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      Diallo eyes new Manchester United deal, team news and more: football – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024

    Following those illuminating extracts from his book , Hugo Lloris has spoken to Donald McRae about Spurs, losing the World Cup final two years ago and that watch story.

    Here he is on that loss to Argentina:

    I’d meet people in the street who’d thank me for the beauty and emotional intensity of this final, assuring me that it was the most wonderful match they’d experienced in all their lives. Maybe when I’m old I’ll be able to see it like that. But not yet: it was a disaster because we lost, because we were crap for 80 minutes. And so the pain was unbearable.

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      Pakistan humiliate Australia to square ODI series with nine-wicket rout

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024

    World champions Australia have been embarrassed by Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval, suffering one of the heaviest defeats in their ODI history.

    After posting only 163 , Australia were then punished in the field by Pakistan’s openers Saim Ayub (82) and Abdullah Shafique (64 not out) as the tourists raced to a nine-wicket victory in the second ODI with 141 balls to spare. It is the first time since 1992 Australia have lost a home ODI by nine wickets. They avoided becoming the first Australian team to lose a white-ball match at home by 10 wickets when Adam Zampa ended the 137-run opening stand.

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      Distant Voices, New Worlds review | John Lewis's contemporary album of the month

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024 • 1 minute

    New Music Players/Orchestra of Sound and Light
    (Métier)
    Inspired by the South Downs near Brighton, this selection box of new work from contemporary composers is English to its core – and yet defies tradition

    Musical invocations of Englishness can mean anything from Elgar to Davey Graham to the Sex Pistols . They can be nostalgic and pastoral, mournful or dystopian. In classical settings, “Englishness” often translates as something tweedy and bucolic, inspired by modal folk music and suspicious of continental experimentation. On this album, five contemporary British composers write music inspired by the South Downs near Brighton, and all seem palpably “English” in some way. Yet all defy tradition, and many link with broader trends in jazz and the avant garde.

    Many of these pieces draw from written sources, sung by Rachel Farago. Shirley J Thompson provides minimalist backing for a 1773 poem about the English countryside by the African American writer Phillis Wheatley. Evelyn Ficarra sets an abstract verse by modern-day Brighton poet Valerie Whittington to a terrifying orchestration inspired by the chirruping of larks. Ed Hughes’s epic Sky Rhythms uses a 1937 diary entry from the Mass Observation Archive, with a twitchy orchestral accompaniment that’s pitched somewhere between Michael Nyman and Henry Cow.

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      Emilia Pérez to Dune: Part Two – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024

    An audacious musical drama about a mob boss’s secret new life as a woman, and Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya’s spectacular fantasy saga

    Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical drama flips between crime thriller and telenovela to tell an emotional story of identity, family and how the past weighs on the present. Zoe Saldaña is a revelation, singing and dancing con brio as lawyer Rita – hired by Mexican cartel boss Manitas (Karla Sofía Gascón, touching in a double role) to arrange his gender reassignment and secret new life as a woman, Emilia. Selena Gomez plays Manitas’s unwitting wife, then supposed widow, Jessi, nonplussed by “cousin” Emilia’s interest in her and her children’s lives. A sweeping melodrama of reinvention and redemption that ploughs through its absurdities with showtunes and tears.
    Wednesday 13 November, Netflix

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      ‘They will just die uselessly’: Ukrainians ready for North Korean troops joining Russia’s war

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024

    Soldiers holding chunk of enemy territory in Kursk have been learning Korean phrases and are unconcerned by threat from reinforcements

    Vitalii Ovcharenko, a Ukrainian soldier, has been learning a new language: Korean. “I’ve picked up a few phrases. They are: ‘Hands up, drop your weapon and come to us slowly,’” he said. “Also: ‘Throw off your body armour and helmet.’”

    Ovcharenko has been mugging up with the help of a three-page printed guide. It lists words in Ukrainian, their Korean equivalent, and a helpful transliteration.

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      UK government could offer low-cost baby formula under brand such as NHS, says watchdog

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024

    CMA sets out potential measures, including price cap on retailers, to combat high prices and lack of choice

    The government could look to offer its own low-cost baby formula under a brand such as the NHS to combat the high prices and lack of choice in the market, the UK competition watchdog has said.

    The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that another “backstop” measure that the government could consider is to regulate and set a price or profit margin cap on retailers as a way to bring prices down for parents more rapidly.

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      Lammy dismisses past criticism calling Trump a ‘sociopath’ as ‘old news’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024

    British foreign secretary says many politicians have said ‘pretty ripe things’ about US president-elect

    The British foreign secretary, David Lammy, has described his previous remarks about the US president-elect, Donald Trump, as “deluded, dishonest, xenophobic, narcissistic” and a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath” as old news.

    Keir Starmer’s government is making efforts to smooth over tensions with the incoming president, whose pledge to raise tariffs on imports into the US could hit the UK economy.

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      You be the judge: should my son apologise to our neighbour for piling leaves in front of her house?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024

    Jenny thinks Ed should say sorry for sweeping autumn leaves too close to their neighbour’s house. Ed thinks he’s done nothing wrong. You decide who should take the fall?

    Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror

    Our neighbour thinks Ed was rude – the mature thing to do would be to say sorry to clear the air

    I’m being punished for doing a good deed. Apologising would make me look like a pushover

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      Israel sends rescue planes to Amsterdam after attacks on football fans – Middle East crisis live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November, 2024

    Security minister says fans ‘encountered antisemitism and were attacked with unimaginable cruelty just because of their Jewishness’

    Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , condemned on Friday what he described as a premeditated attack on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam during a call with his Dutch counterpart Dick Schoof , reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

    “Prime minister Netanyahu stated that he views the premeditated antisemitic attack against Israeli citizens with utmost seriousness and requested increased security for the Jewish community in the Netherlands,” his office said.

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