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Revisited: The man who fell to Earth – podcast

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 December, 2024

Twenty-three years after Mohammed Ayaz fell from the wheel bay of a plane coming in to land at Heathrow, his brother visits the car park where the body was found. Esther Addley reports

This week we are revisiting some of our favourite episodes from 2024. This episode was first broadcast on 9 September.

In 2001, Mohammed Ayaz climbed into the wheel bay of a British Airways Boeing 777 heading from Bahrain to London Heathrow. His body fell from the plane as it descended, and was discovered in a car park in Richmond.

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Yoon Sook Yeol impeachment: court hearings to begin in South Korea over president’s martial law crisis

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 December, 2024

Yoon’s legal team will attend the first hearing in impeachment review on Friday, the same day that the acting president also faces an impeachment vote

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s legal team are set to attend court on Friday as the constitutional court begins hearings into his impeachment by parliament over his short-lived imposition of martial law,

The court has 180 days to decide whether to reinstate Yoon or remove him. In the latter scenario, a new presidential election would be held within 60 days.

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Ukraine war briefing: Nato condemns possible sabotage of Baltic Sea cables

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 December, 2024

Nato chief Mark Rutte criticises all attacks on critical infrastructure; Putin says Slovakia has offered to be ‘platform’ for any peace talks. What we know on day 1,038

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‘Nothing to talk about’: Panama president dismisses Trump’s threats over canal

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 December, 2024

José Raúl Mulino has ruled out discussing control of the Panama Canal with US president elect, and rejected claims Chinese soldiers are operating the strategic waterway

Panamanian president, José Raúl Mulino, on Thursday ruled out negotiations with US president-elect Donald Trump over control of the Panama Canal, denying that China was interfering in its operation.

Mulino also rejected the possibility of reducing tolls for US vessels in response to Trump’s threat to demand control of the vital waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans be returned to Washington.

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National Trust records ‘alarming’ drop in insects and seabirds at its sites

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 December, 2024

Charity says unstable weather patterns caused by the climate crisis had a ‘devastating impact’ in 2024

There have been alarming declines this year in some insect species including bees, butterflies, moths and wasps, while many seabirds have also been “hammered” by unstable weather patterns caused by the climate emergency, a conservation charity has said.

In its annual report on the impact of the weather on flora and fauna, the National Trust highlights that numbers of bees and butterflies have “crashed” in some areas of the UK in 2024.

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Labour backs plans for £15m fund to distribute surplus food from farms

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 December, 2024

Grant will go towards repackaging food that would go to waste and delivering it to shelters, food banks and charities

Labour ministers have backed plans for a £15m fund to redistribute food from farms that otherwise go to waste, particularly around Christmas.

Grants starting from £20,000 will be handed to the not-for-profit food redistribution sector in England to repackage farm food and deliver it to homeless shelters, food banks and charities.

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Northern Ireland Office ‘should have protected’ murdered solicitor

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 December, 2024

Newly released documents show senior official accepted that Rosemary Nelson should have been offered help

The murdered solicitor Rosemary Nelson should have been offered protection by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), a senior official accepted, according to newly released documents.

Nelson was killed by a loyalist car bomb outside her home in Lurgan, County Armagh in March 1999.

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Bird flu virus shows mutations in first severe human infection in US, CDC says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

Mutations are rare but have been reported in some cases in other countries and most often in extreme infections

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen in samples from an infected backyard flock on the patient’s property.

The CDC said the patient’s sample showed mutations in the hemagglutinin (HA) gene, the part of the virus that plays a key role in it attaching to host cells.

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Arne Slot warns of ‘many challenges still ahead’ after Liverpool extend lead

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 26 December, 2024

Too early to celebrate says coach after win over Leicester
Jones thanks Klopp for 100th-game reminder

Arne Slot said it was far too early for Liverpool to be celebrating a 20th league title despite his team going seven points clear at the top of the Premier League with victory over Leicester.

Liverpool increased their lead over second-placed Chelsea, and also have a game in hand on their nearest challengers, after coming from behind to beat Ruud van Nistelrooy’s struggling side at Anfield. But despite Chelsea and others faltering in their pursuit of the league leaders, Slot reiterated his call for focus and perspective from Liverpool.