6 d. ago World's one country still asking travellers to do a COVID test before entering

While vaccine mandates and COVID passports may be a thing of the past, one country in Central Asia still requires all international visitors to undergo a COVID test upon arrival

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7 d. ago Kanye West barred from Australia after controversial 'Heil Hitler' song

Kanye West has been banned from entering Australia after the country's Immigration Minister revoked his visa following the release of his controversial song Heil Hitler

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9 d. ago Country singer Gavin Adcock issues uncensored warning to Beyoncé after slamming Cowboy Carter

Adcock complained that ‘Cowboy Carter’ was ahead of his music on Apple Music’s country chart

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1 week ago ‘Someone compared it to Bohemian Rhapsody’: Wookie on making UK garage classic Battle

‘We added a level of sophistication to garage. When we were trying to get it on the radio, one station said it was too intelligent and they wouldn’t play it’People say Battle reminds them of some really good years for Britain as a country. We were entering a new millennium, everyone was running their own business, making money and the underground record industry was thriving. I wanted to do a UK garage version of Southern Freeez, by the 80s UK funk band Freeez. Initially, Battle was going to be another instrumental, and then Lain, the singer, came in the room and goes: “Let me put something on this.” I was like: “I’m not sure it’s really a vocal song.” But Lain stacked the vocals, and someone compared it to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, with all the harmonies. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UK weather maps turn red as incoming heatwave to bring 38C highs

Britain will be hit with a number of heatwaves in the coming weeks, with temperatures rising to 38C in some areas of the country as we enter the first full week of July

Society

2 w. ago Brits trapped in Israel to be evacuated 'in hours not days' amid US attacks on Iran

The UK has been working on charter flights for Britons trapped in Israel with the airspace expected to reopen on Sunday afternoon so planes can safely enter the country

Politics

2 w. ago US strikes 3 Iranian nuclear sites, entering war alongside Israel

The United States has launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites early Sunday, entering Israel's war aimed at dismantling the country's nuclear program in a high-stakes move to weaken a longstanding adversary

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2 w. ago Banned from home for 40 years: deportations are Russia’s latest move to ‘cleanse’ Ukraine

A deal freezing frontlines would be unacceptable for Serhiy Serdiuk, who was taken to Georgia in handcuffs with his family after refusing to teach the Russian curriculumEarlier this year, Serhiy Serdiuk was deported from Russia, along with his wife and daughter. He was given a 40-year ban from re-entering the country.Serdiuk’s home town of Komysh-Zoria, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, was part of the territory occupied in the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion in spring 2022. According to Moscow, it is now part of Russia. And because Serdiuk, the headteacher of a local school, refused to work for the new authorities, they decided he had no place living there. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago America made a catastrophic mistake with the Iraq war. Is it about to repeat it in Iran? | Stephen Werthheim

If the United States joins Israel’s fight to try to finish Israel’s job, it will enter into a war of unknowable scope against a country of 90 million peopleTwo decades ago, as Americans debated whether their country should invade Iraq, one question loomed the largest: did Saddam Hussein possess weapons of mass destruction? If so, the implication was that the United States should disarm and overthrow his regime by military force. If not, Washington could keep that option in reserve and continue to contain Saddam through economic sanctions and routine bombings.In time, the implications of the Iraq war far exceeded the boundaries of the original debate. Saddam, it turned out, had no weapons of mass destruction. But suppose he had possessed the chemical and biological agents that the war’s advocates claimed. Invading his country to destroy his regime would have given him the greatest possible incentive to use the worst weapons at his disposal. The war would have been just as mistaken — ...

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2 w. ago How Trump’s deportation push created 1 million MORE undocumented people who entered the country

The administration’s own policies ‘de-legalized’ more than 1 million people now vulnerable for removal from the country

Politics

2 w. ago How Trump’s deportation push created 1 million MORE undocumented people

The administration’s own policies ‘de-legalized’ more than 1 million people now vulnerable for removal from the country

Politics

3 w. ago DHS to limit lawmaker access to ICE facilities after confrontations with Democrats

New rules come as Democrats have pushed to inspect immigration facilities amid Trump administration deportation push

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3 w. ago American finds himself stuck in Iran as all hell breaks loose during round

YouTuber Ian Andersen became stranded in Iran while on a a round-the-world cycling tour after entering the war-torn country prior to the conflict.

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last month High Seas Treaty gains momentum as 18 new countries pledge support

A wave of new ratifications during the U.N. Ocean Conference in France has brought the High Seas Treaty closer to the 60-country threshold needed for it to enter into force

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