14 h. ago WW3 fears ramp up as Putin mouthpiece says 'strike on British in inevitable'

A mouthpiece for Mad Vlad Putin has unleashed a fresh threat to Europe in a chilling TV address. The latest rant from the key Kremlin ally comes as Brits have been warned to prepare for conflict

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14 h. ago WW3 fears ramp up as Putin mouthpiece says 'strike on Britain is inevitable'

A mouthpiece for Mad Vlad Putin has unleashed a fresh threat to Europe in a chilling TV address. The latest rant from the key Kremlin ally comes as Brits have been warned to prepare for conflict

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19 h. ago WW3 fresh alert as Putin ally reveals chilling list of European targets

A mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin has unleashed a fresh threat to Europe in a chilling TV address

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21 h. ago WW3 fears ramp up as Putin's pal lists Europe targets and warns 'don't blame us'

A mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin has unleashed a fresh threat to Europe in a chilling TV address. The latest rant from the Kremlin ally comes as Brits have been warned to prepare for conflict

Events

35 h. ago Horror 'lumpy skin disease' spreads across Europe as threat to Britain explained

Mass culls to stop the spread of lumpy skin disease have sparked clashes between farmers and police in France - the UK government has brought in a ban on cheeses to stop the virus crossing the Channel

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41 h. ago Defending Europe's eastern flank is an 'immediate priority' with Russia 'a threat today, tomorrow and the foreseeable future', EU leaders declare

Defending Europe's eastern flank is an 'immediate' priority for the European Union in the face of the threat posed by Russia, eight EU leaders meeting in Helsinki said today.

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55 h. ago Britain faces lost decade after Reeves Budget failed to shift growth dial, say London bosses

They are setting up their own Growth Commission to identify measures to boost London firms and the UK economy

Economics

3 d. ago Britain’s new spy chief warns of acute threat to Europe from Vladimir Putin's 'aggressive' regime

Blaise Metreweli also says the ‘defining challenge’ of the 21st Century is not which nation has the most powerful technologies but who uses them with the ‘greatest wisdom’

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4 d. ago Can you imagine raising a kid without ChatGPT? Sam Altman can’t | Arwa Mahdawi

The OpenAI CEO gushed about the bot’s parental-assistance abilities. Is it really his best child-rearing hack?Just how does he do it all? Every time I look at the news, Sam Altman’s face seems to be staring back at me. The CEO of OpenAI, a well-known workaholic, is constantly in the public eye explaining how AI will probably cure cancer and transform the social contract and generally change the world. While doing all that he’s reportedly gearing up for OpenAI to file for a stock market listing valuing the company at $1tn, as soon as next year. And he’s also a new dad: Altman and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, welcomed their first child into the world in February. So he’s got a lot on his plate.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Donald Trump wants a Europe in chaos – a sure sign for Britain to shore up its democracy | Polly Toynbee

With the US threatening to support ‘patriotic’ parties here, we need better defences, starting with tough new rules about political donationsThe new threat is so dizzyingly bizarre that Europe, and especially Britain, is slow to believe it. The US declares itself our enemy. Europe emerges as its main adversary in the US national security strategy. Russia is its friend, not us. Everything that looked solid since the second world war is turned upside down; the land of the free becomes the destroyer of democratic values. Appeasement fails.He may ramble, but Donald Trump speaks plainly. He means what he says, and he hates everything European. Except its emerging “patriotic” parties, which he wants to support. His strategy warns of “civilizational erasure”, claiming Europe will soon “become majority non-European” and parroting the racist conspiracy known as the great replacement theory. Describing Europeans as “weak”, “decaying” and “destroying their countries”, with “real stupid” leader...

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6 d. ago NATO chief warns war with Russia 'is at our door' and tells Europe to be ready for action 'now' to avoid battle on scale 'our grandparents and great

In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel the urgency of Russia's threat in Europe.

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7 d. ago Found another black hole, Chancellor? Reeves says she 'reserves the right' to hammer Britain with MORE taxes as she is grilled by MPs over Budget lies scandal

Rachel Reeves pointedly refused to repeat the explicit guarantee she gave - and then broke - in the wake of her first eye-watering raid last year.

Economics

7 d. ago Russia issues WW3 threat to UK and reveals what would lead Putin to attack

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has revealed what could trigger Russia to 'go to war with Europe' in a thinly-veiled threat to the UK

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8 d. ago The Guardian view on Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance | Editorial

The White House is aggressively seeking to weaken and dominate the United States’ traditional allies. European leaders must learn to fight back.Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street on Monday was so hastily arranged that Mr Macron needed to be back in Paris by late afternoon to meet Croatia’s prime minister, while Mr Merz was due on television for an end-of-year Q&A with the German public.But diplomatic improvisation alone cannot fully answer Donald Trump’s structural threat to European security. The US president and his emissaries are trying to bully Mr Zelenskyy into an unjust peace deal that suits American and Russian interests. In response, the summit helped ramp up support for the use of up to £100bn in frozen Russian assets as collateral for a “reparations loan” to Ukraine. European counter-proposals for a ceasefire will ...

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8 d. ago Britain runs out of patience with Labour: Poll finds proportion saying government taxes and spends too much is at a six

YouGov research found 45 per cent believe the burden of the state is too great, while a fifth thought taxes and spending was too low.

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9 d. ago Moscow praises Trump's new 'national security strategy' which warns mass migration will leave Europe 'unrecognisable within 20 years' and does not cast Russia as a threat

The Kremlin publicly embraced the sweeping 33-page report, which outlines the US president's vision for the world and sets out dramatic changes to American priorities.

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1 week ago It’s still not OK boomer: younger Americans are flailing – and mad as hell | J Oliver Conroy

For young Americans, not being able to buy a house is more than a sob story. It’s the symbol of a broken social contract and a generational betrayalAlmost every couple that I know in their 20s, 30s or even 40s has had the same argument with their parents before getting married.The parents say to open a wedding registry. The couple responds that they do not want one. They don’t expect gifts from wedding guests (their “presence is enough”), and they have been cohabiting for years and already have plates, bedsheets and a blender. In fact, since they live in a small rented apartment, they barely have room for the plates that they do have – let alone a set of china. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump warns European nations are under threat of 'civilisational erasure' and will be 'unrecognisable' within the next 20 years

Donald Trump has warned European nations that they are under threat of 'civilisational erasure' and will be 'unrecognisable' in the next 20 years. 

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1 week ago Donald Trump LIVE: President warns Europe under threat of 'civilisational erasure'

Donald Trump and his administration have claimed Europe faces total cultural unravelling in the new US National Security strategy

Events

1 week ago WW3 threat as Russian minister declares 'war with Europe is inevitable'

As tensions rise between Russia and the West, one minister has declared that Europe is gearing up to take on Russia, and is "deliberately" preparing for war, a move the Kremlin says it is ready for

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