55 m. ago Photos show Ukrainians dealing with blackouts as Russia strikes energy infrastructure

Ukrainians are preparing for another winter of blackouts as Russia renews its strikes on the country’s energy grid. In front-line areas, residents rely on generators and stored water. In the northern town of Shostka, a Russian strike cut power, water and gas, forcing hospitals to depend on costly generators to keep patients alive.

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61 m. ago Ukrainians brace for another winter of power cuts as Russia shifts tactics

Millions of Ukrainians are preparing for another winter of blackouts as Russia renews its strikes on the country’s energy grid

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65 m. ago I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translationFrom the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast army of internal migrants, moving between cities in pursuit of work. He did 19 jobs – shop assistant, hotel waiter, petrol attendant and security guard, among other things – in six cities. Although all these jobs were atrociously paid, they still earned him more than the one he tried for two years in the middle of this period: writer. (An 8,000-word story earned him less than 300 yuan – about £30.) Then, during Covid, he wrote a blog about his night shifts in a logistics warehouse, and it went viral. The blog expanded and became I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, which has sold nearly 2m copies in China since being published in 2023, and now appears in Jack Hargreaves’s English translation.The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market. The jobs Hu does dema...

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95 m. ago Prince Andrew latest: Pressure on government to formally strip Andrew’s titles after Giuffre memoir released

Virginia Giuffre book makes 88 references to King’s brother as scandal develops, prompting royal family to believe ‘action needed’

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1 hour ago Biggest Prince Andrew bombshell claims as Virginia Giuffre's long

The family of Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre have released her memoir, written before she died by suicide in April, which highlights a series of bombshell allegations against the disgraced royal

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2 h. ago Prince Andrew's ex Lady Victoria Hervey sparks fury with dark Virginia Giuffre response

Socialite Lady Victoria Hervey, who dated Prince Andrew the 90s, said 'dark forces are at play' as she spoke on Virginia Giuffre's posthumous allegations

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2 h. ago Virginia Giuffre's ghostwriter makes urgent Prince Andrew plea as book released

Virginia Giuffre's ghostwriter Amy Wallace has said that she has "no doubt" about the claims against Prince Andrew which the late Epstein victim makes in her book

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2 h. ago Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre claims she was raped by her own father

Virginia Giuffre claims she was raped by her own father when she was about nine. She describes a childhood so blighted by horrific abuse that she became the 'perfect victim' for Epstein and Maxwell.

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3 h. ago Prince Andrew 'must answer key questions' over new probe, says ex

The Metropolitan Police are said to be "actively looking" at a probe after the Duke of York allegedly gave a royal protection officer Virginia Giuffre's date of birth and confidential social security number

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3 h. ago 'I moved to Atletico Madrid after joining Arsenal – I suffered a lot of things'

One player who has pulled on the colours of both Arsenal and Atletico Madrid revealed how he "suffered" at one point in his career as the two teams meet in the Champions League

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4 h. ago Nico Gonzalez makes Pep Guardiola admission at 'intense' Man City

Manchester City midfielder Nico Gonzalez has had an eventful start to his career at the Etihad but is learning a lot

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5 h. ago Memoir by Prince Andrew's and Epstein's accuser reignites a scandal that long dogged UK royals

Britain’s royal family is once again under intense scrutiny as a memoir by one of Prince Andrew and Jeffery Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, hits bookstores

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5 h. ago ‘I said goodbye to Heath Ledger at this urinal’: a stroll round Terry Gilliam’s pivotal places

The studio where he crashed the Life of Brian spaceship, the stage where he put on a Faust that caused fights, the pub where he last spoke to Heath Ledger the ex-Python takes a hilarious and evocative stroll down memory laneDown an alley in Covent Garden, on a building that was once a banana warehouse, there is a blue plaque. “Monty Python, Film Maker, Lived Here, 1976-1987,” reads the inscription. It’s easy to miss: the plaque is not at eye level as they normally are, but up on the first floor, almost as if the blue plaque committee lost confidence in their uncharacteristic joke. Or perhaps John Cleese put it up.Terry Gilliam arrives. I like his jacket. It looks like it’s been stitched together from bits of blankets. “Me too,” he says. “I got it 30 years ago in a secondhand store in New York.” We’re going to wander around London, revisiting places that have played significant parts in his career, as he approaches his 85th birthday. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Prince Andrew latest: Buckingham Palace ‘has grave concern’ over latest Virginia Giuffre allegations

Virginia Giuffre book makes 88 references to King’s brother as scandal develops, prompting royal family to believe ‘action needed’

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7 h. ago Thousands detained as Myanmar military raids notorious KK park scam compound

Myanmar's military moved in to tackle a major online scam operation near the Thailand border, state media reportedMyanmar’s military has raided a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media has reported.According to a report in Monday’s Myanma Alinn newspaper, Myanmar’s army raided KK Park, a well-documented cybercrime centre, as part of operations starting in early September to suppress online fraud, illegal gambling, and cross-border cybercrime. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago 'She would view it as a victory': Virginia Giuffre's ghostwriter speaks out on shamed Prince Andrew losing his titles hours before memoir is released

In an interview with Newsnight on Monday, Amy Wallace, the co-author Nobody's Girl, welcomed the news that Prince Andrew was starting to see his 'life eroded'.

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9 h. ago An orgy on Epstein's island, losing her baby and being raped by her father at the age of nine: All the claims made by Virginia Giuffre from beyond the grave in her new memoir

In her posthumous memoir, she describes a childhood so blighted by horrific abuse that she became the 'perfect victim' for sexual predators Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell .

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9 h. ago Virginia Giuffre ‘would have viewed Prince Andrew giving up titles as a victory’

The comments by the co-author of Ms Giuffre’s memoirs were made as it emerged the prince has paid a ‘peppercorn rent’ on Royal Lodge for decades.

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10 h. ago Virginia Giuffre's family say she was 'gaslit' by UK police and UK and US government

Virginia Roberts Giuffre's brother and sister-in-law, Sky and Amanda Roberts, have demanded US President Donald Trump release the Epstein Files with the names of those involved unredacted

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10 h. ago Brother of Virginia Giuffre calls on UK police watchdog to review Andrew claims

There have been calls for the Met Police to reopen its investigation.

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