8 h. ago Michelle O’Neill to tackle Starmer for ‘prioritising weapons of war over people’

The Stormont leader said the Budget had been a missed opportunity to support those struggling to pay for food and heat their homes.

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22 h. ago Half of Europeans see Trump as enemy of Europe, survey finds

Nine-country poll finds half of people believe risk of war with Russia is high and three-quarters want to stay in EUNearly half of Europeans see Donald Trump as “an enemy of Europe”, rather more rate the risk of war with Russia as high and more than two-thirds believe their country would not be able to defend itself in the event of such a war, a survey has found.The nine-country poll for the Paris-based European affairs debate platform Le Grand Continent also found that nearly three-quarters of respondents wanted their country to stay in the EU, with almost as many saying leaving the union had harmed the UK. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago World Athletics scraps landing zone idea to avoid ‘war’ with long jump athletes

Plan introduced to reduce number of foul jumpsCarl Lewis condemned it as ‘April Fool’s joke’World Athletics has scrapped controversial plans to introduce a take-off zone for the long jump rather than the traditional board because of widespread hostility from athletes, the Guardian can reveal.Jon Ridgeon, World Athletics’ chief executive, said that while the proposals had trialled well, “ultimately you do not want to go to war with your most important group of people”. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago World Athletics scraps landing zone idea to avoid ‘war’ with long jumpers

Plan was introduced to reduce number of foul jumps‘Athletes do not want to embrace it,’ says Jon RidgeonWorld Athletics has scrapped plans to introduce a take-off zone for the long jump rather than the traditional board because of widespread hostility from athletes. Jon Ridgeon, World Athletics’ chief executive, said that while the proposals had gone well in trials, “you do not want to go to war with your most important group of people”.The idea of introducing a wide take-off zone was to reduce the number of foul jumps with athletes no longer required to try to hit a narrow board before jumping. However, the Olympic long jump champion, Miltiadis Tentoglou, described the proposal as “dog shit” because it took much of the skill out of the event, while Carl Lewis called it an “April Fool’s joke”. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago World Athletics scraps takeoff zone idea to avoid ‘war’ with long jumpers

Plan was introduced to reduce number of foul jumps‘Athletes do not want to embrace it,’ says Jon RidgeonWorld Athletics has scrapped plans to introduce a takeoff zone for the long jump rather than the traditional board because of widespread hostility from athletes. Jon Ridgeon, the World Athletics’ chief executive, said that while the proposals had gone well in trials, “you ultimately do not want to go to war with your most important group of people”.The idea of introducing a wide takeoff zone was to reduce the number of foul jumps with athletes no longer required to try to hit a narrow board before jumping into the sand pit. However, the Olympic long jump champion, Miltiadis Tentoglou, described the proposal as “dog shit” because it took much of the skill out of the event, while the former track and field athlete Carl Lewis, who won four long jump medals at the Olympics, called it an “April fool’s joke”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report

More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder

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1 week ago Reform UK claim to have saved £331m at English councils – but do the numbers stack up?

Experts say councils face limits on cuts as Reform’s savings on IT deals, office moves and EV projects are disputedReform UK has ignored requests to share the evidence for its claim to have saved £331m since it took charge of 10 English councils in May, prompting questions over whether the figure is true.The party has boasted that it had achieved £331m worth of savings at English councils it controls. Warning of a “blob” of vested interests devoted to “ripping off” taxpayers, Richard Tice, the new head of the party’s self-styled ‘Doge’ cost-cutting unit, added: “We’re going to war with these people”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The ‘war on terror’ has killed millions. Trump is reviving it in Venezuela | Daniel Mendiola

After decades of terrorizing civilians in the name of fighting terror, the White House is trying to do it with even less oversightFor the last two months, US forces have amassed outside Venezuela and carried out a series of lethal strikes on civilian boats. The Trump White House has ordered these actions in the name of fighting “narco-terrorists” – a label apparently applicable to anyone suspected of participating in drug trafficking near Latin American coastlines. More than 80 people have already been killed in these pre-emptive strikes, and war hawks are calling for expanded military action to depose the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro.Watching this play out, I am reminded of a passage from the geographer Stuart Elden’s award-winning 2009 book, Terror and Territory. In discussing how to study the “war on terror”, Elden observed that it did not make sense to study terrorism as something unique to non-state actors.Daniel Mendiola is a professor of Latin American history and mig...

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1 week ago PETER HITCHENS: It's absurd to say broke, decrepit Russia will turn its tanks on us

I doubt this peace deal will work, though I really hope it will. Some way must be found to end this stupid, pointless war, which began long before most people in the West noticed it and has now lasted 11 years.

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2 w. ago How Europe’s immigration crackdown is fuelling smuggling gangs – video

It has been 10 years since the migrant crisis began - when thousands of people fleeing war, persecution and poverty sought refuge in Europe. A decade later, migration remains one of the continent’s most divisive and politicised issues.Across Europe, anti-immigrant policies have hardened, physical border walls have gone up, and new barriers - both visible and invisible - continue to appear. As a result, migrants are forced on to ever more dangerous routes in search of safety. And the smuggling gangs that EU politicians claim to want to stop are growing more powerful than ever.The Guardian’s European community affairs correspondent, Ashifa Kassam, and video journalist Frances Rankin travel to the edges of ‘Fortress Europe’ to find out what 10 years of tightening migration policy means for people on the move today. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco review – a masterclass in visual reportage

The author of Palestine turns his attention to the legacies of Indian partition in this brilliant portrait of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riotsJoe Sacco is one of a very small number of graphic novelists who have smashed through into the mainstream. His masterwork is Palestine, a collected volume of single-issue comic books he created in the 1990s, documenting the violence in Gaza. His technique is to embed as a journalist in a war zone and interview people on the street, telling their stories with pictures. Lessons on global politics emerge from ultra-local conflict and depictions of day-to-day life.Palestine propelled Sacco to fame, drawing comparisons with Maus, Art Spiegelman’s two-volume saga about Polish Jews during the Holocaust with Nazis portrayed as cats, and Jews as mice. These works are sold prominently in bookshops, not in musty basements packed with racks of polyethylene-sheathed superhero comics. Alongside a couple of others, Maus and Palestine signalled that graphic novel...

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2 w. ago The former Marine sniper accused of a mass shooting and the warning signs that came before

Estranged friends and family and even a judge had raised concerns months before authorities say a wounded Iraq War veteran killed three people and injured five at a North Carolina waterfront bar

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3 w. ago Tourists 'paid £70,000 to shoot people in human safari hunting trip' during war

Shocking case in Italian courts claims rich foreigners took weekend trips to Bosnia to kill innocent civilians and children during the conflict, which saw more than 11,000 killed by snipers and shelling between 1992 and 1996

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3 w. ago Deadly tornado in Brazil kills six people leaving scenes like a 'war zone' in its wake

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured more than 400 others, officials said - among the dead was a 14-year-old girl

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4 w. ago Masked Bonfire Night youths turn city centres into war zones as they blast fireworks at emergency workers, terrify crowds and torch tower block amid more than 30 arrests

Footage shows members of the public running for cover when fireworks were set off in Birmingham city centre as police battled to regain control.

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4 w. ago Masked Bonfire Night youths turn city centres into war zones as they blast fireworks at emergency workers, terrify crowds and torch tower block amid more than 20 arrests

Footage shows members of the public running for cover when fireworks were set off in Birmingham city centre as police battled to regain control.

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4 w. ago Masked Bonfire Night youths turn city centres into war zones as they blast fireworks at emergency workers, terrify crowds and torch tower block

Footage shows fireworks being set off in Birmingham city centre as police battle to regain control amidst scenes of chaos and disruption.

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4 w. ago Masked youths turn city centres into war zones as they blast fireworks at emergency workers and terrified crowds in Bonfire Night hell

Footage shows fireworks being set off in Birmingham city centre as police battle to regain control amidst scenes of chaos and disruption.

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