29 h. ago French minister gives Louvre security update following crown jewel heist

The thieves fled with eight crown jewel pieces within minutes

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61 h. ago Why Virginia Giuffre's memoir omitted name of 'well known' former prime minister she says violently raped her

Amy Wallace, the American journalist who spent four years ghostwriting the autobiography, said Prince Andrew's accuser was worried about her ‘physical safety and threats’

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4 d. ago Starmer hopes £8bn Typhoon jet deal with Turkey is ‘not a one

The Prime Minister thanked ‘world-class’ workers at BAE Systems.

Economics

4 d. ago Japanese PM promises golden age in relations with US during Trump visit

Sanae Takaichi says she will nominate Trump for peace prize and two leaders sign agreement on rare earthsWhat are rare earths – explained in 30 secondsJapan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has vowed to realise a “golden age” in relations with the US and to “fundamentally reinforce” her country’s defence posture at the start of a visit by Donald Trump.Trump, who is in Japan on the second leg of a week-long tour of Asia, and Takaichi quickly signed an agreement laying out a framework to secure the mining and processing of rare earths and other critical minerals. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago World’s first AI minister ‘pregnant with 83 children’, Albanian prime minister says

The world’s first AI minister is “pregnant with 83 children”, Albania’s prime minister has announced.

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5 d. ago The Guardian view on global aid cuts: a malaria resurgence could be the canary in the coalmine | Editorial

The consequences of Donald Trump’s decision to scrap USAID, and other countries’ decisions to reduce funding, are playing out in deadly fashionMalaria is a pandemic disease that hits the voiceless hardest: most of those who fall ill and die are small children and pregnant women in Africa. It is the leading infectious killer of the continent, responsible for nearly 600,000 deaths a year. Cases are rising and there is an urgent need for more funding, yet western donor countries are instead cutting back on aid. We still hear brave talk about eliminating malaria. But an expert report now warns of a potential resurgence that could add almost a million more deaths to the annual toll by the end of the decade.Most of the money to fight the mosquito-borne disease – 59% – comes through the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Its executive director, Peter Sands, said last week at the World Health Summit in Berlin that of the three killers, the one that kept him awake...

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1 week ago Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics'

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage

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1 week ago Louvre heist: hunt on for thieves after eight ‘priceless’ jewellery pieces stolen

Necklace given by Napoleon to his wife among items taken from Paris museum in highly professional daylight robberyFrench police are hunting four thieves who carried out a highly professional daylight robbery on the Louvre, breaking into one of the museum’s most ornate rooms and escaping with eight pieces of “priceless” historic jewellery, including a necklace given by Napoleon to his wife.The world’s most-visited museum was suddenly closed for the day on Sunday after the break-in targeted pieces in two glass cases in its Apollon gallery, where the French crown jewels are held. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Priceless’ jewellery stolen from Louvre in raid by ‘experienced’ thieves

French minister says highly professional criminals used angle grinder to access one of museum’s most ornate rooms“Priceless” historic jewellery has been stolen from the Louvre in Paris after a highly professional robbery by men who used an angle grinder to break through glass and enter one of the museum’s most ornate rooms.The world’s most-visited museum was suddenly closed for the day after the break-in targeted pieces in two glass cases in its Apollon gallery, where the French crown jewels are held. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Student fraud: Lord Hanson and NatWest launch crackdown on scammers targeting undergraduates

At the start of the new academic year in universities, the Minister for Fraud, Lord Hanson, writes exclusively for National World about the rise of fraud targeted at students.

Events

2 w. ago Jim Bolger, former New Zealand prime minister who drove reconciliation with Māori, dies at 90

Tributes flow from across political spectrum for man known for high ideals but also remembered for controversially slashing welfare and health spendingFormer New Zealand prime minister Jim Bolger, whose political legacy was defined by his deep commitment to reconciliation with Māori as well as his brutal cuts to welfare and deregulation of the labour market, has died aged 90.Bolger died peacefully surrounded by his wife, Joan, nine children and 18 grandchildren, his family said in a statement on Wednesday. Bolger suffered kidney failure last year and had been undergoing dialysis. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Poland minister shows Shahed drone and warns of ‘deep’ Russian threat

Radoslaw Sikorski, speaking in London, urges drone wall and three-year plan to back Ukraine; Odesa mayor’s ‘citizenship suspended’. What we know on day 1,330 Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Canada’s prime minister caught on hot mic correcting Trump on his title after US leader’s gaffe

Trump was caught on hot mic poking fun at former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who the US president referred to as the ‘governor’ of Canada

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer dubbed 'awkward and irrelevant' after Donald Trump embarrasses him on live TV

During a very important gathering of world leaders in Egypt, Donald Trump made the UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer look like an awkard school boy after beckoning him over mid-speech

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2 w. ago Emmanuel Macron: I won’t resign, I was elected ‘to serve, to serve, and to serve’

Sebastien Lecornu will face a no-confidence vote this week after being reappointed

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2 w. ago Starmer urges momentum be seized for second phase of peace amid Gaza summit

The Prime Minister will join other world leaders at a summit marking the signing of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

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2 w. ago ‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood

When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked inFifteen years ago, having said all my life that I never wanted a baby, that I couldn’t fathom why any free woman would do such a thing to her body and her mind, I suddenly and passionately wanted a child. I remember where I was when this feeling, so heretical to me, arrived: it was early morning in London, and having come down Fleet Street on my way to work, I was standing at the till of a newsagents to pay for a Diet Coke, a flapjack and a pack of Silk Cut. There were no children there and no pregnant women; nothing had been said or done to change my mind. It had simply landed on me, and more or less immediately – because I’ve never known how to control an impulse, and because I was 30, which seemed to me then a great age – my husband, Robert, and I set about trying to have a child.When for s...

Culture

3 w. ago Inside Macron’s political crisis as French government descends into farce: ‘An extraordinary tragicomedy’

The resignation of prime minister Sebastien Lecornu , and his subsequent reappointment, is the latest chapter in France’s ongoing political turmoil. Analysts tell James C. Reynolds that the rot may be too deep for President Emmanuel Macron to fix

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3 w. ago Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister

French president tasks Lecornu, who resigned as PM on Monday, with forming a new cabinetThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, has reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister and tasked him with forming a new cabinet.More details to follow Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Macron on ‘last chance’ as he promises new French prime minister within 48 hours

The French president is seeking his sixth prime minister in under two years after the resignation of Sebastien Lecornu

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