75 m. ago Trump dubs Russian drones entering Polish airspace 'a mistake' as he fobs off move that landed the West the closest it's been to open conflict since WWII

European leaders expressed alarm on Thursday over Russian hostility threatening their countries after the incursion into NATO-member Poland deepened fears over WWIII.

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3 h. ago Eurovision issued ultimatum by Ireland as they threaten to pull out over Israel

Ireland have joined a number of other countries threatening to pull out of next year's Eurovision Song Contest is Israel take part

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10 h. ago Ireland joins growing list of countries threatening Eurovision boycott if Israel stay in

Ireland will not take part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2026 if Israel participates, broadcaster RTE has announced, as a number of other countries have threatened the same

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11 h. ago RTÉ says Ireland will boycott Eurovision if Israel is allowed to compete

National broadcaster joins Slovenia in making participation next year conditional amid war in GazaIreland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, has decided not to take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a participant.RTÉ is the second of 37 broadcasters who took part in the event this year to have made participation next year conditional. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Sauchope Links guests gain Michelin starred neighbours in Crail and St Andrews

Two East Neuk restaurants have joined the prestigious Michelin Guide for the UK and Ireland, placing the spotlight firmly on Crail and St Andrews as a food lover's dream, both just a stone’s throw from Sauchope Links Holiday Park, part of Largo Leisure Holidays.

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3 d. ago New home secretary threatens to suspend visas if countries do not agree to take back migrants

Shabana Mahmood said she would do ‘whatever it takes’ to stop small boat crossings

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9 d. ago Belgium moves toward recognizing a Palestinian state, drawing Israeli rebuke

Belgium plans to recognize a Palestinian state, joining a growing list of countries to take the step

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2 w. ago List of countries pulling package shipments to US grows as Trump’s tariffs take hold

Trump’s order ending the “de minimis” exemption now subjects most items over $100 to U.S. tariffs

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2 w. ago European and Iranian diplomats fail to agree on how to avoid reimposition of UN sanctions

A diplomat says that representatives of three European countries threatening to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program failed to agree with their Iranian counterpart Tuesday on how to avoid the move days ahead of a deadline

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2 w. ago Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech

President’s move could hit UK’s digital services tax and measures in EU states such as France, Italy and SpainBusiness live – latest updatesDonald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs and export restrictions on countries whose taxes, legislation and regulations target US big tech companies such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple.In a post on the US president’s social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said “digital taxes, legislation, rules or regulations are all designed to harm, or discriminate against, American technology”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago By sanctioning journalists, the Kremlin admits how much the truth hurts | Rafael Behr

I’ve been accused of ‘anti-Russia narratives’ but Russia has many stories – including resistance against tyrannyThere is a Russian proverb: don’t blame the mirror if your face is crooked. I first came across it as the epigraph to The Government Inspector, Gogol’s 1836 masterpiece satirising corruption and hypocrisy in the provinces of the tsar’s empire.The phrase sprang to mind last week when I learned that a 21st-century government inspector is displeased with things I have written about Vladimir Putin and his imperial war against Ukraine – the land of Gogol’s birth. This I know because my name has been added to the “stop list”, a growing roster of undesirable elements – politicians, journalists, charity workers, consultants – banned from entering the Russian federation.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Christopher Biggins is latest star to take Mounjaro as he shows off epic transformation

Christopher Biggins has revealed he's using the medication Mounjaro and has credited it for his dramatic transformation as he joins a growing list of celebrities turning to the jabs

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3 w. ago ‘Kept fighting despite the odds’: the Russian journalists who risked everything to report the truth

In an expansive five-hour documentary, young journalists are branded ‘foreign agents’ for continuing to report independently as authoritarianism spreadsIn the fall of 2021, the director Julia Loktev traveled from her Brooklyn home to Moscow, with the intent to film some friends under pressure. That summer, the Russian government had cracked down on the remaining independent media in the country, designating outlets and journalists it found irksome as “foreign agents”. Loktev, who moved to the US from the Soviet Union at age nine, had several journalist friends now required to submit detailed financial reports to the government and affix an all-caps disclaimer to any output, be it an article or an Instagram post of their cat, declaring it the work of a foreign agent.Loktev began shadowing her friend Anna Nemzer, a host on the country’s only remaining independent news channel, TV Rain (Dozhd, in Russian), which was on the growing list of “foreign agents” meant to chill any press criti...

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