2 h. ago Ukraine pounds Kursk with drones as Trump again blames Zelensky for Putin's invasion

Russia’s defence ministry claimed to have shot down over 100 drones above its Kursk region

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11 h. ago JD Vance fumbles Ohio State’s national title trophy during White House visit

Vice-president unable to hang on to trophyBuckeyes were celebrating last season’s title winJD Vance, the man entrusted as America’s back-up in times of emergency, may not be the safest pair of hands if Monday’s events are anything to go by. The vice-president ended the Ohio State football team’s visit to the White House by fumbling the team’s national championship trophy.After laudatory speeches by Donald Trump, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day and Vance on the South Lawn, the Vance – an Ohio State graduate – tried to lift the trophy. He didn’t appear to realize that the top of the trophy is detachable from its base. After a moment of struggle, the vice-president lost his grip on the two pieces. OSU running back TreVeyon Henderson, standing behind Vance, grabbed the football-shaped top of the trophy, but the base fell to the ground, forcing Vance to grasp around as it rolled away from him. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago A street parade and a drone attack: photos of the day – Monday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Immigration lawyer 'deported' via Team Trump email...but they made huge mistake

US citizen Nicole Micheroni was stunned when she opened the letter from the Department of Homeland Security on Friday morning.

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26 h. ago EU foreign ministers meet in wake of deadly Russian attack on Sumy as Zelenskyy issues plea for Trump to visit Ukraine – Europe live

EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg after Russian attack kills at least 34 in SumyThe Ukrainian air force said on Monday that Russia launched 62 drones to attack the country overnight, Reuters reported.Separately, regional officials said overnight attacks by Russia sparked a fire at a petrol station in Zaporizhzhia, injured at least eight people and damaged houses across the southeastern part of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago ‘There’s no way’: Experts doubt Trump team’s plan to reach 90 trade deals in three months

‘There's no way during this timeframe we're doing a comprehensive agreement with any of these countries,’ one expert said

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4 d. ago China raises US tariffs to 125% as Xi invites EU to team up against Trump ‘bullying’

Chinese leader canvasses Spain and other trading partners on how to tackle economic fallout as market turmoil continuesBusiness live – latest updatesWhy did ‘strongman’ Trump back down on tariffs? – podcastChina has raised its tariffs on US products to 125% in the latest salvo of the trade dispute with Washington, just hours after Xi Jinping said there were “no winners in a tariff war”.Xi made the comments during a meeting with the Spanish prime minister in which he invited the EU to work with China to resist “bullying”, part of an apparent campaign to shore up other trading partners. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Fresh detail around theft of designer clothes at shopping centre is alarming

The Mexican cartel have been linked to the $5,000 thefts of designer clothes from the Katy Mills Mall in Texas, US, as officers carried out a search warrant on an Airbnb

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4 d. ago F1 team issues statement as Donald Trump's US tariffs prompt changes

Donald Trump's tariff announcements and their economic impact are being felt in all sectors and have prompted a statement from one Formula 1 team after their parent company's announcement

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6 d. ago Kharkiv firefighters tackle huge blaze after Russia launches drone attack

Russia’s massive drone attack on Kharkiv on Tuesday evening (8 April) caused multiple fires to break out, injuring at least two people, according to local officials.

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6 d. ago Trump team considering using drones to attack Mexican cartels on their own turf: report

Officials have reportedly discussed the possibility of using drone strikes to combat Mexican drug cartels

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7 d. ago Rollercoaster for US stock markets as tariff uncertainty puts investors on edge

Wall Street shows some recovery after initial falls as Trump’s team dismiss rumours of a 90-day pause on tariffs as ‘fake news’US Politics Live: Trump says Federal Reserve should cut ratesVolatility grips global stock markets as Trump insists on tariff ‘medicine’Hong Kong stocks have plummeted more than 9% at open, while Singapore stocks dropped over 7%, according to reports.Hong Kong and Chinese stocks dived on Monday as markets around the world crumbled in the face of the widening global trade war and fears it will unleash a deep recession, Reuters says. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Donald Trump's team 'declares war' on masturbation with 'insane' new US sex laws

MAGA politicians are going after the burning issue causing all of American's problems – the sex toy. Lawmakers in Texas want to ban the sale of vibrators anywhere outside of strip clubs, the suckers

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9 d. ago Decapitated body found in middle of street as city rocked by Mexican cartel civil war

The cartel civil war that has been rocking Culiacán in Mexico since September 2024 shows no sign of stopping as another victim was found dead in the street on Friday night

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9 d. ago Zelensky blasts US official reaction to Putin strike on his home city as Russian missiles and drones kill 19 including nine children

The death toll from Friday's attack in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih included nine children.

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9 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 5 unhinged things Donald Trump and his team did while the US economy kept tanking

Perhaps in 2,000 odd years, whatever's left of humanity will be talking about people 'watching the golf while the economy tanked'

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1 week ago Putin's message to Zelensky: Missile and drone attack slaughters 19 civilians including nine children in strike on Ukrainian leader's home city

The death toll from a deadly Russian ballistic missile strike on Volodymyr Zelensky 's home city of Kryvyi Rig on Friday has risen to 19, including nine children.

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1 week ago Battle to save homes as Russian drone strike on Kharkiv leaves 4 dead

Firefighters battled to save residents from burning homes as Kharkiv was hit by an overnight Russian drone attack today (4 Apr.)

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1 week ago I worked in Trump’s first administration. Here’s why his team is using Signal | Kevin Carroll

Using the platform was dangerous and wrong – but officials appeared to prioritize shielding themselves from litigationNo senior US government official in the now-infamous “Houthi PC Small Group” Signal chat seemed new to that kind of group, nor surprised by the sensitivity of the subject discussed in that insecure forum, not even when the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, chimed in with details of a coming airstrike. No one objected – not the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who was abroad and using her personal cellphone to discuss pending military operations; not even the presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, who was in Moscow at the time. Yet most of these officials enjoy the luxury of access to secure government communications systems 24/7/365.Reasonable conclusions may be drawn from these facts. First, Trump’s national security cabinet commonly discusses secret information on insecure personal devices. Second, sophisticated adversaries such as Russia and China inter...

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1 week ago Mexico's deadliest cartel has 'death camps and hospitals' yet to be found

A Mexican public security analyst warned more horror sites run by drug cartels could be uncovered. He explained how these other potential locations could look and what other terrifying buildings they could run

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