NHS foundation trusts, when he was a minister for Tony Blair, called for “cultural change” in the health service and said “big reforms will be needed to make it fit for the future”.

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Woman who fell to her death from Hackney council flat ‘was trying to fix drainpipe’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Coroner’s report finds Sarah McGreevy died after climbing on box on sixth floor balcony to unblock pipe repaired with tape

A woman who accidentally fell to her death from the sixth floor balcony of a Hackney council block was trying to fix a blocked drainpipe that had been repaired using “heavy duty tape”, a coroner has found.

Sarah McGreevy, 37, died on 16 June after climbing on to a wooden box on the balcony to manually unblock the pipe, a common practice among residents of the fifth and sixth floors of the building after heavy rainfall, according to the coroner’s report.

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Doubledecker bus collision in Manchester leaves 17 injured

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Two buses crash on Rochdale Road with people taken to hospitals across region although none seriously hurt

A crash between two doubledecker buses in Manchester has left 17 people needing hospital treatment.

The buses collided on Rochdale Road at 8.34am on Saturday.

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Boost UK defence spending to win Trump’s support, former navy chief urges Starmer

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Lord West says Republican victory is chance to show Britain is willing to prioritise military by allocating 3% of GDP

Keir Starmer is being urged to consider an emergency cash injection into defence and to accelerate Britain’s planned review of its military capabilities before Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Senior defence figures are now assessing how Trump’s victory will shape a strategic defence review (SDR) that was already under way in Whitehall, whose findings are due to be reported in the spring. The SDR comes alongside a crucial review of public spending.

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Queen Camilla to miss remembrance events due to chest infection, says palace

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Doctors advise queen not to attend Remembrance Day events to ensure full recovery from seasonal infection

Queen Camilla will not attend Remembrance Day events this weekend as she recovers from a chest infection, Buckingham Palace has said.

Camilla was due to attend the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening, and to honour the war dead at the Remembrance Sunday ceremony on Whitehall.

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Global boiling, mass flooding and Trump: 10 big talking points for Cop29

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 November, 2024

Record carbon emissions, melting ice sheets and the return of the former US president will all be under the spotlight at this week’s climate summit

It has been a remarkable year for meteorological mayhem with intense heatwaves and storms of extreme intensity battering many parts of our planet. Last month these culminated in the devastating floods that struck eastern Spain and killed hundreds.

Ahead of this week’s Cop29 summit, scientists believe disasters like these are becoming more frequent because major changes in our climate are occurring as emissions from the burning of fossil fuel continue to rise.