2 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv incensed as UN’s Guterres ‘to meet Putin’ in Russia

Secretary general did not immediately confirm trip which Ukrainian foreign ministry says ‘damages UN reputation’; two dead in Zaporizhzhia attack. What we know on day 972See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...

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3 hours ago UK announces £2.26 billion loan for Ukraine using frozen Russian asset funds

The funds represent the UK’s share of a $50 billion (£38.39 billion) loan package agreed upon by the G7 nations, financed through interest generated from sanctioned Russian sovereign assets

Economics

3 hours ago UK’s £2.26bn loan for Ukraine ‘can help turn the tables on Putin’s war machine’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Defence Secretary John Healey announced the move, which will be funded by profits on frozen Russian assets.

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3 hours ago Meghan Markle's 'weapon in her back pocket' revealed as she's set to to unleash 'royal revenge'

Meghan Markle could be set to follow in her husband Prince Harry's footsteps by releasing a tell-all memoir about her time in the Royal Family, according to a royal expert

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6 hours ago Strictly's Nikita Kuzmin breaks down in tears as he recalls his nan's escape from war

Strictly Come Dancing star Nikita Kuzmin could not hold back his tears while at the Pride Of Britain Awards as he remembered the kind act that helped his nan escape the Ukraine

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7 hours ago 'Incredibly dangerous' sex offender tried to speak to girl, 9, and kept child abuse images

'Even after their initial arrest and charge, Danvers continued to offend

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7 hours ago Oleksandr Zinchenko: ‘We need to stick together to bring peace in Ukraine, we cannot give up’

Full-back opens up on the difficulty of following the war back home from overseas and positive lessons at Arsenal and Manchester City“To become a professional football player from the place where I was born and raised was almost impossible. It was super, super tough,” Oleksandr Zinchenko says as his eyes widen and we consider how far he has come from his small home town of Radomyshl in northern Ukraine. “We didn’t have many facilities and we trained only twice a week, for one game, and this is not the way to become a professional. It was a pure joy to play and train with my local team but I was always wanting more. My mother said she saw the fire in my eyes to make it.”We sit in a light and airy room on a beautiful autumn afternoon in Hampstead. In Ukraine, as a deva...

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8 hours ago Second wave of prisoners to get early release despite fears sex offenders included

Former home secretary Priti Patel has called for the early release scheme to be suspended after fears that sex offenders and violent criminals are being let out

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8 hours ago The Guardian view on foreign powers in Sudan: struggling for advantage while civilians starve | Editorial

The role of the United Arab Emirates in fuelling the war is under the spotlight. But other countries too are exacerbating the deadly conflictThe often denied but obvious involvement of foreign powers in Sudan’s deadly civil war is now firmly in the spotlight. Tens of thousands of people, including many civilians, have been killed since it began last April. Now, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has accused the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) of bombing its ambassador’s residence in Khartoum, causing “extensive damage”. The SAF denied it, claiming that last month’s strike was the work of the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), backed by the UAE.What’s not in doubt is that both sides are committing war crimes and that they are able to do so because foreign governments are supporting t...

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9 hours ago North Korean arms more significant than troops in Russia’s war against Ukraine

Intelligence builds that members of Pyongyang’s special forces are in Russia preparing for combat as munitions are also shippedUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got to the point in his presidential address last night: “Another state,” he said, was “joining the war against Ukraine”. He was referring to the growing intelligence that shows elite soldiers from North Korea are in Russia preparing to join what has become a fight that, in effect, extends all the way across Asia.The effect will be greater than the numbers believed to be involved. On Friday, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported that 1,500 members of Pyongyang’s special forces had crossed the border to Vladivostok in Russia’s far east to begin training and some degree of participation in the war in U...

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