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• 'My sister died' - Nightclub survivors and relatives speak of grief - BBC.com

  16-03-2025 21:27 via news.google.com
  'My sister died' - Nightclub survivors and relatives speak of grief  BBC.comNorth Macedonia mourns dead in nightclub fire as 15 people detained  The GuardianFire rips through overcrowded nightclub in North Macedonia, leaving dozens dead in panicked escape  The Associated PressSinger ‘died a hero’ trying to rescue young fans from North Macedonia nightclub fire  The Independent
  
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• Blue Ghost Watches Lunar Eclipse From The Lunar Surface - Hackaday

  16-03-2025 21:00 via news.google.com
  Blue Ghost Watches Lunar Eclipse From The Lunar Surface  HackadayWhere will the partial solar eclipse be visible in March 2025?  Space.comLunar eclipse: Blood Moon pictured across UK before dawn  BBCEclipse captured from moon's point of view as lander takes images during 'historic' event  Sky News
  
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• Mum has 'nothing to lose' by saving baby's stem cells

  16-03-2025 17:42 via bbc.com
  
  Natalie Harrop was inspired to research leukaemia treatments after her friend Jacqueline died.
  
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• Otty Original Hybrid mattress review: the best hybrid mattress you can buy – and also one of the cheapest

  16-03-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This ‘bed-in-a-box’ mattress gave our tester her best sleep in years and it’s hundreds of pounds cheaper than some of its rivals• The best mattresses: sleep better with our six rigorously tested picksI’ve been reviewing mattresses for about four years and suffering from broken sleep for three times as long. The right mattress can markedly improve sleep quality, but switching between them so regularly seemed to feed my insomnia. Then I met the Otty Original Hybrid and
  
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• GMKtec reveals launch timeline of 'world's first' AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC - Notebookcheck.net

  16-03-2025 15:53 via news.google.com
  GMKtec reveals launch timeline of 'world's first' AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC  Notebookcheck.netAMD’s Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 “Strix Halo” APU Is Over 3x Faster Than RTX 5080 In DeepSeek R1 AI Benchmarks  WccftechThis prototype mini PC demonstrates a massive leap forward for integrated graphics in a console form factor  TechRadarGMKtech shows off true Mini-PC with AMD Ryzen AI MAX 395+ "Strix Halo"  VideoCardz.comGMKtec teases new Mini-PC pow
  
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• Arsenal v Chelsea: Premier League updates – live

  16-03-2025 14:03 via theguardian.com
  
  All the action from the Emirates (1.30pm kick-off GMT)Join the discussion: email Daniel with your thoughtsWhere is the game? Arsenal will fancy Declan Rice and Martin Odegaard to run off James and Moises Caicedo, while their left flank of Lewis-Skelly and Leandro Trossard will surely target Jadon Sacnho, unrenowned for his physicality or relentlessness, and Wesley Fofana, a centre-back playing out of position.Chelsea, meanwhile, might feel able to commit more men forward than usual given Arsenal
  
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• Celtic v Rangers: Scottish Premiership updates on Old Firm derby – live

  16-03-2025 14:02 via theguardian.com
  Follow coverage of the Old Firm (12.30pm GMT kick-off)Email Taha with your thoughts on the game3 min: Ooooh, top save from Schmeichel, diving to his right to tip round a stinging strike from Raskin. A corner for Rangers …2 min: Schlupp is into the action again, heading away the corner for a throw-in. Tavernier sends it long, into the area, with Celtic unable to properly get rid. Rangers have another throw … Continue reading...
  
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• Underwater ‘doorbell’ helps scientists catch coral-eating fish in Florida

  16-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Researchers use innovative cameras to identify fish species hindering coral reef restorationMarine scientists in Florida working to help reverse a calamitous decades-long decline in coral reefs caught fishy “porch pirates” in the act with an innovative underwater doorbell-style surveillance camera.The footage showed that three corallivorous species – redband parrotfish, foureye butterflyfish and stoplight parrotfish – were responsible for eating more than 97% of coral lai
  
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• On my radar: Georgia Ellery’s cultural highlights

  16-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  The Black Country, New Road and Jockstrap musician on a YouTube philosopher, the power of Munch and her love of saunas and Japanese onsenBorn in Cornwall in 1997, Georgia Ellery attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she met Taylor Skye, with whom she founded the electro-pop duo Jockstrap; their 2022 debut album, I Love You Jennifer B, was nominated for the Mercury prize. In 2019 she starred in the Mark Jenkin film Bait. She is also a member of the Mercury-nominated Black Countr
  
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• Maternity Service by Emma Barnett review – a tour of duty in early motherhood

  16-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  In this valuable, brutally honest guide, the broadcaster argues that a supposedly joyful time is often steeped in drudgery and social isolation“It’s a bloody weird experience, maternity leave, and it’s OK to acknowledge that,” Emma Barnett writes in Maternity Service, her short, no-nonsense guide to surviving this curious – and relatively recent – phenomenon that can feel, in the thick of it, like a temporary exile from the outside world. For many new mothers,
  
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• Democrats train fire on Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity

  16-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Leaders on left bet on Musk’s bravado to pull party out of political weeds as CEO eyes social security and health cutsFor most of the 17-minute interview, Elon Musk stuck to a script. He was just a tech guy on a mission to “eliminate waste and fraud” from government.His slash-and-burn cost-cutting crusade was making “good progress actually”, he told Fox Business commentator Larry Kudlow on Monday, despite sparking a backlash that has reverberated far beyond Washingt
  
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• Animal poo can be used to save endangered species from extinction, research finds

  16-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Some cells are still alive within the dung, and could be used to boost genetic diversity in certain speciesTurning animal poo into offspring sounds like a zoo keeper’s conjuring trick, but it might become a reality if researchers succeed in a new project to help save endangered animals from extinction.From snow leopards to sea turtles, animals the world over are under threat, with some scientists calling the massive loss of wildlife in recent decades a “biological annihilation”
  
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• Arrest warrants issued as death toll rises to 59 from Kočani nightclub fire in North Macedonia – Europe live

  16-03-2025 13:59 via theguardian.com
  More than 150 people injured after blaze broke out in the early hours at Pulse club in town 60 miles from SkopjeNorth Macedonia’s public prosecutor Ljupco Kocevski has said five prosecutors would investigate the fire.“At the moment, orders have been issued for collecting of evidence” and some people were being interviewed, Kocevski said. Continue reading...
  
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• Airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthis may continue for weeks, US officials say

  16-03-2025 13:49 via theguardian.com
  At least 31 killed and up to 100 injured after Trump orders strikes on Sana’a and Saada in response to shipping attacksUS officials have said airstrikes launched by Donald Trump against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis may continue for weeks, after a first round on Saturday killed at least 31 people and injured up to 100 more.The strikes, which aim to punish the Houthis for their attacks against Red Sea shipping, are Trump’s first such use of US military might in the region since h
  
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• How Covid-19 changed the way we die

  16-03-2025 13:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The pandemic forced many people in England and Wales to reflect how they might die with dignity, and the numbers of those wanting to die at home is on the riseWhen Marlene Viggers was told her newly diagnosed cancer was untreatable, she said she wanted to go home to die. “She was the matriarch of the family, she held everything together, and she wanted to have her family all around her,” said Neil Andrews, her son-in-law.For the next few weeks, until Marlene died in January 2022 at t
  
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• Ballet Black: Shadows review – killer moves in a dance adaptation of murderous blockbuster

  16-03-2025 13:44 via theguardian.com
  
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  Oyinkan Braithwaite’s novel My Sister, the Serial Killer is the inspiration for Cassa Pancho’s dramatic ballet, accompanied by Chanel DaSilva’s A Shadow WorkPutting on rubber gloves with your pointe shoes and cleaning up a crime scene is an unusual start to a ballet. But Ballet Black’s artistic director, Cassa Pancho, has chosen Oyinkan Braithwaite’s hit novel My Sister, the Serial Killer as the source material for her new ballet, and blood-sp
  
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• Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? | George Monbiot

  16-03-2025 13:30 via theguardian.com
  I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us allI hate to sound like a prepper, but I feel bound to confess that over the past month I’ve been stockpiling food. I think, if you can, you should do the same. I’ve put aside 25kg of rice, 15kg of dried chickpeas, 15kg of bread flour, 7kg of chapati flour, 5kg of oats, six litres of vegetable oil, a slab of tinned tomatoes, some nuts and dried fruit. This
  
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• Fire could ‘burn down parliament’ and asbestos is rife, surveys show

  16-03-2025 13:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Lord Peter Hain said 44 fires were recorded in the past decade and more than 1,000 asbestos incidents More than 1,000 incidents of asbestos have been discovered in parliament and at least 44 fires have broken out over the past decade, alarming new figures show.The details of the prevalence of the toxic material in the parliament buildings were released to the Labour peer and former cabinet minister Lord Peter Hain, who has repeatedly warned that parliament faces the possibility of a Notre Dame-s
  
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• Washington worried with Trump back in town: ‘The atmosphere is toxic here’

  16-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Kennedy Center and BLM mural have been targeted, the newspaper is in freefall – and the Maga movement is gaining a footholdIt was an audience more accustomed to stifling a cough or resisting the temptation to unwrap a sweet. But when they spotted vice-president JD Vance taking his seat at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Thursday night, classical music-goers erupted in unrestrained boos, jeers and shouts of “You ruined this place!”The noisy
  
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• Virtual reality goggles helped me on the path to physical recovery

  16-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  An unexpected bit of tech opened up a whole new world of possibilities for a frustrated, injured writer If you had asked me a month or two ago if I had ever had a spatial immersive experience, or what the chances were that at the age of 60, I would become an early adopter of virtual reality goggles, I would have said it was about as likely as a tech giant from Silicon Valley being appointed to “disrupt” the US federal government.Let me explain the unlikely series of events that led m
  
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• Thames Water on TV: pity the staff, this place is decrepit

  16-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The company presumably hosted this documentary to show the need for higher bills to pay for new infrastructureWhy would Thames Water invite TV cameras into its operations for a fly-on-the-wall documentary? “Nobody comes to work to put shit in rivers,” says the company’s communications director near the start of Thames Water: Inside the Crisis (BBC Two). “At the end of day, it is about helping people not to totally hate us.”Are we helped? Certainly, frustrated frontl
  
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• Netflix drama Adolescence has lessons for us all about alienated young men | Vanessa Thorpe

  16-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The new series highlights the huge problem of disaffected youths. Society now needs to recognise the issue – and create solutions, writes the Observer’s arts and media correspondent This is not a review. There have already been plenty of those, most hailing Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s new Netflix drama series, Adolescence, as a modern television landmark. It has received a run of five-star recommendations from critics in the last week, with many praising the acting just as
  
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• Line 5, a Trump donor, is profiting off a pipeline deal threatening pollution

  16-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump administration accused of ‘quid pro quo’ for fast-tracking controversial fossil fuel proposal in MichiganDonald Trump’s administration is being accused by activists of a quid pro quo as it attempts to fast-track a controversial fossil fuel pipeline proposal in Michigan that would in part be built by a donor with deep financial ties to the president.While Canadian oil giant Enbridge owns the Line 5 oil and gas pipeline that it is attempting to replace in the Great Lakes re
  
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• ‘Deeply uncomfortable’: UK Starlink users switch off over Musk’s political machinations

  16-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Numbers using satellite broadband system has been growing but users are having second thoughts due to Musk’s role in Donald Trump’s administrationTesla sales have tumbled, X has seen an exodus of users, and now it seems cracks are appearing among those who have turned to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system as a means of staying connected in remote areas.While the number of Starlink users has been growing, some subscribers have been venting their frustrations over Musk’s
  
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• Labour’s long-term benefit reform plan is laudable; putting a moral slant on it is not

  16-03-2025 12:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Painting a veneer of morality over welfare cuts risks people fighting a tougher battle for support they need“The assessment process itself is awful”. Carol Vickers receives the personal independence payment (Pip), the disability support benefit whose spiralling cost the government is determined to cut back.She has a debilitating condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that affects her connective tissues, and means she needs an assistance dog. I spoke to her this week, to get a sense
  
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• ‘I have belief’: Cushing feels Manchester City can beat Chelsea in Europe

  16-03-2025 12:31 via theguardian.com
  Interim manager positive despite League Cup final defeatTeams meet in Women’s Champions League this weekNick Cushing has said Manchester City’s performance in their defeat in Saturday’s League Cup final has given him belief that they can beat Chelsea in the Women’s Champions League on Wednesday, as the two teams’ run of four consecutive meetings continues.
  Manchester City lost 2-1 in Cushing’s first game back in interim charge, just five days after the sacking
  
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• Lando Norris begins season with Australian F1 GP victory ahead of Max Verstappen

  16-03-2025 12:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Verstappen second, Russell third as Piastri finishes ninthLewis Hamilton 10th in Melbourne on Ferrari debut If he is to make a tilt at this season’s Formula One world championship, Lando Norris can consider that he made the case as leading contender definitively at the very opening meeting of 2025. In weathering the storm for his victory at the Australian Grand Prix, Norris demonstrated control, precision and an iron will under pressure. There is an awful long way to go but at the death on
  
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• ‘The Palestinian exception’: Trump limits campus free speech with the complicity of Zionist Jews | Jeff Melnick and Jessie Lee Rubin

  16-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The promotion of Israel’s national narrative remains exempt from Trump’s wholesale attack on DEIOn 7 March, the Trump administration announced that it had cancelled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, saying the school’s “Jewish students have faced relentless violence, intimidation, and antisemitic harassment on their campuses” and that “universities must comply with all federal anti-discrimination laws if they are going to receive fe
  
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• Swiss roll: a scenic tour of Switzerland by train

  16-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The best way to explore the country’s fabulous valleys and vistas is with a choose-your-own-adventure rail passSwitzerland isn’t expensive, it’s just very exclusive,” joked our tour guide as we walked along the paved path by the shore of Lake Lucerne. The Grand Train Tour of Switzerland – or GTToS for aficionados – certainly has the feel of an epic journey, complete with trains and boats offering panoramic views of its mountains, valleys and lakes.The GTToS ta
  
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• Michael Lewis and John Lanchester: ‘Trump is a trust-destroying machine’

  16-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Before the 2024 election, the two authors tried to stop Donald Trump’s plan to gut the US federal government with an investigation that transformed the image of civil servants from bureaucrats to superheroes. Now their worst fears have been realisedIn late 2023, as the US presidential election was heaving into view, the author Michael Lewis called up six writers he admired – five Americans and one Briton – and asked if they’d like to contribute to an urgent new series he
  
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• Mahmoud Khalil’s case is setting up an epic first amendment battle with Trump

  16-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump administration’s interpretation of immigration law paves way for high-stakes legal clash after activist’s arrestThe Trump administration is relying on an obscure provision of immigration law to justify deporting Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident, setting up a high-stakes legal battle between the first amendment and what the government claims are its foreign policy powers.Khalil, a Columbia University graduate who became a leader of pro-Palestinian protests on the campu
  
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• Loved by rockers and royals, Eel Pie Island is threatened by tide of red tape

  16-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Changes in flood status raise fears for the future of the island where the Rolling Stones and David Bowie playedFrom Henry VIII to the Rolling Stones, Eel Pie Island has drawn people for centuries, curious about what life is like on a small patch of ground surrounded by the River Thames.Yet the 100 or so people who live and work on the island believe their unique community is now under threat from the casual stroke of a bureaucratic pen. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It brings you in and shelters you’: NHS creates ‘recovery gardens’ for staff and patients

  16-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Trusts work withthe Royal Horticultural Society to create outdoor refuges for staff and patientsFor Hayleigh Austin-Richards, it is a place to have a cry, breathe fresh air and remind herself there is something magical about butterflies. As often as she can, the ward manager of Chapel Allerton’s stroke rehabilitation unit in Leeds visits the hospital’s “Garden for Recovery”, originally created for the Chelsea Flower Show and installed last summer.Austin-Richards’s j
  
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• Industrial evolution: a designer breathes new life into an old London warehouse

  16-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  A Grade II-listed former storehouse on the edge of the Thames has become a modern home, but its historic character remains at the heart of its redesignIn the late 18th century, London was one of the busiest ports in the world, the docks in the east bustling with clippers, sailors and porters unloading tea, tobacco, rice, fruit, sugar and wine. It meant that industrial warehouses were thrown up along the banks of the Thames for much-needed storage. Almost two centuries later, only a handful of th
  
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• Antidote review – real-time film about those standing up to Putin is essential viewing

  16-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  James Jones’s gripping documentary following three people as they risk their lives by speaking out plays like a thrillerFilm-making is traditionally a slow process. Even documentaries, which tend to be lighter on their feet and more responsive to world events, struggle to be entirely of the moment. Which is one of the reasons that Antidote, James Jones’s gripping documentary about the courageous whistleblowers standing up to the Putin regime, is so remarkable. The film, which plays o
  
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• Peruvian fisher rescued after three months stranded at sea

  16-03-2025 11:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Maximo Napa says he survived by eating cockroaches, birds and a turtle – and thinking about his motherA Peruvian fisher was found alive after drifting at sea for 94 days, a navy official said on Saturday, as he was discharged from hospital after his ordeal.Maximo Napa, 61, was rescued in his small fishing boat on Tuesday after being spotted by an Ecuadoran vessel off the coast of Chimbote in northern Peru. Continue reading...
  
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• Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions

  16-03-2025 11:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfareThe health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes there is an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions as well as “too many people being written off” – factors he said were the key drive for the government’s welfare measures.Speaking to broadcasters, Streeting was repeatedly challenged on whether ministers were leavin
  
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• Reform UK candidate who praised Hitler and Assad put in charge of vetting

  16-03-2025 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Jack Aaron, whose past comments on controversial leaders led to widespread criticism, is now overseeing candidate selectionA Reform UK general election candidate who said Hitler was “brilliant” at inspiring people and described Bashar al-Assad as “gentle by nature” is now in charge of the party’s vetting process.Jack Aaron’s comments about the Nazi leader and Syrian dictator came to light last year when he stood for Reform in the Welwyn Hatfield constituency.
  
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• Joe Trivelli’s recipes for carrots with wild garlic, pork tenderlion, rhubarb charlotte and cinnamon ice-cream

  16-03-2025 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Spring has finally sprung and it’s time to celebrate with vivid, exciting colours and tastesAs the smell of wild garlic fills the woodlands of Britain, it’s time to leave all thoughts of winter behind us and embrace the new. This is a menu to celebrate March, with its tripping lambs and nodding daffs. Verdant shoots give vibrancy to the landscape, urban and rural, and hope is in the air. These recipes celebrate the arrival of fresh new flavours, while not being overly optimistic, wit
  
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• Life of British man, 79, imprisoned by Taliban is in serious danger, say family

  16-03-2025 11:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Peter Reynolds, who runs a business in Afghanistan, was held along with his wife last month and needs heart pills, says his daughterThe life of a 79-year-old British man imprisoned along with his wife by the Taliban is in serious danger, his family have warned.Peter Reynolds and his wife, Barbie, 75, who run a training business in Afghanistan, were detained last month when they travelled to their home in Bamiyan province. Continue reading...
  
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• The ‘Iron Mountain’ hoax: how anti-Vietnam war satire sparked today’s conspiracy theories

  16-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Meant as a cautionary leftwing tale, Report from Iron Mountain had a real-world impact that is still playing outWe live in a ­blizzard of fake news, ­disinformation and ­conspiracy theories. It’s tempting to blame this on social media – which does indeed ­exacerbate the problem. And AI deepfakes promise to make the situation even worse. But at root this is not about technology: it’s about how humans think, as an astonishing case that long predates the internet r
  
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• Many MPs think it immoral to slash disability benefits – and they’re right | Sonia Sodha

  16-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Making it harder to claim Pip isn’t about ethics, as Keir Starmer says, but economicsAsk me what a Labour prime minister should feel a moral obligation to deliver and I’d put reducing child poverty at the top of the list. Sorting out our broken social care system would be up there too. One thing that wouldn’t feature: cutting disability benefits.Yet last week Keir Starmer attempted to frame cutting the disability benefits bill as a moral, not just economic, imperative – t
  
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• If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up | Stewart Lee

  16-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Social media is lurching to the right like a tapeworm scenting offal – and X’s algorithms make it hard to find opposing opinionWake up grandad and put your opinions in the pedal bin! If you even think you are well informed you are living a lie. What the world believes today depends on who is controlling legacy media’s last feeble news fronts, like the head-bobbing slaphead Jeff Bezos’s supine Washington Post, and on who programs digital social media sluices, such as Ketam
  
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• Flawed UK visa scheme led to ‘horrific’ care worker abuse, says watchdog

  16-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Anti-slavery commissioner says scheme to plug staffing gaps post-Brexit was a ‘blunt instrument’ that enabled exploitation of the vulnerableA post-Brexit visa scheme to fill vacancies in social care was badly designed and enabled “horrific” abuse of migrant workers, the UK’s anti-slavery watchdog has said.Commissioner Eleanor Lyons said the care worker visa route introduced by the Conservatives in February 2022 had caused avoidable harm and “some really severe
  
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• ‘Evict the Charleston Scroungers’: row in Lewes over the Bloomsbury group’s legacy

  16-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A debate is raging over the future of a council building used for art exhibitions as public services in the Sussex town are squeezedWhen the doors closed on two art shows in the Sussex town of Lewes last weekend, a record number of people had crossed the threshold of Southover House to look at works by Picasso and Grayson Perry.For 18 months, the former council office building has housed a pop-up outpost of Charleston, the former home of key members of the Bloomsbury group, which is nearby in th
  
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• ‘Boxing let me be angry’: Anna Whitwham

  16-03-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After her mum died, Anna Whitwham was drawn to martial arts, and found an outlet for her grief in the ringI am standing in the middle of the boxing ring, a stage lit up like a theatre. I’ve hit the woman so hard she staggers back into the ropes. The pause makes me relax. I think I’ve won, but I’m wrong. Rage moves her. Boxing can be like a game of chess, a play on stillness and control. But not now, and not here. I am scrappy and wild. When she comes for me, I launch myself at
  
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• Our universe could be inside black hole, suggests James Webb telescope - Interesting Engineering

  16-03-2025 10:52 via news.google.com
  Our universe could be inside black hole, suggests James Webb telescope  Interesting EngineeringNew Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole  The IndependentIs our universe trapped inside a black hole? This James Webb Space Telescope discovery might blow your mind  Space.comSaturday Citations: A baffling discovery from Webb; the face of an early human; humans and dogs like to chill together  Phys.orgUnexpected JWST Observations Hint We Might B
  
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• ‘We are all Natasha’: senator’s sexual harassment claims roil Nigeria

  16-03-2025 10:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Treatment of Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who has been suspended from senate, shines light on women’s rights Last July, Nigeria’s third-most powerful man gave a rare apology on the floor of the senate which he heads.Godswill Akpabio had chastised his colleague Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for speaking out of turn, saying: “We are not in a nightclub”. But after receiving what he said was a deluge of insulting text messages from Nigerians, he apologised publicly a few days later. Co
  
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• Notes on chocolate: the simple delights of Easter eggs

  16-03-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Inclusions and adornments are all very well, but some people prefer their Easter eggs the old-fashioned wayWhen my friend Kate asked me for a ‘recommendation for a simple milk chocolate egg’, I thought I was in for an easy task. But no. Simple chocolate eggs were once upon a time pretty much all you could get, milk or plain. But now it’s all adornment and inclusions. Nothing wrong with that (more of these in coming weeks), but if you want something that’s just milk chocol
  
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• ‘Fishing in Cornwall is like a metaphor for life’: photographer Jon Tonks on landscape, community and the perfect catch

  16-03-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tonks spent 18 months documenting the fisherfolk of the south-west, learning about the community’s relationship with the sea, and how the future could be more sustainable for the fishersTwo figures bend over a ship’s gunwale, busy with a net, their bright yellow oilskins in brilliant contrast to the inky night. A flock of gulls, eerily spectral in the camera flash, frenzied by the impending catch, flap and wheel in a void so black that sea and sky are one. With their backs turned, it
  
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