US votes against UN resolution condemning Russia for war as Macron and Trump meet at White House
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Government votes to allow 100% faith selection by new state schools
An amendment to keep the 50% cap on faith-based admissions in all new schools was voted down by the Government at Committee Stage for the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill after it wrongly claimed faith schools as ‘more diverse’ than other schools. Tabled by Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson MP, the amendment would have required that new schools opening under the Bill’s new school organisation law be required to have an admissions policy that limited selection based on the religion of the pupil and their family to 50% of places when oversubscribed. This is the case with the existing law. The amendment was put to a vote with Liberal Democrat MPs and Green MP, Ellie Chowns, voting in favour, and Labour MPs and Conservative MP Damian Hinds voting against. Two other Conservatives abstained. Fellow Liberal Democrat MP on the Committee Ian Sollom welcomed that the changes in new school proposals would enable new specialist schools to be open, ‘however there is a potential loophole on faith-based selection. The amendment is to bring the current …
How votes get counted and reported on election night — and how NBC News gathers and checks the data
The task of counting and announcing vote results from over 100,000 precincts across the country — mostly within a few hours — requires a massive operation that involves hundreds of thousands of poll workers, election officials and observers. We may think of a presidential election as a single nationwide contest, but how elections are administered varies across the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Even within states, different jurisdictions — counties, cities and so on — could have different administrative practices or logistics in the election process. In most of the country, counties run elections. In a handful of states, particularly in New England, cities or towns administer them. Nearly all of those jurisdictions provide multiple vote reports (updates to the vote count) on election night and in the following days. In the November 2020 election, NBC News received over 88,000 updates to its vote totals across 542 different races. More than 45,000 of those vote updates came before 2 a.m. ET on election night. From 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. ET that night, NBC News received just …
NEU votes to accept 5.5% pay rise for 2025
But leader Daniel Kebede calls for ‘major pay correction’ But leader Daniel Kebede calls for ‘major pay correction’ National Education Union (NEU) teachers have voted overwhelmingly to accept this year’s teacher pay award of 5.5 per cent. In a snap poll of serving teacher members in England’s state schools run between September 21 and 30, 95 per cent voted in favour of accepting the offer on a turnout of 41 per cent. The new government announced in July that it was accepting the recommendations of the School Teachers’ Review Body in full, and that schools would receive £1.2 billion to fund the increase. Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the NEU, said: “Our members should be proud of what they have achieved through a hard-fought campaign. “They have accepted this year’s pay deal, but the government should be in no doubt that we see it as just a first step in the major pay correction needed.” But he warned that “without a major pay correction to restore the competitiveness of teacher pay, the desire to tackle …
Will Gaza cost Labour votes in east London? The view from Ilford – video | General election 2024
In the run-up to July’s election, the Guardian video team will be touring the UK looking at the issues that matter to voters. In a week when an attack on a refugee camp in Rafah and the Labour party’s treatment of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen dominated the headlines, we spoke to voters in Ilford – North and South – who were protesting locally about Gaza. We asked whether these issues would make a difference to how they vote in the election, met canvassers getting behind independent candidates, and spoke to business owners about their political priorities Source link
Mexico votes in election certain to bring country’s first female president | Mexico
Mexican voters go to the polls on Sunday in an election that seems certain to deliver the country’s first female president – and may also give her party enough power in congress to change the constitution and rewire the democracy of Latin America’s second-largest economy. Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, has vowed to continue the policies of her populist predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who founded the Morena party and forged a bond with voters who had become disenchanted with democracy. Morena combines progressive and conservative policies in an unorthodox platform pulled together by the charisma of López Obrador and a discourse fixed on Mexico’s gaping inequality. It has proved a winning formula – and looks set to propel Sheinbaum to victory over Xóchitl Gálvez, the leading opposition candidate. Not just the presidency, but 20,000 other posts are up for grabs in Mexico’s biggest election ever. It takes place against a backdrop of violence and deepening criminal control of swaths of the country. Mexico has one of …
UN votes symbolically in favor of Palestinian membership
The results of a vote on a resolution for the UN Security Council to reconsider and support the full membership of Palestine into the United Nations is displayed during a special session of the UN General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York City on May 10, 2024. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Friday, May 10, to grant the Palestinians some additional rights in the global body, after their drive for full membership was blocked by the United States. “I have stood hundreds of times before at this podium, but never for a more significant vote than the one about to take place, an historic one,” Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said before the vote, his voice full of emotion. “The day will come where Palestine will take its rightful place among the community of free nations,” he added. Read more Subscribers only Israel vs the UN: A long history Israel reacted angrily, with its UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, saying the resolution made him sick. “With …
Singapore votes in favour of UN resolution supporting full Palestinian membership
The vote also represented Singapore’s “heartfelt desire to see both parties resume direct face-to-face negotiations in good faith”, he said. Reflecting on the “heinous” Oct 7 attacks by Hamas and Israel’s military response, which he reiterated had “gone too far”, Dr Balakrishnan said that the request to consider Palestinian membership had come at a “particularly difficult moment”. However, he said that the status quo was no longer enough, and that a “restart of diplomatic efforts” was needed. “Ideally, Palestine’s UN membership should have been considered when hostilities were ceased, when all civilian hostages were released, and when Israelis and Palestinians were back at the negotiating table,” he said. “But frankly, we are now so far from those conditions that Singapore and many other countries had to consider how our vote today would help lay the groundwork for an end to hostilities that would hopefully lead to an enduring peace. Or at the very least a return to the negotiating table to talk about how to get there. “The only viable solution – difficult as it …
Who votes for the European far right? And why? – POLITICO
As recent national elections in several European countries have shown, far-right voters no longer fit the stereotype of the angry, old white man, but now often include women, young people and even migrants. In this episode we unpack what drives voters to abandon the mainstream and more traditional party loyalties for the far right, and how poverty, or fear of it, motivates typical supporters of the AfD in Germany, Geert Wilder’s PVV in the Netherlands, or Chega in Portugal. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO reporters Hanne Cokelaere, James Angelos and Aitor Hernandez-Morales, who were recently dispatched to countries where far-right parties are gaining ground ahead of June’s European election. Later on we have a fascinating conversation with Catherine de Vries, professor of political science and dean of international affairs at Bocconi University in Milan. Her research focuses on how economic hardship and problems with public services such as schools, health care or transport can fuel the far right. Further reading: Germany’s far-right believers blame spy claims on ‘witch hunt’ by James Angelos Portugal’s …
Union Theological Seminary votes to divest from companies profiting from Gaza war
NEW YORK (RNS) — Union Theological Seminary’s board of trustees voted Thursday (May 9) to divest from all companies profiting off the war in Gaza. Union, a private, ecumenical school, shares a graduate studies program with Columbia University but is independent and maintains a separate, $127 million endowment, is the first U.S. institute of higher education known to divest from the war in Gaza. “We do it with humility and we do it with a sense of moral conviction,” said Union’s president, the Rev. Serene Jones. In November, Union’s board of trustees, which includes Jones, hired Cambridge Associates, a private investment management company, to review the seminary’s investment portfolio to identify companies that are financially invested in the war in Gaza. The board will now transition to selling its shares of the identified companies. “We have a very good investment committee who are completely, at a moral level, committed to seeing this through,” Jones said. In a statement after the trustees had approved the measure, they said, “With respect to companies that are profiting from …