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Trump says he won’t extend nuclear arms treaty with Russia
The New START deal was the last vestige of arms control between the world’s largest superpowers.
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The New START deal was the last vestige of arms control between the world’s largest superpowers.
Matt Weston concedes the timing of the potential ban could have been better, but Team GB remain bullish over their chances on the ice
Bezalel Zini accused of role in taking goods into the occupied Palestinian territory during an Israeli blockadeThe brother of Israel’s internal security chief has been charged with “assisting the enemy in wartime” for his alleged role in a smuggling network taking cigarettes and other goods into Gaza during an Israeli blockade of the occupied Palestinian territory.Bezalel Zini was one of more than 10 people charged in relation to the alleged network. His brother, David Zini, is the head of the Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence agency. He was appointed by the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, last May and began the job in October.
Two decades after Jeffrey Epstein was first reported to police, the Justice Department has started to publicly release investigative files on the late sex offender and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell
Data reveals Gaza's hunger was likely a calculated strategy to 're-engineer' society, peaking in 2025.
A new investigation shows how chemicals used for decades to make carpets stain resistant have contaminated swaths of the South
Meetings are most significant contact between Kyiv and Moscow in months and prisoner exchange is agreedUkraine and Russia concluded a second day of US-led talks in Abu Dhabi on Thursday without a breakthrough towards ending Europe’s most deadly conflict since the second world war.The two sides agreed to a reciprocal exchange of 157 prisoners of war each, offering a rare concrete outcome from the discussions.
Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firmsSpain has accused Pavel Durov of “spreading lies” and seeking to undermine democratic institutions after the Telegram founder used the messaging app to attack government and to hold tech companies responsible for hateful and harmful content.Durov’s extraordinary public intervention – which came a day after Elon Musk called Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, a over the proposed measures – reveals the rapidly escalating tensions between European governments and powerful global technology chiefs.
Tom Brady may not be playing in the Super Bowl, but he remains a topic of discussion as the New England Patriots prepare to face the Seattle Seahawks this Sunday.
Refusal to rule out stationing immigration agents around voting locations comes after Trump ally Steve Bannon said administration would ‘surround’ midterm polling places
As the boxers took it in turn to be weighed, and mums and dads cheered them on, no-one noticed a man in a wig dressed as woman move silently through the crowd...
Israel tolerates violence against Palestinian citizens to push them out, and weaponises anti-Semitism to pull Jews in.
Pima county sheriff says police do not yet have a suspect in apparent kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s motherLaw enforcement chiefs in Arizona on Thursday confirmed that they found blood belonging to Nancy Guthrie, the mother of the TV anchor Savannah Guthrie, on the 84-year-old’s porch after she was reported missing from home at the weekend.The sheriff of Pima county, Chris Nanos, said during a press conference authorities do not yet have a suspect in the apparent kidnapping.
Scott Bessent used a Senate appearance to defend President Donald Trump's campaign to slash interest and raise tariffs.
WRU plan would see Ospreys and Swansea RFC become ‘The Whites’ – effectively a non-league outfit with no pathway to keeping regional status
A convicted phone hacker used money from Formula One boss Max Mosley to pay private investigators at the centre of the Prince Harry privacy case, the High Court heard on Wednesday.
Anger at former US ambassador Peter Mandelson’s relations with the child sex offender threatens to topple the prime ministerIt was the one scandal that Donald Trump seemed unable to shake. No matter his best efforts to convince his supporter base that there was nothing to see here, the demands for the administration to release every document it had on the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein only grew.Yet even after in the latest drop about Trump’s inner circle – involving everyone from Elon Musk to the Maga honcho Steve Bannon to the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, not to mention Trump himself – so far, it seems, the administration has escaped largely unscathed. Nobody has resigned, nobody has been fired, and certainly there is no sign that the US president is going anywhere.
Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel AvivOn the morning of 21 January, Israeli authorities left eight Palestinian men at a West Bank checkpoint. Disoriented and cold, they were dressed in prison-issued tracksuits and carried their few belongings in plastic bags.Hours earlier, they had been sitting with their wrists and ankles shackled on the plush leather seats of a private jet owned by the Florida property tycoon Gil Dezer, a longtime business partner of Donald Trump.
The ongoing Epstein saga lays bare the humiliation inflicted upon the princesses by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
The paedophile financier took a keen interest in purchasing the Dukes Hotel - located just a 10-minute walk from the palace.
‘Giveaway’ competitions on WhatsApp and Telegram for retatrutide and other drugs described as ‘extremely dangerous’Hidden-market promoters of weight-loss drugs are running social media “giveaway” competitions that offer powerful, unlicensed medicines as prizes.The Guardian has been monitoring WhatsApp and Telegram groups promoting substances such as retatrutide – a medicine unlicensed in the UK. Some groups have posted competitions for existing customers, claiming they have “just 24 hours” to enter giveaways or claim injections.
Joanna Howe says a ‘whistleblower’ sent her the image, which she says was taken inside the hospital’s room for grieving parentsGet our , or Townsville hospital is investigating an alleged privacy breach after anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe said a “whistleblower” had sent her an image containing distressing and sensitive abortion content.Howe posted a video on social media that included a picture of a 16-week-old foetus that she said was taken inside the hospital’s Butterfly Room, a place for grieving parents, saying “Samuel” was “born alive” after an abortion.
The interview, revealed in the latest tranche of Epstein files, was reportedly intended for a sympathetic documentary, a one-time adviser to Donald Trump, has long styled himself as a populist nemesis of the global elites. Yet the latest release of shows that he exchanged hundreds of friendly texts with the wealthy financier, discussing politics, travel and other topics.One of the biggest surprises in the files was a in which – who exploited and abused dozens of young girls – is interviewed by Bannon at what appears to be Epstein’s New York home.
Politicians repeat the mantra that there is no place for anti-Semitism on our streets, while the evidence says differently
Umar Bio Salihu, 53, the local head of Woro in Kwara state, says gunmen ‘just came in and started shooting’The traditional chief of a village in western Nigeria where has recounted a night of terror during which the attackers killed two of his sons and kidnapped his wife and three daughters.Umar Bio Salihu, the 53-year-old chief of Woro, a small, Muslim-majority village in Kwara state, said that at about 5pm on Tuesday the gunmen “just came in and started shooting”.
The East Jaintia Hills district police confirmed the recovery of 18 bodies and said the people died after an explosion inside the mine that trapped them
Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate Board of Immigration Appeals hearings takes a ‘sledgehammer’ to due process, critics fear
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story After the release of a vast tranche of documents and emails that shed further light on the close relationship between Peter Mandelson and , the government has come under intense pressure to release details about its vetting process before Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador in December 2024.Below, we look at how much Keir Starmer knew about Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein, and what vetting process the former peer went through for the top diplomatic job in Washington.
His goal is to replace international law with the rule of the bully. And he's getting there.
A global boycott may be the only nonviolent way to curb US aggression and repression.
Animal Equality says two surprise inspections in three years suggests ‘embarrassingly poor’ level of scrutinyScottish salmon farmers recorded more than 35m unexpected salmon deaths in just under three years but there were only two unannounced inspections of facilities over the same period.In December, the Scottish government’s secretary for rural affairs, Mairi Gougeon, said that there was “ when it comes to fin-fish aquaculture” but animal welfare campaigners say the figures call that claim into question.
In first-of-its-kind complaint, state accused four fossil fuel majors and US oil lobbying group of climate disinformationAmid rising concern about and , Michigan has sued big oil for allegedly fueling both crises – a move experts have hailed as groundbreaking.In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, accused four fossil fuel majors and the top US oil lobbying group last month of acting as a “cartel” to stifle the growth of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs), while suppressing information about the dangers of the climate crisis. The conduct, the lawsuit alleged, violates federal and state antitrust laws.
A lawmaker claimed at least 162 people were killed following attacks on two villages in Nigeria
Communities across Borgu and Agwara Local Government Areas of Niger State are facing a deepening security crisis. DAILY POST reports that coordinated attacks, killings, abductions, and arson continue to spread across the northern corridor of the state. What was once dismissed as “banditry” is increasingly recognised as organised terrorism, with armed groups operating from forest […]
Organisers are hoping for a celebration of winter sport at Milano Cortina 2026 but tensions will not be far from the surfaceA short stroll from where the grandees of the International Olympic Committee are staying in Milan sits the Museum of Illusions – a place devoted to magic and misdirection. Mirrors distort. Perspectives shift. And nothing is quite what it seems. It is an apposite metaphor for these Winter Olympics, which officially open in Italy on Friday.Over the following 16 days, the world will be enraptured by the dazzle and spin of these Games: downhill skiers bombing down mountains at 95mph, snowboarders twirling like gyroscopes, the balletic grace of the world’s best skaters. But in Milano Cortina a fresh cold war is also brewing amid global political chaos.
Federal prosecutors have arrested and charged a Minneapolis man, accusing him of doxing and threatening to kill immigration officers
Newly unsealed files claim the banker, who has denied any wrongdoing, forced a woman to touch his genitalsUS prosecutors reviewed allegations of rape and bodily harm against the former Barclays boss and former JP Morgan banker Jes Staley, according to newly unsealed files linked to the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Multiple documents in the Epstein files cite serious allegations of sexual misconduct against Staley, including that he forced a woman to touch his genitals during a massage before raping her, and left “bloody marks” on the arms of a woman he called “tinkerbell”.
Former Great Britain sprinter Reece Prescod gives the clearest indication yet that he will take performance-enhancing drugs as part of the controversial Enhanced Games.
‘Space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale,’ Musk wrote on SpaceX’s website Monday
Huge release of files provides extraordinary detail on the extent of the disgraced financier’s networkAmong the new trove of 3m files relating to Jeffrey Epstein released last week are a vast number of stories shedding light on his relationships with prominent figures in the US, the UK, and around the world. Inclusion in the files does not imply wrongdoing or knowledge of Epstein’s wrongdoing – but a sampling of some of the details they include provides extraordinary detail on the extent of his network.
While the US president’s many mentions in the Esptein files seem to have no consequences, in the UK Starmer could be the first world leader to fallAll around Europe, the political and business elite are facing an inquest on what blinded so many to think it was permissible to consort with a known sex trafficker. As the start to percolate across the continent and through to national media, questions about the moral fibre of this elite are starting to be asked at markedly different levels of intensity.Squirming businessmen, bankers, politicians, royals, academics, tech bros and partners in law firms have become entangled in Jeffrey Epstein’s interlocking circles of money, power and sex. It seems there was no one in a position of power that Epstein was not in email contact with, and that there was little limit to what this networking elite was prepared to do in return for a gift, a contact or an invite to a sexually charged party. Elon Musk was right when in July 2025 he tweeted – only to quickly delete it – that “so many powerful people want that list suppressed”.
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President condemns ‘environmental and health crime’ as critics say Israel seeks to make southern Lebanon uninhabitableLebanon has accused Israel of spraying a herbicide linked to cancer on farmland in the south of the country as a “health crime” that would threaten food security and farmers’ livelihoods.The country’s president, Joseph Aoun, condemned what he called “an environmental and health crime” and a violation of Lebanese sovereignty, and he vowed to take “all necessary legal and diplomatic measures to confront this aggression”.
Former truck driver, now 80, allegedly one of many ‘sniper tourists’ who paid Bosnian Serb soldiers to be allowed fire on city An elderly Italian man is under investigation as part of an investigation by prosecutors in Milan into individuals who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.The 80-year-old is being investigated on charges of aggravated murder, a source close to the case told the Guardian. The man, a former truck driver from the northern Italian region of Veneto, is the first suspect to be placed under investigation since the inquiry began in November.
PM knew of Peter Mandelson's friendship with Epstein when he appointed him ambassador to the US.
The 28-year-old musician defended his sister, 24, after she was receiving flak for a speech she made at Sunday's Grammy Awards criticizing ICE raids.
As revelations about their links continue to drip out, messages show Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein exchanged sleazy jokes after the American financier was let out of prison 17 years ago.
In a few isolated communities in central Nigeria, some babies are believed to be bad omens. Olusola and Chinwe Stevens run a thriving home for babies at risk. But what happens when the families want them back?Esther Stevens’ life nearly ended as soon as it began. She was born in 2007, in a village on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. Her mother died giving birth to her, and in the eyes of some villagers, that meant the baby was cursed. According to tradition, there was only one way to deal with such a child. The villagers tied the newborn to her mother’s lifeless body and prepared to bury them together.When word reached a Nigerian missionary living in the community, she rushed to the burial site and pleaded for the baby’s life. After the villagers and relatives refused, she appealed to the traditional priest who had been called on to perform the rite. “Finally, the priest agreed and said, let them give her the evil child and see what the child will become,” Esther said. “The child, that’s me.”
Lord Mandelson told Epstein about then-prime minister Gordon Brown's resignation in May 2010 hours before it was made public, emails appear to reveal.
Senior figures in sport maintained personal contact with Jeffrey Epstein, while others were discussed regarding potential deals.