11 h. ago German president and wife thank King and Queen for ‘unbelievable’ state banquet

The Windsor Castle banquet featured many representatives from Germany’s business, cultural and sporting contributors to UK life.

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13 h. ago Eurovision holds crisis meeting over Israel: Competition at risk as countries threaten to quit if Jewish state is allowed to enter while Germany says it may walk if they ARE banned

The meeting at the European Broadcasting Union headquarters in Geneva will take place to discuss Eurovision rule change

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28 h. ago Banquet for King and Germany’s president held in shadow of Christmas tree

Windsor Castle’s St George’s Hall was decked out in festive colours for the feast.

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9 d. ago Anyone bringing Christmas Market gifts back to UK faces £5,000 fine

A list of popular gifts you might buy at a market in France, Germany, Italy or the rest of Europe are banned in the UK

Economics

1 week ago Nigel Farage responds to claims of 'racism and antisemitism' made by former classmates

The Reform leader responded to allegations that he made pro-Hitler jokes while at school in a tense TV interview

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2 w. ago No 10 calls on Farage to urgently address ‘disturbing allegations’ of past racist behaviour

Keir Starmer ramps up pressure on Reform leader, who has dismissed claims as ‘one person’s word against another’‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at schoolKeir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to urgently address multiple and detailed allegations of racist behaviour during his teenage years, as the Reform leader attempted to dismiss the claims as “one person’s word against another”.Pressure was put on Farage by the prime minister over what Downing Street said were “disturbing allegations” after the Guardian reported the testimony of more than a dozen school contemporaries, including an award-winning director who claimed to have been targeted with antisemitic abuse. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school

A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at schoolIt had been a fun sleep-over at Nigel Farage’s house and Jean-Pierre Lihou, a teenager with an appetite, was delighted with his schoolfriend’s mother’s hospitality. “I remember the fantastic cooked English breakfast, as opposed to what you get at a boarding house on a morning,” Lihou recalled. “I was a boarder and he was a day boy,” he said of their education at Dulwich college in south-east London.Farage was a great mimic, and funny with it, Lihou said. But, over time, he found that there was a darker side to his 14-year-old friend. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage denies claims of antisemitic behaviour as a schoolboy at Dulwich College

Nigel Farage has denied claims of racist and antisemitic behaviour while at Dulwich College

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2 w. ago Reform UK leader Nigel Farage showed racist and antisemitic behaviour at school, claim ex

‘The allegations are entirely without foundation – we expect cynical attempts to smear Reform to intensify closer to the election,’ says Reform UK

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2 w. ago ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations Portrait: Tom PilstonIt is the hectoring tone, the “jeering quality”, in Nigel Farage’s voice today that brings it all back for Peter Ettedgui. “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui says of his experience of being in a class with Farage at Dulwich college in south London.Ettedgui, 61, is a Bafta- and Emmy-winning director and producer whose credits include Kinky Boots, McQueen and Super/Man: the Christopher Reeve Story. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Smoking UFO falls out sky after huge bang as police search for mystery object

Several witnesses reported seeing a smoking UFO fall out of the sky in Germany after a huge bang. Police have been searching for the mystery object but have yet to find anything

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2 w. ago Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California

A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the Trump administration from immediately cutting funding to the University of California over claims the school system allows antisemitism and other forms of discrimination

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3 w. ago Former duchess's animal rights charity that claimed Lily Allen, Hugh Grant and Sting as followers spreads antisemitic conspiracies blaming 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and war in Ukraine

Farms not Factories, which campaigns against pig factories, has blamed 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine in its newsletters.

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3 w. ago Former duchess's animal rights charity that claims Lily Allen, Hugh Grant and Sting as followers spreads antisemitic conspiracies blaming 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and war in Ukraine

Farms not Factories, which campaigns against pig factories, has blamed 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine in its newsletters.

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3 w. ago Animal rights charity that claims Lily Allen, Hugh Grant and Sting as followers spreads antisemitic conspiracies blaming 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and war in Ukraine

Farms not Factories, which campaigns against pig factories, has blamed 'Zionists' for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine in its newsletters.

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4 w. ago German police detain man suspected of painting swastikas on cars and walls with his own blood – Europe live

Swastikas are banned in Germany under laws banning the public display of Nazi symbolsEU’s digital spokesperson Thomas Regnier said the European Commission “takes note of the decision taken in France” regarding the Chinese online retailer Shein (10:42), noting that the EU had already expressed similar concerns before.“We are in touch with Shein, but we will also be in touch today with the French authorities.I can confirm now, as we speak, that in the next two hours, [executive vice-president] Virkkunen will meet with the digital minister of France Anne le Henanff. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Germany bans one Muslim group and raids two others amid antisemitism claims

The government has accused the banned group of violating basic human rights

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