2 h. ago Trump threatens to block ExxonMobil from Venezuela after CEO calls country ‘uninvestable’

US president says company is ‘playing too cute’ after CEO responds sceptically to his push for oil investment after deposing Nicolás MaduroDonald Trump has said he might block ExxonMobil from investing in Venezuela after the oil company’s chief executive called the country “uninvestable” during a White House meeting last week.Darren Woods told the US president that Venezuela would need to change its laws before it could be an attractive investment opportunity, during the high-profile meeting on Friday with at least 17 other oil executives. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Hong Kong court hearing a plea for a lighter sentence for former publisher Jimmy Lai

A Hong Kong court is hearing arguments about the sentence for pro-democracy media founder Jimmy Lai

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3 h. ago Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve

Fed chair accuses DoJ of threatening criminal charges over building renovation projects because central bank defied Trump’s interest rate demandsThe Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve, a significant escalation in Donald Trump’s extraordinary attack on the US central bank.Powell said the Department of Justice had served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas on Friday, threatening a criminal indictment related to his testimony before the Senate banking committee in June last year, regarding renovations to the Fed’s historic office buildings in Washington DC. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Kate Moss loses planning row over neighbour's renovation despite complaints it could ruin drinking water and leave sewage overflowing in their Cotswold village

Other Little Farringdon locals also joined Kate Moss's protest about the proposed works as they claimed it would cause sewage issues and worsen access to clean drinking water.

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4 h. ago We're heading for a terrible crash, says City guru ALEX BRUMMER. I've never felt so worried it's just like 1929... from the blind faith in markets to deluded leaders, the signs are EVERYWHERE

The new year has started where 2025 ended - with soaring share prices and bubbling enthusiasm among Wall Street investors about the ­-glorious prospects ahead.

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5 h. ago Mystery as human remains discovered at a flat as cops charge man, 65, for ‘preventing lawful burial’

AN URGENT probe has been launched after human remains were discovered inside a flat. Police were called to the property in St Helens, Merseyside, at around 11.30am on Saturday. The force was responding to reports of a concern for safety before making the grim find. Officers uncovered human remains at the flat, in Geralds Court,...

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5 h. ago Share of London homes sold at a loss higher than anywhere else in England and Wales

Lossmaking sales are the latest sign of weakness in the capital’s property market

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5 h. ago People receiving two scam calls each week on average, survey indicates

Fraudsters may ask victims to share personal details, provide security codes, transfer money or lie to their account provider, Nationwide warned.

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6 h. ago If we silence voices we don’t agree with, we’re doing the work of extremists for them | Peter Greste

I do not need to share Randa Abdel-Fattah’s views to believe that removing her is wrong. This is why I’ve withdrawn from Adelaide writers’ weekIf there has been a bright red thread running through my career, it’s the importance of freedom of speech. It underpinned my life as a journalist and correspondent, became central to the campaign to get me out of prison in Egypt and, perhaps paradoxically, it is why I have reluctantly withdrawn from this year’s Adelaide writers’ week.On Thursday the Adelaide festival board announced it had removed the writer and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the program, not because of anything she was proposing to say at the festival but because of things she said previously, reassessed in the aftermath of the Bondi attack.Peter Greste is a professor of journalism at Macquarie University and the executive director for the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Vogue Williams packs on the PDA with husband Spencer Matthews as they share sweet snaps from family ski trip to the French Alps

The ex Made In Chelsea star, 37, couldn't keep his hands off the Irish model, 40, as the couple looked more loved-up than ever during their frosty getaway in Courchevel.

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7 h. ago Starmer hails parental leave changes as putting ‘dignity back at heart of work’

The Government states this will offer an additional 1.5 million parents increased flexibility to share childcare responsibilities

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7 h. ago Donald Trump says Marco Rubio should be the next president of CUBA: 'Sounds good to me!'

President Trump has appeared to throw his support behind Marco Rubio as the next president of Cuba. He has threatened the Caribbean country to make a deal with the US.

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7 h. ago Call The Midwife fans 'spot' romance twist as Sister shares sad admission

Call the Midwife viewers were stunned after one favourite discussed her hopes for the future

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7 h. ago UK ‘pays substantial sum’ to tortured Guantánamo Bay detainee

Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah accused British intelligence services of providing questions to his CIA interrogatorsThe UK has settled out of court by paying a “substantial sum” to a Guantánamo Bay detainee who was suing the government for its alleged complicity in his rendition and torture, according to the inmate’s legal team.Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah have accused the British intelligence services of providing questions to his CIA interrogators to put to him while they were torturing him at a string of CIA “black sites” around the world where he was held between 2002 and 2006. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Hey Arnold star reveals 'most important' part of Golden Globes after nominee

As the 82nd Golden Globe Awards took place on Sunday at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, past nominee Justin Shenkarow shared his unforgettable experience at the star-studded event

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8 h. ago Kelly Clarkson admits 'it's a lot' as she shares update on children after dad's death

Kelly Clarkson shared two kids with her ex Brandon Blackstock, and in a new update, she said she has been snuggling them more in recent months, after their dad passed away

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9 h. ago Adult star with 38J implants shares final post before tragically falling to her death

Influencer Mary Magdalene, whose real name was Denise Ivonne Jarvis Gongora, shared an emotional post the day before she tragically fell to her death in Thailand

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9 h. ago Maya Jama shares sizzling bikini snaps while holed up at her luxury villa in South Africa after bosses were forced to delay Love Island: All Stars' return due to raging wildfires

The TV presenter, 31, looked incredible in a brown halterneck bikini as she posed up a storm while sunbathing in her villa.

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9 h. ago Chagossans ‘very hopeful’ Starmer’s Chagos handover deal will be stopped on crunch day for treaty

Exclusive: Louis Misley Mandarin, the interim first minister of the Chagossian government in exile, spoke to The Independent ahead of the Lords voting on the deal with Mauritius and a high court verdict on a legal challenge on Monday

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9 h. ago Readers’ letters: Cyclists must give pedestrians more consideration on shared paths

A reader says more care must be taken by cyclists on pathways shared with pedestrians

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