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They targeted Jacob Rees-Mogg’s crackdown on what he called “underused” property, which would see the number of offices operating in the heart of Westminster more than halved. The Brexit opportunities minister said the move would deliver “more effective, more efficient and smaller government” and save taxpayers money given the “challenging fiscal environment”. While the number of government offices in central London has already fallen significantly since 2018, from 63 to 36, a strategy published on Wednesday said ministers would be “further consolidated with only 16 buildings remaining in and around Whitehall” by in 2025 – fewer than 23 government departments....

Monday’s meeting was part of two days of talks on sharing forensic and biometric data to crack down on any entrant with a criminal record in Albania, the Interior Ministry said. Patel and Albanian Interior Minister Bledi Çuçi signed an agreement to tackle criminal gangs that traffic people from the Balkan country across Europe in Calais. Experts from the UK and Albania’s law enforcement, intelligence and operational teams will help agree the final details of how frontline teams will work to deal with the influx of Albanians across the Channel....

“You were at the forefront of this mob,” Judge Timothy Kelly said before handing down his sentence Monday, adding that Pruitt and the mob’s actions that day “broke our previously unbroken tradition of the peaceful transition of power.” Pruitt, who pleaded guilty in early June to obstructing official proceedings, was part of a message from the group Proud Boys where members discussed plans to march on the Capitol and use violence on Jan....

The analysis says that the death rate from COVID-19 was much higher for tribal people compared to non-tribal people. He found 31 deaths per 100,000 for tribal people and 22 deaths per 100,000 for the non-tribal population. “It confirms what many of us thought, how COVID has primarily targeted racial people,” said Dr. Anna Banerjee, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto....

Around 40,000 Network Rail workers and 14 train operating companies will strike on September 15 and 17. The first date coincides with the latest Aslef train drivers’ strike announced yesterday and means virtually no trains will run across much of Britain that day. Limited services on main lines have been run during previous RMT strikes. The September strikes are likely to disrupt services for four days and the union said it would “effectively shut down” the rail network on Thursday and Saturday on strike days....

Lucie Simon, avocate de l’Imam Hassan Iquioussen, s’est confiée à BFMTV ce vendredi. “Je ne sais pas où est mon client, dit-il, tout ce que je peux vous dire, c’est qu’il a quitté le territoire français.” Selon elle, elle a pris cette décision pour respecter la décision d’expulsion confirmée mardi par le Conseil d’Etat. Me Lucie Simon dénonce également une “chasse à l’homme” qui mêle politique, justice et un “tribunal populaire”....

Deadline has confirmed her passing. Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery Until her co-starring role opposite Harris Dickinson and Woody Harrelson in the celebrated Ruben Östlund film, Dean was best known for playing Syonide, a recurring character on The CW’s DC Comics-based series Black Lightning. Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson in ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Triangle of Sadness is an official selection of the upcoming Toronto Film Festival and has been selected for the 2022 New York Film Festival....

A landmark review found that cholesterol-lowering drugs are responsible for less than 10 percent of aches and pains in patients taking them. The symptoms are probably just the natural signs of aging, according to the Oxford University study. The researchers say the results will help patients and doctors “make informed decisions” when considering whether to stop taking their pills. Lead researcher Professor Colin Baigent, an epidemiologist at Oxford, said that if a patient taking statins suffers muscle pain, “it’s more likely to be due to other causes”....

The club was returning home after an impressive road trip to New York and Boston. Members of the 1992 World Series championship team returned to town to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the title. And the Los Angeles Angels, a top team destined to miss the post-season again, were the opponent. Instead, the ceremony honoring the 1992 champions was the only highlight of what turned out to be a horrific three-game set for the 2022 team....

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Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Shutdown for maintenance on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline No streams to Germany 0100 GMT 31 August – 0100 GMT 3 September European governments fear Moscow may extend the shutdown German regulator: we’re saving gas, we have to keep doing it Siemens Energy: not involved in maintenance work FRANKFURT/LONDON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Russia cut gas supplies through Europe’s main supply route on Wednesday, intensifying an economic battle between Moscow and Brussels and raising the prospect of a recession and energy hoarding in some of its richest countries....

Judges who awarded the pair the 2018 Gold Walkley Award said the Australian newspaper’s 220,000-word podcast “revealed long-lost statements and new witnesses and prompted police to search again for the body of Lyn Dawson, who disappeared from her home in 1982”. . On Tuesday, Dawson, 74, was found guilty of murdering his ex-wife Lynette four decades ago on Sydney’s northern beaches. Dawson has always maintained his innocence and after the verdict his lawyer confirmed he would appeal....

“The idea that French is under threat in Quebec is a myth,” Colin Standish said at the launch of his fledgling party’s election campaign on Tuesday. “There is no statistic to show that there is a detrimental decline of the French language in this province.” His comments come ahead of the Oct. 3 provincial election and in the wake of census data released by Statistics Canada this month that showed the percentage of people in Quebec who primarily speak French at home continued to decrease, while the number of English speakers in the province has risen....

And a trained weather spotter confirmed a tornado on the ground west of Prinsburg in south-central Minnesota on Sunday night, MPR reported, the second night of severe storms moving across the state. The NWS issued a tornado watch Sunday for an area across central Minnesota stretching from the South Dakota border through the Twin Cities. That watch is in effect until midnight. It also issued a warning for an area including Prinsburg, Svea and Blomkest, which expired at 8:45 p....

The men, who are all survivors of the Rwandan genocide, lived at the Hope Hostel in Kigali for up to eight years. But they were told to leave two days after Priti Patel, the British home secretary, signed a £120 million deal to send refugees arriving in the UK on small boats to the east African country. Some former residents of the hotel were still students who say they lost their families in the genocide and have nowhere to go....

DeBurgo, who relies on her state pension and a top-up Pension Credit, says her grocery bills have already almost doubled in the space of a month or so, with rising fuel costs even more worrying for her winter energy bills. “I don’t want to end up, like a skeleton … eventually it’s going to have to stop. But whether I’ll be able to afford to eat by then, I don’t know,” he told CNN on the phone....

HMS Prince of Wales, the second of the Royal Navy’s two aircraft carriers, departed Portsmouth Naval Base in Hampshire on Saturday before encountering an “emerging mechanical problem”, a navy spokesman said. The problem is being investigated. The ship’s departure had been delayed earlier on Friday due to a technical problem, although it is not known if the incidents are related. The £3 billion carrier, which only became fully operational last year, was at one point moored in the south-east of the Isle of Wight....

Die deutsche Panzerhaubitze 2000 gilt als eines der modernsten und leistungsstärksten Artilleriegeschütze der Welt. Die Ukraine erhielt zehn von ihnen aus Deutschland und fünf aus den Niederlanden. Doch viele waren ab Anfang August nicht mehr funktionsfähig. Ein neues Video zeigt nun eine noch funktionierende Waffe. Einhundert 2000-Panzerschalen können für die Ukraine neu hergestellt werden. Aber es wird Jahre dauern, bis sie es liefern können. Die erste Baugruppe wird 2024 und die gesamte Charge 2027 ausgeliefert....

30.08.2022, 19:18 Uhr Deutschlands AKW bleiben womöglich doch länger am Netz. Laut einem Medienbericht ändert das Wirtschaftsministerium die Rahmenbedingungen des entscheidenden Stresstests. Dieser soll nun ermitteln, ob der Weiterbetrieb den Strompreis senken würde. Bundeswirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck ebnet offensichtlich den Weg für den Weiterbetrieb der verbliebenen deutschen Atomkraftwerke (AKW). Das Wirtschaftsministerium habe die Rahmenbedingungen des Stresstests so verändert, dass damit der Weiterbetrieb über das Jahresende hinaus sinnvoll erscheinen dürfte, berichtet der “Spiegel”....

Trotz der guten operativen Geschäftstätigkeit belasteten die Folgen der Krise in der Ukraine das Ergebnis der RLB OÖ. © RLB Oberösterreich Trotz guter Performance musste die Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ im ersten Halbjahr einen deutlichen Verlust hinnehmen. Dies lag vor allem an den Folgen der Krise in der Ukraine, die wichtige Beteiligungen stark belasteten. „Wir können mit der operativen Tätigkeit erneut sehr zufrieden sein, jedoch wirken sich die finanziellen Folgen des Krieges in der Ukraine insbesondere auf die Portfolio-Risikoprognosen und die nach der Equity-Methode berechneten Wertberichtigungsgrundlagen im Beteiligungsbereich negativ aus Ergebnis im Konzern der Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ”, kommentierte Generaldirektor Heinrich Schaller die Entwicklung....