56 m. ago People in France: share your views of Thursday’s nationwide strike

We’d like to hear from people across France about how they view Thursday’s strikesAround 800,000 people are expected to join marches across France on Thursday.French trade unions across many sectors from schools to transport have called for the nationwide strike to oppose unpopular budget plans. Continue reading...

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63 m. ago Camp Rock 3 confirmed but fans left ‘outraged’ as one huge star won’t be returning

A long-awaited threequel for the beloved Disney Channel franchise Camp Rock has been confirmed, with one big name missing from the cast list

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65 m. ago Trump UK visit live: President to meet Starmer after £150bn US investment in Britain unveiled

Talks come after King and president hailed ‘special relationship’ between US and UK at glittering state banquet in Windsor Castle

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77 m. ago Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of painThe face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdrawn, yet showing us an inexpressible agony, a suppressed, unprocessed trauma, complicated by what is evidently a new strategic wariness. The refugee is Hamid (played by Adam Bessa), a former literature professor from Aleppo who is now in Strasbourg in France in 2016, having suffered torture in Damascus’s notorious Sednaya prison, and the killing of his wife and infant daughter.Hamid asks expatriate Syrians if they know a certain man, showing them a hazy photograph, claiming that this is his cousin. In fact, it is a man who tortured him and Hamid is a member of a ring dedicated to tracking down Syrian war criminals all over Europe. Haunted, exhausted and unhappy, Hamid’s only real relationsh...

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91 m. ago British woman 'raped by French police officer' while drunk and handcuffed in van near Marseille

The 37-year-old victim is said to have been arrested by three policemen before being subjected to a horrific ordeal in the back of a patrol van

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94 m. ago French cop 'raped drunk Brit woman while she was handcuffed'

The 37-year-old British woman is said to have been arrested by three French police officers for public drunkenness before one allegedly assaulted her while she was handcuffed in Aubagne, France

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1 hour ago News | Yoo and Deutsche Finance to fund crucial increase in trains into £1.3 billion London Olympia site

News | Yoo and Deutsche Finance to fund crucial increase in trains into £1.3 billion London Olympia site  CoStar

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2 h. ago Migrants are 'making mockery' of UK law by blocking deportations, Home Secretary says

It comes after the UK-France migrant deal was temporarily blocked by a legal challenge from a man hours before he was due to be deported

Society

2 h. ago France faces day of strikes as disruption to hit travel, hospitals and schools

Unions continue to denounce Macron’s pension reform that raised the minimum retirement age from 62

Events

3 h. ago Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defence pact as regional tensions escalate

Deal with nuclear-armed Pakistan comes as Gulf Arab states worry about US reliability while Saudi official says pact isn’t responding to ‘specific events’Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a formal mutual defence pact in a move that significantly strengthens a decades-long security partnership amid heightened regional tensions.The enhanced defence ties come as Gulf Arab states grow increasingly wary about the reliability of the US as their longstanding security guarantor – concerns heightened by Israel’s attack in Qatar last week. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago SNP attacks MoD spending less per head in Scotland than south of England despite opposing munitions funding

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) spent £390 per capita north of the border in 2024-25 - compared to £1,120 in the South West of England.

Economics

5 h. ago France should have recognised Palestinian statehood years ago. The cynic in me asks: why now? | Rokhaya Diallo

Weakened domestically, Emmanuel Macron wants an international legacy. Yet still, he does nothing to sanction IsraelWhen Emmanuel Macron announced that France intended to recognise Palestinian statehood, he drew a furious rebuke from Israel – and caused a diplomatic storm with the US. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote a letter accusing the French government of failing to “confront the alarming rise of antisemitism” in France, adding the harsh and unequivocal assessment: “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire.”In the same letter, he praised Donald Trump’s action to “protect the civil rights of American Jews”.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

Politics

5 h. ago Gangster Ross McGill and crew of hoods snared in Dubai should be "banned from legal aid"

Former police chief and Labour MSP Graeme Pearson says people known to be involved in serious and organised crime should not be eligible for legal aid to fund any future criminal defences

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6 h. ago China’s ‘temple economy’ in the spotlight as scandals rock influential religious leaders

Powerful Buddhist monks who have previously escaped punishment are the latest target of the government’s crackdown on excess wealth and alleged corruptionFor a religious leader, the allegations were scandalous. Mistresses, illegitimate children, embezzlement. But in 2015, the head abbott of Shaolin monastery, the cradle of Zen Buddhism and kung-fu in China, was untouchable. Shi Yongxin, the so-called “CEO monk” who turned the 1,500-year-old monastery into a commercial empire worth hundreds of millions of yuan, held firm. Soon he was cleared of all charges.But 10 years later, the 60-year-old monk was not so lucky. In July, not long after Shi returned from a trip to the Vatican to meet the late Pope Francis, the Shaolin Temple released a statement saying that he was being investigated for allegedly misappropriating funds and for fathering illegitimate children with multiple mistresses. Less than a fortnight later he was dismissed and stripped of his monkhood. He has not been heard fro...

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8 h. ago Venezuela starts days of military and ‘electronic warfare’ drills after US strikes on alleged drug boats

Armed forces say ‘special naval militia’ involved in Caribbean deployment as defence minister cites ‘threatening, vulgar voice’ of WashingtonVenezuela says it has begun three days of military exercises on its Caribbean island of La Orchila as tensions soar amid US military activity in the region.Forces deployed for what Washington called an anti-drug operation have blown up at least two Venezuelan boats and a combined 14 people allegedly transporting drugs across the Caribbean this month – a move slammed by UN experts as “extrajudicial execution”. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Now the Home Secretary blasts lefty lawyers on Day 2 of Starmer's delicious human rights humiliation! Shabana Mahmood says migrants are 'making a mockery of our laws' as PM's 'one

Scheduled Air France flights to Paris from London Heathrow - one this morning and one this afternoon - departed with no Channel migrants aboard.

Society

10 h. ago Major report names Labour's 'best shot' at taking on Nigel Farage over small boats

A study by think-tank British Future called on Keir Starmer to pledge to cut small boat crossings by 75% in three years by adopting a 'bold' new strategy with France

Politics

10 h. ago The Scottish beauty spot named one of the 'best places to propose' in the world

It looks like the perfect spot to pop the question.

Politics

11 h. ago Starmer banks on £150bn investment to placate critics of Trump state visit

Prime minister seeks to make best of difficult state visit by US president with package of commitments by US firmsKeir Starmer has sought to navigate a politically treacherous state visit by Donald Trump with an announcement of £150bn of US investment in the UK, as the president was kept safely within the confines of Windsor Castle.As thousands of protesters voiced their anger in London at a Stop Trump Coalition protest, the US president was escorted by the king and queen through a first day that ended in a state banquet but kept him out of reach of his critics. Continue reading...

Economics

12 h. ago NYC mayor throws support behind bill to ban Central Park horse carriages

New York City’s mayor has thrown his support behind a proposal to end the horse-drawn carriages that have been fixtures in Central Park for more than 150 years, citing safety concerns

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