2 h. ago Zelensky teeters on the brink: Battle for survival for Ukrainian president after chief of staff's corruption raid and growing disquiet among his own party's MPs

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has spent nearly four years battling for the soul of his nation. 

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4 h. ago Zelensky teeters on the brink: Battle for survival for Ukrainian president after chief of staff's corruption raid and growing disquiet among his own party's MPs

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has spent nearly four years battling for the soul of his nation. 

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14 h. ago Youth violence crisis 'underestimated' as almost one in five violent crimes involves a child

Chief Superintendent Rob Hay, president of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents, said official data did not “reflect reality on the ground”.

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35 h. ago Zelensky’s top ally reveals he’s ‘going to the front’ after quitting as corruption scandal plunges Kyiv into crisis

VOLODYMYR Zelensky’s top ally has announced he will head to the frontlines - just hours after storming out of the Ukrainian government. Andriy Yermak quit as chief of staff under Zelensky on Friday amid an anti-corruption probe and a shock dawn raid on his house. Yermak - a key player in peace talks in recent...

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49 h. ago Ukraine’s corruption scandal is disastrous for Zelensky – Putin will love it

Zelensky’s lost his chief of staff amid a €100m corruption scandal that the Kremlin will exploit – this is a disaster to Kyiv but also a sign that its system works, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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8 d. ago Prosecutor asks Arizona Supreme Court to review decision that stalled fake elector case

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is appealing a ruling that has stalled the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others for trying to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state

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2 w. ago How Anna Wintour’s Vogue front covers made a statement to the end

A look at the editor-in-chief’s Vogue covers from her first radical combination in 1988 to her final ‘weird’ shoot During her 37-year tenure as editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour has presided over more than 400 covers. December 2025’s, on newsstands this week, will prove her last before she steps away to focus on roles as Vogue’s global editorial director and chief content officer at Condé Nast.The cover is certainly memorable: an image of the actor Timothée Chalamet photographed by Wintour’s long-term collaborator Annie Leibovitz in a Celine white polo neck, long cream coat and embroidered jeans, standing on a “planet” with a backdrop of a star-filled nebula provided by Nasa. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US justice department joins lawsuit to block California’s new electoral map

Move escalates legal battle over a redistricting effort designed to help Democrats flip House seats in 2026The justice department on Thursday joined a lawsuit brought by California Republicans to block the state’s new congressional map, escalating a legal battle over a redistricting effort designed to give Democrats a better chance of retaking the House of Representatives next year.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, challenges the congressional map championed by Gavin Newsom, the state’s Democratic governor, in response to a Republican gerrymander in Texas, sought by Donald Trump. The justice department’s intervention in the case sets up a high-profile showdown between the Trump administration and Newsom, one of the president’s chief antagonists and a possible 2028 contender. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says

10bn tonnes of C02 emissions must be removed from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan RockströmCop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in BrazilRemoving carbon from the atmosphere will now be necessary to avoid catastrophic tipping points, one of the world’s leading scientists has warned, as even in the best case scenario the world will heat by about 1.7C.Johan Rockström of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who is one of the chief scientific advisers to the UN and the Cop30 presidency, said 10bn tonnes of carbon dioxide needed to be removed from the air every year even to limit global heating to 1.7C (3.1F) above preindustrial levels. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Remembering Dick Cheney: A life in photos from defense chief to VP

Dick Cheney, the former defense chief during the Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush and vice president under Bush’s son George W. Bush, has died at age 84.

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