3 h. ago Starmer calls for Zelensky to be part of Ukraine peace talks ahead of Trump meeting

With a rift opening between Europe and the White House over Ukraine, the prime minister and president Zelensky held talks on Saturday to plan for a ‘very active’ week ahead for the conflict

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7 h. ago Starmer vows to push for Ukraine’s sovereignty in Trump talks next week

The Prime Minister insisted Kyiv’s voice must be at the heart of any peace negotiations in a call on Saturday.

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16 h. ago Erdem Moralıoğlu: 'Tourist tax is crazy. We have to make London more attractive for shoppers'

Ahead of his London Fashion Week show, the designer talks to Dylan Jones about the capital’s fashion status, the Princess of Wales and why show season is ‘everything’

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39 h. ago Canada’s ice hockey win over Trump’s America was her soft power laid bare | Colin Horgan

Trump can try to co-opt hockey. But Thursday showed that wherever where you’re from, when you step onto the ice, something about you will always be CanadianCanada beat US 3-2 on McDavid’s winner in overtimeCanadian anthem singer alters lyric in Trump protestIn pictures: Canada top US amid geopolitical tensionsIn a clip from ESPN sports talkshow Get Up that went viral last week, former National Hockey League player PK Subban weighed in on the differences between the culture in the NHL and NBA. Usually, comparing the two is a game of numbers: revenue, viewers, salaries, that kind of thing. But over the past 10 days, passion has emerged as a differentiator. “You can step on to an NBA floor and go through the motions,” Subban said on ESPN. “You can’t do that in hockey – you can’t. Like, the culture of our sport, you have to play it with passion. You have to be willing to fight. You have to be willing to leave it on the ice. That’s what fans are investing in.”That investment has paid off...

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52 h. ago The Guardian view on Gaza’s future: the ceasefire and hostage deal must not fizzle out | Editorial

As Donald Trump persists with a monstrous proposal to remove Palestinians, the immediate need is to prevent fresh conflictThe pain and damage wreaked in the last 16 months will reverberate through families, communities and the Middle East for decades to come. On Thursday, the bodies of two young children and their mother, and that of an 83-year-old peace activist, were returned to Israel by Hamas. They were kidnapped in the 7 October 2023 raid in which the militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and others. Around 48,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war in response.It was always feared that the ceasefire deal, which has brought desperately needed respite for Palestinians in Gaza and the return of Israeli and foreign hostages, would be fleeting. The six-week opening stage is due to expire on 1 March. The talks on the more complicated second stage have yet to begin, more than a fortnight after the...

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60 h. ago Loose Women's Jane Moore looks very different as she makes London Fashion Week debut

Loose Women anchor Jane Moore looked very different to how fans recognise her as she talk to the runway for London Fashion Week alongside a string of celebs

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66 h. ago What role could the UK play in ending the Ukraine war? – Politics Weekly

Donald Trump’s plans to end the war in Ukraine have taken centre stage this week. But, with Ukraine excluded from US-Russia talks, could they really accept what might be on offer? And what role will the UK and Europe play?John Harris hears from diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour and columnist Gaby Hinsliff about what a resolution could look likeSend your questions and feedback to politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump sparks fury by blaming Ukraine for war as Kremlin says talks between him and Putin may be next week

US president says Ukraine ‘could have made a deal’ earlier as he addresses Kyiv not being invited to US Russia talks

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3 d. ago Starmer prepares to seek approval from Trump for Chagos Islands deal

Dispute over accord with Mauritius intensifies ahead of talks between UK prime minister and US president next week

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5 d. ago Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US

Leaders arrive at Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have divergedEurope live – latest updatesThey came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.The leaders of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and – speaking for the Nordic and Baltic states – Denmark, plus Britain’s prime minister and the heads of Nato and the European Commission and Council, arrived in Paris reeling from a historic week. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Keir Starmer to meet Donald Trump in Washington next week amid split on talks to end Putin's Ukraine war

Downing Street confirmed that the Prime Minister will fly to the US within days

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5 d. ago Middle East crisis live: Lebanon concerned Israel will not withdraw troops by deadline as IDF says Hamas leader killed in south

Israeli military said it killed a Hamas commander in an airstrike in southern Lebanon’s Sidon areaReuters has seen a document that sets out the EU’s plan to tell Israel next week in talks in Brussels that Palestinian people displaced from Gaza should be “ensured a safe and dignified return to their homes in the territory.The bloc is to outline its position to Israeli officials in talks on 24 February as part of the EU-Israel Association Council, the first such session since 2022. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Russia releases second US citizen in a week as a gesture of 'goodwill' as America and Kremlin prepare for Ukraine peace talks in Saudi

Kalob Wayne Byers, 28, a nurse and musician, was identified as the American who was detained at Moscow 's Vnukovo Airport on February 7 on drug smuggling charges.

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5 d. ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for hazelnut and mushroom ragu with pasta | A kitchen in Rome

Its origins may be a mystery, but what is certain is that this luxuriant alternative to meat ragu is totally delicious“Antica e desueta [archaic and forgotten] is a beguiling introduction to a recipe,” I said to my friend, the cook and writer Stefano Arturi, when we talked on the phone the other week. He laughed, noting that those words in relation to recipes made him both curious and, because of their foggy closeness to mythologising, suspicious.It was his recipe for hazelnut ragu that started it all, sending us down more or less the same paths in books and online, where we met more of the same thing: fabulously contradictory stories in which ragu made from hazelnuts was an ancient Piedmontese dish of great beauty born out of economy and hardship, and also “forgotten”, which justifies the lack of any evidence as to where it actually came from. Yet also, a breezy, contemporary dish that, like so many modern dishes, was scorned by those faithful to more traditional (ancient, authenti...

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