9 h. ago Russia's Lavrov says Great Britain should no longer be called 'Great' while gloating about NATO chaos over Greenland

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Britain should no longer be called Great Britain.

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10 h. ago Russia's Lavrov says Great Britain should no longer be called 'Great' while gloating about NATO chaos over claiming Greenland

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Britain should no longer be called Great Britain.

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11 h. ago Russia’s Lavrov mocks Britain as only country to call itself ‘Great’ in bizarre address

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the comments during his annual end-of-year press conference

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11 h. ago Russia mocks Britain as only country in the world to call itself ‘Great’

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the comments during his annual end-of-year press conference

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13 h. ago Russia declares ‘Starmer is preparing for WW3’ in chilling warning to NATO

European leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer, are openly 'preparing for war against the Russian Federation', Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed

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4 d. ago Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories | Marina Hyde

By welcoming ‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick into the fold, the Reform seer is embracing the uniparty chaos he claimed to be seeing offLike a 1970s rust-belt serial killer, Nigel Farage is painstakingly assembling around him the political corpses of Boris Johnson’s final, terrible cabinet. Think about it. You never see Reform’s defectors after the initial unveiling press conference, and I’m beginning to wonder what happens to them. I think Nigel amateurishly embalms them or stuffs them with horsehair and sackcloth, then seats them round a “cabinet” table in his cellar, where they all silently agree with him at all times, and never interrupt him.But look, I’m prepared to consider more outlandish fan theories too, particularly after the sheer farce of Robert Jenrick’s defection on Thursday. If Nigel’s sloppy-seconding carries on at this rate, the Reform/Conservative party differentiation is going to feel a lot like it did when Bucks Fizz factionalised and split, then mounted rival tours of the U...

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5 d. ago The 18 safety features that all cars could require under new plans

The consultation follows growing calls for safety tech to reduce collisions on Britain's roads

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6 d. ago Café creates 'Britain's biggest breakfast sandwich' and fans can't believe how much is in it

One café has created what it's calling "Britain's biggest breakfast sandwich", and viewers have been amazed by what's in it. One said: "I would die with a big smile trying to eat all that."

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7 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Oreshnik missile sparks anger at UN security council

Strike on Lviv that used nuclear-capable ballistic missile a ‘dangerous, inexplicable escalation’. What we know on day 1,420 The US and Britain have condemned Russia for dropping a nuclear-capable Oreshnik ballistic missile on Ukraine. At an emergency meeting of the UN security council, Tammy Bruce, US deputy ambassador, called the Lviv strike a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation”. Britain’s acting UN ambassador, James Kariuki, called the attack “reckless”, adding that “it threatens regional and international security and carries significant risk of escalation and miscalculation”.Russia claimed the Oreshnik targeted an aviation repair factory. Ukraine has not confirmed what was hit but said the missile struck during a wider attack using drones and other rockets. The rarely used, multiple warhead Oreshnik missile is thought to be in limited supply – Ukraine’s military and special forces claim to have destroyed at least one of them on the ground in Russia. Observers have rated the...

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1 week ago Did Leonardo da Vinci paint a nude Mona Lisa? I may have just solved this centuries

It is one of the most tantalising – and entertaining – puzzles in art, stretching from the Louvre to the Loire via, well, Norfolk. And our critic thinks he has just worked it outIncreased security after the recent heist has made the queues at the Louvre even slower, yet on this rainswept, very wintry morning, no one grumbles. After all, the Mona Lisa is waiting inside for all these tourists who have come from the world over. Leonardo da Vinci’s woman – swathed in dark cloth and silk, smiling enigmatically as she sits in front of a landscape of rocks, road and water – draws crowds like no other painting. But if the Mona Lisa can attract such attention fully clothed, what would the queues be like if she was nude?Strangely, this is not just amusing speculation – because in 18th-century Britain, she was. An engraving issued by a publisher called John Boydell gave libertine Georgians the opportunity to hang “Joconda” in their boudoir. It must have been popular because many copies survive...

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1 week ago Britain calls for transition in Iran to 'fair and democratic' government as protests grow in Tehran

Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Iran’s capital and in other cities

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2 w. ago Furious fallen dictator Nicolás Maduro's hearing descends into chaos as he gets into shouting match with man claiming he was prisoner of his regime

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's first US court appearance erupted into chaos as he shouted, he was a 'prisoner of war' at a man who accused him of jailing him.

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2 w. ago Homes in seaside town had the steepest price rise in Britain after it was called 'the best place to live'.. but what do residents actually think?

House prices in Plymouth have risen almost 13 per cent in the last year - faster than any other UK city.

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4 w. ago 'It started with a single phone call': Veteran broadcaster MICHAEL BUERK'S harrowing firsthand account of Britain's deadliest terror attack at Lockerbie

Michael Buerk reported the breaking news on the BBC Nine O'Clock News. At dawn, he flew to Scotland, arriving in Lockerbie the morning after the bombing.

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4 w. ago The EU’s deeds as much as Putin’s words will ensure the war in Ukraine continues | Rajan Menon

A €90bn loan is a lifeline for Zelenskyy. But make no mistake – the bloodshed won’t end while the Russian president believes he can still winVladimir Putin’s marathon press conference on 19 December, an annual year-end event, offered no evidence that Russia may abandon the goals the president set for his “special military operation” against Ukraine in February 2022: conquering Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. True to form, Putin seemed unperturbed that nearly four years into the war his army had managed to fully occupy only Luhansk, despite having already taken control of more than a third of that region, as well as Donetsk, by 2015.Putin’s unyielding stance shouldn’t be a surprise. Soon after the invasion, Russia’s State Duma adopted legislation incorporating these four Ukrainian regions into Russia – and this month the foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and the deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, reiterated Putin’s territorial claims.Rajan Menon is a professor emerit...

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