3 d. ago Keir Starmer playing the race card against Farage is straight out of Macron's playbook, writes JASON GROVES

'Do you think it's a racist policy,' the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked the Prime Minister on Sunday as they discussed Reform's plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain.

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2 w. ago UN says Israel is striking people fleeing Gaza City as 60,000 displaced in just 72 hours

Israel claims that an estimated 450,000 people from Gaza City have moved southward

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2 w. ago I’ve seen horrible things at football matches – but what landed on the pitch last week was the worst | Adrian Chiles

When a mysterious object fell from the sky mid-game, I knew it was a portent of doom. The surprise was finding out who chucked it thereA funny thing happened at the football last Saturday, and not in a good way. My team, West Brom, were outplaying Derby County but, importantly, without managing to score a goal. Ordinarily, as the second half went on, I would have given in to pessimism, assuming that for all our dominance we’d not score, though Derby somehow would, and I’d go home miserable. But on this occasion, I really thought the match would be ours. Until this thing happened.Play suddenly stopped, for reasons that were at first unclear. A few of the players were looking at something lying on the pitch. Gingerly, squeamishly, they edged closer to whatever it was. Bizarre. As opera glasses aren’t available on the backs of seats at football grounds, we couldn’t identify the object. Eventually a member of the ground staff appeared, wearing rubber gloves. He strode out to the middle ...

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2 w. ago Aid groups call for international community to stop Israel’s Gaza City invasion: ‘Half measures not enough’

‘Governments must act to prevent the evisceration of life in the Gaza strip,’ said the coalition after one million Palestinians were told to evacuate

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2 w. ago Where will Gaza City residents go? Maps show that safe areas are shrinking as Israel expands its offensive

The start of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘significant operation’ has displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians

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2 w. ago Where will Gaza City residents evacuate to? Maps show that safe areas are shrinking as Israel expands its offensive

Benjamin Netanyahu announced a ‘significant operation in Gaza’ on Tuesday which has caused hundreds of thousands to flee

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2 w. ago Sex work and abuse: the women trapped in Malawi’s growing refugee camp

With the US no longer accepting refugees, Dzaleka’s residents have no prospect of relocation. Three women tell us what life is like in a camp designed for 10,000 people but which now holds more than 58,000• Photographs by Amos Gumulira for the GuardianTears stream down Francine’s* face as she pulls her glove off. Her right hand is covered by a pale, mottled burn scar. Her fingers are stiff and unnaturally bent. Francine turned to sex work to survive soon after she arrived alone at Malawi’s Dzaleka refugee camp in 2015, having travelled there from Burundi.On Christmas Eve in 2022, a client refused to pay. When she blocked the doorway, he grabbed a boiling-hot saucepan of beans and threw it at her, scalding her hand and chest. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago France burns: Violent protests break out across the country with flaming barricades set up in Paris and other cities and Eurostar hub targeted as fury over Macron grows

There were up to 50 arrests in Paris alone by 8am on Wednesday, as attempts were made to disrupt key transport links, including the Eurostar hub at Gare du Nord.

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3 w. ago Macron played with fire by razing the political middle ground. Now France is burning | Jules Darmanin

He promised to break the mould, but with his hubristic disdain for left and right – and for voters – the president has entrenched instabilityIn his 2016 manifesto Revolution, the then-presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron, accused France’s “fossilised political apparatus” of dangerously paving the way for Marine Le Pen’s rise to power. “The political class and the media are a band of sleepwalkers who refuse to see what is coming their way,” he wrote, “so we see the same faces and we hear the same speeches.” He pledged to throw away the old playbook and gather behind him “progressive reformers who believe that the destiny of France is to embrace modernity.”The fresh face of pro-EU liberalism swept to power the following year on a promise of radical change to bring France into the 21st century.Jules Darmanin is a French journalist Continue reading...

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