53 h. ago UK's plan to send just one military member to Greenland 'sounds like bad action movie'

Soldiers, ships, and aircraft from Denmark and four other NATO allies are heading to Greenland after Trump threatened to take over the island - but the UK is sending just one officer

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4 d. ago Tottenham send new message on transfer plans as Fabio Paratici exit confirmed

Spurs insist it will be ‘business as usual’ despite departure of transfer guru

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6 d. ago One look at my baby’s dungarees was all it took to give me the rage

Why should he, an eight-month-old boy, have more pockets on his clothes than I do?There’s much about becoming a new mother that could be filed under “maddening”. The phrase “sleep when the baby sleeps”. The way people stop asking how you are, instead only asking after the baby. The sheer volume of unsolicited advice – some barbed, some so painfully obvious it’s borderline offensive, and all of it totally inescapable. (I suppose I could try living on a desert island, though no doubt someone would send a plane to skywrite: “They’re probably just hungry!”)But it was while doing the laundry last week that I found something truly unhinged. I was sorting my infant son’s clothes from mine when I noticed that he had more pockets on his clothes than I did. What exactly does an eight-month-old need with a tiny pocket? Is he supposed to keep something in there? A dummy? Bits of rice cake? All the sleep he’s stolen from me (in which case he’d need a bigger pocket)? Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump DOES send planes over British Greenland after locals warn President to stay away

The US has sent war planes to John O'Groats airport, just a stone's throw from Greenland in Scotland. Pictures of the aircraft emerged just hours after worried residents warned Trump against invading their village.

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1 week ago Oil price falls after Trump says Venezuela will send supply to US – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Brent crude drops back to $60 a barrelVenezuela ‘turning over’ $2bn in oil to US, Trump says, in move that could cut supply to ChinaDonald Trump’s “gunboat diplomacy” in Venezuela shows that securing access to critical natural resources such as oil is now a key priority for Washington, say analysts at Unicredit.They point out, in a note to clients, that the toppling of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marked a decisive break with the rules‑based international order, ushering in a more assertive, America‑First form of hegemony across the western hemisphere.Given that China was the main buyer of smuggled Venezuelan oil and is Caracas’s principal creditor, the move is clearly intended to send a strong signal to Beijing, which has ambitious plans in South America, particularly in resource‑rich countries such as Peru.In 2023, China and Venezuela formalised an “all‑weather strategic partnership”. Beijing also used oil trade...

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2 w. ago Expect turbulence! Plans to flatten airfield to make way for 4,250 homes in Jane Austen country send pilots into spin

Pilots at Popham Airfield are furious over proposals to turn their cherished land in Jane Austen country into a 'garden village'.

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3 w. ago Aqib Fiaz plans to send rival to Misfits ahead of domestic dust

The British boxing star faces a tough challenge in Jordan Flynn next month in Manchester, but has brutally vowed to destroy his bitter rival

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3 w. ago Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman 'are planning boozy New Year wrap party to celebrate their Strictly send

The pair left Strictly over the weekend after working on the show for 21 years

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3 w. ago First asylum seekers expected to arrive in East Sussex barracks in new year

Government has vowed to end use of asylum hotels and plans to send first men to Crowborough site within weeksThe Home Office plans to send the first group of asylum seekers to a military site in East Sussex in the new year, the Guardian understands.Discussions in Whitehall are under way to use Crowborough army training camp within weeks as part of efforts to end the use of hotels for asylum accommodation. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago 'Fake' Andrew Tate was stopped in first round and accused of lying

Tate makes his Misfits Boxing debut on Saturday night, and a former rival did not mince his words when previously asked to share his thoughts about the controversial influencer

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