The Guardian spoke to more than a dozen contemporaries of Farage at Dulwich college, a public school in south London
Healey is now taking questions.
Q: How close are are we to war?
It is Labour that is the party of defence.
Continue reading...Ronaldo attends Trump’s White House dinner with MBS – all to know
Donald Trump thanks Ronaldo as football superstar makes surprise appearance alongside Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
British Museum ends ‘deeply troubling’ sponsorship from Japanese tobacco firm
Critics of deal welcome move, which has been called for since 2016 when experts said it was morally unacceptable
The British Museum has ended a controversial sponsorship deal with a Japanese tobacco firm after reports that the government had raised questions about the deal, which some critics said was “deeply troubling”.
The Guardian understands that the museum’s board chose to not renew the 15-year partnership with Japan Tobacco International (JTI), which ended in September.
Continue reading...Trump’s Russian oil waiver gives Orban a win at Hungary’s expense
The Washington deal helps Orban before the election but exposes the fragility of Hungary's illiberal rule.
Tropical cyclone Fina intensifies to category two and could hit NT coast on Friday
If it makes impact on Friday, it would be the earliest cyclone of the season to make landfall in Australia since 1973
If tropical cyclone Fina crosses the Northern Territory coast on Friday, it could equal the earliest cyclone to make landfall in Australia.
Fina intensified to category two storm on Wednesday night, the Bureau of Meteorology said, and was moving east about 370km north-east of Darwin before making an expected turn south on Thursday.
Continue reading...Harvard to investigate Larry Summers’s Epstein ties as he exits OpenAI board
Newly released Epstein documents drag the ex-treasury secretary into deeper scrutiny as Harvard widens its review
Harvard is set to launch a new investigation into former university president and Bill Clinton economic adviser Larry Summers about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as it also emerged Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI.
The moves comes after Summers said he would be stepping back from public engagements after emails revealed the extent of his relationship with the late sex offender.
Continue reading...Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’
Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent to losses in species-heavy forests
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At face value, the amount of forest in Australia is officially increasing, and has been since 2008.
But if an old-growth tree is felled in a forest and seedlings grow elsewhere, is the official account ecologically sound? Not according to new analysis, which suggests that the way Australia calculates forest cover obfuscates the impacts of ongoing deforestation.
Continue reading...Krysty was diagnosed with breast cancer months after getting the all-clear. New Australian guidelines aim to help women like her
Exclusive: New federal guidelines advise GPs to provide additional care to patients with higher breast density, which can make cancers harder to detect in mammograms
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When Krysty Sullivan had a routine mammogram in 2019, she was given the all-clear.
Eleven months later, she felt a lump.
Continue reading...Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 years
Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in its recent 13-month war in Lebanon, photos of munition remnants in south Lebanon seen by the Guardian suggest.
The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two different types of Israeli cluster munitions found in three different locations: south of the Litani River in the forested valleys of Wadi Zibqin, Wadi Barghouz and Wadi Deir Siryan.
Continue reading...George & The Whales: A Guide’s Life Among Tonga’s Giants
Meet George, a whale-watching guide in Tonga whose bond with the humpback whales runs deep.
Mahmood and Lammy breached human rights law over segregation of prisoner, judge finds
Treatment of terrorist with known mental health needs said to have contravened prohibition on inhuman or degrading treatment
Shabana Mahmood and David Lammy have been found to have breached a prohibition on inhuman or degrading treatment with respect to a prisoner who spent months segregated from other inmates, in what is believed to be a legal first.
Sahayb Abu was confined to his cell at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes, for 22 hours a day and prevented from associating with other prisoners for more than four months after Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, allegedly attacked prison officers at HMP Frankland.
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The contradiction at the heart of the trillion-dollar AI race
The confusing question lingering over the AI hype is whether it could be a bubble at risk of bursting
Video: Football ‘minnows’ qualify for FIFA World Cup
A number of other underdog nations have just qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals.
War Without End: Russia’s Shadow Warfare – Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
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An existential battle of interests: what the Sudanese war is actually about – The Guardian
- An existential battle of interests: what the Sudanese war is actually about The Guardian
- How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe The New Yorker
- Top U.N. Official Pushing to Get Aid Into Stricken Sudanese City The New York Times
- The World’s Largest Displacement Crisis Christianity Today
- Sudan conflict: Mass killings investigation gets green light from UN BBC
Man behind Gaza to South Africa flight: ‘I am helping my people in Gaza, this is not migration’ – Ynetnews
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- After Hundreds of Gazans Arrive on Mystery Flights, South Africa Asks How The New York Times
- Palestinians on flight to South Africa: Mystery fuels Israel-Gaza ethnic cleansing fears NBC News
- What’s the shadowy organisation taking Gaza Palestinians to South Africa? Al Jazeera
- South Africa to refuse charter flights of Palestinians over fears of 'cleansing agenda' BBC
Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after Epstein emails made public
The former US treasury secretary has faced a backlash over frequent messages to Epstein.
Pope Leo condemns US’s ‘extremely disrespectful’ treatment of immigrants
Pontiff backs statement by US bishops condemning raids and mass deportations under Trump administration
Pope Leo has reiterated his disapproval of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying foreigners in the US are being treated in an “extremely disrespectful way”.
Leo, the first US pontiff in the history of the Catholic church, made the remarks in response to questions about a statement adopted last week during a special assembly of US bishops that criticised the Trump administration’s mass deportations and lamented the fear and anxiety caused by immigration raids.
Continue reading...What did US and Saudi Arabia agree at White House summit?
Trump welcomed Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to the US, declaring the Kingdom a major non-NATO ally.