15 h. ago Tucker Carlson’s brother is latest person to get dragged into MAGA’s civil war

Tensions have flared inside the MAGA movement over the Epstein files and U.S. foreign policy

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33 h. ago Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a ‘sham exercise’

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credibleVoters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout in the initial round of polls that have been widely criticised as a tool to formalise junta rule.Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since the military ousted a civilian government in a 2021 coup and detained its leader, Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a civil war that has engulfed large parts of the impoverished nation of 51 million people. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Visiting EU leaders pledge to support Syria's recovery after years of civil war

European Union officials have visited Syria for the first time to meet with interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa

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3 d. ago She was the aristocrat who left her family, fought in the Spanish Civil War and was a through and through communist

A new biography of Jessica Mitford portrays an upper class communist who fought for the poor - but travelled with 13 suitcases and didn't realise you paid for electricity.

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3 d. ago Greenland 'on brink of civil war' as local gives stern warning to Britain

With Greenland as the new centre of diplomatic tensions, one resident has issued a warning to the UK as tensions escalate over Donald Trump's plans to take over the country for "national security"

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3 d. ago US actions in Venezuela put the 2026 World Cup in disgraceful company | Leander Schaerlaeckens

In 1934 and 1978, Fifa’s big event was given over to authoritarian aims. There’s no more doubt that 2026 will be the sameBy 1934, it was entirely evident what Benito Mussolini was up to. Italy’s dictator had already consolidated power, colonized Libya and annexed the city of Rijeka. He nevertheless got to stage the second-ever World Cup, managing it with a heavy hand and even supplanting the Jules Rimet trophy with a far larger one. Hosting and winning that World Cup didn’t sate his expansionist appetites. By the end of decade, Mussolini would take Ethiopia, annex Albania and back Francisco Franco in the Spanish civil war.It was equally well established in 1978 in Argentina that General Jorge Rafaél Videla’s military junta, which had taken over two years earlier, was maintaining its grip on power through systematic detention, torture and murder. Still, protestations from other nations were ignored and the World Cup kicked off.Leander Schaerlaeckens’ book on the United States men’s n...

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4 d. ago Tottenham's civil war: Micky van de Ven leads players scrapping with their fans and Cristian Romero blasts 'lies' from bosses in explosive statement

Emotions hit a fever pitch on Wednesday evening, as Spurs let a crucial point slide in the dying minutes at the Vitality Stadium, courtesy of Antoine Semenyo's winner five minutes into added time.

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4 d. ago Tottenham civil war as players like Cristian Romero's edited post blasting hierarchy

Bournemouth beating Tottenham Hotspur led Spurs captain Cristian Romero to post a lengthy message on social media that was shown support from multiple teammates

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4 d. ago 'I fear Greenland is on the brink of civil war': Families are torn apart as locals express their anger at both Denmark AND Trump

Arguments over whether Greenland should remain part of Denmark, which has controlled it for more than 300 years, or agree to U.S. annexation, are now tearing families in the territory apart.

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4 d. ago Martin O'Neill makes 'obnoxious' admission in bid to end Celtic civil war with message to fans and board

Returning Celtic manager calls for truce as fan groups issue appeal

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5 d. ago Celtic civil war erupts as supporter groups threaten boycott with fan anger at 'breaking point'

The Celtic Fans Collective have called on acting chairman Brian Wilson to meet with them as anger reaches breaking point

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6 d. ago Manchester United in civil war over club legend Gary Neville's 'role' in Ruben Amorim’s sacking

Rio Ferdinand joins fans in blasting his former team mate-turned-pundit for rinsing the axed boss on telly and putting him 'under pressure'

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7 d. ago Grave vandals strike AGAIN at historic Civil War cemetery in LA where 1,600 headstones have been stolen or destroyed

The Woodlawn Celestial Gardens have been vandalized since 2023. Headstones are stolen for their copper and bronze content, then melted down and sold.

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8 d. ago ‘Once whispered, now discussed’: the rise of dubious claims of civil war in the UK

Dystopian warnings once reserved for the far right have found a wider audience – but there are good reasons for scepticismIt is a darkly dystopian vision of Britain’s future, in which tens of thousands die in a bitter civil war in just a few years time.Yet such forecasts are no longer limited to niche corners of the internet or the X feed of Elon Musk, condemned by Downing Street for claiming that war in Britain was inevitable after the post-Southport rioting. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tensions between Saudis and Emiratis over future of Yemen reach boiling point

Dispute has potential to create civil war in south of Yemen and spill over into neighbouring countriesTensions between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia over the future of Yemen and the imminent possibility of the declaration of an independent southern state have reached boiling point with Saudi Arabia in effect accusing the UAE of threatening its future security.The dispute has the potential to create a civil war within the south of Yemen and also spill over into other disputes including in Sudan and the Horn of Africa where the two countries often find themselves backing opposite sides. Yemen could yet become only one theatre in which the two vastly wealthy Gulf states vie for political influence, control of shipping lanes and commercial access. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Syria’s mass graves haunt loved ones a year on from fall of Assad, as hunt for clues finally gets underway

Syria has not yet begun a wide-scale search for those missing after the country was gutted by autocratic rule, civil war and crippling sanctions, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew in Sayyida Zeinab, southeast Syria

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1 week ago Syria’s mass graves haunt loved ones a year on from Assad, as hunt for clues finally starts

Syria has yet to start the wide-scale hunt for its missing after it being gutted by autocratic rule, civil war and crippling sanctions, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew in Sayyida Zeinab, south east Syria

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2 w. ago Photos show Myanmar holding its first election since the military seized power

Voters in Myanmar cast ballots in the first phase of the country’s general election Sunday. The polls are being held under military rule during a civil war. Critics argue the election is a facade to legitimize military control under the pretense of civilian rule.

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2 w. ago Polls close in first phase of Myanmar elections widely condemned as a sham

Turnout appears to be low in vote in which most candidates seen as allies of military junta and large areas excluded by warPolls have closed in conflict-racked Myanmar, ending the first phase of an election that has been widely condemned as a sham designed to legitimise the military junta’s rule.The military has touted the vote as a return to democracy almost five years after it seized power in a coup, ousting the country’s then de-facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, detaining her and sparking a spiralling civil war. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The year in patriarchy: Taylor Swift, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein files | Arwa Mahdawi

The year 2025 saw a Swift engagement, a rapid rollback of rights and a slow release of the heavily redacted Epstein filesThe year 2025 would have been far better if we could have sent a few billionaires and world leaders into intergalactic exile. Instead, we had to make do with Katy Perry spending 11 minutes on the edge of space as part of Blue Origin’s all-female crewed mission. Perry promised us all that, in service of women’s empowerment, the crew would “put the ‘ass’ in astronaut” and “make space and science glam”. Truly, one giant leap for womankind!Space may have got glam, but it was another glum year for many on Earth. The war in Ukraine continued, with increasing numbers of women volunteering to fight. The civil war in Sudan raged on, with the UN urging the world not to ignore harrowing details of targeted sexual violence, torture, and abductions from the region. The slaughter in Sudan is so extreme that the blood can even be seen from space. Although I’m not sure the billio...

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