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Gregg Wallace’s comment that accusations of inappropriate behaviour against him came from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age” has prompted an angry backlash. The MasterChef presenter faces various allegations of making “inappropriate sexual jokes”, asking for the phone numbers of female members of production staff, and undressing in front of and standing “too close” to women working on his shows. Ulrika Jonsson, who competed on Celebrity MasterChef in 2017, said she was “seething” while Kirstie Allsopp described his response as “unacceptable”. In a post on Instagram on Sunday, 60-year-old Wallace said: “I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20…

Canada’s ambassador to the United States said Sunday that prime minister Justin Trudeau was successful in getting president-elect Donald Trump and key US cabinet nominees to understand that lumping Canada in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the US is unfair.Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador in Washington, told The Associated Press in an interview that Trudeau’s dinner with Mr Trump on Friday was a very important step in trying to get Mr Trump to back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner.Ms Hillman was at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida…

Photos of fentanyl users at an event organized by Facing Fentanyl, a non-profit awareness group made up of families impacted by this opioid, in New York City, August 21, 2023. SHANNON STAPLETON/REUTERS When Nabarun Dasgupta, a leading drug expert at the University of North Carolina, discovered the figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May, he was “skeptical.” For the first time since 2018, they announced a 3% drop in the number of overdose deaths in the US in 2023, compared with the previous year. As the months went by, he had to admit it: the…

Andueza asks not to look at the “dark clouds” that the PP puts on them: “We must continue writing brilliant pages”The general secretary of the PSE-EE, Eneko Andueza, has asked his party colleagues to forget to look up at those “dark clouds” that the PP puts over them, in reference to the accusations of corruption, because the socialist perspective must be in “continuing writing brilliant pages of the history of Spain.”“I am going to ask the PSOE as a whole to forget to look up to observe those dark clouds that some want to put over us. The PP, the…

Updated Monday, December 2, 2024 – 03:12″Our main priority will once again be to win the municipal and regional elections of 2027 and return to govern throughout Spain.” This was the assignment Pedro Sanchez moved this Sunday to the more than 1,000 delegates who attended the Federal Congress of the PSOE in Seville this weekend, an appointment with which they have tried to grease the party machinery with a view to future appointments with the polls.Officially in these three days Become Premium from €1 the first month Take advantage of this limited time offer and access all web content I…

Biden-gathers-with-Hunter-Biden-and-family-members-in-Delaware.jpg” />He has repeatedly promised not to do it – but on Thanksgiving weekend, Joe Biden claims to have spontaneously decided to pardon his son. He was about to be sentenced for making false statements during a gun purchase and for tax evasion. The president now sees this as a politically driven miscarriage of justice.US President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday evening (local time), sparing him a possible prison sentence for weapons and tax offenses. Joe Biden is breaking his earlier promise not to use presidential powers to benefit his family members. The Democratic president had previously…

Christian Lindner has to deal with a stubborn presenter on “Caren Miosga”. The FDP man allies himself with the audience to be allowed to finish speaking – but that’s not on his side at all. Christian Lindner: FDP leader in the ARD talk with Caren Miosga

Liverpool humbled Man City with a statement win at Anfield – a huge performance for Liverpool. They move 11 points clear of Manchester City. Liverpool manager Arne Slot to Sky Sports: “Yeah [it was almost a perfect match], and if you look at work-rate I think it was perfect. The amount of chances we miss made it tight at the end. But maybe that’s nice for matches like this. It should be like this. But it would have been nicer to score the second goal earlier.” Liverpool humble Man City with a statement win That’s 18 wins in 20 games across…

Headed again by the German Ursula von der Leyen and with Teresa Ribera as the Spanish representative, the new European Commission officially starts this Sunday with 26 commissioners in charge of unprecedented portfolios in the community Executive, such as Defense, Housing or the Mediterranean. Starting tomorrow, Monday, the new commissioners will begin working on challenges and missions entrusted by Von der Leyen for the next five years. Teresa Ribera, executive vice president for a Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition and head of Competition, will coordinate the Pact for a Clean Industry that she will present in the first hundred days…

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said a new phase for his government will begin this week, under what he calls a “plan for change” for Britain.

Gregg Wallace has hit back at allegations of historic misconduct, saying they have come from a “handful of middle-class women of a certain age”.

Russia carried out “a series of air strikes” in Syria early on Sunday as rebels advanced towards the south, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).