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WOLFSBURG (ANP) - De raad van toezicht van Volkswagen steunt de plannen voor een omvangrijke herstructurering van de Duitse autobouwer waarbij nog eens 50.000 banen kunnen verdwijnen en vier Duitse fabrieken gesloten kunnen worden. De raad stemde donderdagavond unaniem in met die plannen van topman Oliver Blume die eerder al bekend waren gemaakt.
De reorganisatie moet de kosten bij Volkswagen drastisch verlagen en overcapaciteit inperken. Het bedrijf kampt al langere tijd met moeilijke marktomstandigheden, onder meer door felle concurrentie in Europa van Chinese elektrische auto's. Het verlies van 50.000 banen komt dan boven op een eerdere ingreep waarbij eveneens 50.000 arbeidsplaatsen bij Volkswagen verloren gaan.
De fabrieken die gesloten kunnen worden staan in Emden, Zwickau, Hannover en Neckarsulm. Die kunnen sluiten als Volkswagen er geen alternatieve mogelijkheden voor vindt.
Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform
Nigel Farage is facing fresh criticism on the eve of the Reform UK party conference after some of his team were filmed appearing to plot to avoid electoral laws on foreign donations in an undercover investigation broadcast by Channel 4.
A group of investigative journalists called Verbatim, funded by the Centre for Climate Reporting, posed as a potential Reform supporter and his wealthy American father, an impermissible donor, who paid for £30,000 of polling commissioned by Reform and which benefited the party.
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Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes
By the time she died on Wednesday, at 92 years old at her home in New York, Gloria Steinem was synonymous with feminism, a kind of human mascot for the movement. So it can be easy to forget that when she was born, feminism was over. It was something that had been faddish years before, among women who were now old ladies; something that seemed, in retrospect, like it might have been a bit overwrought and out of touch. To the girl Gloria Steinem, growing up in Ohio in the 1930s and 40s, the suffrage movement that had gained women the right to vote less than two decades prior probably seemed remote – especially to a girl like her, growing up itinerant and poor under the care of a single mother who was plagued by a violent and debilitating mental illness. You might say that growing up, Steinem had worries that were more immediate than the status of women.
But experience has a way of radicalizing women about their own gendered condition. Steinem attended Smith, and her education opened up previously unhoped for possibilities. En route to a postgraduate fellowship in India in 1957, when she was in her early 20s, she had an illegal abortion in London. Later, in 1969, while she was working as a journalist for New York magazine, she attended an “abortion speak-out” put on by a group of radical women from the emergent fringe of what was then called the Women’s Liberation movement.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges people to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as she tells UK citizens to plan for national emergencies
British people have been urged to have enough food and water on hand to survive a few days without power or water, as the UN said the El Niño climate phenomenon was “supersizing before our eyes”, exacerbating extreme weather events worldwide.
Forecasters say they are braced for the biggest El Niño in 1,000 years, bringing wildfires and floods to parts of the world, and the threat of a wet, stormy winter for the UK.
As the British government plans a campaign urging citizens to prepare for national emergencies, Angela Eagle told the Guardian the likelihood of a wild winter showed the importance of having supplies at home.
Fifa filed motion opposing Uefa’s request for discovery
Uefa said to be considering criminal case v Gianni Infantino
Attorneys representing Fifa have hit back at Uefa’s request for discovery in a US federal filing earlier this week. The lawyers called Uefa’s legal efforts “little more than press releases in further support of [a] smear campaign against Fifa and its leadership” and requested the judge assigned to the case dismiss the request.
The filing requests that Fifa US, a subsidiary business unit of Fifa, be permitted to officially opposite the request for discovery by 30 September.
Continue reading...Troops escort settlers into al-Mughayyir and raze village outside Hebron as ethnic cleansing of West Bank continues
Israelis have shot dead two teenagers in a Palestinian village encircled by settlers and Israeli troops have razed an entire village outside Hebron, the latest attacks in a surge of Israeli terror and ethnic cleansing across the occupied West Bank.
The shootings targeted Khalil Abu Alia, 16, who was about to start 11th grade at the al-Mughayyir boys school, and 19-year-old Omar al-Nassan, who graduated from the same institution with top marks this summer.
Continue reading...The former Arsenal, Barcelona and France star says players shouldn’t underestimate their ability to change how football works
As Fifa continues to face scrutiny from some confederations and fans, Thierry Henry has encouraged players to use their voice as the political battle for control of international soccer unfolds. The former Arsenal and Barcelona forward turned pundit spoke with the Guardian on Tuesday alongside Kate Scott and Jamie Carragher as CBS and Paramount prepare for this season’s Champions League broadcasts.
“For me, the players have more power than they think they have,” Henry said when asked for his thoughts on the situation. “And if they want it to change, they can make it happen – especially nowadays.”
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Lando Norris has reflected on the opportunity to secure a third consecutive victory at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.
BrianFagioli writes: Audacity 4.0 has been released with a rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing model, customizable workspaces, native high-DPI rendering, and a new AUP4 project format. The open source audio editor also adds ASIO playback and recording support to official Windows builds, while bringing major changes to recording, playback, plugins, and project handling. The overhaul comes with some tradeoffs. Audacity 4.0 currently lacks several features found in Audacity 3, including Time Tracks, Note and MIDI tracks, Mixer, Macro Manager and scripting pipe, VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting, and play-at-speed. The developers say they plan to bring the missing functionality back in future releases.
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