7 h. ago Indonesia’s president heard on hot mic asking Trump if he can meet son Eric

The request from Prabowo Subianto at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt comes as the Trump Organisation is set to open new properties in IndonesiaIndonesian president Prabowo Subianto has been heard on a hot mic asking Donald Trump if he can meet with the president’s son Eric, as the leaders gathered in Egypt for a summit aimed at securing a lasting peace in Gaza.Prabowo appeared to be unaware that a live microphone was recording his conversation as he spoke to the president and referenced a region that is “not safe, security-wise”. He then asks Trump: “Can I meet Eric?” Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Trump’s private conversation with Indonesian president about son Eric caught on mic

It was not clear in the audio whether the two were referencing the Trump Organization or any business deals involving the president or his family.

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13 h. ago Hot mic catches Indonesian president asking Donald Trump for unusual introduction

The conversation took place at the Gaza Summit in Egypt on Monday, which was led by Trump as he invited world leaders to discuss his plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

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41 h. ago The Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime | Editorial

A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each otherAfter a quarter-century of existence, the global triumph of Monkey D Luffy – a fresh-faced and rubber-bodied pirate captain – had seemed almost complete. The One Piece manga series, of which he is the freedom-fighting hero, had become the bestselling of all time, with more than 500m copies bought. The anime was a similar hit, with viewers immersing themselves in over a thousand episodes following his struggle against the World Government, a corrupt and tyrannical oligarchy.Yet Luffy has now found a new lease of life as inspiration to protesters in a wave of youthful unrest across continents. His crew’s flag – a skull and crossbones crowned with his jaunty straw hat – has appeared from Morocco to Madagascar in recent days. Indonesians enthusiastically adopted it this summer, in a riposte to the president’s urging to fly the national standard. Officials were so alarmed that...

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2 w. ago Indonesia’s free school meals programme under scrutiny as 5,000 children fall ill

Indonesia's government is facing calls to suspend President Prabowo Subianto’s multi-billion-dollar free meals programme

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2 w. ago Indonesia’s free school meals program under scrutiny as 5,000 children fall ill

Indonesia's government is facing calls to suspend President Prabowo Subianto’s multi-billion-dollar free meals program after thousands of students fell sick from food poisoning

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2 w. ago Indonesia faces calls to halt free meals program as over 5,000 school children fall ill

Indonesia's government is facing calls to suspend President Prabowo Subianto’s multi-billion-dollar free meals program after thousands of students fell sick from food poisoning

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2 w. ago Escalatorgate: Trump alleges ‘triple sabotage’ after technical mishaps at UN

Trump claims teleprompter and audio issues, and a stopped escalator that UN says may be due to US delegation stafferDonald Trump alleged “triple sabotage” at the United Nations, after the US president was plagued by a series of unfortunate events surrounding his address to the global body.“A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday,” Trump wrote Wednesday in a 357-word social media chronicle of “Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Strictly star Thomas Skinner introduces partner Amy Dowden to wife he cheated on

The Apprentice geezer, 34, shared snaps of Amy, 35, popping round for dinner to meet wife Sinead, their four-year-old son and their two-year-old twin daughters

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3 w. ago Ryanair passengers' horror after turbulence causes chaos as steward hits ceiling

Emergency services rushed to meet an aircraft after it landed at Son Sant Joan airport following an incident onboard. The plane was hit with severe turbulence, injuring several people

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3 w. ago ‘Our brand is crisis:’ Trump staffer caught on hot mic during Starmer meeting as he cites Sandra Bullock satire

The 2015 film portrayed an American political consultant hired to help a Bolivian politician win a presidential election

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3 w. ago ‘It really bores me’: Wayne McGregor on why he won’t spell out his striking dance creations

The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiencesWhen Stravinsky composed Oedipus Rex in 1927, Jean Cocteau wrote a French libretto based on Sophocles’s tragedy, which was then translated into Latin, a language Stravinsky called “not dead but turned to stone”. It was to be mere syllables to sing notes to, immune to “vulgarisation” as he put it – a way to tell a tragedy without too much pesky drama getting in the way.In choreographer Wayne McGregor’s production of Oedipus Rex, paired with a new ballet based on the myth of Antigone and premiered by the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, there is drama, but it is of the stark, unsentimental kind. The double bill is entitled Jocasta’s Line, as Jocasta, queen of Thebes, sees her husband/son (spoiler, they’re the same person!) and daughter meet tragic ends. It is visually striking and exciting in scale – the first half austere, the se...

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4 w. ago Barron Trump ‘very hurt’ by Charlie Kirk’s killing, his father says

Donald Trump’s youngest son requested to meet with Kirk and was ‘full of praise’ for him afterwards, the president told Fox News

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