1 hour ago Bruno Fernandes and Kobbie Mainoo injury latest as Man United face Newcastle

Manchester United were dealt a significant injury blow before their match against Newcastle United, as Bruno Fernandes was forced off against Aston Villa, while Kobbie Mainoo is a doubt.

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3 h. ago Amorim challenges Manchester United to ‘step up’ after Bruno Fernandes injury

‘It’s impossible to replace Bruno we need more leaders’United host Newcastle in Premier League on Boxing DayRuben Amorim has described Bruno Fernandes as “impossible to replace” but has told Manchester United’s players the captain’s injury is a chance for them to step up.Fernandes was forced off at half-time of Sunday’s loss at Aston Villa owing to a soft-tissue injury that will rule him out for a prolonged period. United host Newcastle in Boxing Day’s only Premier League fixture and Amorim was asked how he could compensate for Fernandes’s absence when the 31-year-old’s deputy, Kobbie Mainoo, is also injured. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Range Rover Evoque review: Classy SUV is not the force it once was, but still appeals

The Range Rover Evoque is somewhat forgotten these days, but it is still competitive in a sector packed with fresh-faced alternatives

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5 h. ago US and Ukraine edge closer to joint plan to end war – with Moscow’s response uncertain

Ukraine accepts principle of demilitarised zone in east, while insisting Russia make similar concessions in pulling back forcesWashington and Kyiv have edged closer to a jointly agreed formula to end the war in Ukraine amid continuing uncertainty over Moscow’s response and a number of unresolved issues.Revealing the latest status of the peace talks, brokered by Washington, Ukraine’s president, Volodmyr Zelenskyy, appeared to have secured several important concessions from earlier versions of the now slimmed-down plan after intense talks with the US negotiating team. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago ‘You sneak in and hope you make it back’: the Sudanese volunteers risking it all to bring care to millions

Members of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms network tell Guardian they didn’t mind missing out on the Nobel peace prize because ‘we only want to help’Doing good gets you killed in Sudan. It was why Amira did not tell her mother when she joined a volunteer group that felt like the only thing stopping her country sliding deeper into dystopia.Each morningshe secretly crossed the shifting frontline of Sudan’s North Kordofan state. Amira was entering territory held by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), paramilitaries who have committed countless war crimes, including genocide, during the country’s cataclysmic war. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Survivors of Tenerife fatal wave warn of dangers of sea pools

A family from Devon is raising awareness of the dangers of Tenerife’s natural pools after narrowly escaping a series of fatal waves.

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7 h. ago Rob and Michele Reiner died minutes after attack, says death certificate, as children announce memorial

Two of the couple’s children have said they are planning a memorial service for their parents, as further details are released about their cause of death earlier this monthNew details have emerged about the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, whose bodies were discovered on Sunday 14 December in their home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.Their death certificates have been released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, obtained by TMZ and reported by multiple US outlets. They record that Rob Reiner’s body was found at 15.45, and Singer Reiner’s at 15.46. The cause of death for both is given as “multiple sharp force injuries” with the circumstances described as “homicide” and “with knife, by another”. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Police rugby club appeal after man left with facial injuries

A Welsh police force has issued an appeal for anyone who was in the club at the time of the alleged assault to come forward

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10 h. ago Myanmar junta using ‘brutal violence’ to force people to vote in sham election, UN says

Prominent cultural figures have been handed harsh years-long prison sentences for questioning a state propaganda film

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10 h. ago Schoolgirl, 15, suddenly disappears near airport as cops urge ‘call 999 straightaway if you see her’

COPS have launched an urgent search for a missing schoolgirl who vanished days before Christmas. Miriam, 15, disappeared from her home in Birmingham on Tuesday, December 22. West Midlands Police has said it are worried for the girl's well-being. She was last seen in the Sheldon area of the city near Birmingham Airport. The force...

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11 h. ago Welsh rugby star forced to quit game reshapes his life in very different sport

David Bishop, who was part of the Ospreys' Galacticos, is now pursuing a career in a different sport

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13 h. ago Liverpool news: Arne Slot makes Hugo Ekitike demand as star blasted by manager

Liverpool survived a late scare to beat nine-man Tottenham 2-1 in their latest Premier League outing as they look ahead to a clash against bottom-side Wolves

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13 h. ago Barracuda, grouper, tuna – and seaweed: Madagascar’s fishers forced to find new ways to survive

Seaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo peopleAlong Madagascar’s south-west coast, the Vezo people, who have fished the Mozambique Channel for countless generations, are defined by a way of life sustained by the sea. Yet climate change and industrial exploitation are pushing this ocean-based culture to its limits.Coastal villages around Toliara, a city in southern Madagascar, host tens of thousands of the semi-nomadic Vezo people, who make a living from small-scale fishing on the ocean. For centuries, they have launched pirogues, small boats carved from single tree trunks, every day into the turquoise shallows to catch tuna, barracuda and grouper.A boat near lines of seaweed, which has become a main source of income for Ambatomilo village as warmer seas, bleached reefs and erratic weather accelerate the decline of local fish populations Continue reading...

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13 h. ago ‘Warning to others’: murky death of militia leader as Kremlin reasserts control

Reports that Stanislav Orlov was killed by Moscow security services highlights careful managing of non-state powerBeneath the frescoed ceilings and golden icons of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, hundreds of men packed tightly into the lower hall as priests intoned prayers for the dead. Dressed in dark winter jackets, the mourners on Monday filled one of Russia’s most sacred spaces – a church usually reserved for moments of state ritual and national commemoration. Later, near his grave, the crowd lit bright flares and shouted: “One for all, and all for one.”They had gathered to bid farewell to Stanislav Orlov, better known by his callsign “Spaniard”, the founder of the far-right Española unit – a formation of football hooligans and neo-Nazi volunteers who fought as a paramilitary force on Russia’s side in Ukraine. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Nickelodeon vet Tylor Chase checks into a hotel room with the help of a former costar after being found on the STREETS

Chase, 36, as a child star portrayed Martin Qwerly on 33 episodes of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide from 2004-2007.

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21 h. ago US moves more troops and special ops aircraft to Caribbean as Trump ramps up pressure in region: report

Osprey aircraft included in latest force deployment to Caribbean, which Trump claimed Monday is largest armada ever assembled in the region

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21 h. ago Celtic Boys Club abuse survivor ‘facing his last Christmas’ after fight for justice wiped years from his life

A CELTIC Boys Club abuse survivor told how his fight for justice wiped years off his life — as he prepares for his “last Christmas”. Doctors have given Gordon Woods, 71, less than three months to live due to chronic lung disease. We told how the ex starlet was preyed on by paedo coach Jim...

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22 h. ago Arsenal vs Crystal Palace live: Gunners frustrated in early stages of Carabao Cup quarter

Arsenal and Palace were meant to clash last week before fixture congestion forced the move

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22 h. ago Arsenal vs Crystal Palace live: Jesus nearly heads Gunners in front in Carabao Cup semi

Arsenal and Palace were meant to clash last week before fixture congestion forced the move

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24 h. ago The Guardian view on the festive season: a suffering world needs messages of peace, hope and goodwill | Editorial

The fracturing multilateral order has led to a new age of insecurity. But acts of courage and solidarity can point the way to a better futureIn one of his last sermons, the great Christian theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich asked: “Do we have a right to hope?” As an army chaplain to German forces during the first world war and a refugee from Nazi Germany, Tillich had witnessed first-hand some of the horrors of the 20th century. But his answer to the question he posed in 1965 was yes. Nobody could live without hope, Tillich told his Harvard audience, even if it led “through the narrows of a painful and courageous ‘in-spite-of’”.Sixty years on, a similar spirit of defiant optimism is needed to navigate our own era of conflict and anxiety. The fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is approaching, and dark political forces menace the social fabric of western liberal democracies. More widely, a fracturing multilateral order is delivering a more unstabl...

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