2 h. ago New team aims to help British small businesses win defence contracts

The Defence Office for Small Business Growth has been launched.

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17 h. ago Trump officials continue to push lies after fatal shooting of Alex Pretti

Trump and team seem to prioritize vilifying victims of their immigration operations, regardless of conflicting evidenceIn the moments after federal officers shot Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti dead, Trump administration figures almost immediately made public statements in press conferences, televised interviews and social media posts that were at best indifferent to the evidence available at the time and at worst completely fabricated.A pattern is emerging, in which the Trump administration prioritizes the vilification of the dead victim as to blame for the incident over preserving the neutrality of any investigative process. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago The sultan of sexploitation: How Russ Meyer's movies full of well

In an era when Hollywood still clung to prudish codes, Meyer charged in like a wrecking ball, building a cult film empire on bare flesh, bad behaviour, and a gleeful disregard for good taste.

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3 d. ago Nuke bunker left teetering on edge of eroded cliff crashes onto beach just days after historian predicted fall

A COLD-War era nuclear bunker that was dangling precariously on the edge of a cliff has finally crashed into the sea. The brick building, near Tunstall on the East Yorkshire coast, is understood to have been constructed in 1959 and was originally around 100 yards from the sea. The relic was used as a monitoring station in...

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4 d. ago Macron says Europe’s unity worked against Trump’s threats as EU leaders hold emergency summit – latest updates

EU meeting in Brussels is aimed at discussing volatile situation with US in wake of Trump’s recent moves around GreenlandZelenskyy’s speech looks to be slightly late, as Indonesia’s president Prabowo Subianto is still speaking.Don’t worry: I’m keeping an eye on this for you.“Hardly any details are known yet about the proposed Greenland deal. But we need them in order to decide how to proceed with the implementation of the EU-US trade deal. @EP_Trade will revisit the issue on Monday and discuss the way forward.”“However there is no room for false security. The next threat is sure to come. That’s why it is even more important that we set clear boundaries use all available legal instruments&apply them as appropriate to the situation. We must continue to act with this level of confidence.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Nato chief cannot negotiate on behalf of Greenland or Denmark, says Danish PM

Mette Frederiksen makes comments after European leaders give cautious welcome to US president’s tariff U-turnDavos live – latest updatesThe Danish government has said Mark Rutte cannot negotiate on behalf of Denmark or Greenland over the future of the Arctic island, as the broad outlines of a deal apparently struck by the Nato secretary general and Donald Trump began to emerge.The US president said after meeting Rutte on Wednesday the “framework of a future deal” had been found to settle the transatlantic dispute over Greenland following weeks of escalating tensions that risked the biggest breakdown in relations in decades. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Giannis Antetokounmpo takes aim at ‘selfish’ Milwaukee Bucks team

Milwaukee Bucks slipped to another heavy defeat against Oklahoma City on Wednesday night

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5 d. ago Al Gore says Trump ‘taking a wrecking ball’ to NATO as he did to the East Wing is ‘literally insane’

The former vice president, who served under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, said that the president’s Davos speech was a ‘classic Trump performance’

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5 d. ago Large emergency response scrambled to Davos after Trump speech

Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum about the future of Greenland earlier today

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5 d. ago ‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump

In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international normsFor much of Mark Carney’s career as an economist and central banker, he existed at the nexus of global thinkers and multilateral institutions. The “rockstar banker” was a fixture at summits, where he spoke beside business leaders and the political elite, espousing the values of international cooperation and the need for open economies and shared rules.But after less than a year as prime minister of Canada, Carney offered a blunter assessment of the world on Tuesday: “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump DOJ admits DOGE Social Security staff worked with political group trying to ‘overturn election results’

At least one staffer inside Elon Musk-led wrecking ball signed off on ‘voter data agreement’ with right-wing activist group

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7 d. ago Panicking EU leaders to hold emergency Greenland summit after Trump's trade war threat: Live updates

EU leaders will hold an emergency summit on Greenland following US President Donald Trump's threats to impose new tariffs on EU countries.

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7 d. ago 9 bombshells as Keir Starmer hits back at Trump in emergency press conference

Keir Starmer faced down Donald Trump's tariff threats over Greenland at an emergency Downing Street press conference - here are the 9 key moments from a dramatic morning

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8 d. ago Meloni warns Trump over Greenland tariffs as EU ambassadors summoned for emergency talks – Europe live

European leaders hit back at Trump ‘blackmail’ as president escalates plan for the US to acquire GreenlandThe United States will also suffer if president Donald Trump implements threats to impose tariffs on European countries opposing his plans to acquire Greenland, a French minister said on Sunday.“In this escalation of tariffs, he has a lot to lose as well, as do his own farmers and industrialists,” French agriculture minister Annie Genevard told broadcasters Europe 1 and CNews. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago EU ambassadors summoned for emergency talks after Trump threatens tariffs over Greenland

European leaders say tariff threat ‘unacceptable’ as Trump escalates plan for the US to acquire Greenland Some more from the UK’s culture secretary Lisa Nandy on Greenland this morning.Speaking to Sky News, she said:As the prime minister has very clearly said we disagree with this decision.We’re going to go and have that conversation with our American counterparts, and while we’re having that conversation with them, we’re also going to be talking about the security of the United Kingdom and the United States and how our interests are better served by working together. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago EU calls emergency meeting with all 27 countries over Trump’s Greenland tariff threat

In Copenhagen, demonstrators chanted ‘Greenland is not for sale’ and displayed slogans such as ‘No means No’ and ’Hands off Greenland’

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1 week ago Nuclear bunker teetering on the edge of a cliff is 'days away' from falling into the sea

The brick building, found above Tunstall beach between Withernsea and Hornsea, on the East Yorkshire coast, was built around 100 yards from the cliff's edge in 1959.

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1 week ago Nuclear bunker teeters on edge of  CLIFF and is ‘just a few days’ from falling into sea

A NUCLEAR bunker precariously perched on the edge of a cliff is just a "few days away" from falling into the sea. When the brick building in Tunstall on the East Yorkshire coast was built it sat one hundred yards from the water. Now the waves crash against the side of the underground building, thought...

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2 w. ago Trump warns the nation is ‘SCREWED’ if the Supreme Court rejects his tariff plan

The high court could rule on Trump’s use of emergency powers to tax imports as soon as this week

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2 w. ago Former Fed chiefs attack justice department probe into Jay Powell

Joint statement accuses Trump administration of behaving as if US is an emerging market ‘with weak institutions’

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