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Valle Fernández, who was Secretary of Circles and Extension of Podemos Andalucía, points out in her story to Raquel Martínez as one of the perpetrators. Read The complaint of a former Podemos leader against the favorite to be leader in Andalusia: "There was institutional and organizational violence"

Pleasant Russia policy, nuclear phase-out, migration: Maybrit Illner doesn’t spare former Chancellor Angela Merkel from any sensitive topic in the ZDF interview. Merkel appears unimpressed and unreasonable. Their message is: Everything was actually done right. It turns out that the former Chancellor is now light years away from her party.Do you have to listen to her again? Read another interview with her, watch another talk show with former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)? Hasn’t everything been said? Is it. Nevertheless: The interview on Thursday evening with Maybrit Illner on ZDF was entertaining, enjoyable – and irritating at the same time. Because…

Wedding, baby, happy ending: “Notting Hill” ended the way romantic comedies end. Director Richard Curtis planned a less sugary sequel. But Julia Roberts waved her off. And they lived happily ever after: that’s how most romantic comedies end. “Notting Hill” from 1999 was no exception. In the end, the glamorous Hollywood star (played by Julia Roberts ) and the somewhat clumsy bookseller ( Hugh Grant ) were a couple. Wedding bells, baby joy – the big table setting. If it were up to director Richard Curtis, there would have been a sequel to the romcom classic by now. The filmmaker told IndieWire  that he had…

Creatures can converse and share their stories by voice or text through visitors’ mobile phones at Museum of Zoology. If the pickled bodies, partial skeletons and stuffed carcasses that fill museums seem a little, well, quiet, fear not. It is the latest coup for artificial intelligence, dead animals are to receive a new lease of life to share their stories ( I know what you’re thinking, how can it ever be verified) – and even their experiences of the afterlife. Perhaps it will serve more as a novelty project for the owners. Dead animals can talk after death in Cambridge…

Consumer confidence in the economy dips following Budget Consumer confidence in the health of the economy dipped in November, a new survey shows, as the Budget failed to allay households’ economic fears. The British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) sentiment monitor showed that consumers’ confidence in the economy fell back to -19 in November, down two points from October. The reading confirms that households’ optimism in the economy remained relatively depressed throughout the autumn, having improved significantly earlier in the year. In July, following Labour’s election, the reading briefly strayed into positive territory. https://www.cityam.com/consumer-confidence-in-the-economy-dips-following-budget/

Employer national insurance raid could lead to 130,000 jobs being slashed The government’s hike to employers’ national insurance could cost as many as 130,000 jobs, according to new research. Analysis from Bloomberg Economics suggests that up to 130,000 jobs could be lost if firms responded to the tax hike primarily by cutting employment. This would amount to a 0.4 percentage point increase in unemployment, and would likely encourage the Bank of England to cut interest rates faster than markets anticipate. The analysts did not think this was the most likely outcome, suggesting that the cost of higher taxes would likely be distributed more evenly…

Australia to ban under-16s from social media after passing landmark law Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. It is a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect the mental health and wellbeing of children. The legislation does not specify which platforms will be banned as these decisions will be made later – but communications minister Michelle Rowland has previously said that TikTok, X, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit and Facebook are likely to be part of the ban. The law will impose fines of up to…

The Conversation | Academic rigour, journalistic flair The announcement of the artificial intelligence researchers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as this year’s Nobel laureates in physics spurred celebration and consternation over the status of AI in science and society. In Japan, however, another feeling dominates: frustration. “Japanese researchers should also have won,” an editorial in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper proclaimed. Congratulating Hopfield and Hinton, the Japanese Neural Network Society added pointedly: “We must not forget the role played by pioneer Japanese researchers in erecting the foundations of neural network research.” Neural networks are at the centre of contemporary AI. They…

Ex-soldier Daniel Khalife guilty of spying for Iran after admitting prison escape Former soldier Daniel Khalife has been found guilty of spying for Iran, but cleared of carrying out a bomb hoax. The 23-year-old, who previously admitted to escaping from prison, was accused of collecting secret information and passing it to agents of the Middle Eastern country while serving in the Royal Corps of Signals. Prosecutors told the ex-soldier’s trial he played “a cynical game”, claiming he wanted a career as a double agent to help the British Intelligence Services, when in fact he gathered “a very large body of…

Thousands return to southern Lebanon amid uneasy ceasefire Thousands of people displaced from war-torn southern Lebanon have begun returning home after a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah took effect on Wednesday, amid fears on both sides of the border about whether the truce would hold. Israel heavily bombed the capital, Beirut, and the south of the country throughout Tuesday, killing 42 people, until the truce began at 4am local time, while Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel, triggering air raid sirens. On Wednesday, Lebanon’s motorways were thronged with packed vehicles carrying families and their belongings returning south despite warnings from the…