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Forty monkeys on the loose in South Carolina after escaping research facility

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Residents advised to keep doors and windows locked as police use thermal imaging cameras to search for animals

These monkeys went bananas: 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina , and local authorities on Wednesday warned residents to stay away.

“Residents are strongly advised to keep doors and windows secured to prevent these animals from entering homes,” the Yemassee police department said on Facebook this week. “If you spot any of the escaped animals, please contact 911 immediately and refrain from approaching them.”

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Cost of ‘shed’ to protect bat colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Sir John Thompson tells industry conference there was ‘no evidence’ that bats were at risk from the trains

The cost of a “bat shed” to protect a species of bats in woodland along the new HS2 high-speed line has risen to more than £100m, HS2 Ltd’s chair has revealed.

The 1km-long mesh structure will be built where the London-Birmingham high-speed line emerges from a tunnel in Buckinghamshire, to protect a colony of Bechstein’s bats.

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Lewis Hall and Taylor Harwood-Bellis in Lee Carsley’s final England squad

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Jack Grealish included despite recent lack of action
Ramsdale in squad but no place for Nick Pope

Newcastle’s Lewis Hall and Southampton’s Taylor Harwood-Bellis have been called into the England squad for the first time and Lee Carsley has kept faith with Jack Grealish despite the forward not being involved in the past five Manchester City squads because of injury.

Carsley, preparing for his final two games in interim charge before Thomas Tuchel takes over, has not included Grealish’s club-mate John Stones or the Newcastle goalkeeper Nick Pope, with Aaron Ramsdale returning to the squad. Declan Rice is in after missing Arsenal’s game at Inter on Wednesday.

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Branching out: the street libraries where neighbours swap plants instead of books

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

At these Sydney plant libraries, members of the community exchange seeds, cuttings and greenery – and leave with a sense of joy

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Tri-coloured frangipani cuttings. A blueberry plant. Daisies and begonias, oregano and basil. And a lawn edger that was snapped up in a jiffy.

These are just some of the plants and gardening paraphernalia sitting on an arched shelf at the Carshalton St Plant Exchange in Croydon Park, in Sydney’s inner west; all are free for neighbours and passersby.

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Lack of domestic 50-over cricket not helping England, warns Trescothick

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Stand-in coach suggests more 50-over cricket is needed
England crushed in final game of 2-1 Windies series defeat

Interim head coach Marcus Trescothick has said that the current domestic structure is “not helping” England’s new generation of white-ball cricketers.

At the Kensington Oval, Barbados, England fell to a third consecutive one-day series defeat and 13th ODI loss in 20 matches, as West Indies thrashed them by eight wickets .

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Top of the pips: Fiona Apple’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

As her classic album When the Pawn … turns 25, we pick the best of a singer-songwriter whose portraits of love and selfhood are unforgettably vivid

You could easily fill a Top 20 with Apple’s original compositions, but this Beatles cover deserves recognition for arguably besting the original. Recorded for Pleasantville, the 1998 film by Gary Ross, Apple’s limpid delivery brings the lovely melody to the fore and imbues it with emotion.

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Handballs all round as Arsenal and Villa lose in Champions League: Football Weekly Extra - podcast

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , Nicky Bandini , and Mark Langdon to discuss the latest Champions League games and look ahead to the weekend’s Premier League action

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On the podcast today: Arsenal falter to a 1-0 defeat against Inter at San Siro. The panel discuss the Gunners’ bad spell and whether the handball that led to a penalty for Inter was fair. Speaking of handballs, Tyrone Mings has a Champions League debut to forget as he picks up the ball in the box, giving Club Brugge a penalty. Have we underestimated the Belgians all this time?

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Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says Unicef

Two years of severe drought in the Amazon rainforest have left nearly half a million children facing shortages of water and food or limited access to school, according to a UN report .

Scant rainfall and extreme heat driven by the climate crisis have caused rivers in what is usually the wettest region on Earth to retreat so much that they can no longer be traversed by boats, cutting off communities.

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IDF distances itself from ‘no return’ remarks about north Gaza evacuees

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Israeli army says officer’s comments that Palestinians will not be allowed return home were taken out of context

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The Israeli army has distanced itself from comments made by a brigadier general that ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of the northern Gaza Strip and residents will not be allowed to return home .

In a media briefing on Tuesday night, the Israel Defense Forces’ Brig Gen Itzik Cohen told Israeli reporters that “there is no intention of allowing the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to return”. He added that humanitarian aid would be allowed to “regularly” enter the south of the territory but there were “no more civilians left” in the north.