62 m. ago What unites Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine? Trump's immoral lies and Europe's chronic weakness | Simon Tisdall

The president’s inability to tell right from wrong fuels his increasingly dictatorial, illegal and erratic behaviour Donald Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading” claims during his first term, according to calculations published in 2021 by the Washington Post. That’s roughly 21 fibs a day. Second time around, he’s still hard at it, lying to Americans and the world on a daily basis. Trump’s disregard for truth and honesty in public life – seen again in his despicable response to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis – is dangerously immoral.Trump declared last week that the only constraint on his power is “my own morality, my own mind”. That explains a lot. His idea of right and wrong is wholly subjective. He is his own ethical and legal adviser, his own priest and confessor. He is a church of one. Trump lies to himself as well as everyone else. And the resulting damage is pernicious. It costs lives, harms democracy and destroys trust between nations.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign ...

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62 m. ago Venezuela: when will its wonders be open to travellers once again?

The Man Who Pays His Way: Tourism can help rebuild the beleaguered nation

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62 m. ago I live in desirable market town packed with indepedent shops and UK's oldest pub

The beautiful market town in Buckinghamshire is one of the most expensive places to live in the county, with celebrity residents and historic charm

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80 m. ago Iran protests latest: Trump briefed on ‘strike options’ as Iranian military tightens grip on protesters

Rights groups say at least 116 people have been killed since protests erupted in Iran

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2 h. ago The Golden Globes are tonight. Here's what to look for and how to watch and stream the show

The Golden Globes bill themselves as Hollywood’s booziest bash

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2 h. ago Nato silence on Trump’s Greenland threats rattles European allies

Military alliance yet to issue public statement asserting territorial integrity of Arctic island and kingdom of Denmark

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2 h. ago Trump’s assault on US defence industry puts investors on edge

President demands curbs to shareholder returns and pay but also holds out prospect of military spending bonanza

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2 h. ago Indian oil refiners see opportunity in Trump’s Venezuela action

Groups including Reliance stand to benefit as they seek low-cost alternative to sanctioned Russian supply

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4 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv struggles to stabilise ruined power grid after major Russian attack

Residents battle bitter winter cold inside unheated apartments; Ukraine confirms UN to hold emergency meeting Monday on Russian ballistic missile attack. What we know on day 1,418Engineers in Kyiv scrambled on Saturday to stabilise a power grid brought to the brink by a campaign of Russian strikes, including one two nights ago. The city’s residents huddled against bitter winter cold inside their unheated apartments on Saturday as engineers worked to restore power, water and heat. Prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that the power situation in the capital was still difficult, as the grid was badly damaged and people were using more electric heaters because of the cold.Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha confirmed Saturday the UN security council would hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss Russia’s latest large-scale attack on Ukraine, which used an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile. “The meeting will address Russia’s flagrant breaches of the UN Charter,” Sy...

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5 h. ago 'Remember me in your prayers': Bondi Beach hero suffers fresh health scare during US visit

The courageous man who disarmed one of the alleged gunmen in Sydney has had his health take a turn for the worse, suffering from "severe pain" while in the US as he seeks specialist treatment for gunshot wounds sustained in the December terror attack.

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5 h. ago Donald Trump 'orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland': US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation

Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

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6 h. ago US protests condemn ICE killing of Renee Good and ‘a regime that is willing to kill its own citizens’

In Philadelphia, protesters demanded ICE leave US communities and Trump end warmongering in VenezuelaOn a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. They differed slightly in solutions as well as crowd makeup – white older adults dominated the morning’s march organized by the groups behind the No Kings protests, while a more racially diverse crowd swathed in keffiyehs and N95 face masks led the afternoon’s, planned by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. However, both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to Donald Trump’s warmongering in Venezuela.“From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power,” said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winner is barred from giving her trophy to Trump despite arguing 'he deserves it'

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has declared it impossible for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to give the Nobel Peace Prize over to Donald Trump.

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6 h. ago US could ease sanctions on Venezuela next week, says Bessent

Trump is seeking to convince sceptical US oil companies to invest in Latin American nation after overthrow of Maduro

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7 h. ago Too big for his boots? Marco Rubio wears new shoes in the White House ordered for him by Donald Trump

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were both pictured wearing the formal Oxford shoes gifted to them by President Trump, even if they were several sizes too big.

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7 h. ago Chelsea: Liam Rosenior explains Cole Palmer absence from FA Cup win amid worrying three

Reece James and Malo Gusto are also on the treatment table

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8 h. ago Tina Peters clemency being considered by Colorado governor, report says

Trump claimed to pardon Tina Peters in December, but it does not affect her state conviction since presidential pardons only apply to federal crimes

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8 h. ago Donald Trump's 'plan to attack Iran' as he warns regime will be 'hit hard'

US President Donald Trump has sent a warning message to Iran and threatened that his military could "hit very hard," as the country is hit by continued protests and deaths

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8 h. ago Trump warns Tehran that US ‘stands ready to help’ Iranian protesters as regime crackdown intensifies

The US president issued a statement as Iran’s clerical regime claimed to have arrested 100 ‘armed rioters’

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9 h. ago Virginia man pleads not guilty to charges in DC pipe bomb case

A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021

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