3 h. ago Full list of New Year's Eve events cancelled in major cities over safety fears

New Year's Eve celebrations are being scrapped around the world due to various safety concerns, from crowd crushes to natural disasters, with major cities including Sydney, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong affected.

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3 h. ago Blind psychic Baba Vanga's prophecy reveals the exact year of humanity's 'absolute doomsday'

A blind psychic not only claimed to predict the end of humanity and the universe, but also laid out a detailed timeline of how it will happen.

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13 h. ago Famed Peruvian psychics predict 'serious illness' for Donald Trump, warn of natural disasters and foresee global wars in annual New Year's fortune telling ritual

As well as Trump and Maduro, shamans waved posters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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14 h. ago UK needs to brace for attacks and widespread power cuts, according to psychic

A psychic who claims to be able to foresee what's to happen with celebrities, global leaders, and world events has issued a warning about what could be in store for the UK

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3 d. ago 'Living Nostradamus' says 'major event' will rock Royal Family soon

Athos Salome, also known as the 'Living Nostradamus', has claimed to have foreseen a number of significant global events with eerie accuracy — and he's not done yet as he looks to the royals

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5 d. ago King Charles praises bravery in the face of Bondi beach and Manchester synagogue attacks in Christmas message

Charles also celebrated the “Second World War values of courage and sacrifice” in his annual festive address to the nation

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6 d. ago King Charles to pay tribute to Britain’s war veterans in Christmas message

The King is expected to reflect on the heroics of Britain's war veterans in his annual Christmas message this year, which he has chosen to record at Westminster Abbey.

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7 d. ago US supreme court blocks Trump bid to deploy national guard to Chicago

In a 6-3 decision, the high court sided with a lower court ruling that blocked deployment of troops to the Illinois cityThe US supreme court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send national guard troops to the Chicago area, in an important reining-in of the US president’s efforts to expand the use of the military for domestic purposes in historic moves against a growing number of Democratic-led jurisdictions.The nation’s highest court denied the US justice department’s request to lift a judge’s order in October that has blocked the deployment of hundreds of national guard personnel in a legal challenge brought by Illinois state officials and local leaders, who had opposed any federalization of those troops to offer backup to immigration enforcement. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago King Charles Christmas message to pay heartfelt tribute to greatest generation

The King is expected to reflect on the heroics of Britain's war veterans in his annual Christmas message this year, which he has chosen to record at Westminster Abbey

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9 d. ago Top economists call for halt to Sri Lanka debt repayments after Cyclone Ditwah

Group of 120 experts including Joseph Stiglitz urge fresh debt restructuring plan given scale of destructionA group of the world’s top economists – including the Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz – have called for Sri Lanka’s debt payments to be suspended as it tackles the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah.More than 600 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed across the island, in what Sri Lanka’s president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, called the “largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Baba Vanga's predictions that came true in 2025 and what she got wrong

Baba Vanga, a blind Bulgarian mystic credited with foreseeing major world events, made several predictions for 2025 covering natural disasters, AI breakthroughs and political unrest

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1 week ago US military to stop shooting live animals to train medics for the battlefield

Defense department will still allow stabbing and burning, and ‘weapon wounding’ on animals to test weaponsThe US military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise made obsolete by simulators that mimic battlefield injuries.The prohibition on “live fire” training that includes animals is part of this year’s annual defense bill, although other uses of animals for wartime training will continue. The ban was championed by Vern Buchanan, a Republican congressman from Florida who often focuses on animal rights issues. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Donald Trump says Venezuela ‘illegally took’ US oil and ‘we want it back’ – live

President tells reporters that Venezuela ‘took all of our energy rights’ in latest ramping up of rhetoricFour Republicans join Democrats to force vote on bill that would extend Obamacare subsidiesThe Donald Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, will soon make his first appearance before Congress since sparking an uproar with comments seen as pressuring ABC to temporarily pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel from the air.ABC indefinitely suspended Kimmel’s show over statements he made following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which prompted Carr to say that he wanted broadcasters to “take action” on Kimmel, and: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’

Exclusive: UK government’s ‘naive belief’ that Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’, says health select committee chair Ministers and senior MPs have warned that the UK’s agreements with Donald Trump are “built on sand” after the Guardian established that the deal to avoid drug tariffs has no underlying text beyond limited headline terms.The “milestone” US-UK deal announced this month on pharmaceuticals, which will mean the NHS pays more for medicines in exchange for a promise of zero tariffs on the industry, still lacks a legal footing beyond top lines contained in two government press releases. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘The inevitable has happened’: Bondi beach attack follows rise in antisemitic incidents

Australia recorded 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents in year to September – three times higher than any annual total before Gaza warShortly after the mass shooting targeting Australia’s Jewish community on Sunday, Rabbi Levi Wolff of Central Sydney Synagogue told reporters that “the inevitable has happened now”.Wolff was speaking in Bondi, close to where two men armed with powerful rifles or shotguns had just attacked an event celebrating Hanukah, the Jewish religious festival. At least 12 were killed, including one alleged gunman, and dozens were injured in Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in almost three decades. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Church nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids

Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates

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3 w. ago Lawmakers warn Trump administration against heavily redacting ‘Epstein files’

They fear justice department could seek to withhold sections of documents as deadline approaches

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3 w. ago North Korea’s secret police crack down on officials’ wives consulting fortune tellers and taking part in 'rituals'

Kim Jong Un's secretive state is monitoring the measures wives are taking as they fear their husbands could lose positions of favour in the typical end-of-year reshuffle

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3 w. ago North Korea’s secret police crack down on fortune tellers and taking part in 'rituals'

Kim Jong Un's secretive state is monitoring the measures wives are taking as they fear their husbands could lose positions of favour in the typical end-of-year reshuffle

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3 w. ago Why small farmers can’t fix our hunger problem | Cassandra Loftlin

Big farmers grab the lion’s share of US government support, and recent cuts have chipped away at small growers’ markets and marginsThe most significant food system failure since the pandemic was not a natural disaster: in October, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) was temporarily suspended for the month of November due to the government shutdownMore than 40 million people had to ration food, skip meals and make sacrifices we might associate with the Great Depression, not 21st-century America. Churches, community groups and neighbors sprang into action. They checked on single moms juggling multiple jobs, elderly friends living alone, people with disabilities and large families with children too young for school lunch programs. And though food stamps were restored, the Trump administration is now threatening to pull Snap funds from Democratic-led states. Continue reading...

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