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March 30, 2024

Schools risk 'fuelling hate' by avoiding talk of Gaza war

Schools in England are closing down legitimate debate about the Israel-Gaza conflict because teachers feel ill-equipped and are concerned about political impartiality, the government’s independent adviser on social cohesion says

4 mins

DUP leader Donaldson quits after sex offence charges

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has resigned as leader of the Democratic Unionist party after being charged with sexual offences, throwing Northern Irish politics into turmoil.

3 mins

Feel the power: huge success of Gladiators may herald revival of more old shows

Can you feel the power of the Gladiators? Do you have the will and the skill?

3 mins

'Not enough about the horror': atomic bomb survivors on Oppenheimer as it finally opens in Japan

It is hard to think of a more emotionally charged venue than Hatchoza for the first screening in Japan of the Academy Award- winning fi lm Oppenheimer. The cinema in Hiroshima is located less than a kilometre from the hypocentre of the first atomic bombing in history – the devastating culmination of the American physicist’s work.

3 mins

Growing pharmacy closures in England threaten plans to ease pressure on GPs

Almost 1,000 pharmacies in England have closed since 2017, potentially leading to millions of extra GP appointments, the Guardian can exclusively reveal.

3 mins

Hospital admissions for waterborne diseases up by 60% in England - data

Water-borne diseases such as dysentery and Weil’s disease have risen by 60% since 2010 in England, new fi gures reveal.

2 mins

Skate of the art Teenager who made a mockery of sport's technical limits

Ilia Malinin’s star-making, record-shattering free skate to win the men’s singles at last week’s world figure skating championships in Montreal has registered shockwaves through the sport and beyond.

5 mins

Conservatives to lose 1,000 years of experience as MPs stampede for exit

The Conservative party will lose almost 1,000 years of Commons experience just from MPs who have already announced they are standing down, a Guardian analysis has shown, amid an exodus likely to be even greater than in 1997.

3 mins

How close is too close? Labour seeks good relations with EUbut also has its red lines

Keir Starmer swept to the Labour leadership as the man who put rejoining the EU on the party’s agenda in the bleak years after the Brexit vote. But as he prepares for power, the chance of a Starmer government negotiating re-entry was summed up by the Labour peer Lord Mandelson this week: “You’ve got to be joking!”

5 mins

Farm to create biggest natural grassland in southern England

A 2,800-acre arable farm in Wiltshire is to be transformed into the biggest grassland rewilding project in southern England in a n eff ort to restore declining plants, insects and endangered species including grasshopper warblers, cuckoos and turtle doves.

2 mins

Fears of chocolate price rises after bad cacao harvests lead to shortages

Around the world this weekend, people will consume hundreds of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies as part of an annual chocolate intake that can exceed 8kg (18lb) for every Briton , or 5kg for Americans and Europeans .

2 mins

'Another galaxy' Voters in Surrey on Hunt's idea of salaries

“I felt like I must be from another galaxy when I heard it,” Merve Topaloğlu says of the chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s suggestion that collecting £100,000 a year is “not a huge salary”.

4 mins

"We'd like to shoot them' Growing number of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

From the moment the rangers first saw him on their trail cameras, the problem was apparent. The wolf, spotted deep in the woods of Italy’s Gran Bosco di Salbertrand park, was not grey like his companion, but an unusual blond. His colouring indicated this was not a wolf at all, but a hybrid wolfdog – the first to be seen so far into Piedmont’s alpine region. And where one hybrid is found, more are sure to follow.

4 mins

Not so super food Our vegetables are losing nutrients. Can biofortification help?

In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century.

4 mins

US adds voice to views that famine probably already present in Gaza

Famine is probably present already in at least some areas of northern Gaza , while other areas are in danger of falling into conditions of starvation, the US state department said yesterday, a day after the world’s top court ordered Israel to allow food aid into the territory.

3 mins

Relatives of dictatorship victims angered.by Lula's ban on remembrance events

Relatives of the victims of Brazil’s brutal two-decade dictatorship have voiced anger and dismay over President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ’s reported decision to block offi cial remembrance events marking the  60th anniversary of the 1964  military coup d’état.

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