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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says Putin agreed to ‘one-week ceasefire over Kyiv’ amid brutal cold
Trump says he 'personally' asked Putin to stop firing on Kyiv which has grappled with power shortages
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Trump says he 'personally' asked Putin to stop firing on Kyiv which has grappled with power shortages
Trump signs executive order ramping up pressure on Havana's oil supplies in wake of US abduction of Venezuela's Maduro.
The Chancellor had been expected to join Sir Keir on his 'historic' visit to Beijing this week after leading the charge in government for closer trade links with Beijing.
The Ming family ran scam compounds along the Chinese border with Myanmar in Shan state.
Jacob Frey accused the Trump administration of pursuing a ‘might is right’ policy and staging an ‘invasion’ of his city Jacob Frey, the embattled mayor of Minneapolis , has warned fellow mayors that their city will be next in line to be targeted by federal immigration agents unless they speak out against Donald Trump’s aggressive deployments. Addressing the US conference of mayors in Washington DC, Frey won loud applause as he accused the Trump administration of staging an “invasion” of his city and pursuing a “might makes right” philosophy, which he said was championed by Stephen Miller , Trump’s most powerful aide. Continue reading...
In the weeks before the deadly shooting, Pretti, 37, had violent skirmishes with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on at least two occasions.
Labour's Alun Davies said members are in a "legislative fog", with the bill facing more than 1,000 amendments in Westminster.
The incident is now being investigated as a ‘potential terrorist act’ but First Nations people say they are left feeling like ‘it’s not a big deal if it happens to Black people’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast When an object was thrown off a balcony into a crowded square in the heart of Perth’s main shopping mall, it did not register as a threat, with many thinking it was an empty coffee cup or a piece of rubbish. But police have since said the device, which was allegedly lobbed into the middle of an Invasion Day rally on Monday, was a homemade bomb had the potential to explode and injure or even kill “many people”. Continue reading...
South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon-hee has been jailed for taking bribes from the Unification Church, also known as the Moonies, while her husband Yoon Suk-yeol was in office.
Northeast Syria is rapidly changing hands, and with it the country's fragile balance of power.
Last summer she starred in a viral ad for the brand's jeans, which provoked a social media meltdown as frenzied critics compared it to 'Nazi propaganda.'
Major powers have renewed diplomatic links while others seek deals to deport migrants. And all the while gender repression is getting worse Afghanistan’s Taliban government has now issued its most extreme edict yet. It is already the only regime in the world where girls are excluded from secondary education. Now it has gone further, debarring all Afghan women from any contact with schools or education and doubling down on what has been rightly condemned as “ gender apartheid ”. This latest wave of repression, which is likely to be classified by United Nations legal authorities as a crime against humanity, marks the victory of the extreme Kandahar clerical faction over Kabul-based government ministers. It is also the latest step in the plan of supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada to erase girls and women from public life. Gordon Brown is the UN’s special envoy for global education and was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 Continue reading...
As senators refuse to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown, a partial shutdown is likely. For Democrats, it’s the right move Shut it down! It took not one but two killings of unarmed white American citizens by immigration enforcement agents for the Democrats to commit to withholding funds from the Department of Homeland Security, the agency of which Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the border patrol – the killers – are part. Continue reading...
Emergency pumps are deployed in attempt to stop water inundating homes around River Parrett ‘Like a sea out there’: flooded Somerset residents wonder how water can be managed Since medieval monks started draining and managing the Somerset Levels, humans have struggled to live and work alongside water. “At the moment it feels like a losing battle,” said Mike Stanton, the chair of the Somerset Rivers Authority. “Intense rainfall is hitting us more often because of climate change. It may be that in the next 50 years, perhaps in the next 20, some homes around here will have to be abandoned.” Continue reading...
The failed vice presidential nominee started 2026 trying to run for a third term as governor of the reliably Democrat-leaning state but said 'never again' to running for elected office.
Vincent Chan, 45, has admitted 30 new offences, including upskirting of children, in addition to 26 against toddlers at nursery A paedophile passed supposedly strict vetting to gain positions of trust in a primary school and then a nursery where he carried out a campaign of sexual offences in broad daylight against toddlers and young girls. The extensive offending history of Vincent Chan, 45, spanning over a decade, is emerging bit by bit as detectives go through digital material on his phones and other devices seized after his arrest in June 2024. Anyone affected can contact a National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children helpline on 0800 028 0828, between 8am to 8pm Continue reading...
Campaigners claim the involvement of an Israeli firm could provide a legal argument to block the planned development
When I arrived in the United States in the 1980s without a permanent visa, a German immigrant gave me work and a place to live. But little by little, the past caught up – with both of us
Math teacher Winston Nguyen is named in a lawsuit which states that the girls in the naked images were 13 when he first contacted them.
Pemex, burdened with significant debt, financial and operational constraints, now faces competition from Venezuelan oil.
Bystanders say they are determined to keep recording federal agents’ actions: ‘There will be absolutely no accountability unless people are documenting’ Brandon Sigüenza saw his first federal immigration agent just one minute before he was arrested by one. He and his friend, Patty O’Keefe, were following ICE officers in their vehicle after receiving an alert that agents were nearby. Soon after arriving to observe the scene, an agent approached their car and sprayed chemicals into the front vents, then began shouting. Continue reading...
Cheers erupt at each killing blow in an arena facing extinction after a landmark court ruling On the outskirts of Cartagena – far from the brightly coloured facades of the old city and the 500-year-old fortress walls overlooking the Caribbean – a crowd of about 300 people erupted into a roar. Given Colombians’ passion for football, it could have been the celebration of a goal. But the cheers followed the bloody climax of bout in a cockfighting ring whose white padded walls were now splattered with blood. Continue reading...
The Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Nigeria, Gholamreza Raja, has blamed the United States and Israel for the violence recorded in recent protests across multiple Iranian cities. The protests, triggered by economic concerns, saw thousands of Iranians taking to the streets to express their grievances from December 28, 2025. The protests continued […] US, Israeli agents behind deadly violence in Iran protests – Ambassador
Israeli Defence Forces reports on number of Palestinians killed for first time
Investors are spooked by an order on a 2018 stake sale and fear it could open up old transactions to tax scrutiny.
Exclusive: Union claims some offenders are deliberately breaking probation terms in order to deal drugs in jail Record numbers of offenders are being recalled to prison in England and Wales with union officials claiming that some are deliberately breaking the terms of their probation in order to deal drugs in prison. Prison sources said that after the implementation of early release schemes , as many as 5,000 men were recalled in December alone – more than a third of the total number released in the year to June 2025. Continue reading...
The financial power of Mojtaba Khamenei, the second eldest son of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, contrasts sharply with the thousands of impoverished protesters calling for change in Iran.
Xi Jinping's China is not Stalin's Russia and there is no bullet to the back of the head for rivals - at least not immediately - says IAN WILLIAMS.
Government accused of ‘running scared of voters’ as councillors step down in protest over delays
An invasion would likely start at the ‘red beaches’ – now among the most dangerous places on Earth
The ongoing anti-ICE protests in Minnesota after the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti isn't just a grassroots effort but also supported by big backers.
Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex The creators of a messaging app accused of handing user data to the Iranian regime live on a windswept hill in a British coastal town, the Guardian can reveal. Hadi and Mahdi Anjidani are the cofounders of TS Information Technology, established in 2010 and now registered at the address of a tax accountancy in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is the UK branch of an Iranian software corporation, Towse’e Saman Information Technology (TSIT). Continue reading...
Iran vowed a 'crushing response' to any attack after Donald Trump warned time was running out for a nuclear deal, as Hezbollah warned that a US attack will 'trigger a volcano in the region.'
Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor Among the new hires at CBS announced by Bari Weiss is a doctor who has claimed that he has reduced his biological age by 20 years with therapies including cold plunges; that cod liver oil can treat autism and that conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with the kind of nutritional supplements he also sells on his online store. Dr Mark Hyman, who has been called a “ germ theory denialist ” by medical author Harriet Hall , and has been brought on as a contributor in Weiss’s revamping of CBS’s news division. He is perhaps the most prominent exponent of so-called “functional medicine” (FM), an alternative medicine that oncological surgeon David Gorski has described as “ pure quackery ”. Continue reading...
From enriched uranium and ballistic missiles to sanctions and regional influence, the differences are many.
In the winter of despair, it was a day of the vile and a night of the obscene It was the worst of times and then even worse; it was the age of lies and then more lies; it was an epoch of preening and cowardice. In the winter of despair, it was a day of the vile and a night of the obscene. It was a tale of two films, one featuring the stark killing of a protester on a cold Minneapolis street and the other starring Melania Trump striking poses in a “documentary” shown at a private screening at the White House. Throughout the day of Saturday, 24 January, videos of the killing by ICE agents of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Veterans Administration hospital, on a street in Minneapolis were broadcast endlessly on TV news channels and seen by tens of millions online. The videos clearly showed Pretti with his phone in his hand, holding his hands up as he approached ICE agents who had pepper-sprayed a woman. He was coming to her aid, a Good Samaritan. The ICE agents instantly attacked him. One frame of a video shows one agent with his gun drawn, pointed at Pretti’s back as he fell hands still in the air. Agents appear to have shot him 10 times in five seconds. Continue reading...
A washed-up American comedian’s endorsement offers a window into Hungary’s central role in the global far right.
Analysis finds at least 150 channels on messaging app that are distributing AI-generated images and video Millions of people around the world are creating and sharing deepfake nudes on the secure messaging app Telegram, a Guardian analysis has shown, as the spread of advanced AI tools industrialises the online abuse of women. The Guardian has identified at least 150 Telegram channels – large encrypted group chats popular for their secure communication – that appear to have users in many countries, from the UK to Brazil, China to Nigeria, Russia to India. Some of them offer “nudified” photos or videos for a fee: users can upload a photo of any woman, and AI will produce a video of that woman performing sexual acts. Many more offer a feed of images – of celebrities, social media influencers and ordinary women – made nude or made to perform sexual acts by AI. Followers are also using the channels to share tips on available deepfake tools. Continue reading...
Projects this year expected to triple global gas capacity, forecast finds, as concerns grow over impacts on planet The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions , with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service artificial intelligence , according to a new forecast. This year is set to shatter the annual record for new gas power additions around the world, with planned and under-construction projects earmarked for 2026 set to nearly triple the amount of existing gas capacity, a report by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) found . Continue reading...
Video shows three Russian troops dressed in white military gear lying on the ground while a robot advances towards them, forcing the soldiers to stand up.
Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here’s what you need to know to navigate the trolling It started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it’s developed into a full-blown phenomenon, one academics are calling “slopaganda” – an unholy alliance of easily available AI tools and political messaging. “ Shitposting ”, the publishing of deliberately crude, offensive content online to provoke a reaction, has reached the level of “institutional shitposting”, according to Know Your Meme’s editor Don Caldwell. This is trolling as official government communication. And nobody is more skilled at it than the Trump administration – a government that has not only allowed the AI industry all the regulative freedom it desires, but has embraced the technology for its own in-house purposes. Here are 10 of the most significant fake images the White House has put out so far. Continue reading...
Photos show homes in Niscemi, a town in the southern part of the island, overhanging a precipice after large sections of the slope gave way on Sunday.
As Keir Starmer faces huge pressure to secure Jimmy Lai’s release during his visit to China, journalists in Hong Kong tell Shweta Sharma how the British media mogul’s conviction has all but declawed the city’s press
Sources familiar with discussions said Trump wanted to create conditions for 'regime change' after a crackdown crushed a nationwide protest movement this month, killing thousands.
And could a sudden deployment of major US naval and air force assets indicate a strike on Iran is imminent?
Donald Trump - along with his two eldest sons - is suing his own IRS and Treasury Department for $10billion over the leaking of his tax information to the media between 2018 and 2020
A White House spokesperson defended Gabbard’s involvement, saying she has a “pivotal role in election security.”
George is an avatar on my mobile but claims to know what makes me tick.
As the dust settles on the dramatic ousting of Nicolás Maduro, a high-stakes battle for the soul of Venezuela has emerged between two formidable women.