1 hour ago Putin launches devastating attack on Ukraine’s energy network as Denmark warns of repeated provocations at sea

Russia escalates drone and missile attacks as Europe raises its own concerns about alleged Moscow activity in its borders

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3 h. ago Putin launches devastating attack on Ukrainian energy as Denmark warns of repeated provocations at sea

Russia escalated devastating drone and missile attacks on Ukraine as Europe raised its own concerns about alleged Russian activity in its borders

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3 h. ago 'Manchester synagogue terror attacker's father worked at North Manchester General Hospital', says neighbour

Jihad Al-Shamie's father is understood to be a trauma surgeon in war-torn areas of the world

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4 h. ago Trump and White House ramp up racist memes blaming Democrats for shutdown: ‘Dollar Store Obama’

President continues to troll House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries with mariachi jibes as U.S. government remains mired in shutdown with federal jobs and public services at stake

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4 h. ago Trump’s ‘Project 2025’ firings loom as Senate leader Thune says Dems ‘playing with fire’ on Day 3 of government shutdown: Live updates

Federal government shutdown enters day three as Trump puts government employees and projects in jeopardy

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5 h. ago Cracker Barrel drops the hammer on consulting firm behind its disastrous rebrand debacle

Rebrand became a culture war battleground as conservatives reacted with fury to the now ditched new logo

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5 h. ago ‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni

With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Donald Trump issues Hamas with new Gaza peace deadline, or face 'all hell'

The US president has urged Hamas to agree to his 'last chance' deal to end the war in Gaza by the end of this week, days after the White House released Trump's peace plan

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5 h. ago US book publishers honor Russian dissident house Freedom Letters

The Association of American Publishers is honoring a Russian publishing house for its fight against censorship

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5 h. ago Green leader warns of authoritarian ‘alarm bells’ in conference speech

Zack Polanski, the newly elected leader of the Green Party, criticised Labour and Reform in conference speech on Friday.

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6 h. ago Michelle Mone has ';no wish to return' to House of Lords as Tory peer after PPE scandal

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said this week that Mone should 'have the book thrown at her.'

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6 h. ago Michelle Mone told us ‘business isn’t easy’ during Covid. How are things now, your ladyship? | Marina Hyde

After a company she was linked to was ordered to repay £122m it made from pandemic deals, the baroness has embarked on a masterclass in victimhoodBy their own accounts, there have been two Westminster-adjacent victims of inflammatory language this week. One is the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, hurt to the point of requiring smelling salts by some politically commonplace words spoken by the prime minister. And the other is legally besieged bra baroness Michelle Mone, who has always been performatively sensitive, with chaos as her rising sign.Alas, far from their shared victimhood drawing our two snowflakes closer together, in Michelle, we may have finally found the Tory from whom Nigel would not accept a defection to Reform. Which really means something, considering Britain’s would-be next prime minister currently has precisely zero peers in the House of Lords. Like the PPE she provided during the pandemic, Michelle would be deemed incredibly expensive and absolutely unusable.Marin...

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6 h. ago Michelle Mone tells Kemi Badenoch: I don't want to return to Lords as a Tory peer

Lady Mone accused the Conservative leader of using ‘inflammatory’ and ‘reckless’ language that could prejudice a police investigation into her role in the awarding of PPE contracts

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6 h. ago Gareth Bale and Andy Murray's new golf handicaps as full celebrity list published

Wales football legend Gareth Bale boasts an impressive golf handicap and he blows other celebrities out of the water

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6 h. ago ANDREW PIERCE reveals Starmer's fatal mistake which 'raised Nigel Farage to the status of a martyr'

Sir Keir Starmer made Nigel Farage the focus of his keynote speech at the Labour Conference in Liverpool, repeatedly taking aim at the Reform UK leader's policies and politics.

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6 h. ago Michelle Mone: Businesswoman has 'no wish' to return as Tory peer, as 'shocked' letter sent to Kemi Badenoch

Michelle Mone has responded directly to Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch

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6 h. ago Nicki Minaj and Cardi B write open letters to each other's kids as they go to war

Nicki Minaj and Cardi B have been locked in a tense war of words with one another on social media, often taking personal digs – now, they've written a letter to each other's children

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6 h. ago Baroness Michelle Mone resigns as Conservative peer after PPE scandal

Michelle Mone, who has links to PPE Medpro wrote a letter to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after accusing Chancellor Rachel Reeves of using 'dangerous and inflammatory' language about her

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6 h. ago Green Party leader calls for all drugs to be legalised and blasts Farage 'dark forces'

Zack Polanski told the BBC that a 'public health approach' is needed to drugs, including cocaine and heroin, and in his party conference speech he had a strong message to Nigel Farage

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7 h. ago Czechs begin voting in election that could return populist to power

Billionaire Andrej Babiš hands out doughnuts on first day of voting as polls predict his ANO party will winCzechs have begun voting in an election likely to oust their centre-right government, with polls favouring the populist billionaire Andrej Babiš to return to power on pledges to raise wages and improve growth while reducing aid for Ukraine.The change would boost Europe’s populist anti-immigration camp and could complicate consensus on climate policies in a country where no sitting government has won a second term since 1996. Continue reading...

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