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      Lewis Hamilton ‘realises his dream’ after first day with Ferrari

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    • British driver greeted by new F1 team at Maranello
    • ‘There are some days you know you’ll remember forever’

    Lewis Hamilton said he is realising his dream and starting a “new era” for Ferrari as he arrived at Maranello for his first official day with the team. The seven-time world champion posted a picture of himself standing in front of a Ferrari car at the team’s renowned base in northern Italy.

    Hamilton, who announced his move to Ferrari after 12 seasons and six drivers’ championship wins at Mercedes ahead of the 2024 campaign, was greeted by team principal Fred Vasseur and chief executive Benedetto Vigna before meeting with various departments.

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      Work on some of Boris Johnson’s ‘40 new hospitals’ will not start until 2039

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Health secretary says Tories had ‘no credible plan or funding’ for hospitals they promised to build by 2030

    Work will not begin until 2039 on some of the “40 new hospitals” Boris Johnson promised to build by 2030, after a Labour rethink on a pledge it called “a work of fiction” by the Conservatives.

    Wes Streeting on Monday told MPs that construction on seven of the 40 projects in England would begin until 2025-2030, with another nine in starting in 2030-2035 and a further nine in 2035-2039.

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      Cheddargate: why is a leading French chef turning down Michelin stars?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    A spat over a cheese souffle led to a court case that curdled relations with the celebrated restaurant guide – and now the inspectors are no longer welcome to call

    Name: Michelin Guide

    Age: The famous restaurant guide was created in 1900.

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      Military leaders should expect Trump crackdown – from disloyalty to diversity

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Despite tensions brewing with China, US president-elect is expected to ‘clean house’ with those who stray from agenda

    As Donald Trump takes the oath of office once again on Monday to be commander in chief, some of the generals and admirals he will command may wonder if his first order to them will be “you’re fired.”

    Even as a potential war brewing with China over Taiwan and the South China Sea looms large in the plans of Congress and the general staff, Trump and his team have said that they intend for the most senior military leaders to be loyal to the president’s agenda – and to the president himself – in ways that close observers of military leadership and organization find troubling.

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      Novak Djokovic ready to produce ‘best’ level in quarter-final duel with Alcaraz

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    • First meeting since Paris gold medal match last year
    • Djokovic leads rivalry 4-3 in head-to-head record

    In the immediate aftermath of the unforgettable gold-medal match between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz at the Paris Olympics last year, after two brutal sets of the highest quality and intensity, emotions flowed freely on both sides of the court. Djokovic collapsed on to the ground, his body shaking as he sobbed into the clay, while tears flowed from Alcaraz’s eyes as he was forced to abort his post-match interview. At the same time that Djokovic was digesting the crowning achievement of his unparalleled career, Alcaraz initially believed he had let his entire country down.

    With 17 years separating two players at completely different points of their careers, there was a chance that they could have missed each other. Instead, thanks to their historic precocity and longevity respectively, the rivalry that has developed between the pair, the oldest and youngest No 1 players in the history of tennis, is different to any match-up the sport has seen.

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      ‘I back her 100%’: Dunkley refuses to blame Knight for England Ashes failure

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    • Australia retain Ashes after victory in T20 opener
    • Batter says Knight ‘has done the job amazingly’

    The England batter Sophia Dunkley says she backs captain Heather Knight “100%” despite Australia securing an unassailable lead in the Women’s Ashes with a fourth consecutive victory on Monday.

    Australia’s 57-run win in the first T20 puts them 8-0 up in the points format and means they will retain the Ashes even if England win the remaining two T20 matches and the one-off Test.

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      South African police launch hunt for alleged illegal mining ‘kingpin’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Escape of James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, described as an ‘embarrassment’

    South African police are hunting an alleged “kingpin” of illegal mining after he escaped from custody following a rescue operation last week in which 78 bodies were brought out of an illicit goldmine .

    James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, has been accused by other illegal miners of being a ringleader who was allegedly responsible for assaults, tortures and deaths underground, as well as keeping food from others, the South African Police Service said.

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      ‘Jean-Paul Sartre hid at her house!’ The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025 • 1 minute

    She was a painter ‘ahead of her time’, counting Picasso as a fan. But Hélène de Beauvoir was always overshadowed by her famous sister. Now, with a show opening in Britain, the artist is finally receiving her due

    Simone de Beauvoir, the French feminist icon, novelist and philosopher who bestrode the 20th century, had a younger sister called Hélène. She was not famous like Simone but she was every bit as radical and prolific, as both a feminist and a painter. It seems ridiculous that history would have sidelined this woman whose work Picasso complimented at her first Paris show in 1936, calling it “original”. She was also president of a women’s refuge, and signed 1971’s influential Manifesto of the 343 Women, in which the signatories all admitted to having had an illegal abortion. Hélène even declared herself a feminist before Simone.

    Now, with a show of her paintings opening at the Amar Gallery in London, the record is being set straight, as Hélène finally receives the recognition many feel she is due. “Our whole mission,” says gallerist Amar Singh, “is to search for overlooked artists.” Singh regales me with tales of cross-continental wild goose chases on the trail of collectors who might just sell. Once he hits upon an artist, he says, he looks into why they may have been sidelined. “It is always,” says the gallerist, “down to gender, race or sexuality.”

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      ‘Why would an orchestra exist in this hell?’ Inside The Lost Music of Auschwitz

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    As the Red Army closed in on the concentration camp, the Nazis tried to destroy every bit of evidence – but they didn’t manage to burn all the music written there. Ahead of a new film, we meet the man who’s spent eight years piecing those extraordinary scraps of music back together

    Eight years ago, Leo Geyer was at the museum that now stands at Auschwitz-Birkenau, when he got chatting to an archivist. It was a conversation that would change his life.

    “It was actually an accident,” says the musician and composer. “He just said in an offhand way that there were music manuscripts buried in the depths of the archive.” Geyer knew about the orchestras of Auschwitz concentration camp, “as most classical musicians do”, he adds. But he had no idea there were any manuscripts left after the Nazis tried to liquidate the camp before the arrival of the Red Army. The majority of artefacts from Auschwitz were destroyed – and Geyer, like most before him, assumed this would include the music.

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