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Israel-Hamas battle: Benjamin Netanyahu vows to push forward with assault on Rafah, regardless of worldwide criticism

17Mar

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Israel-Hamas battle: Benjamin Netanyahu vows to push forward with assault on Rafah, regardless of worldwide criticism

A defiant Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to press forward with a long-expected assault on the southern Gaza metropolis of Rafah, regardless of worldwide criticism.The Israeli prime minister was talking on Sunday following a gathering with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as he reiterated his promise to "eliminate the remaining terrorist battalions in Rafah".But he additionally mentioned this promise "goes hand in hand with enabling the civilian population to leave", though he gave no particulars as to the place they might go. Image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Pic: Reuters "It's not something we will do while keeping the population locked in place," he mentioned of the deliberate assault."In fact, we...

Naked Wines uncorks debt adviser after share worth stoop

17Mar

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Naked Wines uncorks debt adviser after share worth stoop

Naked Wines, the London-listed on-line wine retailer, has drafted in debt advisers to discover refinancing choices amid powerful buying and selling situations.Sky News understands that Naked Wines has employed Interpath Advisory to work with it after seeing investor confidence within the firm drain away in latest months. Shares in Naked Wines have slumped by nearly a 3rd over the past yr, leaving it with a market capitalisation of lower than £50m, though they've recovered from their lowest level of lower than 30p.Last month, it named Rodrigo Maza, its UK chief, as its new group CEO.He changed Nick Devlin, whose tenure had been punctuated by troubled buying and selling in its US enterprise. Mr Maza now stories into the corporate's founder and chairman, Rowan Gormley.A spokesma...

As distress and despair stalk the Tory get together, speak of adjusting chief is getting louder

17Mar

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Politics

As distress and despair stalk the Tory get together, speak of adjusting chief is getting louder

Rishi Sunak hopes three key moments this week will flip round his fortunes after his standing within the get together plummeted.The PM is hoping Monday's speech on the economic system, Wednesday's finish of time period look earlier than Tory MPs and new inflation figures due out the identical day, which may very well be near the Bank of England goal of two%, will stem the bleeding of his premiership. The Politics at Jack and Sam's podcast carried out a wide-ranging survey of the Tory get together, throughout the primary factions and wings, and located distress and despair, and a revived speak of adjusting chief if issues don't enhance.👉 Listen above and faucet right here to observe wherever you get your podcasts 👈Although senior figures nonetheless put this at under 50%, it's...

Applications open for Antarctica’s penguin put up workplace with one applicant utilizing tattoos to point out her enthusiasm

17Mar

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Technology

Applications open for Antarctica’s penguin put up workplace with one applicant utilizing tattoos to point out her enthusiasm

Applications are open to work in Antarctica's well-known "penguin post office".Successful candidates will probably be "self-motivated", "empathetic" and high-quality with showering as soon as each two weeks. The store in Port Lockroy is the southernmost put up workplace on this planet and steadily smells like penguin poo.Every yr, the Antarctic Heritage Trust is flooded with functions for the roles. This yr, there are three positions on provide and they're solely open to UK residents.As nicely as processing as much as 80,000 letters and postcards a yr, employees should run the store and welcome roughly 18,000 cruise passengers who cease by. One applicant, charity supervisor Katie Shaw in Manchester, needs to go a lot, she has tattooed a geographically correct map of the Antar...

Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley dies – singer’s ‘devastated’ household pays tribute

17Mar

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Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley dies – singer’s ‘devastated’ household pays tribute

Steve Harley, finest recognized for being the frontman of the rock group Cockney Rebel, has died on the age of 73.The English singer and songwriter, finest recognized for the Seventies hit Make Me Smile, was receiving remedy for most cancers. "We are devastated to announce that our wonderful husband, father and grandfather, has passed away peacefully at home, with his family by his side," his spouse, Dorothy, and kids, Kerr and Greta stated in an announcement. Image: Pic: PA "The birdsong from his woodland that he loved so much was singing for him. His home has been filled with the sounds and laughter of his four beloved grandchildren."Stephen. Steve. Dad. Grandar. Steve Harley. Whoever you understand him as, ...

16Mar

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Baseball

FanGraphs Highlight: Positional Splits

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports If you’ve been studying me with any frequency for the previous 20-some years — the final six of them right here at FanGraphs — you'll have seen that I’m susceptible to dropping the occasional quantity into my prose. In reality, Statcast says I achieve this in 57.6% of my sentences, which ranks within the 93rd percentile even amongst my FanGraphs colleagues. Admittedly, I simply made that half up, however the level is that I’m somebody who tends to current a good bit of information to the reader in help of my evaluation. At this website, we function so much of information, and as a consequence, not all of it's straightforward to search out, however we do our greatest to prepare it logically in order that customers can achieve this. Once once more, I’...

16Mar

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Tennis

Lorenzo Musetti Turns into a Father

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday March 15, 2024Lorenzo Musetti and girlfriend Veronica Confalonieri have welcomed the delivery of their first little one, child boy Ludovico (bambino works on this case), which the couple introduced on InstagramMany high execs -- Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Bublik, Marta Kostyuk, Flavia Pennetta and Sara Errani amongst them -- took to Instagram to ship their congratulations. 22-year-old Musetti, the World No.26, introduced the being pregnant on Instagram a number of weeks in the past. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments);if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByT...

Cara Delevingne thanks firefighters after cats rescued from her burning dwelling

16Mar

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Cara Delevingne thanks firefighters after cats rescued from her burning dwelling

Cara Delevingne has praised firefighters after her two cats had been rescued from an enormous blaze that ripped via her Hollywood mansion.Her Studio City dwelling, reportedly price $7m (£5.5m), was engulfed in flames and smoke on Friday morning, inflicting the roof to break down. Image: Safe and sound. Pic: Cara Delevingne/Instagram It took 94 firefighters greater than two hours to extinguish the blaze, which gutted a lot of the property and left it burned and smoking.The British-born mannequin and actress feared her beloved cats had been misplaced within the fireplace, however has now posted footage on Instagram of the cats apparently protected and sound. "They are alive! Thank you to t...

Ireland win Six Nations title after victory over Scotland

16Mar

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World

Ireland win Six Nations title after victory over Scotland

Ireland are celebrating one other Six Nations title win with a 17-13 victory over Scotland in Dublin.It is their fifth title in 11 years, having endured a drought of greater than 20 years between 1985 and 2009. Dan Sheehan and Andrew Porter scored tries for the hosts, who've now gained back-to-back championships.Player of the Match, Ireland's Jamison Gibson-Park, known as the win "incredible"."We had to stay in the fight. It was two good teams going at it and we were going for a championship," he stated. "Our backs were against the wall a little bit [after last week's defeat to England] so I am unbelievably proud of the boys." Image: Pic: PA After England denied them a bid for successive Grand Slams final...

16Mar

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Business

M&S in talks to create banking and loyalty ‘superapp’

Marks & Spencer (M&S) is nearing a take care of one in all Britain's largest excessive road lenders to overtake its banking arm as a monetary companies and loyalty 'superapp'.Sky News has learnt that M&S and HSBC, whose UK arm owns M&S Bank, are near asserting a brand new long-term relationship settlement that may pave the best way for an overhaul of the enterprise. M&S Bank has greater than 3m clients, providing private loans, journey insurance coverage, retailer fee playing cards and a purchase now pay later credit score product.Sources stated the long-running talks between M&S and HSBC had centered on concluding a deal earlier than the expiry of their present contract within the coming weeks.One added {that a} public announcement was anticipated to ...