2 d. ago Qatar prime minister says $400m gifts are ‘normal’ between friends, following Trump jet criticism

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani dismissed accusations that the move was being used by Qatar to curry favor with the president and his administration to seek benefits for the country

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3 d. ago Donald Trump accuses Joe Biden's staff of 'not telling facts' about cancer diagnosis

Donald Trump questioned how doctors failed to diagnose former US President Joe Biden with advanced prostate cancer until after he had left office, pointing the finger at his staff for 'not telling the facts'

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5 d. ago Biden ‘failed this country’ by seeking second term, says Beto O’Rourke

Ex-Texas representative, who lost gubernatorial election to Greg Abbott, joins Democrats lambasting former presidentJoe Biden “failed this country in the most important job that he had” by deciding to run for another term as US president before dropping out of the election that returned Donald Trump to the White House, where he has unflinchingly assaulted democratic norms, the former representative Beto O’Rourke said recently.“We might very well lose the greatest country that this world has ever known,” the Texan who has unsuccessfully run for the presidency and his state’s governorship said on Pod Save America. “And it might be in part because of the decision that Biden and those around him made to run for re-election.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Original Sin: book on Biden’s health decline reopens Democratic party’s wounds

The book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson presents a scathing account of a president cocooned from reality – and fuels questions about his role in the partyGeorge Clooney “felt a knot form in his stomach” as a frail and diminished Joe Biden approached him, apparently failing to recognise one of the most famous actors in the world. “George Clooney,” an aide eventually clarified for the US president. “Oh, yeah!” Biden said. “Hi, George!”The excruciating encounter at a glitzy Los Angeles fundraiser last June is one of several damning anecdotes contained in Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, an upcoming book by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Beto O’Rourke says Joe Biden ‘failed this country’ amid revelations of former president’s decline in office

Texas Democrat says ‘credibility problem is going to persist up until when Democrats say ‘we f***** up’’

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6 d. ago Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret Sullivan

A new book has fueled controversy over press handling of the ex-president’s decline. But that distracts from a bigger problemWith a new book out about Joe Biden’s failed re-election campaign, a media reckoning is in full swing.It goes something like this: mainstream journalism failed the voters. Reporters were complicit; they didn’t tell us how much the elderly president had declined. They didn’t dig beneath the surface of what Biden aides were doing as they covered up the physical and cognitive decline of the leader of the free world.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Hungary considering law to ban groups seen as threat to national sovereignty

Opposition warns that planned legislation would allow government to shut down all independent media and NGOs Hungary’s parliament is considering legislation that would give authorities broad powers to monitor, penalise and potentially ban organisations it describes as a threat to national sovereignty, in a move that opposition politicians warned would allow Viktor Orbán’s government to potentially shut down all independent media and NGOs engaged in public affairs.The bill, submitted late on Tuesday by a lawmaker in Orbán’s rightwing populist Fidesz party, seeks to expand the authority of the country’s controversial sovereignty protection office. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Hungary considering law to monitor and ban groups seen as threat to national sovereignty

Opposition has warned legislation would allow government to shut down all independent media and NGOs Hungary’s parliament is considering legislation that would give authorities broad powers to monitor, penalise and potentially ban organisations it describes as a threat to national sovereignty, in a move that opposition politicians warned would allow Viktor Orbán’s government to potentially shut down all independent media and NGOs engaged in public affairs.The bill, submitted late Tuesday by a lawmaker in Orbán’s rightwing populist Fidesz party, seeks to expand the authority of the country’s controversial sovereignty protection office. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kenyan migrant allowed to stay in Britain thanks to 'typo riddled' document

The married asylum seeker, who was granted anonymity, fled the African country in 2018 after her family discovered she was having an affair with a woman.

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1 week ago Germany bans the largest 'Reich citizen' group and raids leaders' homes

The German government has banned the largest “Reich citizen” group, an extremist far-right organization that calls itself the “Kingdom of Germany” and seeks to undermine the country’s democratic order

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1 week ago UK faces legal challenge over asylum seekers’ deportations to Bulgaria

Deportees face inhumane treatment and torture, say lawyers contesting Labour’s migration policyThe UK government’s migration plans are facing an imminent challenge this week, with lawyers seeking to overturn deportations to Bulgaria due to allegations of brutal conditions faced by migrants and asylum seekers in the country.There have been more than 24,000 returns – both enforced and voluntary – from Britain since Labour’s election victory in July 2024, according to government figures. More than 200 people were returned to Bulgaria in 2024. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The migrant hotel that has turned a quiet country idyll upside down: Locals complain loitering asylum seekers ask for cash and even peer through our windows

The Sandpiper Hotel, just outside historic Chesterfield in rural Derbyshire, has been used to accommodate asylum seekers for around two years.

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2 w. ago The migrant hotel that has turned a quiet country idyll upside down. Locals complaine loitering asylum seekers ask for cash and even peer through our windows

The Sandpiper Hotel, just outside historic Chesterfield in rural Derbyshire, has been used to accommodate asylum seekers for around two years.

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