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Half a million people march in London for biggest anti-far right demonstration
Organisers estimated that the protest outnumbered a rally organised by far right activist Tommy Robinson in September
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Organisers estimated that the protest outnumbered a rally organised by far right activist Tommy Robinson in September
Saturday's rallies mark the third round of 'No Kings' protests since President Trump took office for a second term.
Why on earth is it called “social media”? It isn’t social at all.
When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?On a spring morning in 1987, a 30-year-old man named Robert Kilgour pulled up beside a row of foamy cherry trees in the town of Kirkcaldy, on Scotland’s east coast, to visit an old hotel. The building was four storeys of blackened Victorian sandstone. Kilgour was a big man, a voluble Scot with a knack for storytelling. He already owned a hotel in Edinburgh but wanted to branch into property development and was planning to turn this old place, Station Court, into apartments. A few months after he completed the purchase, however, the Scottish government scrapped a grant for developers that he had been counting on. He had just sunk most of his personal savings into a useless building in a sodden, post-industrial town. He urgently needed a new idea.Care homes weren’t so different from hotels, Kilgour thought. And the beauty was, their elderly residents were unlikely to get drunk, steal the soap dispensers or invite sex workers back to their rooms. Turning Station Court into a care home seemed like the best way out of a bad situation. Kilgour arranged a bank loan and in June 1989 he launched Four Seasons Health Care, taking the name from a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan where he had once dined.
Amid rising pressure on social media companies and new government guidance to limit screen time for under-fives, our community warns that addictive phones and social media pose problems for both children and adults
The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity". Welcoming the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the wealth of many Western nations was "built on stolen lives and stolen labour".
Erased Israeli Settlers' Brutal War on Palestinian Communities in the West BankScroll downCredit: Avishay Mohar, B'TselemHagar ShezafShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppThese images appear again and again – from the ground, from the air, and on maps: dozens of Palestinian communities wiped off the landscape, while illegal Israeli settler outposts continue to spread across the West Bank.Since October 7, 2023, this phenomenon has intensified significantly. Unlike the war in Gaza, there is no discussion in Israel about ending this parallel campaign of dispossession.
A U.S. official said that earlier an Iranian strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia injured around two dozen U.S. troops, one of the most serious breaches of American defenses since the war began.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels carry out their first attack on Israel since the war began
Trump has said if Iran doesn't reopen the strait to all traffic by April 6, he will order the destruction of Iran’s energy plants
Escalation represents dangerous spread of war and brings threat of even more damage to the global economyThe US-Israeli war with Iran has expanded with the entry of Houthi forces in Yemen, representing a dangerous spread of the conflict and bringing with it the threat of more damage to the global economy.Pakistan has said it would host a meeting of Middle Eastern powers on Monday in an effort to find a regional approach to ending the conflict. But the talks, bringing together foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt did not appear to include any of the warring parties, casting further doubt on persistent US claims of diplomatic progress.
Brought into mainstream media by the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code, the 'cult' has recently been at the centre of slavery, sexual misconduct and financial fraud allegations.
An Iranian spy recruitment ring is operating openly in London, ministers have been warned. Tehran is exploiting Britain’s “permissive environment” as a base for its Western intelligence-gathering and propaganda campaigns, The Telegraph was told.
Dracena Holloway is one of at least 500 victims of Dr Javaid Perwaiz. The doctors 30 year scheme left her and other women permanently changed.
On the 29th day of the US-Israel war on Iran, the conflict transitioned into a more visibly regional phase as strikes on Iran’s industrial and nuclear infrastructure were met with coordinated retaliation across multiple Gulf states.
The defense secretary prayed for ‘overwhelming violence’ against enemies in Iran. He seems to delight in itIs it woke to wash your hands? Pete Hegseth seems to think so. Back in 2019 when he was still just a Fox News host rather than the guy in charge of “”, Hegseth that he hadn’t washed his hands for 10 years because “.” He added: “I can’t see them; therefore, they’re not real.”Hegseth later claimed he was joking. But even if he was, the defense secretary is never going to be able to wash the blood from his hands. The 45-year-old, one of the of the war on Iran, he wants “maximum lethality, not tepid legality” to the be the hallmark of the US military, and he’s been making good on that promise. Under his watch, a defense department program aimed at has been dismantled, and experts who provide guidance on keeping military operations in line with international law have been fired. And, of course, a has been bombed.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist On Monday 8 June, join Mehdi Hasan and Arwa Mahdawi to discuss the current seismic changes in geopolitics, the alarming rise of populism and nationalism, and its global implications. Live in London and livestreamed worldwide. Book tickets or at
Iceland, birthplace of the literary tradition of the saga, is a nation of just 390,000 people. It is renowned for its progressive values: peace, wellbeing and human rights.
The Home Office has admitted delays in their requests to councils, police and other agencies to keep records could have led to crucial evidence being dumped.
Like most 13-year-old girls, Kim Ju-Ae (pictured) likes to present herself in the best possible light. Her hair is stylishly cut and she wears chic clothes.
Iran's ambassador to the UN confirmed the nation would "facilitate and expedite" such movement
Ramsey Elkholy introduced the financier to women as young as 18 in correspondence over almost a decade.
After Israel said it would intensify attacks on Iran’s industrial infrastructure, major steel plants and other vital plants were struck.
John Swinney has been told to apologise to victims of a sexual predator within the SNP and explain why complaints about the high-flyer were ignored.
Uranium facility, steel plants and heavy water complex among targets hit as IRGC warns of escalation.
The findings appear to be the most comprehensive estimates yet of the growing toll of dead and wounded civilians in the month-long war.
One month after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, the Middle Eastern conflict continues to spiral with no clear end in sight. James C. Reynolds reports on the mounting costs
A military spokesman for the Houthis said they fired a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting what he described as “sensitive Israeli military sites” in southern Israel
In response to the attack on the factories, Iran threatened to attack six steel plants in Israel and the Gulf states, mentioning Israel's Yehuda Group steel company in Ashdod and five other plants in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain
Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for social mediaThe young woman at the heart of what has been called the tech industry’s “big tobacco” moment was on YouTube at six and Instagram by nine. More than a decade later, she says, she still can’t live without the social media she became addicted to.“I can’t, it’s too hard to be without it,” Kaley, now 20, told a jury at Los Angeles’ superior court. This week, five men and seven women on the design of two of the world’s most popular apps that vindicated Kaley’s position.
American officials sought to temper concerns of a possibly expanding military incursion after the Pentagon’s decision to deploy more troops to the Middle East.
Behind the Numbers The Truth About Gaza's Death ListScroll downGaza's fatalities list is an explosive and controversial document. Critics claim the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry duplicates names, counts Hamas militants as civilians and inflates the number of women and minors.
Follow all the latest updates on the conflict in the Middle East as the war enters its second month.
While US-Israeli attacks hit key infrastructure, hardliners demand withdrawal from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
What is the question to which JD Vance is the answer? The man has been notable for keeping his head down since the war with Iran began, yet on Friday Donald Trump is understood to have appointed him lead negotiator for upcoming talks expected to take place in Pakistan.
Double Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya has labelled new International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules aimed at protecting women's sport as 'nonsense'.
Israel has intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, the first time it had faced fire from that country since the war in the Middle East erupted last month
The Houthis attack portends a potential third front of the US-Israel war on Iran. The post appeared first on .
Israel’s military says it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel for the first time
Missile fired from Yemen the first since the Iran war began and came hours after the US secretary set a new timeline for the conflictYemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have confirmed that they launched an attack on Israel for the first time since the outbreak of the Israel-US war on Iran, marking their entry to the conflict just hours after Marco Rubio said the US expected to conclude military operations within “weeks, not months”.While Israel was again hitting targets across Iran’s capital on Saturday, it identified what it said was a missile launched from Yemen. The Houthis said the attack came after continued targeting of infrastructure in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and the Palestinian territories, adding that their operations would continue until the “aggression” on all fronts ends.
Iran's state media has been pushing the idea of quitting a non-proliferation treaty and are pushing to seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of the US and Israel.
This blog is closed. More now on India slashing taxes on diesel and petrol amid the global disruption in energy supplies: finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the move would “provide protection to consumers from rise in prices”.The country is one of the world’s largest crude oil importers and relies on foreign suppliers for more than 85% of its oil needs, with Russia being the biggest supplier.
Texas lawmakers are studying whether to absorb parts of New Mexico, driven by frustration from conservative, oil-rich counties.
A senior IRGC official in Tehran told state television that children over 12 can join armed patrols and checkpoints.
'Mum,' the daughter said, 'my teacher told us you can be whatever gender you want.' Her mother froze at the kitchen sink, soap suds slipping through her fingers.
Ramsey Elkholy and the paedophile financier can be seen to have exchanged hundreds of emails over nearly a decade in which they spoke in derogatory ways about women and their bodies
A deep split in the MAGA movement threatens Trump’s Iran war.