Malawi soldiers search mountain forests after plane carrying vice-president goes missing

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President speaks of ‘heartbreaking situation’ after aircraft carrying Saulos Chilima and nine others goes missing in bad weather

Soldiers are searching mountainous forests in northern Malawi after an aircraft carrying vice-president Saulos Chilima and nine others went missing on Monday.

The plane carrying Chilima, former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri and eight others left the capital, Lilongwe, at 9.17am and had been expected to land 45 minutes later at Mzuzu international airport, about 370km (230 miles) to the north.

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African elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows – NBC News

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  1. African elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows  NBC News
  2. First nonhuman species found to use name-like sounds for each other, study says  Yahoo! Voices
  3. 'Incredibly social': Researchers make stunning find on how African elephants interact with each other  Fox News
  4. Every Elephant Has Its Own Name, Study Suggests  The New York Times
  5. Like people, elephants call each other by name  The Economist
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Bonza administrators sack airline’s staff ahead of announcement about its future

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Employees voiced frustrations at how the administration process had been conducted, sources say

Bonza appears almost certain to be wound up after the administrators determining the troubled airline’s future terminated its staff.

Guardian Australia understands administrators from the firm Hall Chadwick told staff during a meeting on Tuesday they had been sacked.

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Soldiers in Malawi search for missing military plane carrying vice president and former first lady – The Associated Press

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  1. Soldiers in Malawi search for missing military plane carrying vice president and former first lady  The Associated Press
  2. Plane carrying Malawi vice president reported missing  CNN
  3. Plane carrying Malawi’s VP missing  Vanguard
  4. Malawi soldiers search mountain forests after plane carrying vice-president goes missing  The Guardian
  5. Search continues for missing aircraft carrying Malawi vice president  Reuters.com
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Europe’s Greens take a beating at the polls. Is the US next? – POLITICO

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  1. Europe's Greens take a beating at the polls. Is the US next?  POLITICO
  2. Europe's climate ambitions thrown into doubt as Green vote collapses  CNBC
  3. Europe turns its back on green policy and embraces the Right  The Telegraph
  4. Fears for Green Deal as number of MEPs from climate-denying parties set to rise  The Guardian
  5. Green Wipeout Means Fights Ahead to Keep Europe's Climate Goals  Bloomberg
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USD/MXN: Mexico Peso Falls as Sheinbaum Vows to Push for Judicial Reform – Bloomberg

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  1. USD/MXN: Mexico Peso Falls as Sheinbaum Vows to Push for Judicial Reform  Bloomberg
  2. Mexico's Leftists Won Big. Investors Are Worried.  The New York Times
  3. Mexico's outgoing president vows to pursue changes to Constitution despite market nervousness  The Associated Press
  4. Mexico ruling party wins lower house super-majority but falls short in Senate  Reuters Canada
  5. Mexico's Sheinbaum to push forward with judicial reform, peso slumps  Yahoo! Voices
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Blinken discusses hostage proposal, ‘day after’ Gaza war in meeting with Netanyahu – The Times of Israel

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  1. Blinken discusses hostage proposal, ‘day after’ Gaza war in meeting with Netanyahu  The Times of Israel
  2. What's next for truce talks after Israel rescues 4 hostages and 274 Palestinians are killed?  The Associated Press
  3. Blinken meets opposition figures Gantz, Lapid in Tel Aviv  The Times of Israel
  4. U.N. Security Council passes Gaza cease-fire proposal drafted by the U.S.  NBC News
  5. Blinken ramps up pressure on Hamas amid doubts about cease-fire deal  The Washington Post
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Media studies are popular, dynamic and have ‘profound impact’, report says

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Degrees often derided as ‘low-value’ or ‘Mickey Mouse’ subjects are praised as vital to UK’s £108bn creative industries

Media and communications studies, often derided as “soft”, “low-value” or “Mickey Mouse” subjects, are in fact popular, dynamic and have “profound impact”, according to a report.

The British Academy study says that rather than being “low value”, such courses play a vital role in the UK’s £108bn creative industries and have become increasingly relevant in a world grappling with new technologies, artificial intelligence and the dangers of disinformation.

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One in three Asda staff have been attacked at work, survey finds

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GMB poll receives reports of workers being stabbed, punched and threatened with syringes

One in three Asda staff have been attacked at work, according to research that included reports of workers being stabbed, punched and threatened with syringes.

The poll of almost 1,000 members of GMB, one of the UK’s biggest unions, returned stories of delivery drivers being chased by people in cars, while store workers had food thrown at them. More than half (58%) of respondents said they had suffered injury or illness on the job.

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Leonard Peltier, Indigenous activist in prison for 47 years over FBI killings, has parole hearing

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FBI chief condemns Peltier, 79, who denies killing agents on Pine Ridge reservation in 1975, as ‘remorseless killer’

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has served nearly 50 years in prison for the killing of two FBI agents, was due to have his first parole hearing since 2009 on Monday, his lawyer said.

Peltier, 79, has maintained that he did not kill the FBI special agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Advocates, including figures such as the late Nelson Mandela and a former prosecutor and judge involved in his case, have long said he should be freed because of what they call legal irregularities in his trial.

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Labour urged to confirm how it will find staff for 100,000 new childcare places

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Party’s proposals involve about £140m to refurbish school classrooms, but nothing extra to increase staffing

Labour has been accused of leaving a gap in its childcare plans after the party confirmed its promise to offer 100,000 new childcare places would not involve extra funding to recruit more staff.

Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, appeared at a primary school in Nuneaton on Monday alongside the shadow education secretary to publicise the party’s pledge to expand childcare places through primary schools.

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Rightwing Tories plan ‘rebel manifesto’ if Sunak’s policy launch falls flat

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Party figures including Braverman and Jenrick waiting to see how public responds to pledges, insiders say

Conservative rightwingers are planning to present Rishi Sunak with demands for tougher action on immigration and human rights law before the election if the prime minister’s manifesto promises on Tuesday fall flat.

Prominent party figures including Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick are said by Tory insiders to be among those waiting to see how the manifesto is received by the public before they act.

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Israel-Syria border: Multiple attacks reported, Hezbollah targeted – The Jerusalem Post

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  1. Israel-Syria border: Multiple attacks reported, Hezbollah targeted  The Jerusalem Post
  2. Hezbollah names two operatives killed in Israeli airstrikes  The Times of Israel
  3. 5 Killed In Reported Attack At Lebanon-Syria Border | LIVE UPDATES - I24NEWS  i24NEWS
  4. Two killed in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah-Israel fighting soars  Al Jazeera English
  5. IDF targets Hezbollah weapons shipment 150 km deep into Lebanon  Ynetnews
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