4 h. ago New York mayor issues order targeting Israel divestment weeks before Mamdani takes office

Eric Adams signed orders on boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and protests near houses of worshipNew York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, has issued two executive orders he says are meant to combat antisemitism, less than a month before he hands over the keys to the mayoralty to Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel.The first order prohibits city agency heads and staff from engaging in “any policy that discriminates against the state of Israel, Israeli citizens based on their national origin, or individuals or entities based on their association with Israel”. It also prohibits officials overseeing the city pension system from making decisions in line with the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which Mamdani has said he supports. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Egypt says thousands of its artefacts in British Museum are 'part of London's identity'

An Egyptian official claimed the stone was taken from Egypt unlawfully during wartime

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28 h. ago Spotify Wrapped 2025: the Standard team react to their year in music

From Olivia Dean to KPop Demon Hunters, we take a (slightly embarrassing) speed tour of the office

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36 h. ago Monty Panesar takes another swipe at Steve Smith as box office Ashes feud re

Former England star Monty Panesar has responded to Australia captain Steve Smith ahead of the Second Ashes Test, with their feud ongoing

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38 h. ago Airbus cuts 2025 delivery target due to A320 fuselage panel issue

Airbus is expecting to deliver fewer planes this year due to an issue with fuselage panels on some A320 planes

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53 h. ago Armed and masked men issue sick threats to 'legitimate targets' in 'sinister' video

The armed members of the so-called "New Republican Movement" made threats against elected officials in Northern Ireland, branding them as "legitimate targets"

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3 d. ago World Cup 2026 draw simulator: Your chance to decide who Scotland could face at next summer's extravaganza

The official draw takes place in Washington on Friday but Record Sport is giving you the chance to have a go before the main event with our group prediction gadget

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3 d. ago Teen prison officer admits misconduct after sex with inmate as she's taken into custody

Alicia Novas, 19, and Declan Winkless, 30, both pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office after incidents at HMP Five Wells while having a sexual relartionship

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3 d. ago OBR boss Richard Hughes quits after chaotic leak of Budget documents

The Office for Budget Responsibility boss said he would take full responsibility for the blunder, which saw key details released an hour before Rachel Reeves stood up

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3 d. ago NYC's incoming socialist mayor hires 'community safety' advisor who wants to abolish cops and who said policing gangs is 'racist'

Sociologist Alex Vitale, author of 'The End of Policing', a 2017 book that argued for the abolition of almost all police activity in the US, was added to Mamdani's team last week.

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3 d. ago The US love of football is reaching new levels. Just look at Arsenal super

The New York mayor-elect’s devotion to a north London club shows how the global game is winning hearts across the USBryan Armen Graham is the deputy sport editor of Guardian USWhen Zohran Mamdani made an appearance on The Adam Friedland Show last week, the newly elected mayor of New York was expecting the typical nimble rundown of politics, jokes and conversational detours. What he wasn’t expecting was Ian Wright suddenly filling a phone screen with a congratulatory video. The former England and Arsenal striker saluted him on “what you’ve achieved”, urged him to channel that “winning energy” into the job ahead before signing off with a nod to the Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta. Mamdani cheesed guilelessly as it played before finally blurting out: “I love this man.”For a moment, the incoming mayor of the most powerful city in the United States was simply another geeked-out Arsenal obsessive left weak by one of his childhood heroes. And in that moment lies something revealing about how...

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5 d. ago Teacher arrested over claims she shared pictures of children being sexually abused

The teacher was booked by officers on suspicion of distributing videos of children being taken advantage of - and has since been held in custody for weeks

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8 d. ago Man who rammed stolen car into police vehicle jailed over 'reckless' act

Declan Jamieson, 35, used the car to repeatedly ram the police vehicle, resulting in two officers being taken to hospital in an incident which has been described as "totally reckless".

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8 d. ago Mamdani reveals the strangest thing he saw in Trump’s Oval Office: ‘I had no idea’

New York City mayor-elect reflects on surprisingly friendly visit with President Donald Trump last week

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8 d. ago Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?

The anthropologist and father of New York’s mayor-elect offers a revisionist view of modern Ugandan historyChildren of Ugandan Indians are having a bit of a moment. Electropop boasts Charlie XCX; statecraft, the Patels: Priti the shadow foreign secretary, Kash the FBI boss. And while the ones who go into politics have tended to be conservative, we now have a counterexample in Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who clinched the New York mayoralty at the beginning of this month.The anomaly is best explained by the politics of his father, Mahmood Mamdani. The apple, it seems, did not roll especially far down the postcolonial hillside. Mahmood, professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University, has long styled himself as the left’s answer to VS Naipaul. Where the Nobel-winning curmudgeon surveyed postcolonial Africa with disdain, revelling in the wreckage of independence, Mamdani presents a more forgiving view: pathos instead of pity, paradox instead o...

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9 d. ago Seth Meyers on Trump’s meeting with Mamdani: ‘I’ve never seen Trump this smitten before’

Late-night hosts reacted to the president’s surprisingly friendly Oval Office meeting with New York’s mayor-electLate-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s strangely friendly meeting with New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The world turns on the BBC: Foreign officials warn they will take much tougher stance on the broadcaster in the wake of Trump fakery

The US President is threatening a $5billion lawsuit after the BBC edit on its programme 'Panorama' made it look as though he had advocated violence.

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9 d. ago Chelsea news: Maresca issues update on future as Chelsea target's feelings known

The latest news from Chelsea as the Blues prepare to face Barcelona in the Champions League

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1 week ago The Guardian view on UN climate talks: they reveal how little time is left | Editorial

A fragile Cop30 consensus is a win. But only a real bargain between rich and poor nations can weather the climate shocks that are comingThis year’s UN climate talks in Brazil’s Belém ended without a major breakthrough. The text of the final agreement lacked a deal to shift away from fossil fuels, delayed crucial finance and the “mutirão” decision contained no roadmap to halt and reverse deforestation. But the multilateral system at Cop30 held together at a point when its collapse felt close. This ought to be a warning: next year’s conference of the parties must strike a better bargain between the rich and poor world.Developing countries are far from united on some issues. Over rare earth minerals China sees any move as targeting its dominance, while Africa sees it as essential for governance. Elsewhere petrostates did not support Colombia’s call for a fossil fuel phase-out. Yet the global south broadly coheres around a simple principle: its nations must be equipped to survive a clim...

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1 week ago First flight linking two of UK’s top holiday destinations takes off – after original operator collapsed

THE first flight linking two of the UK's top holiday spots has officially taken off, restoring a vital travel link just weeks after the collapse of its former operator. The route between Cornwall Airport Newquay and London Gatwick had been left in limbo earlier this month when Eastern Airways revealed it was on the brink...

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