The deal with General Electric is the latest sign of co-operation between US firms and Venezuela's interim government.
World leaders will be joined by Volodymyr Zelenskyy as they try to keep Donald Trump on side So what we now have is the leaders of Canada, EU, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK waiting for Trump, Macron and Zelenskyy . It sounded as if someone, possibly Meloni, was telling some sort of story that involved the White House, but it’s impossible to make out what it was. Continue reading...
The right-hand woman of Washington's Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George has called for accused assassin Luigi Mangione to be freed and pardoned, according to her Threads account. Mangione has attracted support in the months since his arrest, including more than $1.5 million in donations to fund his high-powered defense team. Makia Green described herself as George's political director in a post on the app in May. In the days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's as
It will take more than a ceasefire in the Middle East to prevent the Reserve Bank from hiking interest rates again. That was the strong message from the RBA governor, Michele Bullock, after the central bank held its cash rate at 4.35%, putting an end to a run of three increases. Higher borrowing costs have been “tough” on households, Bullock conceded during her regular post-meeting press conference, but there could be no let-up in the battle to (eventually) get consumer price growth into the 2-3
It was meant to be Sheila Chebii’s last shift as a housekeeper. For weeks, the 25-year-old international student had stripped linen, made beds and refilled towels in the rooms of a luxury high-rise hotel above central Sydney. That Sunday in May, the plan was for Chebii to return home to a dinner of soft chapatis with her cousin and friends. The following day she was due to start a new role as a cleaner, her cousin says. But about six hours into her shift on 17 May, emergency services were called
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Workers at the Australian Taxation Office’s outsource call centres are paid up to 40% less than their public service counterparts on the same phone lines, according to submissions lodged ahead of landmark “same job, same pay” hearings. The pay gap, detailed by Nathan Brunne, a former worker on the ATO phone lines employed by the private equity-backed Probe Operations, widens at more senior call centre roles, with team leaders at outsource operators paid about $31 an hour compared with more than
Guardian - World · Oct 8
The Mason Lee case was not an anomaly. Queensland’s police and coronial systems work as designed – and that’s the core of the current crisis Nine months before the death of the toddler Mason Jet Lee , a woman called police to warn them about the boy’s killer, William Andrew O’Sullivan. They placed a flag on his file labelling the woman’s claims “vexatious”. But that’s not the most shocking part of this story. Police already had evidence O’Sullivan was suicidal and homicidal. Months earlier they’
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Medical experts have blasted One Nation’s health policies, saying they do not make sense, are based on misconceptions and could cost taxpayers more money while leaving vulnerable Australians without access to care. The party has promised to withdraw Australia from the World Health Organization and to scrap regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration, rolling its “essential functions” into the health department. It has also proposed adding photo ID to Medicare cards. The Grattan Institute heal
