12 h. ago Lawless youths can still buy deadly machetes on social media in seconds – as UK’s knife crisis spirals out of control

FERAL youths can still buy terrifying machetes and Zombie knives online in just seconds - despite a nationwide ban. Despite Britain's knife epidemic spiralling out of control, kids can buy deadly weapons for use in horrifying confrontations on the internet for as little as £25. Zombie-style knives and certain types of machetes - such as...

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60 h. ago Trump aid cuts could push next Ebola outbreak to spiral out of control, former US official warns

A countdown is on to declaring the end of a current Ebola outbreak, but former Biden official Jeremy Konyndyk warns that we might not be so lucky again if US cuts to aid continue to bite

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2 w. ago Thomas Massie shrugs off Trump insults over his wedding as Epstein standoff intensifies: ‘He’s trying to be a bully’

President has openly threatened four Republican representatives as Epstein issue spirals out control thanks to dead sex trafficker’s claim his former friend ‘knew about the girls’

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2 w. ago Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?

With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stallsCop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in BrazilFor two years, global temperatures have exceeded the 1.5C heating limit laid out in the Paris climate agreement. This overshooting will have “devastating consequences”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has warned.The biggest worry for scientists is that further heating could trigger irreversible tipping points, such as the widespread drying out and dying off of the Amazon, or the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, beyond which climate breakdown could spiral out of control. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Sudan civil war spiralling out of control, UN secretary general says

António Guterres calls for the violence to end but there appears little appetite for ceasefire proposed by USThe UN secretary general, António Guterres has said the war in Sudan is spiralling out of control as he called for a halt to the fighting and an end to the violence.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are reportedly backed by the United Arab Emirates, seized El Fasher in Darfur last week after a near 18-month siege. Some of its soldiers have posted videos of civilians being shot, including in the town’s maternity hospital. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago I told a white lie on our first date. We've been together for three years and he still doesn't know the truth

What started as a simple 'fib' quickly spiralled out of control - and there's no way out without damaging the relationship forever.

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