1 hour ago Volodymyr Zelensky reveals new Donald Trump 'force' threat made over the phone

Zelensky has repeated his stance that the war will not end until Ukraine is completely free of Russian forces

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2 h. ago Trump cutting funding to train and support European troops in countries bordering Russia: report

The apparent shift has alarmed European defense leaders, who see the presence of U.S. troops and support as a key deterrent against Moscow

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2 h. ago Trump tells European leaders that buying Russian oil is helping Moscow fund war against Ukraine

Trump joined a call of the “Coalition of the Willing” countries, led by French President Emmanuel Macron

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5 h. ago Erupcja review – Charli xcx gives acting a trial run in shallow friendship drama

Toronto film festival: the star fails to make much of an impression in a slight and unpolished project filmed in Warsaw over the Brat summer of 2024The singer Charli xcx is, by her own admission, a workaholic – no sooner had she released Brat, the most dominant pop album and aesthetic of 2024, than she began work on its sequel, dropped just four months later. Insouciant and party-centric as her image may be, the pop star born Charlotte Aitchison is a sharp student of pop culture; she knows the audience demand for pop stars’ constant reinvention. The next career phase, it seems, is acting, with no less prodigiousness than music; the 33-year-old has seven films in the pipeline as a supporting or lead actor.Charli is neither the full star nor the anchor of Erupcja (Eruption), directed by Pete Ohs, but she will inevitably be the reason most English speakers hear of it. Filmed over a few weeks in Warsaw, Poland, in August 2024, in the heat of Brat summer, Erupcja seems, on paper, like a ...

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5 h. ago Dylan O'Brien sends a message to the culprits who leaked crucial sex scene from his new film Twinless

The controversy erupted earlier this year after scenes from the movie emerged online, prompting Sundance to remove the flick from their online screening portal.

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5 h. ago A John Candy documentary gives Toronto film fest a tender and appropriately Canadian opening night

The documentary “John Candy: I Like Me,” directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, is a tribute not just to Candy the actor, but Candy, the man

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5 h. ago First look at Charli xcx acting debut sees fans predicting Oscar success in telling clip

Pop star Charli xcx has been seen in her first acting role as she takes on a number of huge film projects which has left fans all saying the same thing about her future

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6 h. ago Bluey movie release date revealed as parents are told to 'brace yourselves'

Popular children's cartoon Bluey is set to become a feature-length film with Disney and BBC Studios announcing its release date

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7 h. ago European leaders press Trump over peacekeeper plan for Ukraine

Leaders ask president on call to detail security guarantees US could give to European force in event of ceasefireEuropean leaders have made fresh efforts to pin down Donald Trump on the level of support he is willing to give Ukraine to push back a Russian advance, and asked him to detail the security guarantees he would provide to any European peacekeeping force inside Ukraine in the event of a lasting ceasefire.European leaders spoke with Trump by video call on Thursday after first holding a meeting of the so-called “coalition of the willing” in Paris, co-chaired by Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Trump’s DC crackdown is exposing all the FBI’s undercover cars, agents warn

FBI agents fearful of potential impact on surveillance operations against drug traffickers, fentanyl suppliers, and Russian or Chinese spies

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8 h. ago The Guardian view on Xi, Putin and Kim: heed China’s statement of intent, but don’t take it as fact | Editorial

Images of the autocrats at Wednesday’s military parade reflected the shifting global order. But Donald Trump is hastening Beijing’s riseOn Wednesday morning, Beijingers living near Tiananmen Square were issued with cold breakfast packs and ordered to refrain from cooking, lest smoke from stoves cloud the skies above the mammoth military parade. China’s Communist party goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that nothing obscures the message of such performances – in this case, that Xi Jinping is reshaping the global order and that China is, in his words, “unstoppable”.The parade marked 80 years since the end of the second world war, positioning China as the critical force in victory in the east then, and a force to be similarly reckoned with today as “humanity is again faced with the choice of peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum”, in Mr Xi’s words. China is “not afraid of bullies”. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Both Mounjaro and Wegovy failed me and now I'm using this black market 'Godzilla' jab to shed the pounds. I know the risks... but the weight loss is staggering and it's cheaper than the rest

Users on the drug, stronger than anything else on the market, promise it shifts weight in a way semaglutide and Mounjaro can't. But it is still in clinical trials.

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9 h. ago Emerald Fennell's first trailer for Wuthering Heights is here and it looks freaky as hell

The first look features erotic bread kneading, bodice ripping and fingering a fish. Emily Brontë fans are on the warpath

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10 h. ago Mum who 'snatched' her Brit toddler in Spain before heading to Russia pictured

Anastasiia Chikina is the Russian mum at the centre of a case being treated as a suspected abduction as her son Oliver Pugh has not been seen since July this year

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10 h. ago How Armani invented modern red carpet style: Designer's tailoring for women and showstopping gowns totally transformed how A

It might be difficult to imagine, but before the Italian designer's time, stars wouldn't dress in a fashion house's finery on the red carpet, but would style themselves just as normal people do.

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10 h. ago The Defector: KGB agent's defection after Soho drink drive arrest changed the shape of the Cold War

The Evening Standard scooped the world in 1971 with the first and only picture of Russian defector Oleg Lyalin, who is now the subject of a compelling new book

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10 h. ago Hugh Bonneville 'panics' ITV interviewer by interrupting question with Gaza speech live on air

Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville left an ITV reporter red-faced after halting an interview on the film's red carpet to speak about the "absolutely indefensible" situation in Gaza

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10 h. ago Oleksandr Usyk told to retire immediately for one major reason

The Ukrainian has been told to call it a day after he became a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion back in July after knocking out Daniel Dubois

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11 h. ago The Voice of Hind Rajab review – docufiction is fierce, vehement and heart

In an audacious move, director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice as she is bombarded by the Israeli armyThere can be no doubt about which movie has set the Venice film festival ablaze – it is this one, from Tunisian film-maker Kaouther Ben Hania. The Voice of Hind Rajab is about the horrifying ordeal of the five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who was killed in 2024 by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza in her uncle’s car along with six family members, and two paramedics who tried to come to her rescue. Rajab herself, who survived the original assault by the IDF which killed those around her, stayed on the phone for hours to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), desperately begging for help. With startling audacity, Ben Hania has used the real audio recording of Rajab’s heart-wrenching voice, while fictionally reconstructing the drama of the emergency responders in their call-centre office, with real people ...

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11 h. ago Wuthering Heights is getting the Saltburn treatment – no wonder its devoted fans are in revolt

As the trailer for Emerald Fennell’s film arrives and causes outrage among many Emily Brontë fans, Katie Rosseinsky writes about why those who grew up with this story are so protective over it

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