11 h. ago Leaked UN experts report raises fresh concerns over UAE’s role in Sudan war

As crucial London peace talks set to begin, report seen by the Guardian raises questions over ‘multiple’ flights into bases in ChadPressure is mounting on the United Arab Emirates over its presence at a crucial conference in London aimed at stopping the war in Sudan after a leaked confidential UN report raised fresh questions over the UAE’s role in the devastating conflict.The UAE has been accused of secretly supplying weapons to Sudanese paramilitaries via neighbouring Chad, a charge it has steadfastly denied. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Sudan’s news blackout stokes fear and confusion after refugee camp attacks

Families of those displaced wait for news from Darfur amid reports of hundreds killed by paramilitary RSFSudan’s information blackout has left relatives of those in Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp struggling for news of their safety after it was overrun by militiamen at the weekend.As leaders across the globe prepared to meet for peace talks in London to pressure the backers of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army to agree a ceasefire, the RSF launched a deadly assault that led to it seizing Zamzam after weeks of tightening its siege. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Russian missile strike kills dozens in Palm Sunday attack on Ukraine’s Sumy

Starmer ‘appalled’ at city centre carnage days after US envoy meets Putin for peace talks

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60 h. ago ‘People were burned alive in their cars’: As peace talks falter, Ukrainians resign themselves to fighting on

At a medical stabilisation point on the frontline, medics work unrelentingly as scores of badly wounded soldiers are brought in every nightIt is 11.20pm, and in an instant the emergency centre comes alive. Doctors and medics are conjured up from somewhere nearby to treat two wounded Ukrainian soldiers who have arrived together – one with serious shrapnel injuries to his right eye, the other who had a pile of bricks fall on his chest after a drone strike.Yet it is the third, who arrives on a stretcher shortly after, who is the worst affected. The dark “panda eyes” signify a brain injury, while his back is also studded with bloody red wounds from drone or mortar fire. He has to be stabilised by half a dozen medics before being transported to a hospital in the rear. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Peace in Ukraine ‘appears out of reach’ in near future and Putin ‘dragging his feet’ on ceasefire

The warning came as John Healey accused Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet in peace talks

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4 d. ago US ambassador to Ukraine to step down as peace talks uncertain

The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is stepping down from her post after nearly three years in Kyiv

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6 d. ago Michigan woman,74, found alive in woods days after car caught on fire on way home

Nancy Bloomquist spent three days in freezing temperatures sheltered next to a fallen tree

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6 d. ago Is Beijing secretly supporting Russia in Ukraine? Presence of Chinese troops in Donetsk shows 'authoritarian axis in action', experts say after soldiers were captured by Zelensky's men

The presence of Chinese soldiers on the battlefield threatens to upend the delicate status quo with U.S.-mediated peace talks failing to make decisive progress.

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6 d. ago Zelensky warns 'many' China soldiers are on Russia frontlines as two captured in shock escalation

Two 'Chinese prisoners' have been seized by Ukrainian troops, caught fighting alongside Kremlin forces - sparking fears of a major new escalation amid so-called peace talks with Vladimir Putin

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8 d. ago Poor countries say rich world betraying them over climate pledges on shipping

Proposal that ships pay levy on emissions to fund climate action in poor countries opposed by powerful economiesPoor countries have accused the rich world of “backsliding” and betrayal of their climate commitments, as they desperately tried to keep alive a long-awaited deal to cut carbon from shipping.Nations from 175 countries have gathered in London this week at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to hammer out the final details of a deal, more than a decade in the making, that could finally deliver a plan to decarbonise shipping over the next 25 years. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Ukraine Russia war latest: Zelensky calls on West to step up pressure on Putin after deadly Kyiv strike

Early morning major Russian missiles attack sparks explosions in Kyiv, injuring three and killing one

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9 d. ago Ukraine Russia war latest: Poland scrambles warplanes after all of Ukraine under Russian missiles threat

Early morning major Russian missiles attack sparks explosions in Kyiv and injures three

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9 d. ago A rebel group begins handing weapons over to the Colombian government as peace talks advance

Colombia's defense ministry says a rebel group called the Commoners of the South has begun handing its weapons over to the government

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9 d. ago British and French military chiefs discuss plans to build on ‘formidable capabilities’ of Ukrainian army in peacekeeping talks

The defence secretary will hold further talks of the ‘coalition of the willing’ next week

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1 week ago Marco Rubio warns Russia to take action on Ukraine peace talks

‘We will know soon enough, in a matter of weeks, not months, whether Russia is serious about peace or not,’ said Rubio

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1 week ago Why Kyle Walker & Annie Kilner don’t have to worry about Lauryn Goodman 'kiss

Lauryn Goodman is reportedly keen to have 'peace talks' with Kyle Walker's wife Annie Kilner, after years of public spats and rows over the England star, who has recently left Manchester City to join AC Milan

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: EU ministers call out Kremlin for delaying ceasefire

Pin down Putin over peace talks, say foreign ministers, as Peskov talks of ‘drawn-out process’; Ukraine seeks changes to minerals deal. What we know on day 1,133 Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Putin orders biggest Russian military conscription for years after claims of stalling peace talks

Vladimir Putin has ordered the conscription of 160,000 Russians aged from 18 to 30 - the new order will be implemented from April 1 and must be complete by July 15

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2 w. ago Undiagnosed entertainment: how Hollywood awkwardly dodges autism

Eccentric, blunt-speaking characters who present as being on the spectrum are everywhere on our screens – but why are their creators so reluctant to state it openly?I received my autism diagnosis about a decade into my career as a comedian and about three decades into being alive. In the eyes of some of the frothier comment section trolls, being a comedian means that I can’t be autistic, despite the likes of Fern Brady and Stewart Lee proving otherwise. This is because people are keener on stereotypes than admitting they know nothing about autism – why is the general level of knowledge so poor?With Elon Musk and Robert F Kennedy Jr doing their best to make autism terrifying again, either by implying that it causes sieg heiling or by bringing back the MMR autism panic of the 1990s (along with actual measles), it struck me that we autistic people don’t have a lot of reliable representation to fall back on. There’s Rain Man, of course, and Ben Af...

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2 w. ago 'As a young family we had so many hopes and dreams for the future that we’ll never get to fulfil'

“The [hospital] failed her repeatedly and in so many ways. It’s difficult not to think that Sharzia would still be alive had she had been given the care she deserved”

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