50 m. ago Russia offers cash bonuses, frees prisoners and lures foreigners to replenish its troops in Ukraine

Russian authorities use various strategies to recruit new troops to replenish its supply of soldiers for its nearly 4-year-old full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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51 m. ago Takeaways from AP's report on how Bangladeshi workers were tricked into fighting in the Ukraine war

Bangladeshi workers were lured to Russia under the false promise of civilian work and then forced to fight in the Ukraine war

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53 m. ago Bangladeshi workers lured to Russia for jobs were forced to fight in the war in Ukraine

An Associated Press investigation found that Bangladeshi workers were lured to Russia by the false promise of civilian jobs and thrust onto the battlefield in the Ukraine war

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69 m. ago California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of Trump

Newsom launched a review of the platform, despite TikTok saying a systems failure was responsible for the issueCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom has accused TikTok of suppressing content critical of president Donald Trump, as he launched a review of the platform’s content moderation practices to determine if they violated state law, even as the platform blamed a systems failure for the issues.The step comes after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said last week it had finalised a deal to set up a majority US-owned joint venture that will secure US data, to avoid a US ban on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans. Continue reading...

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69 m. ago KPMG partners jostle for top UK job as boss seeks elevation to global role

Executives discussing succession as British chief Jon Holt vies to lead Big Four firm’s global operations

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69 m. ago US links security guarantees for Ukraine to peace deal ceding territory

Washington signalled Kyiv would receive more backing after any withdrawal from the Donbas, say people familiar with talks

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69 m. ago Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?

Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protestersOn Thursday 8 January, in a midsize Iranian town, Dr Ahmadi’s* phone began to buzz. His colleagues in local emergency wards were getting worried.All week, people had taken to the streets and had been met by police with batons and pellet guns. With treatment, their injuries should not have been too serious. But emergency room staff believed many wounded young people were avoiding hospitals, terrified that registering as trauma patients would lead to their identification and arrest. Continue reading...

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69 m. ago Has the world entered an era of ‘water bankruptcy’? – podcast

Last week, a UN report declared that the world has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ with many human water systems past the point at which they can be restored to former levels. To find out what this could look like, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, who has been reporting on Iran’s severe water crisis. And Mohammad Shamsudduha, professor of water crisis and risk reduction in the department of risk and disaster reduction at University College London, explains how the present situation arose and what can be done to bring water supplies back from the brinkEra of ‘global water bankruptcy’ is here, UN report saysClimate crisis or a warning from God? Iranians desperate for answers as water dries up Continue reading...

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69 m. ago Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’ | Oliver Bullough

Innocent people are being frozen out of basic banking services – and it all traces back to reforms rushed through after 9/11Hamish Wilson lives a few miles away from me, in a cosy farmhouse in the damp hills of mid Wales. He makes good coffee, tells great stories and is an excellent host. Every summer, dozens of Somali guests visit Wilson’s farm as part of a wonderfully wholesome project set up to celebrate their nation’s culture, and to honour his father’s second world war service with a Somali comrade-in-arms.Inadvertently, however, the project has revealed something else: a deep unfairness in today’s global financial system that not only threatens to ruin the Somalis’ holidays, but also excludes marginalised communities from global banking services on a huge scale. Continue reading...

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69 m. ago To show the next generation the horrors of the Holocaust, we need to learn from David Lynch | Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

How best to portray the evil of Stutthof camp witnessed by my grandfather? The Zone of Interest and Twin Peaks could have the answerWhen I was nine years old, my grandfather took me to the museum at the former Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, in northern Poland. Established by the Nazis in the German-annexed territory of the Free City of Danzig, he had been imprisoned there as a teenager. It was his first visit since the second world war. When we went through the gate, he began to cry, to shout, to reconstruct scenes. The past returned all at once and he fell into a state of trauma. During his imprisonment he had been responsible, among other things, for carrying bodies from the camp infirmary.Most of the most infamous Nazi death camps have been turned into memorials like Stutthof, in the hope that they can teach something to future generations and avert a repeat of this darkest of chapters in Europe’s history. But it is a fact that few visitors to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau...

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76 m. ago White House blames Minnesota Democrats and distances Trump from Alex Pretti ‘assassin’ remarks

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the shooting and killing by a federal immigration officer of Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti “occurred as a result of a deliberate and hostile resistance by Democrat leaders in Minnesota.”

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99 m. ago Keir Starmer's takeover spat could damage Labour's hopes at Holyrood election

The leadership fight between Starmer and Andy Burnham stands to benefit only the SNP and Reform, says Record View.

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1 hour ago Chinese Mainland Buyers Drive Sharp Rise in London Home Ownership, Report Says

Chinese Mainland Buyers Drive Sharp Rise in London Home Ownership, Report Says  Caixin Global

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2 h. ago It's 100 days until the Senedd election and one of the frontrunners still has no leader

We asked for an update on candidates, a leader, and a manifesto

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2 h. ago McDonald's diner floored after opening sachet of restaurant's barbecue sauce

Jessica Viles, from Runcorn, Cheshire, was left in fits of giggles after opening the sachet of sauce she had brought home from McDonald's where she regularly dined with her dad

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3 h. ago Graham Norton reveals he's had to sign 'so many' NDAs ahead of his rumoured attendance at Taylor Swift's wedding to NFL star Travis Kelce

The chat show host, 62, made the revelation on the Monday episode of his Wanging On podcast, in response to being asked about the global pop star's nuptials, due to take place this summer.

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3 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Nato chief warns of ‘harshest winter’ in a decade as Russian attacks cut power in Kharkiv

Strikes knock out electricity to 80% of Ukraine’s second-largest city and surrounding region and damage 11th-century Kyiv monastery. What we know on day 1,434Russian drones and missile strikes hit Kharkiv on Monday, knocking out power to 80% of Ukraine’s second-largest city and the surrounding region and striking apartment buildings, a school and a kindergarten, local officials said. Two people were injured, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said in a video posted on Telegram. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said an “energy site” had been targeted in the city as night-time temperatures dipped to -14C. The capital, Kyiv, has been hit by three massive air attacks since the New Year, knocking out power and heating to hundreds of buildings. The war correspondent and executive director of war crimes unit the Reckoning Project, Janine di Giovanni, has suggested Russian president Vladimir Putin is intentionally “weaponising the savage eastern European winter”.In Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian president Volodym...

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3 h. ago I went to the billionaires' ski resort with £15 beers and £9 bottles of water

Although the village of 3,000 might be less well known than Tignes or Val d'Isère, it is beloved by the mega-rich and French aristocracy. And you feel it in the prices

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5 h. ago Woman's 'creepy' texts from builder who abandoned kitchen job halfway through

A woman was left stunned after hiring a plasterer to renovate her kitchen, only for him to abandon the job on the third day

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6 h. ago EastEnders spoilers as Ross plans to propose to Vicki amid Zack affair as Phil left out of Nigel and Julie’s vow renewal

Tensions are continuing to heat up on the BBC soap following a dramatic few weeks

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