8 h. ago The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not | Marina Hyde

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back homeSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and morePop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love”?If you answered “Nigel Farage”, then I’m sorry. The Reform UK leader might have spent this pre-party conference week in his happy place – lodged several feet up the US presidential colon – and rhetorically demanding of US lawmakers: “At what point did [the UK] become North Korea?” But those Trump compliments were in fact previously made about Kim Jong-un, the dictator of well, you know the rest.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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9 h. ago 'Eerie similarities' between China and rise of Nazi Germany, says former minister

Victory day parade was attended by more than 20 world leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un

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11 h. ago Richard Tice stumbles in grilling over Keir Starmer and Kim Jong Un comparison

Richard Tice fumbled his words as he was grilled on why Sir Keir Starmer was like Kim Jong Un after both the deputy Reform UK leader and Nigel Farage compared the UK to North Korea.

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24 h. ago Dictators' kids who joined ‘family business’ from rapists to 'killed by electric fence'

What’s it like growing up with a despot as a dad? As bonkers North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un parades his daughter around China, we look at how life turned out for some other tyrants’ kids

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25 h. ago Ominous warning to the West: New 'Axis of Evil' between Presidents Xi, Putin and Kim Jong Un poses an even greater threat than the NAZIS, says MARK ALMOND

The master of ceremonies, China's Xi Jinping, flanked by Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong un, presented his vast country as the beating heart of an even more extensive alliance.

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29 h. ago Voices: Putin and Xi’s hot mic moment wasn’t even the oddest thing to emerge from China

When the dictators were accidentally recorded at their China summit debating organ transplants and other outlandish scientific means to help them achieve immortality, was anyone really surprised, asks Mary Dejevsky

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30 h. ago Laser wars: How China's newly revealed weapon that can blind pilots and destroy electronics compares to US and UK's Star Wars technology

Xi Jinping, flanked by Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, took the opportunity to show off the LY-1 shipborne laser weapon.

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34 h. ago The girl Kim Jong Un wants to rule North Korea after his death: All the signs that tyrant's daughter Ju Ae looks certain to be his chosen successor after stepping out with him during China visit

Kim Ju Ae, thought to be around 13, has been by her tyrant father's side at a growing number of official events.

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35 h. ago NATO chief demands European answer TODAY on how to protect Ukraine as divided leaders meet in France after Putin, Xi and Kim Jong

It comes as leaders from Europe, Turkey, Australia and Canada head to Paris to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on what concrete measures they are prepared to offer Kyiv.

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36 h. ago Kim Jong Un’s staff seen scrubbing every surface he touched after meeting with Putin

Analysts say extreme security measure meant to prevent foreign intelligence agencies from gathering samples that may reveal North Korean leader’s health condition

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36 h. ago North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

China’s Foreign Ministry says that visiting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

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53 h. ago From outcast to ally: Kim Jong Un takes his place beside Xi and Putin

North Korean leader thwarts ‘perpetual underestimation’ by turning adversaries into partners

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53 h. ago Trump’s belligerence is pushing Xi, Putin and Kim together – and tearing the old world order apart | Simon Tisdall

The three-way partnership on show in Beijing is united in opposition to US hegemony and a western-dominated financial systemSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreDonald Trump’s first reaction to the disconcerting spectacle of China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un marching side-by-side at a huge military parade in Beijing was, predictably, all about him. This show of solidarity and strength, he complained, was nothing less than an attempt to “conspire” against the United States. Trump likes military parades – his own, that is. Even more, he likes to be on the podium, at the centre of attention. He casts himself as world number one. The images coming out of the Chinese capital this week challenged him on all three counts.This puncturing of Trump’s insecure ego, and the striking feebleness of his response, will greatly grat...

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54 h. ago Hot mic catches Putin discussing how to achieve immortality with President Xi and Kim Jong Un

Russian despot Vladimir Putin has been caught rambling about immortality during a summit with Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un.

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57 h. ago Kim Jong Un has brought his daughter to Beijing. What to know about the possible North Korean heir

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has brought his young daughter on a significant trip to China, marking her first known overseas appearance

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58 h. ago Moment North Koreans 'remove all traces of Kim Jong Un's DNA' from meeting room where he met Putin by wiping down furniture and removing items

The North Korean and Russian leaders met on Wednesday following a massive military parade in Beijing.

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61 h. ago Putin grins with Kim and Xi Jinping as 'axis of evil' meet up at military parade

Evil pals Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un were pictured as guests of honour at Xi Jinping's major military parade in China - which Donald Trump blasted as "conspiring against the US"

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61 h. ago Trump accuses Xi, Putin and Kim of ‘conspiring’ against US after China unveils new long range missiles: Latest

Xi Jinping warns world must ‘choose between peace and war’ as he presides over huge show of force flanked by two-dozen world leaders in Tiananmen Square

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61 h. ago Who is Kim Ju Ae – Kim Jong Un’s ‘heir apparent’ making foreign debut at China military parade

Since her 2022 debut, Kim Ju Ae has increasingly been seen at military events. Her appearance at her father’s most important foreign engagement ever gives credence to speculation she is Kim’s heir apparent. Maroosha Muzaffar reports

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62 h. ago China parades new weapons in front of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong

‘Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against the United States of America,’ Trump posted on Truth Social

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