93 m. ago Putin praises Trump's efforts on 'complex crises' despite Nobel Peace Prize snub

Vladimir Putin praised Donald Trump for his work on the Israel-Hamas deal - and was asked whether he thought the US president had been unfairly snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize

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2 h. ago PPE firm linked to Michelle Mone willing to discuss 'possible settlement' of Covid gowns case

PPE Medpro has been ordered to pay back nearly £122 million to the Government after it was found to have breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the pandemic.

Science

3 h. ago Nobel Peace Prize embroiled in betting scandal: Probe launched after outsider beat Trump

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was an obscure candidate just 12 hours before she was announced as winner on Friday.

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3 h. ago Glamour model who has spent £100k to get world's biggest bum says she will have more surgery

The cosmetic surgery-obsessed woman insists she is healthy and says she "will not be happy" until she reaches her goal – and that is to have "the world's biggest bum"

Economics

3 h. ago Hospital area evacuated after two people assaulted by man as Scots cops launch probe

Emergency services raced to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the alarm was raised at around 5.30pm on Friday.

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3 h. ago Hospital A&E evacuated after two people assaulted by man as Scots cops launch probe

Emergency services raced to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the alarm was raised at around 5.30pm on Friday.

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4 h. ago Ex Corrie star Steven Arnold seen speaking to security at Ricky Hatton's funeral

Former Coronation Street star Steven Arnold, known for his role as Ashley Peacock, was seen talking to security ahead of the funeral

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5 h. ago Tight security and political tension hang over key Norway v Israel World Cup qualifier

The hosts in Oslo are closing in on qualification but the politics surrounding their visitors’ presence casts a shadow over the footballIt will be the most high-security sports event in Norway since the Winter Olympics in 1994. Anti-terror measures are in place throughout Oslo; a no-fly zone will be implemented in the skies above Ullevi Stadion and through all the tension it could be easy to forget that the national team are within touching distance of a first World Cup appearance for 27 years. Beating Israel would put them on the verge but the visitors’ presence has added multiple layers of complexity and controversy.That will be clear on Saturday afternoon, when a crowd of several thousand is expected to march peacefully from the centre of Oslo to a stage set up near the ground. It has been organised by the Palestine Committee in Norway under the slogan “Red card for Israel” and other bodies will be holding their own protests too. Outside Grønland metro station, posters of unclear...

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5 h. ago Deadly rare cancer surges in young people as experts sound alarm due to 'sheer numbers'

Scientists are warning that rates of a rare but highly deadly cancer are on the rise in the US, with cases climbing three times faster than other, more common, cancers.

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5 h. ago Colm Tóibín: Why I set up a press to publish Nobel winner László Krasznahorkai

The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storytellerThat Christmas – it was almost 20 years ago – I came back from America with news. My friend Daniel Medin had recommended two books to me, both by the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, one called War and War and the other The Melancholy of Resistance. We had also watched some Béla Tarr films, whose screenplays had been written by Krasznahorkai. The sense of slow, seething menace in the film Werckmeister Harmonies, based on The Melancholy of Resistance, and the lack of easy psychology and obvious motive in the film, the camera moving like a cat, made it exciting, but not as exciting as the two novels.Krasznahorkai, I noticed, loved the snaking sentence, the high-wire act, mild panic steering towards a shivering fear felt by his characters, followed, in clause after clause, by fitful realisations and further reasons for gloom or alarm, and ...

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5 h. ago Voices: Peace in the Middle East is the biggest prize of all

Editorial: It is now for the people of Israel and Palestine to show the same extraordinary fortitude and resilience they have shown in wartime, and strike a lasting settlement

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6 h. ago Gaza latest: Hamas thanks Trump for role in peace deal but says Tony Blair not welcome

Israeli troops withdrew to agreed lines earlier in the day as part of ‘phase one’ of Trump’s peace deal

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6 h. ago Trump makes gracious gesture after missing out on Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Machado 'for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela'.

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6 h. ago This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning

The Knight Institute is defending free speech at a school now synonymous with compromising on itWhen he first learned that federal agents had detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil in the lobby of his university housing complex, Jameel Jaffer knew he was in for a fight.Jaffer is the director of a Columbia-affiliated institute devoted to the defense of the first amendment, and Khalil, a green card holder, had been a fixture at the pro-Palestinian encampments on campus. Months earlier, Jaffer’s organization had hosted a symposium about the free speech rights of noncitizens. The institute had been established to defend the very constitutional principles the Trump administration was now openly flouting – and that Columbia seemed too scared to defend. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The hidden meanings of Celebrity Traitors outfits: From Jonathan Ross's 'peacocking' to Charlotte Church's attempt to come across as 'innocent'

British fans of the Celebrity Traitors were left with clenched jaws and dampened palms as Thursday's episode came to a close.

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6 h. ago Nobel Institute probes peace prize leak after Polymarket surge

María Corina Machado’s odds surged on online betting site hours before official announcement

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6 h. ago 'Unknown substance' found on sterile surgical tools at Scots hospital as procedures cancelled

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Highland and NHS Orkney have been asked to help in the cleaning of instruments to try and reduce the number of cancellations.

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7 h. ago Delivery driver wins £810,000 dream home and car in £1 BOTB prize draw

A Bradford dad’s dreams have come true after winning a £765k home and £45k Audi in a £1 BOTB competition

Society

7 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: Trump made peace in Gaza through sheer strength. Now he needs to put the hard word on Putin

There is still plenty that can go wrong. The remaining hostages have still not been returned. The Israelis have only just begun to withdraw from parts of Gaza.

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7 h. ago US might dragged Netanyahu to the table. The real prize for Trump would be keeping him there | Jonathan Freedland

The ceasefire in Gaza happened because the US president lost patience, but now he must be vigilant. If Israel’s PM can scupper the plan, he willAfter so many images of death and devastation, what sweet relief to see pictures of joy. On the world’s TV news broadcasts, the screen was split on Thursday: celebrations in Gaza and celebrations in Israel, the scenes of cheering and clapping mirroring each other, as if to confirm that this was a war the peoples themselves wanted over long ago – and which most never wanted to begin.The images were not unfamiliar. We had seen a version of them in January, when a ceasefire was announced to great jubilation. That held only until mid-March, when Israel broke the agreement and resumed its bombardment of Gaza, an experience that should temper, and caveat, the current hope with the knowledge that things can unravel at any moment. Still, this time, even the region’s most seasoned pessimists concede, the deal looks more durable. Continue reading...

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