3 d. ago Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants

Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery driversA motorcycle rider out on a shopping trip was arrested and detained for a month as part of a high-profile government crackdown on undocumented migrants working for food delivery apps.Fernando Fontoura, 33, who moved from Portugal to the UK when he was 12, was arrested by immigration enforcement officers after he parked his motorbike near a grocery store in south-east London on 22 July. He was taken to a detention centre near Gatwick airport where he was held for 29 days. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on the killing of Gaza’s journalists: Israel wants to stop the world from seeing what it’s doing | Editorial

This is the most lethal war for the media in recent times. A generation of journalists is being wiped outDay by day, the death toll rises, the war crimes mount, and the outrage grows. Last Wednesday, the pope demanded that Israel stop its “collective punishment” of Gaza’s population. A day later, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, warned that “the levels of death and destruction are without parallel in recent times”. More than 500 UN staff have pressed the human rights chief, Volker Türk, to call it genocide. Half of registered voters in the US have already concluded that that is what Israel is doing in Gaza.The agony is deepening. On Friday, the Israeli military declared famine-hit Gaza City to be a combat zone, intensifying its assault and ending “tactical pauses” that allowed limited – if utterly inadequate – food delivery. Many inhabitants are physically incapable of fleeing again, and fear that they would be no s...

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4 d. ago Wisconsin meatpackers face labour shortage after Trump orders migrants home

Lack of workers will restrict economic growth and could push up prices at grocery stores, economists warn

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5 d. ago Rangers Europa League fixtures in full as dates for Roma showdown and box office Porto trip revealed

The Light Blues have enjoyed success in Europe's second tier competition over the years and will want to make another big push

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9 d. ago Go slow, brace your core and don’t let your hips sag: how to start push

‘The most underrated movement in fitness’ is a good way to assess general fitness. Experts share how you can get goingShare your stories of caregiving for your parents with your siblingsIf you want to show off how fit you are, you drop and do push-ups. That’s what happens on TV, anyway. In Top Gun: Maverick, buff fighter pilots do hundreds of push-ups on a hot tarmac. In the late 90s, Demi Moore wowed audiences by doing one-armed push-ups in the movie GI Jane, then again on David Letterman. Once, Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres competed to see who could do the most push-ups (Obama won).Are push-ups really worth the hype? According to fitness experts, absolutely. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘The most underrated movement in fitness’: how to do a proper push

According to experts, this basic exercise says a lot about one’s overall fitness level Share your stories of caregiving for your parents with your siblingsIf you want to show off how fit you are, you drop and do push-ups. That’s what happens on TV, anyway. In Top Gun: Maverick, buff fighter pilots do hundreds of push-ups on a hot tarmac. In the late 90s, Demi Moore wowed audiences by doing one-armed push-ups in the movie GI Jane, then again on David Letterman. Once, Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres competed to see who could do the most push-ups (Obama won).Are push-ups really worth the hype? According to fitness experts, absolutely. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’

After Ice’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay homeWhen Danielle Duran Zecca saw military-style immigration raids and people being snatched off the streets and put into unmarked vehicles in her native Los Angeles earlier this summer, she was in disbelief.“It just felt unreal like this wasn’t a world that we could be living in right now,” said Duran Zecca, a James Beard Award nominated chef and co-owner of Amiga Amore in Highland Park, a historically Latino neighborhood in north-east LA. “I didn’t know what to do, but I knew how to feed people and love on people because that is exactly how I was brought up in my family.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago DC food delivery drivers are being swept off the street in police crackdown: ‘Widespread fear amongst community members’

Washington, D.C. area restaurant workers report a decline in the number of delivery drivers taking orders in the city

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3 w. ago Grocery wars! Amazon expands food delivery to 1,000 cities in push to compete with Walmart

In 2024, Amazon raked in more than $100 billion in gross sales of groceries and household essentials — excluding Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh

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3 w. ago Amazon expands its perishable delivery service, putting pressure on traditional grocers

Amazon is now rolling out a service where its Prime members can order their blueberries and milk at the same time as their batteries and other basic items

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3 w. ago London luxury flats ban food delivery riders amid claims over ‘undocumented’ workers

London luxury flats ban food delivery riders amid claims over ‘undocumented’ workers  The Indian Express

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