Rare unrest in Chinese city of Guangzhou as people protest over Covid restrictions
Video circulating on social media showed crowds of people marching through the Haizhu district, breaking Covid barriers in noisy scenes. Cases have also been rising in other large Chinese cities, including Beijing, Chongqing and Zhengzhou. China still operates a policy of strict lockdowns and quarantines even after small outbreaks, which it says are necessary for public safety.
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Rishi Sunak denies Brexit is playing a role in UK's economic downturn
In a press conference delivered at the G20 summit in Bali, British prime minister Rishi Sunak said he didn't believe Brexit was to blame for the UK's economic woes.
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Sunak highlighted the legacy effects of Covid and Putin's invasion of Ukraine. 'Every country will have its own idiosyncratic things, but those are the overwhelming dominating factors,' said Sunak.
Taking a swipe at the financial chaos unleashed by Liz Truss' short-lived mini-budget, he also reiterated his point that the upcoming autumn budget would be rooted in 'fairness' and 'compassion'.
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Braverman claims she is victim of 'political witch-hunt'
Labour's Chris Bryant questioned the home secretary in the Commons after she admitted using her personal email for official business six times so that she could read the documents while taking video calls. Braverman earlier wrote a letter to the home affairs select committee chair, Diana Johnson, apologising for her 'errors of judgment'.
Putin: Russia may leave UN grain deal again, but exports to Turkey are guaranteed
'We demanded assurances and guarantees from the Ukrainian side that nothing like this would happen again, that the humanitarian corridors would not be used militarily,' said Putin during a video meeting with his coordination council. Putin added that should Russia pull out of the grain deal again, it would supply the equivalent volume of grain itself.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, confirmed Russia's compliance with the deal and the continued movement of grain shipments on Wednesday. Russia said last week that it had suspended its involvement, accusing Ukraine of abusing Black Sea corridors enabled by the deal by using them for military purposes, reigniting fears of rising food prices
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How Russia performed U-turn on grain deal as Ukraine, UN and Turkey 'united'
Russia initially said it would abandon the deal that allowed grain exports from Ukraine through the Black Sea, following a drone attack on its warships in the port of Sevastopol.
Russia’s defence ministry said it was satisfied it had received 'sufficient' guarantees from Kyiv that it would not use the maritime corridor to carry out attacks
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Bank of England raises interest rates to 3% in largest single move for 30 years
“Quite simply, we are increasing bank rates because inflation is too high and it’s the bank’s job to bring it down,” said the Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, on Thursday. “People should not have to worry about inflation as they go about their daily business, that is why we’ve been increasing interest rates and did so today.”
This is the eighth consecutive time bank rates have risen since December 2021, and is the single biggest increase since 1989.
‘It’s humiliating’: activist says Indigenous voices are being ignored on climate crisis
Yessie Mosby, who in September was part of a group of claimants who made history in a landmark legal case that found the Australian government should compensate Torres Strait Islanders over climate crisis failures, said: 'Whether it's us in the saltwater, people of the Pacific Islands, or the people of the plains and the mountains, the swamps, who are facing climate change, we really want our voices to be heard. And we really need action.'
‘Giant red wave didn’t happen,’ says Biden as he cites plan to run in 2024
While the press and the pundits were predicting a giant red wave – it didn’t happen,' the US president said, adding that many results in key races were still being tallied.
With ballots still being counted, Democrats were hopeful about holding the Senate while Republicans felt they were on course to win the House – but by a much narrower margin than widely predicted.
Russian troops ordered to retreat from Kherson weeks after Putin announced annexation
A Ukrainian victory in the city, one of the main objectives of Kyiv’s southern offensive, would be widely seen as a significant blow to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, only weeks after a high-profile ceremony in Moscow in which he announced the “forever” annexation of the Kherson region, along with three others.
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Watch the 2022 John Lewis Christmas advert
This year the department store's Christmas ad shows the touching but bruising efforts of a foster dad to learn how to skateboard so he can share the passion with his foster daughter. Claire Pointon, customer director at John Lewis, said the ad was a 'very different story to what we have done before' and was intended to 'make you stop and think and say, "how can I help?"'
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US midterms: the winners making history
There were many notable firsts, including Maura Healey becoming the first woman and out gay person to be elected as governor of Massachusetts and Maxwell Frost, the first generation Z member to be elected to Congress after winning in Florida's 10th district.
Joe Biden has hailed the results so far as a success for Democrats after exit polls suggested the expected Republican 'red wave' may not materialise.
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Ukrainian troops liberate villages in Kherson region
Ukrainian troops are recapturing villages towards Kherson after the Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, ordered Russian military to retreat from the region.
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Crowds cheer as Ukrainian troops enter Kherson city centre
Social media footage appears to show Ukrainian troops being greeted with delight by crowds who had waited to welcome them. Elsewhere in the region, people were seen celebrating the withdrawal by tearing down Russian billboards and flying Ukrainian flags.
World faces ‘pivotal moment’ in fight against climate crisis, says Biden
He continued, saying the climate crisis posed an existential threat to the planet, and promising that the US was doing its part to combat it.
France and Italy escalate migration row over charity-operated ship
A charity-operated ship carrying hundreds of asylum seekers rescued in the central Mediterranean has docked in the French port of Toulon after almost three weeks during which Italy’s far-right government failed to give it safe port. The Ocean Viking, operated by the European NGO SOS Méditerranée, had been stuck in Italian waters for weeks carrying sick passengers who had been rescued at sea between Libya and Italy. The standoff marks a deepening rift in Paris’s relations with Italy’s new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Brothers of Italy, a party with neofascist roots.
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Ukraine: Zelenskiy visits newly liberated city of Kherson
Addressing troops in front of the administration building in the main square, the president said: 'We are moving forward. We are ready for peace, peace for all our country.' Zelenskiy sang the Ukrainian national anthem as the country's blue and yellow flag was hoisted in the southern city.
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No silver bullet' for tackling illegal Channel migration, admits Suella Braverman
No silver bullet' for tackling illegal Channel migration, admits Suella Braverman
Poland blast 'unlikely' to have been caused by missile fired from Russia, Biden says
Asked whether Russia was involved in the blast, Biden said it was 'unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia, but we'll see'. Poland summoned Russia's ambassador to Warsaw for an explanation after Moscow denied it was responsible.
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Watch the moment Nasa's Artemis 1 blasts off to the moon
Artemis 1 will be on its journey for 25 days, going beyond the dark side of the moon, then returning to Earth and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean in December. The success of this mission is crucial to the Artemis 2 and 3 flights that will follow and which will take humans to and from the moon.
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Dominic Raab says he is confident he behaved professionally, as he faces bullying allegations
The deputy prime minister has said he is confident that he has behaved professionally, after the Labour MP Clive Betts asked how a prime minister committed to integrity and accountability could keep him in the cabinet.
Polish missile strike ‘likely caused by Ukraine but not Ukraine’s fault’, says Stoltenberg
Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has said the missile, which struck Poland on Tuesday killing two people, was probably caused by Ukraine, but it was not Ukraine's fault.
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People run for cover as Iranian police open fire during protest at Tehran metro station
A video verified by AFP appears to show Iranian police opening fire at a Tehran metro station, prompting people to flee in panic as gunfire rings out. Metro stations have become scenes of protest and violence as demonstrators gathered to mark the third anniversary of 'bloody November' in 2019, when hundreds were killed during protests against raising fuel prices. Wednesday also marked the third month since protests started following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody
Iranian security forces shoot dead at least two demonstrators
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