24 h. ago British troops sent to Ukraine must be ready to fight Vladimir Putin's army, says ex

Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have announced that the UK and France will put boots on the ground to keep the peace in Ukraine if the war ends

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40 h. ago Wave of Grok AI fake images of women and girls appalling, says UK minister

Liz Kendall calls on X to ‘deal with this urgently’ while expert criticises ‘worryingly slow’ government responseThe UK technology secretary has called a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed generated by Elon Musk’s Grok AI “appalling and unacceptable in decent society”.After thousands of intimate deepfakes circulated online, Liz Kendall said X, Musk’s social media platform, needed to “deal with this urgently” and she backed the UK regulator Ofcom to “take any enforcement action it deems necessary”. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Cooper refuses to condemn US action in Venezuela as criticism among Labour MPs grows

Government facing mounting criticism from its own MPs urging Sir Keir Starmer to criticise the US intervention

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3 d. ago Government to address nation from 2.30pm today as Keir Starmer criticism mounts

The US flexed it's military and intelligence capabilities on Saturday when they 'captured' Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in a top secret strike that shocked the world

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4 d. ago Moment Russian soldier holds sign pleading to be taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces in shock vid

THIS is the shocking moment a Russian soldier surrendered to Ukrainian forces after pleading for his life with a message scribbled on cardboard. The 16th Army Corps said drone pilots operating near Lyman - a city in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region - spotted the soldier signalling his desire to surrender. Drone footage shows a small building...

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5 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russia makes biggest battleground gains since first year of war, analysis shows

Russian army captured more Ukrainian territory in 2025 than previous two years combined; Zelenskyy names new top aide. What we know on day 1,410Russia’s battlefield gains in Ukraine last year were the highest since 2022, an analysis showed, as Kyiv prepared to host security advisers from allied states despite Moscow’s unrelenting strikes. The Russian army captured more than 5,600 square kilometres, or nearly 1%, of Ukrainian territory in 2025, according to an AFP analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War. The land captured is more than in the previous two years combined, though far short of the more than 60,000 sq km Russia took in 2022.As Russia pressed its advantage against outgunned Ukrainian troops, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said about 15 countries would attend security talks in Kyiv on Saturday, the latest in a flurry of efforts to end the nearly four-year war. The meeting will include representatives from the EU and Nato, while a US delegatio...

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5 d. ago Dead chickens and molotov cocktails sent to critics of Indonesia’s flood response

Campaigners targeted after criticising the government response to deadly flooding in northern Sumatra

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7 d. ago ‘We want the mullahs gone’: economic crisis sparks biggest protests in Iran since 2022

Protests against deteriorating living conditions have widened to include criticism of way country is being governedAlborz, a textile merchant in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, decided he could no longer sit on the sidelines. He closed his shop and took to the streets, joining merchants across Iran who shuttered their stores and students who took over their campuses to protest against declining economic conditions.The sudden loss of purchasing power pushed Alborz and tens of thousands of other Iranians into the streets, where protests are now entering their fourth day. Students have paralysed university campuses, traders have shut down their stores and demonstrators have blocked off streets in defiance of police. Protests have spread from the capital, Tehran, to cities across the country. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Putin defies Trump as Russian army told to grab more Ukrainian land in 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to expand his territory in Ukraine in the New Year despite Donald Trump's proposed peace plan continuing with progress

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9 d. ago At least 13 people killed and 98 injured in train derailment in Mexico

Train accident in Oaxaca is likely to raise criticisms about public works projects from the previous administration At least 13 people were killed when a train derailed in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, in an accident which is likely to revive opposition criticisms of the speed and dealings with which the country’s government builds its flagship public works projects.The incident took place on the Interoceanic Train, which was built to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the narrowest part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, creating an alternative rail cargo route to the Panama canal intended to drive development in the region. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘They want to destroy my career’: Kiwi Chow on life as a dissenting director in Hong Kong

With his new film rejected by official censors, the award-winning film-maker says he is being punished for his outspoken viewsIn Hong Kong, where dissent is now characterised by silence, few dare openly criticise the government or the Chinese Communist party (CCP) that controls it. Film-maker Kiwi Chow is one of the few.“The Chinese Communist party’s practice is to try and destroy history and truth,” the 46-year-old director says from his home in the region. “It’s ridiculous that I can still live in Hong Kong without being in jail.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I wouldn't change anything I've done which led to me losing Labour whip', says Brian Leishman

The Alloa and Grangemouth MP said his criticisms of the UK Government were “justified” and that he “shouldn’t have” been suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.

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1 week ago Key figures in creation of Milton Keynes criticise UK’s new towns plan

Exclusive: Planners behind postwar new towns hit out at government over lack of ambition and commitment to social housingSenior planners involved in building the country’s postwar new towns have raised concerns about the government’s new towns programme, criticising a lack of ambition and insufficient commitment to social housing.Lee Shostak, former director of planning at Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC) in the 1970s and later chair of the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA), said the current plan for the new towns may not help people who need homes the most. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago SNP Government criticised over zero convictions for drink spiking

The statistic has fuelled calls for a specific offence to be created.

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv’s forces battle Russian push to break through in Sumy region

Moscow reported to have forcibly moved dozens of people from border village; Florida peace talks described as ‘productive’. What we know on day 1,398The Ukrainian army was battling an attempted Russian breakthrough in the Sumy region, it said on Sunday, after reports that Moscow forcibly moved 50 people from a border village there. That marks a renewed Russian advance in the part of the region largely spared from intense ground fighting since Ukraine regained land there in a 2022 counteroffensive. “Fighting is currently ongoing in the village of Grabovske,” Ukraine’s joint taskforce said, adding the troops were “making efforts to drive the occupiers back into Russian territory”. It has also refuted media reports saying Moscow’s troops were in the neighbouring Ryasne village. Earlier on Sunday, the Ukrainian rights ombudsman said Russian troops forcibly moved about 50 people from Grabovske to Russia. There was no official comment from Russia. On Saturday, the Russian army said it had...

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2 w. ago Two Indian students ‘forcibly recruited’ into Russian army die in Ukraine

India says 50 citizens awaiting ‘early discharge’ from Russian armed forces

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3 w. ago Oxfam chief criticised government for arming Ukraine and 'tried to rewrite charity's position on Gaza' before being ousted from £130k

Dr Halima Begum's position was declared 'untenable' by the charity's board of trustees following an 'irretrievable breakdown in its trust and confidence' about her ability to do the job.

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3 w. ago Watchdog slam 'unacceptable weaknesses' in management of Historic Environment Scotland

Scotland’s Auditor General has found ‘unacceptable weaknesses’ in the governance of Historic Environment Scotland and criticises the quango and the Scottish Government

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3 w. ago Armed Forces chief urges everyone in Britain to ‘step up’ in the face of major threats

THE Armed Forces chief last night urged everyone in Britain to “step up” in the face of major threats. Sir Richard Knighton made his call in reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. His lecture at the Royal United Services Institute in London was set to warn: “The situation is more dangerous than I have known...

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3 w. ago Anthony Albanese visits the scene of the Bondi Beach terrorist massacre

Anthony Albanese has visited the site of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, as the government is criticised for failing to deal with rising antisemitism.

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