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The Conservative Party stuck to its expected timetable for a leadership contest after the Tories appeared to resist a push to remove the prime minister sooner. Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 backbench committee, said party volunteers had insisted on “adequate opportunities to flee” across the country in August. “We have come to a satisfactory agreement on this,” he told reporters – leaving Johnson for another eight weeks in Downing Street for his “service”....

“I remember we were on a public bus. And the bus driver told us it was okay to take off our tights if we wanted to. He said he preferred it when we wore the old school uniform and our skirts were shorter. I was 11,” said Alice, now an 11th grader. “When I was walking home in my school uniform one time, I had a guy in his thirties come up to me and say he was going to rape me as he walked past....

ILLUSTRATION: FORBES / PHOTO: AMAZON Prime Day 2022 is just around the corner (taking place July 12-13), and you can expect millions of deals on everything from best-selling electronics to must-have kitchen tools. And while we won’t know exactly what’s on offer until the clock strikes midnight PDT on July 12, we can certainly make some predictions about the event based on past Prime Days. Prime Day 2022 is just days away, but you can already start saving....

Writing about The timesAndrew Bowie, MP for West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine, said the former chancellor played a key role in “flattening” UK funding to councils in a move that bypassed the Scottish Parliament and allowed Whitehall to invest directly in communities. In Scotland, around £20 million was awarded to West Dunbartonshire in the first round for a range of projects including the refurbishment of the Artizan shopping center and the conversion of its older building into a library and museum....

With four candidates confirmed but predictions that as many as 15 could be put forward as the next Tory leader, Tory MPs have expressed concern over the likely timetable for the race and the prospect of bitter infighting. Sunak, the former chancellor, who entered the race on Friday night with an impeccably edited video campaign message posted on Twitter with the slogan “Ready for Rishi”, is seen as one of the likely front-runners....

Der Triathlon findet heute und Sonntag in Hamburg statt. Viele Straßen werden dafür gesperrt, was zu Verkehrsbehinderungen bis Montagmorgen führt. Der Triathlon besteht aus drei verschiedenen Strecken: der innerstädtischen Strecke, der Mehrkampfstrecke am Samstag und der Mehrkampfstrecke am Sonntag. Zu diesem Zweck werden verschiedene Straßen zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten gesperrt. Die erste Blockade wurde laut Veranstalter am Freitagmorgen im Ballindamm errichtet. Am Wochenende kommen mehrere Straßensperrungen hinzu. Die endgültige Sperrung wird voraussichtlich am Montagmorgen aufgehoben....

On Friday night, the former US president attended a rally in Nevada where he bashed the two candidates he supported in the Republican primary, gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo and Senate candidate Adam Laxalt. Throughout the speech, the one-term president praised his candidates as “excellent,” but in classic Trumpian style, he soon veered from a pep talk to more muddled remarks about other talking points. At one point during his rally, held at the Treasure Island resort on the Las Vegas Strip as part of the former president’s campaign Save America PAC, he turned his speech to the issue of law and order....

Parag Agrawal, who took over as CEO last fall after the company’s co-founder Jack Dorsey stepped down, is said to be starting to “struggle” after Musk repeatedly criticized the company for committing to buyouts and take private. “Parag wants to push back more and is more aggressive internally,” a former Twitter executive told the Financial Times. “It looks like Twitter is willing to go to war to make this deal happen....

Von Jan Gaenger am 10.07.2022, 15:14 Uhr Elon Musk will Twitter nicht mehr kaufen. Aber das Unternehmen könnte ihn zwingen, den Deal trotzdem abzuschließen. Das könnte den Tesla-Gründer viele Milliarden Dollar kosten. Elon Musk stornierte die Twitter-Akquisition. Aber er könnte gezwungen sein, das Unternehmen für die vereinbarten 44 Milliarden Dollar zu kaufen. Zur Klärung: Twitter wird an der Börse derzeit mit rund 28 Milliarden Dollar bewertet. Twitter 36.51 Das Twitter-Management wird sich nicht länger mit der 1-Milliarden-Dollar-Strafe begnügen, die Musk zahlen muss, wenn er den Deal storniert....

The U.S. has provided Ukraine’s forces with eight of the 142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS, which allow for the launching of multiple, precision-guided rockets and have pledged to send an additional four. A senior U.S. Defense Department official told a background briefing at the Pentagon on Friday that the weapons systems are having a “significant impact on what’s going on, on the front lines.” The weapons can hit targets at a larger range than the M777 howitzers, which the U....

The Guardian’s unprecedented leak of more than 124,000 documents – known as the Uber files – reveals the ethically questionable practices that fueled the company’s transformation into one of Silicon Valley’s most famous exports. The leak spans a five-year period when Uber was run by its co-founder Travis Kalanick, who tried to bring the taxi service to cities around the world by brute force, even if it meant violating taxi laws and regulations....

The Office for National Statistics said Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 0.5% month-on-month, following a revised 0.2% drop in April. City economists had expected zero growth amid fears of the fallout from the cost of living crisis. Despite an overall uptick in activity in the month, the latest snapshot revealed a drop in consumer-facing services due to a drop in retail sales and a drop in sports and leisure activities....

Ukrainische Maschine: Frachtflugzeug mit Munition an Bord stürzt im Nordosten Griechenlands ab In der Nähe der nordostgriechischen Stadt Kavala ist am Samstagabend ein Flugzeug mit mindestens acht Menschen an Bord abgestürzt. Über mögliche Opfer ist bisher nichts bekannt. Wie Flightradar auf Twitter schreibt, ist das Frachtflugzeug auf dem Weg nach Kavala abgestürzt. Screenshot Twitter/Flightradar24 In der Nähe der nordostgriechischen Stadt Kavala ist am Samstagabend ein Flugzeug abgestürzt. Das bestätigte die griechische Feuerwehr per Twitter....

Les célébrations du macabre rassemblement du Vel d’Hiv sont généralement l’un des – rares – moments d’unité au sein de la classe politique. Pour les 80 ans, cette solidarité a été perturbée par Mathilde Pano, la présidente du groupe LFI à l’Assemblée nationale. Dans un tweet posté samedi en fin d’après-midi, Insoumise a demandé “de ne pas oublier ces crimes”. Avant d’ajouter : “Aujourd’hui plus que jamais, avec un Président de la République honorant Pétain et 89 députés RN !...

Die Erdgaspipeline Nord Stream 1 wird seit Montag gewartet. Es wird befürchtet, dass Russland auch nach der Wartung die Gaslieferungen nach Europa stoppt. 1/4 Das Terminal der Pipeline Nord Stream 1. Die Anlage erstreckt sich über eine Länge von 1.224 Kilometern entlang der Ostsee in Lubmin im Nordosten Deutschlands. AFP Die Nord Stream-Pipeline, die Deutschland mit dem größten Teil seines russischen Erdgases versorgt, wird ab Montag, dem 11. Juli 2022, wegen routinemäßiger Wartungsarbeiten abgeschaltet – und es wird befürchtet, dass sie für immer geschlossen bleiben könnte....

President Biden is set to unveil a “deep field” image captured by the observatory. Perhaps the Webb telescope’s greatest promise is to look at some of the first stars to light up the universe after the Big Bang. While Monday’s snapshot won’t be able to achieve that, it’s a proof of principle for the technique and a hint of what’s to come from scientific instruments that astronomers have waited decades to bring online....