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Swiatek tumbles out of WTA Finals after Krejcikova sees off Gauff

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Swiatek exits on sets percentage despite routing Pegula
Krejcikova and Gauff progress to the semi-finals

The defending champion, Iga Swiatek, was knocked out of the WTA Finals after Barbora Krejcikova defeated Coco Gauff to book her spot in the last four.

Swiatek had earlier needed less than an hour to dispatch Daria Kasatkina, who had replaced the injured Jessica Pegula, 6-1, 6-0 in the opening match of the day in Riyadh.

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Teenager who smashed window during Middlesbrough riots freed on appeal

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Judges suspend Dylan Willis’s jail term on account of his ADHD and low IQ but uphold sentences of three other men

A teenager jailed for smashing a restaurant window during rioting in Middlesbrough is to be freed after appeal judges ruled that a court had not considered his complex developmental and mental health background.

Dylan Willis, 18, who pleaded guilty to violent disorder after repeatedly smashing the window with a brick, had his 14-month sentence suspended by court of appeal judges on Thursday.

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Bentley puts back its switch to electric-only cars from 2030 to 2035

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Luxury carmaker also says it will reveal its first electric model – an ‘urban SUV’ – in 2026

Bentley Motors has said it will continue to sell fossil fuel cars until 2035 – five years later than previously planned – as the luxury carmaker announced its first electric vehicle will be an SUV.

The British brand said it would reveal its electric “urban SUV” in 2026, in an update to its strategy on Thursday.

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Ben Jennings on Trump’s victory and a bleak outlook for the planet – cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

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New Star Wars trilogy in the works from Lucasfilm and X-Men writer

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

X-Men and Deadpool writer Simon Kinberg has been hired to write and produce a new trilogy with new characters

A new Star Wars trilogy is in the works from Lucasfilm and X-Men’s Simon Kinberg.

According to Deadline , the new films will reportedly take place after the most recent trilogy that concluded with The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. It will allegedly involve new characters and a new storyline, although the return of known names popping up has not been ruled out.

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‘A new start’: Venezuelan leader extends olive branch to Donald Trump

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Nicolás Maduro once called Trump a ‘racist cowboy’ but is now seeking rapprochement with the US president-elect

During his first administration, Donald Trump waged a “maximum pressure” campaign against Nicolás Maduro , unsuccessfully trying to depose Venezuela ’s authoritarian leader with an arsenal of sanctions, cyber-attacks and threats.

But this week Maduro extended an olive branch to a man he once called “a miserable racist cowboy” , fuelling speculation that Trump’s second presidency might witness an unlikely rapprochement between the two strongman survivors.

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C of E covered up attacks by serial abuser John Smyth, review finds

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Report says it is ‘unlikely’ Justin Welby knew nothing of concerns about Smyth, who abused schoolboys at Christian holiday camps

The Church of England covered up the actions of its worst and most brutal serial abuser, who subjected his victims to traumatic physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual attacks, an independent review has concluded.

John Smyth QC, a powerful and charismatic barrister, sadistically abused private schoolboys who attended evangelical Christian holiday camps in the late 1970s and early 80s. When the abuse was discovered, Smyth was allowed to move abroad in the full knowledge of church officials, where he continued to act with impunity.

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Here’s how the American press can survive four years of Trump | Margaret Sullivan

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

The media will be under siege, but former Washington Post editor Marty Baron has some ideas for what journalists can do

Everything we know about the next US president suggests that the press in America will be under siege in the next four years as never before.

After all, Donald Trump has portrayed the media as the “enemy of the people”, has suggested that he wouldn’t mind seeing journalists get shot , and, in recent months, has sued CBS News and the Pulitzer prize organization.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture

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Ex-police officer tells Sturgess inquiry of hallucinations after novichok poisoning

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

Nick Bailey, who went to Sergei Skripal’s home, describes visions of a ‘tsunami of pure heat and fire’ near his eyes

A former police officer who was poisoned in the Salisbury novichok attack has described the “nightmarish hallucinations” he experienced shortly after coming into contact with the nerve agent, including visions of a “tsunami of pure heat and fire” near his eyes.

Nick Bailey was affected after the nerve agent was smeared on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal’s door handle in Salisbury in March 2018.