Trump reportedly had a ‘blunt message’ for Venezuelan president: leave power and your country immediately – key US politics stories from 1 December at a glance Donald Trump reportedly had a blunt message for Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro: leave power – and your country – immediately. Sources told the Miami Herald the US president had a phone call with his South American counterpart, who is the focus of a four-month pressure campaign in which Trump has ordered a major naval deployment off Venezuela’s northern coast. Continue reading...

Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy For days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite toppled a four-storey hospital, silent karaoke complexes, deserted gyms and dorm rooms. So came the end of KK Park, one of south-east Asia’s most infamous “scam centres”, press releases from Myanmar’s junta declared. The facility had held tens of thousands of people, forced to relentlessly defraud people around the world. Now, it was being levelled piece by piece. Continue reading...

Zelenskyy says redrafted peace plan ‘looks better’ but Kaja Kallas fears Moscow meeting will wrongfully put pressure on Kyiv rather than Kremlin. What we know on day 1,378 An intensified diplomatic push to end the nearly four-year war has continued, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy visiting Paris on Monday – a day after the Ukrainian president’s team held talks with US officials – and Vladimir Putin due to meet with US special envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday. Zelenskyy, speaking in Paris, said the Kremlin’s claims of battlefield advances were exaggerated. He said Ukraine’s priorities remained security guarantees, sovereignty and territorial integrity, as he insisted that Russia must not get rewards for its aggression on Ukraine. He said he hoped to have talks with the US president, Donald Trump, to discuss next steps once Steve Witkoff is back from his talks in Russia. Ukraine’s president said that after revisions the peace plan circulating between Ukraine, Russia and Washigton “looks better” and the work will continue. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, warned however that talks between the Putin and Witkoff will again pile pressure on Ukraine to make concessions, write Jennifer Rankin and Pjotr Sauer. Kallas said: “In order to have peace, we shouldn’t lose focus that it’s actually Russia who has started this war and Russia that is continuing this war and Russia that is really targeting civilians, civilian infrastructure every single day to cause as much damage as possible.” The White House said it was “very optimistic” of a deal being reached to end the war. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters: Just yesterday [the White House team] had very good talks with the Ukrainians in Florida and now of course special envoy Witkoff is on his way to Russia.” Witkoff has in the past returned to Washington conveying variations of Vladimir Putin’s maximalist demands for Ukraine’s total capitulation. His role has come under scrutiny following a report that he coached Putin’s foreign affairs adviser on how to pitch to Trump. The Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov said the Florida talks “achieved significant progress” but that some issues remained unresolved. Zelenskyy, while trying carefully not to anger Trump, has refused US-backed calls for Ukraine to give up hard-fought territory that Russia has not been able to seize. Four people were killed and 40 wounded in a Russian missile attack on the eastern-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Monday, Ukrainian officials said. Vladyslav Haivanenko, the acting governor of the surrounding Dnipropetrovsk region, said 11 of those injured were in a serious condition. Ukraine’s emergency services said car service stations, other businesses, an office building and 49 cars were all damaged in the attack. Continue reading...

Da “The Guardian”, passando per “The Telegraph”, fino a “Der Spiegel”. I maggiori siti europei riprendono la notizia del ’Carlino’ diventata virale

Gli esperti: “Prevale il cemento”. Cavedagna (FdI): “Parapetti scalabili e pericolosi”. Confabitare: “Binari del tram senza barriere”

The king and queen’s visit to the former colony is the first by members of the Dutch royal family in nearly five decades The Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, vowed on Monday that the topic of slavery would not be off-limits as he visits former colony Suriname, where the practice ended just over 150 years ago. The king arrived in the capital Paramaribo on Sunday with Queen Maxima, a week after the small South American country marked 50 years of independence from the Netherlands. Continue reading...

Ieri si è costituita una 15enne anconetana, vittima anche una 16enne. L’imputato ha chiesto un percorso di giustizia riparativa, il giudice dice no

“Tanti rettori mi hanno chiamata dando la loro disponibilità ma non vedo perché l’Università di Bologna, la più antica del mondo dovrebbe impedire un atto formativo importante come questo”

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Gli esperti dell’Ente Parco e i volontari dell’associazione Marinando, capitanati da Sante Ghirardi hanno portato gli animali dalle acque salmastre interne all’Adriatico. Andranno a riprodursi

Sei apparecchi a Rimini, due a Riccione e a Bellaria. Il ‘caso Coriano’. Le polizie locali che utilizzano impianti di controllo esclusi dall’elenco compiono un atto illegittimo con conseguente annullamento della sanzione

Amar Subramanya will replace John Giannandrea after firm has struggled to catch up with AI rollouts by competitors Apple’s head of artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea, is stepping down from the company. The move comes as the Silicon Valley giant has lagged behind its competitors in rolling out generative AI features, in particular its voice assistant Siri. Apple made the announcement on Monday, thanking Giannandrea for his seven-year tenure at the company. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, said his fellow executive helped the company “in building and advancing our AI work” and allowing Apple to “continue to innovate”. Giannandrea will be replaced by longtime AI researcher Amar Subramanya. Continue reading...

Norway’s most celebrated photographer made his name with calm, reflective images that sit at odds with his reckless life. Friends and family remember a paradoxical man Norway has never looked as wet as in the photographs of the late Tom Sandberg. There are shots of drizzle and puddles, of asphalt slick with mizzle. A ripple of water appears to have a hole in it, a figure looms behind a rain-dappled window, a gutter glows after a downpour. Shot in either bold chiaroscuro or gentle orchestrations of greys, these are pictures with the power to make the everyday seem dreamlike. But they are also uplifting, in a confusing kind of way, like being told to dress for sun even when the clouds are black. Continue reading...

Residents claim raw sewage and poorly treated effluent as result of Thames Water’s failings are threat to health Communities across south-east England are filing the first coordinated legal complaints that sewage pollution by Thames Water negatively affects their lives. Thames Water failed to complete upgrades to 98 treatment plants and pumping stations which have the worst records for sewage pollution into the environment, despite a promise to invest in them over the last five years. Continue reading...

Research shows perpetrators use methods such as stopping mothers accessing bank accounts and child benefits Almost 4 million children in the UK are suffering the impact of economic abuse in their families, with some having pocket or birthday money stolen by the perpetrators, a charity has found. Data from charity Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) showed that over the past year 27% of mothers with children under 18 had experienced behaviour considered to be economic abuse, where a current or former partner has controlled the family’s money. Continue reading...

Many uncertain about the future after losing everything in the country’s deadliest natural disaster for years When the rains began, Layani Rasika Niroshani was not worried. The 36-year-old mother of two was used to the heavy monsoon showers that drench Sri Lanka’s hilly central region of Badulla every year. But as it kept pounding down without stopping, the family started to feel jittery. Some relocated to a relative’s house, but her brother and his wife decided to stay behind to collect the valuables. As they were inside, a landslide hit the family home. Continue reading...

Justice secretary expected to announce plans to tackle backlog of cases as he says system has been pushed to brink of collapse A “courts emergency” that will surpass 100,000 outstanding cases without radical reforms is leaving victims waiting years for justice, David Lammy has said as he prepares to face MPs over plans to drop thousands of jury trials. The justice secretary proposed last week to reduce the 78,000 outstanding cases in England and Wales by allowing jury trials only for serious crimes such as murder, rape and manslaughter. Continue reading...

L’intervista al politologo tedesco: “Una mossa legittima per dire all’avversario di non prendere rischi perché può essere colpito”

L’intervista al Financial Times sull’opzione di un attacco preventivo alla Russia sul terreno della guerra ibrida non fanno soltanto infuriare Mosca, ma spaccano la destra di governo

La lotta con la malattia rara delle sorelle Emma e Viola, testimonial Telethon. Dalla sveglia per le pillole al proposito di fare ricerca

L’ammiraglio italiano non prevede missioni militari: punta a neutralizzare in anticipo gli hacker e la propaganda ostile

Ore decisive per la trattativa, l’ucraino a Parigi incassa il sostegno Ue. La mimetica dello zar sul negoziato: “Presa Pokrovsk, guerra lunga”

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Quattro squadre concentrate in un punto dopo 13 turni non si vedevano dal 2001. Con Allegri e Conte, in testa i più esperti in vittorie