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In one of their last votes before November, Senate GOP blocks effort to end Iran war
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Results awaited in Isle of Man general election
Counting begins in the island's 12 constituencies to elect 24 members of the House of Keys.
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Ed Miliband meets Iran’s foreign minister as Tehran gives US ultimatum on strait of Hormuz
Senior Iranian officials say Washington has four to five days to respond to its conditions for reopening the strait The UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has met his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, for the first time in New York amid warnings from senior Iranian security officials that the US has four to five days to respond to its conditions for reopening the strait of Hormuz. The previously unknown apparent deadline was specified by Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the supreme national security council, in a TV interview on Wednesday evening, and it is unclear what action Tehran will take if the US does not respond to Iran’s preconditions for reopening the vital waterway. Continue reading...
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The Guardian view on a supersized El Niño: a natural phenomenon and human folly are a lethal combination | Editorial
Hundreds of thousands are expected to die, millions to go hungry. This is not just about weather patterns, but about injustice Some warnings are so grave that it is almost impossible to fully comprehend them. The descriptions of a super-sized, “Godzilla-level” El Niño already heating our planet would sound hyperbolic were they not issuing from eminent scientists. They say that the weather pattern, which occurs roughly every two to seven years, may be the strongest in at least a millennium. With its peak yet to come, the temperature rise in the Pacific Ocean has already surpassed the previous high. The consequence will be huge amounts of heat in an atmosphere already experiencing frighteningly higher temperatures due to the human-caused climate crisis. Next year is almost certain to be the hottest on record globally, breaking this year’s record. The World Food Programme has warned that 50
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The Guardian view on vocational GCSEs: why now? | Editorial
Ministers’ commitment to cutting youth unemployment is admirable, but how new qualifications will help is unclear The first question that should be asked about plans to launch a batch of vocational GCSEs is: how will these differ from the roughly 50 similar courses that already exist? Is this primarily a rebadging exercise, aimed at boosting the qualifications’ status and name recognition, while signalling how seriously non-academic education is taken by Andy Burnham and his education secretary, Lucy Powell? Or is there something the matter with the existing courses that they want to put right? The independent curriculum review completed last year recommended a moratorium on new technical awards, except where there is an “exceptionally compelling” case for change. It also proposed that the Department for Education analyse existing ones, including how well they prepare pupils for 16-19 ed
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Ministers reject dog ownership licence scheme
A taskforce had suggested new legal requirements could help promote dog control and reduce attacks.
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Glasgow City Council to fire and rehire over 23,000 employees
It says redundancy notices will be withdrawn if the three unions agree to ballot their members on the pay offer.