1 hour ago Government and political opponents to take part in televised debate on migration

The migration debate will be aired after the summer saw protests over asylum hotels.

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4 h. ago Manneken Pis gets new uniform to honour soldiers who liberated Brussels

Gift comes 8o years after Welsh guards first left replica uniform for famous statue to commemorate end of Nazi occupationWhen British forces commemorated the liberation of Brussels for the first time in 1945, they left a unique gift – a replica Welsh guards uniform for the Belgian city’s emblematic “peeing boy” statue, the Manneken Pis.Now 81 years after the Welsh guards freed Brussels from Nazi occupation, the gift has been renewed: the Manneken Pis has a new regimental uniform, including scarlet jacket embroidered with gold lace, gleaming white belt and authentic bearskin hat. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago China displays its latest military might with huge parade in Beijing

Soldiers in pristine and pressed uniforms marched in lockstep to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance.

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5 h. ago Jai Opetaia targets Eubank Jr vs Benn 2 undercard fight with Chris Billam

Opetaia is waiting for Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez to recover from a soldier injury, which currently prevents a massive unification fight

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7 h. ago Wowcher's £15 deal on luxury advent calendars includes big names like Liberty, Radley and Selfridges

"Brilliant experience! Easy to use and find an amazing deal."

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7 h. ago Australian embassy issues warning after tourist drinks offering at Japanese burial site

Japanese place food and drink at graves to honour their dead

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8 h. ago It would be ‘a profound mistake’ to leave human rights treaty – Keir Starmer

Ministers plan to tighten the use of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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8 h. ago Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer marks 'impossible day' as he shares the touching tributes left by fans at their ancestral home on the anniversary of her death

The Earl, 61, took to his Instagram account on August 31 to honour his late sibling by sharing a photograph of a handful of flowers cut from his gardens at Althorp in Northamptonshire.

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8 h. ago Mum may be forced to cancel Christmas over cost of school uniforms

A mum of four has been left sick with worry after her children's school uniform ended up costing more than half of her monthly Universal Credit payment

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9 h. ago Plans for £30m cancer centre in honour of Bobby Robson unveiled

The foundation set up by the former England manager has already raised £20 million of the cost.

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9 h. ago At least 21,000 children disabled in Gaza during war, says UN committee – Middle East crisis live

More than 40,000 have suffered ‘new war-related injuries’ with more than half left disabled, says UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesYemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for a missile launched at Israel (see 8.17am BST), saying they fired two ballistic missiles at Tel Aviv in what they said was an initial response to Israeli attacks on Yemen.The Israeli military moved deeper into Gaza City on Wednesday, with soldiers and tanks pushing into Sheikh Radwan, one of the urban centre’s largest and most crowded neighbourhoods, reports Reuters. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Ghost of Yōtei: a determined outsider seeks revenge in feudal Japan

The makers of the forthcoming open-world adventure explain how new gameplay features and an extra-resourceful sword-wielding protagonist set it apart from 2020 predecessor Ghost of TsushimaAtsu is no samurai. The lead character in Ghost of Yōtei is a wandering sellsword from a lowly family. Her sex and lack of status mean that, following the murders of her family, she has no fixed place in 17th-century Japanese society, and there is no permitted path for her to tread if she is to get revenge on the Yōtei Six, the men who killed her loved ones. As the game’s co-director Nate Fox puts it, “Atsu is not somebody who walks in to a room and people pay respect to.”Yōtei’s predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions’ 2020 sprawling open-world game Ghost of Tsushima, is the story of a samurai, Jin Sakai, who shreds his honour to defend his homeland. Jin can’t repel the Mongols attacking Tsushima as a noble warrior, but as “the Ghost”, a fear-inspiring legend willing to use any dirty tactic to gain...

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11 h. ago Farage condemns UK’s ‘authoritarian censorship regime’ ahead of giving evidence at US congress

Reform UK leader to speak about Online Safety Act at House judiciary committee; government set to announce date of budget at PMQs later Good morning. It is the first PMQs, and with the government set to announce the date of the budget today (Wednesday 26 November, if HuffPost UK is right), you would expect Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch to get stuck into a debate about the economy, and taxation.But it might end up as a free speech day at Westminster, as a result of the conflation of two related issues.On the question of civil liberties, Britain has, unfortunately, now lost her way.I will do my part, as a participant in UK democracy, to help our country find its way back to the traditional freedoms which have long bound together our two countries in friendship. In the meantime, Congress should draw bright lines: British free speech rules, applicable to Britons, are made in Britain, and American speech rules, applicable to Americans, are made in America. Continue reading...

Culture

12 h. ago Chinese leader XI Jinping cozies up to Vladimir Putin at military parade

The parade was held in honour of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War two.

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12 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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15 h. ago 'School uniform costs for my four kids has put our Christmas in jeopardy'

The mum-of-four is pleading for school uniforms to be abolished after spending over £900 this year

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25 h. ago Trump fortune balloons by billions after family firm’s crypto token starts trading

World Liberty Financial’s digital token $WLFI fell in price on first day, a year after launch by Trump family and partnersThe Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, put its namesake digital tokens up for sale on Monday, adding some $5bn in paper value to Donald Trump’s family fortune. The token, known as $WLFI, fell in value on Monday in their first day of trading.The World Liberty tokens were sold to investors after the Trump family and its business partners last year launched the venture, a decentralized finance platform that has also issued a stablecoin, a cryptocurrency meant to maintain a specific price by tying its value to a specific asset. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Why trans art matters more than ever: ‘It reflects how people live and love’

After the controversy over Amy Sherald’s portrait of a trans Statue of Liberty, trans artists speak about why their work speaks to an important momentPart of the magic of portraiture is how it renders so much of the human experience accessible to us, things we might never see otherwise. This has been very much on Black artist Amy Sherald’s mind. When I spoke to her in advance of the debut of her exhibition American Sublime, she told me that Black representation was foundational to her practice: “I developed this idea that, when I look at art history, for the most part I don’t see portraits of people that look like me. So it started there.”That exhibition’s curator, Sarah Roberts, also spoke about Sherald’s passion for representing the LGBTQ+ community: “Amy has thought a lot about her role as an artist and the need for representation, and she has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ rights. This work is thinking about who gets depicted as being American.” Continue reading...

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26 h. ago ‘Forever grateful’: Isak makes belated attempt to rebuild bridges at Newcastle

£125m striker thanks former teammates and staff‘It has been an honour Thank you, Newcastle’Alexander Isak has made a belated attempt to rebuild bridges at Newcastle by thanking his former teammates, St James’ Park staff and the club’s fans for their support during his three years on Tyneside.When Isak joined Liverpool for £125m on Monday evening the Sweden striker departed a squad and a city thoroughly disillusioned by his decision not to train with or play for Eddie Howe’s team for the majority of this summer. Ultimately that tactic succeeded in forcing the move to Anfield he had long craved but, along the way, a player who scored 27 times for Newcastle last season shredded his reputation there. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago ‘We are dying for no reason’: Israeli reservists face fresh call

Soldiers express doubts about Gaza conflict but few will refuse to fightTens of thousands of reservists in Israel will return to active service in the coming weeks amid an intense debate in their ranks over the war in Gaza, which reflects wider divisions in the country.Some will be forced to make their decision within days. The Israel Defense Forces began mobilising tens of thousands of reservists on Tuesday after calling up 60,000 for an expanded offensive in Gaza City, one of the few places in the devastated territory outside its control. More will be ordered to report to military bases if the fighting continues for many months, as analysts expect. Continue reading...

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