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Mauro Ferrari joins organisation at a tricky time and says his focus is on identifying ‘breakthrough people’At the age of 43, Mauro Ferrari astonished his peers by giving up his career as a highly regarded professor of engineering at the University of California in Berkeley to enrol at medical school.He had been driven to find a cure for the cancer that had killed his wife at the age of 32, leaving him alone with three traumatised children. “I feel comfortable talking about this now – I didn’t for years,” he says. “Everyone has got a wound that pushes them to do better.” Continue reading…



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Author : Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Publish date : 2020-01-21 10:42:15

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Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 9.31am GMT The UK will leave the EU at the end of next week and this morning Sajid Javid, the chancellor, is attending his last Ecofin, the regular meeting for EU finance ministers, as a member. In a clip for broadcasters on his way, he was asked about the row generated by his interview with the Financial Times (paywall) at the weekend in which he insisted that that the UK would not stay aligned to EU rules after Brexit. He made two main points.We have been very clear now for many months, and of course in our recent election as well, as we leave the EU we will not be in the single market, we will not be in the customs union, and we will not be rule takers. At the same time, of course, we want a deep, comprehensive free trade agreement, and that’s what we are working on.No, not at all. We look forward with confidence as we strike that new free trade agreement with our European friends, as we strike new free trade agreements across the world, it will be a very important time for British business. And I can see a British economy that continues to go from strength to [email protected] asks @sajidjavid if he is prepared to sacrifice some UK manufacturers over #brexit: “Not at all…I can see a British economy which continues to go from strength to strength”, he replies pic.twitter.com/3VScFAQqHj Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2020-01-21 09:34:59

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Rolling coverage of the first day of the World Economic Forum, including Donald Trump’s special address and Greta Thunberg’s panel session 7.58am GMT Natasha Wang Mwansa, the 18-year old women’s and girls’ activist from Zambia, has issued a loud warning to the global elite that young activists are determined to change the world.We are able to step out and say ‘this is what we want’, explains Mwansa. “We haven’t let our age stop us.”The older generation has experience, but we have ideas and energy. 7.52am GMT Salvador Gómez-Colón, a 16-year old activist from San Juan, Puerto Rico, speaks next.He says world leaders need to stop treating climate change as a political issue, a social-economic issue or a racial issue.The climate crisis just is. And until we address that, we’re not getting anywhere.We’re not the future, we’re the present. And we’re acting now. Continue reading…



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Author : Graeme Wearden in Davos

Publish date : 2020-01-21 07:58:34

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Magistrate dismisses police contention Prof Dianne Jolley is a threat to public safety, after she spends two weeks in jailA Sydney professor accused of sending threatening letters to herself will be released from prison almost two weeks after her second arrest.Prof Dianne Jolley, the dean of science at the University of Technology Sydney, was arrested in November for allegedly sending fake threats to herself after the university planned to cancel a Chinese medicine course. Continue reading…



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Author : Australian Associated Press

Publish date : 2020-01-21 06:26:48

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Over the last seven days, south-eastern Australia has experienced a variety of extreme weather events. Major cities have been blanketed in bushfire smoke, while flash-flooding, dust storms and golf ball-sized hailstones have wreaked havoc in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria Continue reading…



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Extradition hearing begins in Canada as defence team rejects allegations that executive tried to get around Iran sanctionsThe accusations of sanctions busting against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou have been dismissed by her lawyers as “fiction” at the start of a legal hearing in Canada in which she is fighting extradition to the United States.Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the technology conglomerate, and eldest daughter of its founder Ren Zhengfei, is wanted by US authorities for alleged fraud in trying to circumvent Washington’s sanctions against Iran. Continue reading…



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Author : Agence France-Presse

Publish date : 2020-01-21 03:32:58

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Updates from the conclusion of the opening round from Melbourne ParkJohanna Konta falls early Any thoughts? Email or tweet @JPHowcroft
2.29am GMT First set: Vekic 5-3 Sharapova* (*denotes server): A few errors creeping into Vekic’s game now, coinciding with Sharapova finding some rhythm and not overplaying, just keeping the ball in court. Sharapova wins her best point of the match at 30-15, controlling from the baseline then advancing and putting away a tough volley on her shoelaces. Can Vekic take her second chance at serving out the set? 2.24am GMT First set: Vekic* 5-2 Sharapova (*denotes server): Vekic can’t serve out and Sharapova gets a break back. Continue reading…



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Author : Jonathan Howcroft (now) and Scott Heinrich (later)

Publish date : 2020-01-21 02:29:18

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Sars-like virus can be transmitted by human contact and has infected more than 200 and killed threeAustralia will begin screening passengers on high-risk flights from China for signs of a new Sars-like coronavirus following confirmation from the Chinese health authorities that the virus has begun spreading from human to human.The outbreak was first reported in Wuhan City in China on New Year’s Eve and tied to a seafood market, but officials have since confirmed that it has spread to other humans who had not frequented the market, as well as to health workers. Continue reading…



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Author : Calla Wahlquist

Publish date : 2020-01-21 00:34:10

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Melbourne University academic rebuffed bid to recruit her in exchange for her release, letters revealIran tried to recruit the British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert as a spy for Tehran in exchange for her release, but the overture was furiously rebuffed, letters smuggled out of Evin prison reveal.Moore-Gilbert, a Cambridge-educated academic specialising in Middle East politics, is currently being held in ‘Ward 2A’, an isolated Revolutionary Guard-run wing of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, serving a 10-year sentence for espionage, a charge she, and the Australian government, rejects as entirely false. Continue reading…



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Author : Ben Doherty

Publish date : 2020-01-20 22:35:44

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Baghdad police said three Katyusha rockets were launched from the Zafaraniyah district just outside the city
Three rockets have fallen inside Baghdad’s Green Zone on Tuesday morning, close to the US embassy.A BBC reporter said alarms were sounding in the US embassy complex and speakers were telling those inside to take shelter. Continue reading…



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Author : Reuters

Publish date : 2020-01-20 22:56:36

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Study also shows global unemployment due to rise for the first time in a decade Nearly half a billion people around the world are struggling to find adequate paid work, trapping individuals in poverty and fuelling heightened levels of inequality, according to a UN report.In a study published as world leaders fly into the Swiss ski resort of Davos to voice concerns over inequality and the climate crisis, the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) said more than 473 million people around the world lacked the employment opportunities to meet their needs. Continue reading…



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Author : Richard Partington Economics correspondent

Publish date : 2020-01-20 20:00:35

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Guns rights activists gathered at crowded but calm event in response to strict laws pledged by state’s DemocratsTens of thousands of armed gun rights activists gathered in Virginia’s capital on Monday as the governor declared a state of emergency ahead of a huge protest against strict new gun control laws pledged by the state’s freshly elected Democratic majority government.Chanting “We will not comply”, gun rights activists packed the street in front of the Virginia’s state house, where the governor, Ralph Northam, had temporarily banned anyone from carrying firearms. On the streets outside, though, some protesters carried rifles and wore full tactical gear. One protester estimated that he thought as many as 70% of the crowd was armed, most of them more discreetly, with concealed handguns. Continue reading…



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Author : Lois Beckett in Richmond

Publish date : 2020-01-20 20:59:59

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Former US president reflected on civil rights leader’s 1963 letter as presidential candidates walked arm-in-arm at parade Barack Obama spoke out on America’s Martin Luther King Day holiday on Monday, posting a link to the civil rights leader’s 1963 letter from an Alabama jail, written while King was in detention for leading a march of black protesters without a permit and urging a boycott of businesses owned by white people.“Every so often, I re-read Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” the former Democratic president wrote. “While some of the injustices may have changed, his poetic brilliance, moral clarity, and tests of conscience still reverberate today. Take a moment to reflect on his righteous call.” Continue reading…



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Author : Edward Helmore in New York

Publish date : 2020-01-20 20:39:38

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Tuesday: Coalition under pressure over grants after Liberal-linked tennis club received $500,000. Plus, have selfie-friendly art installations gone too far?Good morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Tuesday 21 January. Continue reading…



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Author : Helen Sullivan

Publish date : 2020-01-20 20:01:38

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Shadow Brexit secretary assured of place on final ballot after nomination by UsdawSir Keir Starmer has guaranteed a place on the final ballot to become Labour’s next leader after becoming the first candidate to be backed by a second major trade union.Usdaw, the retail union and Labour’s fourth largest affiliate, on Monday nominated the shadow Brexit secretary for leader and Angela Rayner for deputy leader. Continue reading…



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Author : Rajeev Syal

Publish date : 2020-01-20 19:25:52

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