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Friday 16 September 2022 - 20:59
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Friday 16 September 2022 - 20:40
Far-right congresswoman tweets footage of her seeming to kick Marianna Pecora during exchange in Washington on Thursday
Far-right Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has posted footage to Twitter in which she appears to kick an 18-year-old activist pressing her on gun control outside the Capitol in Washington.
The activist, Marianna Pecora, indicated she could press charges.
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Friday 16 September 2022 - 20:39
The choice of highly promising claimer Mark Winn as pilot from a useful draw could pay dividends in Scotland
Plenty of backers will look no further than William Haggas’s lightly-raced Khanjar, the favourite at around 9-2, in Saturday’s Ayr Gold Cup, but he was beaten in a big field off a 6lb lower mark in July and has done all his winning on good-to-firm or firm ground.
As a result, he looks at least a couple of points too short for what is always one of the season’s most competitive sprint handicaps, and Fivethousandtoone, a recent winner in a strong time, and Motagally, fourth off a 4lb higher mark last year, both have each-way appeal at around 14-1.
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partager lire conserver King tells faith leaders he has personal ‘duty to protect diversity of our country’Friday 16 September 2022 - 20:24
Monarch says he is a ‘committed Anglican Christian’ but his role will involve ‘protecting the space for faith itself’
The King has said he has a personal “duty to protect the diversity of our country” in a speech to more than 30 faith leaders from various religions at a reception in Buckingham Palace.
Charles, who is now supreme governor of the Church of England, said that as sovereign he believed his work must include “protecting the space for faith itself” and the valued differences which people live by.
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Friday 16 September 2022 - 20:22
Campaigners who blockaded Staffordshire oil terminal remanded for refusing to comply with court proceedings
More than 50 protesters who are demanding urgent action to address the climate crisis were sent to jail on one day this week after refusing to comply with court proceedings.
The campaigners, who were appearing before judges at two separate hearings in London and Birmingham, had broken an injunction to take part in a blockade of the Kingsbury oil terminal near Tamworth in Staffordshire on Wednesday.
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Friday 16 September 2022 - 20:11
New Zealand troops performed the haka Ka Mate, a traditional Māori dance, for the royal couple at a military base in Pirbright, Surrey.
The royals were visiting an army training centre to meet soldiers from the Commonwealth who would be present at the Queen's funeral.
Troops from Canada, Australia and New Zealand are expected to participate in the funeral service
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partager lire conserver F1 teams increasingly dissatisfied with FIA president after delays at Italian GPFriday 16 September 2022 - 19:55
- FIA’s president Mohammed bin Sulayem is under fire
- Italian GP grid was produced after more than three hours
Senior figures in motor racing have expressed a widespread sense of fatigue and dissatisfaction among Formula One teams with the sport’s governing body, the FIA.
What is seen as an increasingly fraught relationship between the teams and the FIA was exacerbated further at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, while the organisation’s president Mohammed bin Sulayem has been criticised for a failure of leadership.
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Friday 16 September 2022 - 19:47
Police watchdog says work will take until next year, drawing condemnation from family’s lawyer
The investigation into the police shooting of an unarmed black man will examine whether race was a factor but will not conclude until next year, a watchdog has said.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct said it was in discussions with prosecutors about the investigation and expected it would commission expert analysis to work out what happened at the scene in south London before Chris Kaba was shot once in the head.
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Friday 16 September 2022 - 19:40
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, dies after ‘violent arrest’ for infringing hijab rules amid Iranian crackdown on women’s dress
A 22-year-old woman has died in an Iranian hospital days after being detained by the regime’s morality police for allegedly not complying with the country’s hijab regulations.
Mahsa Amini was travelling with her family from Iran’s western province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, to visit relatives when she was reportedly arrested for failing to meet the country’s strict rules on women’s dress.
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partager lire conserver The Guardian view on a Tory nightmare: ministers out of step with the crown | EditorialFriday 16 September 2022 - 19:30
Liz Truss might rue a previous Conservative government’s ruling that the King had not just a right but a ‘duty’ to make his views known
Liz Truss is Britain’s third prime minister in just over three years. This degree of instability is the product of the modern Conservative party’s refusal to confess its mistakes and to correct them. Instead, the Tories appear obsessed with blaming opponents for their repeated failure to deliver on their promises. The death of Queen Elizabeth II is a chance for the prime minister to reset this attitude in a number of controversial and unresolved matters. The monarch’s passing – and the outpouring of affection for the late Queen – hints at a yearning for a more unifying public conversation. Ms Truss must also be aware that the evolving nature of monarchy, and the arrival of an opinionated King Charles III, sets the stage for possible public conflicts between ministers and the crown.
The first might come over Northern Ireland and Brexit. The King’s view that “no man is an island” in the run-up to Britain’s departure from the EU was interpreted as a rebuke to those who saw these islands’ destiny as independent from the continent. It was also widely remarked this week that the King seemed more at ease with Sinn Féin, which wants to remove Northern Ireland from his kingdom, than with the Democratic Unionist party, which is desperate to remain in it. This might be because of the rupture in the political settlement caused by the DUP’s boycott of the power-sharing pact following its rejection of the Northern Ireland protocol.
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