The Tory leader claimed concerns were “waived away” in order to appoint “a man who is a close friend of a convicted paedophile”
A judge in Oregon has temporarily restricted federal officers from using tear gas at protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland
Al-Shifa Hospital director says blocking medical evacuations through Rafah crossing could be 'death sentence' for many.
Kirsty Coventry: ‘Keep sport a neutral ground’ Ukraine sports minister hits out at Fifa president The International Olympic Committee president, Kirsty Coventry, has given her clearest signal yet that Russia could be back for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. A day after the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, said he wanted Russia reinstated to international football, Coventry used her opening address to the 145th IOC congress in Milan to argue that all athletes should be allowed to compete in sport – regardless of their government’s behaviour. Continue reading...
Colombian President Gustavo Petro will meet US President Donald Trump on February 3 amid tensions over drug trafficking.
Prosecutors have filed requests for voluntary interviews of Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino as the authorities in France scrutinize X, formerly Twitter, and its Grok AI. A team of French police officers, alongside Europol operatives, searched the social media platform’s office in Paris, the French capital, on Tuesday. Musk and Yaccarino are expected to appear […] Elon Musk summoned as France probes X, Grok AI
As armed groups target civilians unchecked, Geneva Academy warn of humanitarian law's collapse and its ramifications.
Late-night hosts rued the lack of consequences for any rich and powerful men named in the latest batch of documents Late-night hosts reacted to the latest batch of Epstein files , which failed to redact several victims’ names and photos while still protecting Donald Trump . Continue reading...
I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls Like a lot of women, I do vaguely care about the latest political implosion of Peter Mandelson – but I think we’re all massively more obsessed with the fact that there really was a network of incredibly famous and powerful men trying to help a known ex-con minimise and wave away his underage sex crimes. Amirite, ladies? Sure, I’m crying my eyes out about some Gordon Brown adviser having his asset-sale memo forwarded in 2009 … but at the same time I’m a whole lot more concerned about the actual Sex Bilderberg. Which, even now, our eyes seem to keep being conveniently dragged away from. Can we refocus? We are, naturally, talking about the Jeffrey Epstein files. Since the latest lot dropped , I’ve been collating the emails from extremely famous men who actively sought to help the since-deceased underage sex trafficker trivialise his crimes in the years after his jail release in 2009. Richard Branson, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon , Mandelson, Andrew (obviously) – all of these men offer strategic advice, or media training, or chummy solidarity. Or, in the case of Chomsky, all of the above plus a drive-by on the notion of female victimhood. According to text signed under his first name that Epstein sent to a lawyer and publicist in February 2019, months after the Miami Herald had run an explosive series of articles laying out the scale of Epstein’s serial underage sexual abuse and the perversion of justice that covered it up, Chomsky sneered at “the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women”. Wow. Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power and exploitative elites? Still, nice photo of him laughing it up with Steve Bannon. Continue reading...
The UK's information watchdog will investigate reports that Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has been used to generate sexual imagery of children.
The man was accused of ‘unlawful sexual intercourse’ with a 41-year-old
Peter Mandelson insists he has 'no idea' why he was photographed in his pants or who the mystery woman in the dressing gown was.
President claims idea to ‘nationalize’ elections in 15 states ahead of midterms is to prevent rare noncitizen voting Donald Trump suggested on a conservative podcast released on Monday that Republican state officials “take over” and “nationalize” elections in 15 states to protect the party from being voted out of office. Trump framed the issue as a means to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. Claims that noncitizens are voting in numbers that can affect an election are a lie . But it raises concerns about potential efforts by the president to rig the November midterm elections . Continue reading...
Nili Kupfer-Naouri and Rachel Touitou said to be accused of trying to block delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza A French investigating magistrate has issued summonses to two French-Israeli nationals in relation to “complicity in genocide” over allegations they tried to block the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, French media have reported. The summonses, which reportedly mark the first time a country has considered the blocking of aid “complicity in genocide”, were issued for Nili Kupfer-Naouri and Rachel Touitou in July, Le Monde and Agence France-Presse reported. Continue reading...
Deputy AG Todd Blanche attempted to downplay damning images showing famous, rich and powerful men partying with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the latest DOJ drop.
Omar Shakir, who has worked for the rights group for more than 10 years, says he has lost faith in the organisation.
The former Duchess of York also suggested in a personal email to the paedophile that he could marry her and they could take on the mystery woman as a member of their staff.
The AI chatbot edited photos after being informed they featured abuse victims
The artificial intelligence product caused a digital firestorm after users began asking it to undress images of real women without consent.
Having rubbished the health ministry’s figures, they are now saying what matters is the civilian-to-militant ratio. See that for what it is Israel’s official and unofficial spokespeople are in damage control mode after a senior military official admitted last week that Israel accepts the death toll published by Gaza’s health ministry, which currently stands at more than 70,000. This comes after two years in which Israel and its supporters took every opportunity to disparage and dismiss the health ministry’s figures, arguing that they were overblown or fabricated by Hamas. That prestigious list of repudiators, to name just a few , includes spokespeople for Israel’s government and military , then-US president Joe Biden , US Congress , the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) chief Jonathan Greenblatt , the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( Aipac ) and any number of talking heads at influential thinktanks and policy centres. Adding credibility to their denials were prominent media outlets around the world that often described Gaza’s health ministry as “Hamas-run”, thereby encouraging readers and viewers to treat the death toll with suspicion. Ben Reiff is deputy editor at +972 magazine Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
As Bangladesh prepares for the first election since Sheikh Hasina fled to India, Awami League figures living in Kolkata believe she can still return a hero Back in Bangladesh they are deemed criminals and fugitives, facing charges of crimes against humanity, murder, sedition or embezzlement. But in the comfort of the crowded food courts of Kolkata shopping malls, over black coffee and Indian fast food, the exiled politicians of the Awami League sit plotting their political comeback. More than 16 months ago, a revolution against Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister Sheikh Hasina forced her to dramatically flee the country , jumping on a helicopter to India as an enraged onslaught of protesters marched towards her residence. The streets she left behind were bloody ; her regime’s final crackdown on protesters in the July uprising had left as many as 1,400 dead, according to a UN report . Continue reading...
Former employees have alleged that the chatbot’s ongoing scandals over sexualized images are a direct result of Musk’s drive to corner the market in lewd AI
As gold and silver rebounded following their recent rout, heavy selling on the stock market saw data and analytics giant RELX shed nearly £7bn of its value.
Trump administration is accusing protesters of ‘domestic terrorism’ but this brazen tactic is as old as the country itself When federal immigration agents shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on 23 January, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, wasted no time claiming to the press, without credible evidence, that Pretti had been engaged in “domestic terrorism”. Though the administration seems to be trying to soften that initial response after fierce backlash, it’s an accusation that members of the Trump administration have been leveling at wide swaths of people beyond Pretti – including Renee Nicole Good, another Minnesotan killed by ICE agents two and a half weeks prior, and Marimar Martinez , who survived being shot by ICE agents in Chicago in October – as part of an ongoing strategy to criminalize dissent. It’s a claim Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents themselves have started to make directly in confrontations with citizens, seemingly to try and intimidate legal observers, sometimes known as ICE watchers. In one recent video from Portland, Maine, an ICE officer told an observer to stop recording him on her phone, and when she wouldn’t, he took her information down and said, “We have a nice little database … and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.” Continue reading...
Jeffrey Epstein was 'very likely' recruited by the KGB during the Cold War to run a blackmailing scheme against the West's elite, Christopher Steele, a former head of the Russia desk at MI6, says
The classified assessment, compiled by Vietnam's Ministry of Defence in August 2024 and titled 'The 2nd US Invasion plan,' was made public on Tuesday by Project88.
Ending of New Start treaty will remove mutual limits on the world’s two biggest nuclear arsenals The New Start treaty between the US and Russia will expire on Thursday, removing the last remaining mutual limits on the world’s two biggest nuclear arsenals. The milestone will be a death knell for more than five decades of arms control at a time of surging global instability, contributing to a general collapse of the rules-based international order established after the second world war. Continue reading...
Limited ceasefire requested by Trump ends as Moscow resumes attacking Kyiv and other major Ukrainian cities
Millions of emails released on Friday show the influence of disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein over the world’s most powerful political figures
State resolutions are under-utilized right now and could be a significant mobilizing factor for the Democratic party The Democrats hold in their hands constitutional means yet unused to check the Trump regime’s ruthless attempt to impose a police state. That the Democrats thus far have failed to create this oppositional political center of gravity may be because the method has been lost to history, not wielded effectively for 113 years. Focused on the ICE outrages, however, this political instrument can be revived in the 16 states where the Democrats control the governorships and both chambers of the state legislatures, as well as introduced in states with mixed power. Before the enactment of the 17th amendment in 1913, state legislators and not the voters selected US senators and regarded them frequently as their agents. It was a common practice for legislatures to send what were called “orders of instruction” urging senators and sometimes members of the House of Representatives to take a particular stand on important issues. The orders were not binding, but had significant force given the power of legislatures and political parties to decide who would hold Senate seats. These resolutions were variously called instructions, petitions and memorials. Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to the Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man , Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth . He is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
The actor says her historic 2002 best actress Oscar did not open doors in Hollywood, as studios remained wary of stories led by black performers Halle Berry, the only black woman to have won the best actress Oscar, says her 2002 victory “didn’t necessarily change the course of my career”. Speaking to The Cut ’s Monica Corcoran Harel to promote new drama Crime 101 , Berry said that she anticipated the victory, for Lee Daniels’ Monster’s Ball, would mean “there was going to be a script truck showing up outside my front door”. Continue reading...
The Vatican’s “trial of the century” has resumed with appeals after setbacks for the pope’s prosecutors
First meeting between US and Iran envoys since Tehran's 12-day war with Israel expected on Friday
A visual analysis into the types of drones, sourcing methods, attack locations and the human toll of aerial warfare.
The far right is using pork consumption as a means to exclude, just as it was in the Inquisition. It should be a source of joy and community Spain makes the best ham in the world, and a multitude of incredible pork-based dishes. You have your crunchy, salty torreznos de Sori a , fried cubes of pork belly, which make for a fantastic bar snack. Or cochinillo asado , a suckling pig that’s traditionally roasted in a wood oven, and so tender that it’s cut with a plate instead of a knife when serving. For the more adventurous, I recommend exploring the world of regional morcillas or blood sausages. Morcilla de Burgos , made with rice and on the harder side, keeps its structure very well and makes an excellent pintxo when sliced and fried. Or there is the moist and spreadable morcilla de León , which my local butcher sells in jars . Another to look out for is the Basque morcilla de Beasain – made with leeks, it combines fantastically with black beans, cabbage and pickled green chillies to make one of the tastiest stews you’ll ever have. At the pinnacle, you have the gastronomic and cultural phenomenon that is jamón ibérico . It is distinct from lesser forms of jamón as it comes from the famed Iberian pigs, the best varieties of which are fed on acorns. You’ll see whole legs of it hanging in bars and restaurants across the country, and they’re a staple of the Spanish Christmas hamper, often raffled off by bars to their regular customers. Its standing in Spanish culture transcends the food world: Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz met while filming Jamón Jamón , in which the former beats his love rival to death with a leg of ham. Meanwhile, lower-league football side CD Guijelo’s away kit sees them dressed as a plate of the stuff . It finds its way into Spain’s public festivities, such as the Lance al Jamón in the walled city of Morella, where participants have to climb its walls and grab a leg of ham hanging from the ceiling . The contestant able to hang on the longest gets to keep it. Abbas Asaria is a food writer and chef based in Madrid Continue reading...
In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos. Whether moving independently or embedded with troops, Guardian reporters witnessed the violence on the ground The allied attack on Iraq began on 20 March 2003. The Guardian’s 4am edition on Friday 21 March carried the headline : “Land, sea and air assault.” The report was by Julian Borger in Washington and Rory McCarthy in Camp As Sayliyah, on the outskirts of Doha, the capital of Qatar. It opened: “The ground war began in Iraq last night as British and American marines stormed beaches on the Gulf coast in an assault on the south-eastern city of Basra, while explosions lit up Baghdad under a heavy bombardment by cruise missiles.” The first British fatalities came shortly afterwards when a US helicopter crashed in Kuwait, killing all on board. Suzanne Goldenberg’s front-page report from Baghdad revealed that only two hours after the decapitation effort, Saddam Hussein himself had made a defiant appearance on television. A Guardian leader stated that the plain fact was this first “surgical strike” had missed its mark. Even had it reached its target, it would have been difficult to applaud. “State-ordered assassination sets an abominable precedent that encourages unwelcome emulation … The US must tread carefully – for the legal and moral grounds for this war are already very shaky.” Continue reading...
The Clintons will appear before Congress to testify about their relationship with deceased pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The man targeted in the raid has since been deported to Mexico, according to a report
A former reformist leader wants the Islamic Republic gone while lawmakers wish to see an ex-president executed.
Ethiopian prime minister has accused Eritrea of mass killings while fighting alongside government troops against regional forces in the war in the troubled northern region of Tigray that ended in 2022
In case brought by Prince Harry and others, Daniel Portley-Hanks says he received about $1m for work for Associated Newspapers Ltd A US-based private detective bought a large house in California and had $150,000 in savings “almost entirely” from work he did for the publisher of the Daily Mail, the high court has heard. Daniel Portley-Hanks, also known as “Detective Danno”, said he received about $1m for work carried out for the Mail on Sunday, another title published by Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL). Continue reading...
Whatever post-attack scenario unfolds in Iran - regime consolidation or turmoil - the region would suffer.
The release of the Epstein Files represents the biggest, most far-reaching and devastating domestic political scandal of DAN HODGES's lifetime.
The extraordinary revelations appear to lay bare the extent of the professional and personal relationship between the paedophile financier and the ex-Labour minister
Speaking to Laura Ingraham on her eponymous show, Blanche suggested that some evidence in the Epstein files may not be enough to lead to prosecutions
LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest developments on the newly released Epstein files as documents show the disgraced paedophile financier's relationships with the rich and powerful.
The former Duchess of Yorksaid in July 2010 that she was 'totally on my own now' and said she was about to be 'exterminated' in the UK due to a series of personal scandals.
The footage shows Epstein laughing as he runs after two young women inside his house on Little Saint James, the private Caribbean island at the centre of his abuse scandal.
Cuban diplomat says Havana ready for dialogue with US, but certain things are off the table, including the constitution.
CEO Alex Karp hails ‘iconic’ financial results despite criticism over contracts with ICE and homeland security Palantir celebrated its latest financial results on Monday, as the tech company blew past Wall Street expectations and continues to prop up the Trump administration’s push to deport immigrants. Palantir has secured millions of dollars in federal contracts amid Trump’s crackdown on immigrants. The multibillion-dollar Denver-based firm creates tech focused on surveillance and analytics, to be used by the government agencies and private companies. Continue reading...