51 h. ago White House claims ‘acquisition of Greenland’ is purpose of working group – Europe live

Denmark’s foreign secretary has denied the assertion and since reiterated that discussion over territory is a red line.After meeting with the US vice-president JD Vance and state secretary Marco Rubio on Wednesday, the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced a new diplomatic channel to discuss their “fundamental” disagreements over Greenland: namely, a working group with the US.Well, it turns out the White House does not see it exactly in the same way. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium | Van Badham

The AI chatbot’s torrent of nonconsensual deepfakes isn’t its first scandal and won’t be its last. Responsible governments should simply ban itGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBillionaire and career Bond-villain cosplayer Elon Musk has been forced by public backlash into a humiliating backdown over use of his AI chatbot, Grok. Watching the world’s richest man eat a shit sandwich on a global stage represents a rare win for sovereign democracy.Because – unlike his company history of labour and safety abuses his exploding rockets his government interventions that deny aid to the starving disabling Starlink internet systems in war zones sharing “white solidarity” statements or growing concern about overvaluations of his company’s share price – the nature of Grok’s latest scandal may finally be inspiring governments towards imposing some Musk-limiting red lines. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump promises 'very strong action' against Iran as he reveals new red line

The president previously warned Tehran that he would take military action if it harmed protesters. Since then, at least 2,000 demonstrators have been killed.

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4 d. ago Trump promises 'very strong action' if Iran 'crosses red line' and executes protester

At least 2,000 people have been killed during anti-government protests in Iran, and Donald Trump has spoken out against the regime's handling of demonstrators in the country

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5 d. ago Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X after minister calls Grok’s sexualised images ‘weapons of abuse’

Charlotte Nichols calls on technology secretary to set out ‘red line’ social media firms must cross before government switches to alternative platforms

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6 d. ago Trump warns Iran close to crossing 'red line' vowing 'strong options' on deaths

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: US President Donald Trump is said to be considering weighing up possible strikes on Iran amid ongoing demonstrations against the tyrannical regime

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6 d. ago Trump says Iran is getting close to crossing the 'red line' and vows to look at 'strong options' after 'deaths of 500 protesters'

Donald Trump has warned Iran it is close to crossing a 'red line' after the nation's security forces killed a reported 500 protesters during a brutal crackdown against demonstrations in Tehran.

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1 week ago Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer

The owner of X has grown used to acting with impunity – but this may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speechIt’s a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X’s AI chatbot, has been used repeatedly by users in recent days to undress images of women and minors. The news outlet Reuters identified 102 requests in a 10-minute period last Friday from users to get Grok to edit people into bikinis, the majority of these targeting young women. Grok complied with at least 21 of them.There is no excuse for releasing exploitative tools on the internet when you are sitting on $10bn (£7.5bn) in cash. Every platform with AI integration (which now covers almost the entire internet) is planning for the same challenges; if you want to enable users to create images and even videos with generative AI, how do you do so without letting the same people cause harm? Tech companies spend mo...

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2 w. ago Iran warns Trump not to cross ‘red line’ after US president says military ‘locked and loaded’ to help protesters

Wave of protests across Iran including calls for overthrow of Ayatollah Khamenei

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2 w. ago ITV Red Eye newcomer says 'it's really not easy' as they praise co

ITV viewers have seen Line of Duty star Martin Compston join the second series of Red Eye

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2 w. ago Iranian officials warn Trump not to cross ‘red line’ over threats to intervene in protests

US president’s posts that US will come to the rescue of protesters prompts warnings of ‘regret-inducing response’Donald Trump has threatened to intervene in Iran if its government killed demonstrators, prompting warnings from senior Iranian officials that any American interference would cross a “red line”.In a social media post on Friday, Trump said that if Iran shoots and kills protesters, the US would “come to their rescue”. He added: “We are locked and loaded, and ready to go”, without explaining what that might mean in practice. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Meet the Red Eye season 2 cast from Line of Duty icon to Downton Abbey star

Red Eye season two debuts tonight on ITV with a number of new stars joining the cast.

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2 w. ago Inside Red Eye cast including Line of Duty legend as major return confirmed

Red Eye has returned for a second outing after popular demand and it welcomes a number of new faces.

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2 w. ago What happened next: the man who saved the last phone box in his village

When BT earmarked the kiosk for closure in January, Derek Harris began to campaign. The fight gave him purpose at a difficult time in his life‘I don’t want it to die’: one man’s battle to save the last phone box in his villageThe caller display flashes up: “Derek in the K6” it reads. On the line is Derek Harris, ringing from the red phone box he saved for his village. When he saw, on the agenda for the parish council meeting, that BT had earmarked it for closure, Harris knew he had to fight it. “It’s fighting for what is valuable, cherished,” he told me when I went to meet him in February, sitting over coffee in a cafe near Sharrington, the Norfolk village that has been his home for more than 50 years, and the phone box for longer. It’s a K6, for Kiosk No 6, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.For a few weeks, Harris, then 89, became a media star. One of the criteria for keeping a phone box in use is that at least 52 calls have to be made from it in a year (fewer than 10 had...

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3 w. ago Did 2025 mark the end of British parliamentary democracy as we know it? | Andy Beckett

The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknownWas this the year that British democracy as we have known it began to turn into something else? Politicians, voters and journalists have made this claim before – when their side has been out of power for a long while, or when an elected government has been unusually dictatorial – and their warnings have usually been overstated. But this time the evidence of a fundamental shift away from a century-old status quo seems stronger.Familiar landmarks have disappeared: Labour and Tory dominance, two-party electoral contests, the decisive power of a big Westminster majority, the patience voters usually show towards a new government, the predictable pendulum swing between right and left, the red lines between mainstream and extreme politics and even the central role of parliament.Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The hill I will die on: Fruit with meat? What kind of pervert are you? | Katy Guest

Please don’t ever offer me cranberry sauce with my roast turkey – that’s just jam on your Christmas dinner, and who wants that?As a grumpy old woman in the prime of my pedantry, I have already died on many hills, and I have the scars to prove it. I have sacrificed myself on the battlefield of patriarchy chicken, by walking square into people who stride down the centre of the pavement staring at their phones and expecting everyone else to jump out of their way. I have risked life and limb in a pub full of football fans by declaring my belief that the only “real sports” are running fast, jumping high and throwing or swimming far – the rest are just “games”. And I have driven myself to tears by consistently walking into the same branch of Pret a Manger and ordering the same coffee, please, “and nothing else”, and then standing there blankly when I’m invariably asked, “And anything else?” When it comes to defending arbitrary red lines, my belligerence knows no bounds.And yet, with Chris...

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3 w. ago Starmer ‘very happy’ with Cabinet and sticking to EU ‘red lines’ – No 10

The response came after Wes Streeting appeared to back joining a customs union with Brussels.

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3 w. ago How Man Utd could line up if Ruben Amorim lands three dream January targets

Antoine Semenyo would come straight into Ruben Amorim's Manchester United starting lineup if the Red Devils seal a £65million transfer for the Bournemouth star

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