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• Billionaire exodus continues as one of UK’s richest men set to leave due to Rachel Reeves

  28-03-2025 23:49 via express.co.uk
  
  Lakshmi Mittal is set to leave the UK, undermining the Government's desire to attract investment.
  
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• 'Totally unexpected' galaxy discovered by James Webb telescope defies our understanding of the early universe - Livescience.com

  28-03-2025 21:39 via news.google.com
  'Totally unexpected' galaxy discovered by James Webb telescope defies our understanding of the early universe  Livescience.comWitnessing the onset of reionization through Lyman-α emission at redshift 13  Nature.comNASA’s Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe  Science@NASAGalaxy Caught Turning on Lights at Cosmic Dawn, Stunning Astronomers  ScienceAlertAstronomers find signal that gives ‘unexpected’ insight int
  
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• Drivers are just realising what cars' 'little slot' next to steering wheel is for

  28-03-2025 21:39 via express.co.uk
  
  Have you ever wondered what the little slot next to your steering wheel is for? Well, apparently, many drivers had the same question, and some have the answer.
  
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• Shampoo urgently recalled after testing positive for 'deadly' bacteria

  28-03-2025 20:56 via express.co.uk
  
  A shampoo brand has recalled more than 1000 bottles because they contain Klebsiella oxytoca.
  
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• Human placenta found in UK park sparks urgent police investigation

  28-03-2025 20:23 via express.co.uk
  
  Remains have been found in a park that has now been closed by the police.
  
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• UK weather maps show where will get 20C mini-heatwave in April

  28-03-2025 19:55 via express.co.uk
  
  Things are looking up for the nation as weather maps forecast a wave of heat set to sweep across the UK very soon
  
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• New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’

  28-03-2025 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: early stage trials of drug that uses antibiotics finds benefits for people whose pain is caused by infectionMillions of people worldwide with severe back pain may be able to get relief from a new drug that uses antibiotics rather than painkillers to tackle the condition.Doctors who have tested the drug said it could be “a gamechanger” for the one in four people whose lower back pain is caused by an infection rather than a muscular or spinal problem. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on Myanmar’s earthquake: aid must reach beyond the junta

  28-03-2025 18:54 via theguardian.com
  
  International donors will need to work with the country’s fragmented local administrations as well as its military rulersRestrictions on the press and internet imposed by the military junta that rules Myanmar mean that information about the powerful earthquake that struck the country on Friday, just before 1pm local time, was even more incomplete than usual in the aftermath of a disaster. At least 144 people are reported to have been killed – a death toll that is certain to rise &nda
  
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• Norwegian community spirit and UK inequality | Letters

  28-03-2025 18:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Responding to an article by Emma Beddington, Francesca Vaghi and Julia Hvitlock say dugnadsånd is not the same as outsourcing the state’s obligations; plus letters from Austen Lynch, Andrew Kyle and another readerEmma Beddington’s column on dugnadsånd invites readers to embrace the Norwegian tradition of community spirit because of the “feelgood” effect one gets from volunteering, and as an antidote to the isolation many people experience as things a
  
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• Adolescence was hard-hitting TV, but online safety needs to be nuanced | Letter

  28-03-2025 18:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Instead of banning phones in schools, teach online engagement as part of the curriculum, writes Mark RowlandThe scramble by politicians to respond to the fantastic Netflix series Adolescence risks turning into a kneejerk “ban response”, when evidence for the effectiveness of a ban is limited and it may prove impractical to enforce (Labour to scrutinise school smartphone bans as pressure grows over impact on teenagers, 20 March).Teachers are having to grapple with online influences. P
  
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• Esther Rantzen’s life-preserving cancer drugs no longer working, says daughter

  28-03-2025 17:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Terminally ill journalist and assisted dying supporter no longer healthy enough to travel to DignitasThe life-preserving cancer drugs that Dame Esther Rantzen was placed on last year are no longer working, her daughter has said.The health of the terminally ill Childline founder and journalist had deteriorated to the extent that she was no longer well enough to travel to a Swiss clinic, meaning that Dignitas was “out of the window” for the 84-year-old, Rebecca Wilcox said. Continue re
  
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• ‘This is no isolated event’: attack on Palestinian director brings rising settler violence into focus

  28-03-2025 17:27 via theguardian.com
  Activists fear unprecedented levels of violence, with the apparent backing of Israeli authorities, are part of a drive to force Palestinians out of the West BankIt was about 6pm, just after its Palestinian residents had finished their daily Ramadan fast, when dozens of masked Israeli settlers armed with batons, knives and assault rifles entered the West Bank village of Susiya, in the rural Masafer Yatta area of the south Hebron hills. Among them were a group of Israeli soldiers who escorted the
  
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• Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed

  28-03-2025 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Environmentalists call bid to skirt UN treaty ‘reckless’ amid fears that mining will cause irreversible loss of biodiversityA Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the Trump administration to bypass a UN treaty and potentially gain authorisation from the US to mine in international waters.The revelation has stunned environmentalists, who condemned the move as “reckless” and a “slap in the face for multilateralism”. Continue re
  
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• Anne Wojcicki, the floundering 23andMe’s eternal optimist - Financial Times

  28-03-2025 17:00 via news.google.com
  Anne Wojcicki, the floundering 23andMe’s eternal optimist  Financial TimesAs a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford  The Guardian23andMe users struggle to delete their highly sensitive data  BBC.com23andMe says it won permission from a judge to sell customers’ medical and ancestry data. Here’s how to delete yours  Fortune23andMe was always junk science Personalised medicine ca
  
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• Dad saw GP about panic attacks and his life changed forever - Manchester Evening News

  28-03-2025 16:08 via news.google.com
  Dad saw GP about panic attacks and his life changed forever  Manchester Evening NewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• An earthquake in Myanmar and elephants by the sea: photos of the day – Friday

  28-03-2025 15:29 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Stephen Graham: the ‘working-class, mixed-race kid’ who cares deeply about the work

  28-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As his latest drama Adolescence stirs debate, we look at Liverpudlian actor’s previous roles and ability to keep it realHis latest show has managed to set viewing records in the UK, caught the attention of the prime minister, and been the catalyst for a difficult conversation about modern masculinity – all in the space of a couple of weeks.But Stephen Graham isn’t an overnight success story. Continue reading...
  
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• Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation

  28-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialismWe all think we know what is causing the breakdown of the planet’s climate: burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide, change the chemistry of the air and trap more heat from the sun, leading to rising temperatures.But Tao Leigh Goffe, an associate professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York, wants us to visualise a far more spec
  
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• The best cordless vacuum cleaners for a spotless home: 10 tried and tested favourites

  28-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Stick vacuums are a convenient alternative to corded designs, but which model wins for overall cleaning prowess? Our expert reveals all• The best robot vacuums to keep your home clean and dust freeChoosing a cordless vacuum isn’t a decision that should be taken lightly. You’re likely to keep a vacuum cleaner for years, relying heavily on its ability to suck up dust, crumbs, mud, pet hair and any other dry spillages or sheddings that end up on your floor. Choosing the right model
  
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• ‘I’ve never masturbated on film before’: Michelle Williams’ orgasm odyssey in Dying for Sex

  28-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  She cried when she heard about a woman with terminal cancer who spent her last days on a sexual adventure – and knew she had to turn it into TV. As the devastating result hits the screen, the actor relives an extraordinary experience‘I’ve done any and all number of sexual situations in my 30-year career,” says Michelle Williams, all matter-of-fact and puckishly charming. “But I’ve never masturbated on film before … and I was nervous. It’s much eas
  
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• Calvin Klein jeans for free! Branded clothes dumped in the desert snapped up on anti-fast fashion website

  28-03-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Items taken from a mountain of discarded garments in the Atacama desertwere sold for the price of shipping in a fightback against the ‘racist and colonialist’ dumping of unwanted clothingEvery week, Bastián Barria ventures into the Atacama desert in northern Chile looking for items of discarded clothing in the sand. About half of the hundreds of garments he finds are in perfect condition. He collects what he can and adds them to the two-tonne pile of clothes he has stored at a
  
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• So many souvenirs for JD Vance to take home from Greenland: oil, gas, minerals – and that’s just the start | Marina Hyde

  28-03-2025 13:55 via theguardian.com
  The widely reviled veep and his wife may not see much of the island they’d like to annex, but the US military base will be lovely at this time of yearThere’s a Gerard Butler movie called Greenland, which – via a series of cataclysmic events handled incredibly Butlerishly – ends with Gerard cocooned in a remote secure bunker in Greenland. As the week has worn on, this has increasingly become the mood of today’s supposedly super-fun tourist trip to Greenland by the se
  
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• Share your memories of WH Smith

  28-03-2025 10:34 via theguardian.com
  
  We’d like to hear your memories of the retail store and how you might be affected by its saleThe 233-year-old brand, WH Smith, is to sell its 480 retail stores to the Hobbycraft owner, Modella Capital.The high street business, which employs 5,000 staff, will disappear from the high street after a “short transitional period” but will retain its brand for its travel shops. The other retail stores will be rebranded as TGJones. Continue reading...
  
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• Week in wildlife: relief for traumatised lions, a shy deer and a stork doing yoga

  28-03-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Europeans don’t want American cars. Trump thinks he can change that - The Telegraph

  28-03-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  Europeans don’t want American cars. Trump thinks he can change that  The Telegraph'It's going to get worse': US car buyers brace for sweeping auto tariffs  BBCTrump Tells NBC He ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ About Higher Auto Prices  Bloomberg'Tesla wins, Detroit bleeds': Wall Street analysts say Musk is clear auto tariff winner  CNBC
  
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• TV tonight: a violinist’s incredible recovery from a brain injury

  28-03-2025 07:20 via theguardian.com
  Clemency Burton-Hill recorded her journey after being left unable to speak or walk. Plus: the twist-filled season finale of Death in Paradise. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two
  “Music was my greatest ally, and now it’s like my toxic friend.” A film following the remarkable story of Clemency Burton-Hill, who was 38 years old when a brain injury left her unable to speak or walk. Before that, she was a violinist who had also achieved a double first from Cambridge
  
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• Pete Hegseth, dogged by scandal at home, pledges US support for Manila against China

  28-03-2025 07:05 via theguardian.com
  Defence secretary’s Philippines visit, aimed at bolstering ties in Asia-Pacific, comes amid rising tensions with Beijing and calls for his resignationThe US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, has met with the Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos, in Manila saying the two countries must stand “shoulder to shoulder” in the face of the threat represented by China.Hegseth’s meeting at the presidential palace comes as he opens a tour of Pacific allies that risks being overshad
  
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• Why the weasel testicles? Cambridge show explains medieval medicine

  28-03-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Exhibition aims to help visitors get inside the minds that thought mercury and roasted apples would cure liceMedieval treatments might make you question the sanity of the doctors of the day, but a new exhibition is set to take visitors inside the minds of such medics and reveal the method behind what can seem like madness.Curious Cures, opening on Saturday at Cambridge University Library, is the culmination of a project to digitise and catalogue more than 180 manuscripts, mostly dating from the
  
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• What to wear to get the Montecito look (on a budget)

  28-03-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, this week released a £10,000 shoppable wardrobe that encapsulates her Cali lifestyle. Here’s how to get the look if your reality is more big Tesco than LA farmers’ market Continue reading...
  
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• UK bill payers still vulnerable to another energy crisis, watchdog warns

  28-03-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  PAC says country still lacks safeguards to shield households facing ‘worryingly high’ energy debtsBritish bill payers remain exposed to another energy crisis while facing “worryingly high” energy debts and some of the highest electricity costs in the world, parliament’s spending watchdog has warned.The public accounts committee (PAC) said ministers had not put in place sufficient safeguards to shield households against another energy crisis or taken steps to permane
  
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• Keir Starmer is one of Labour’s most rightwing prime ministers. And one of its most leftwing, too | Andy Beckett

  28-03-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The PM offers a political hybrid designed for a fickle electorate. There are short-term electoral gains to be won, but risks in the long termFor more than eight months now, since shortly after Labour won power, more and more people have been outraged by the government’s moves to the right. Starting with its decision to keep the Conservatives’ cruel two-child benefit cap last July, the government has regularly given these critics reasons to feel shocked, betrayed or just disappointed.
  
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• How Karachi’s women got into power: the female electricians lighting up homes in Pakistan

  28-03-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Two hundred women, known as the Light Sisters, have learned to fix appliances and safely install fittings, challenging gender stereotypes and providing opportunities in the male-dominated energy sectorA cardboard sign reading “Electrician available” hangs outside a house in the Karachi neighbourhood of Shah Latif Town. The name and phone number of a man, along with his expertise in repairing sewing machines and water pumps is listed underneath.In reality, the electrician is 30-year-o
  
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• Where is Valerie?! Have you seen this intrepid yet mysterious miniature dachshund? | First Dog on the Moon

  28-03-2025 06:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Hardly anybody has since she scarpered into the bush!Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
  
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• Japan unveils first plan to evacuate 100,000 civilians from islands near Taiwan in event of conflict

  28-03-2025 06:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan has forced Japan to step up measures to protect islands in Okinawa prefecture Japan has for the first time released plans to evacuate more than 100,000 civilians from some of its remote islands near Taiwan in the event of conflict in the region, amid escalating tensions between Beijing and Taipei.Under the contingency, ships and planes would be mobilised to take about 110,000 residents and 10,000 tourists off five islands in the Sakishima chain in Japan&r
  
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• Which UK carmakers will be hit hardest by Trump’s latest import tariffs?

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Eight in 10 cars produced in Britain are exported, with high-end manufacturers much more reliant on the US marketThe UK’s automotive sector describes itself as “the engine room of Britain’s international trade”, boasting how it generates “£1 in every £8 the UK earns from exporting goods”.But the UK’s carmakers – including Jaguar and Land Rover owner JLR, the BMW-owned Rolls-Royce and Mini, and Aston Martin – are weighing up the po
  
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• Wes Streeting’s plan to fix the NHS – Politics Weekly Westminster

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The government has put improving the NHS at the heart of its plans, but will it be able to deliver on its promises? And how long could it take to turn the health service around? Pippa Crerar asked health secretary Wes Streeting at a special Guardian Live event. In a wide-ranging discussion, he also took questions on others issues including assisted dying, transgender rights and the war in Gaza.
  To purchase the full event video on demand, go to the theguardian.live Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Welcome to the top of the world’: the Pituffik US space base in Greenland

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  JD Vance and his delegation will visit one of the world’s most isolated places, where US troops have been stationed since second world warWhen JD Vance and his delegation touch down at Pituffik space base in Greenland on Friday, they will be greeted by the words: “Welcome to the top of the world.” As well as being the US’s most northerly military base – and its only one on the vast Arctic island – it is also among the world’s most isolated places.For nin
  
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• ‘We won’t be deterred or scared’: Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community fights for right to march in Pride

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Some want to oppose ban, others are nervous, but all see it as a warning sign under Viktor Orbán’s governmentMarching with a pink, white and baby blue transgender flag, Corvus gathered with thousands of others in a central square of Budapest this week. The 20-year-old started transitioning last August but cannot change their gender or name legally in Hungary, where an authoritarian rightwing government is cracking down on LGBTQ+ rights.Corvus wasn’t asking for an overhaul of t
  
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• Trump’s ‘Signalgate’ blame game – podcast

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As Donald Trump and his top officials scrabble to respond to the Signal leak scandal, Jonathan Freedland and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser discuss the fallout of this security breach, and why the US president is attacking the media instead of the people who let a journalist read potentially classified materialArchive: PBS Newshour, CNN, ABC News, Fox News, CSPAN, CBS News Continue reading...
  
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• The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’ – podcast

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Over 50 years, she has become one of the most revered writers in Australia. Is she finally going to get worldwide recognition?By Sophie Elmhirst. Read by Nicolette Chin Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The heat you need at a reasonable price’: how district heating can speed the switch to clean energy

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In Sweden, most residential heating and hot water comes from heating networks – helping to pool resources and innovationDistrict heating is sometimes talked about like some kind of unattainable utopia, but in the Swedish capital these low-carbon heating networks are not special.In fact, district heat is so run-of-the-mill that many Stockholmers do not know that they have it, said Fredrik Persson, as he showed the Guardian around Stockholm Exergi’s pioneering power station in Norra Dj
  
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• Sabrage review – this slick cabaret with saucy pillow fights is good unclean fun

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
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  An irreverent mix of erotic trapeze, penis tricks and audience participation won’t disappoint groups out for a laugh – and a gaspIf anything needs its own word, surely it’s the ceremonial practice of opening a champagne bottle with a sabre. Happily the term exists, and this slick cabaret is named for it: Sabrage. Created by sometime Madonna collaborator Scott Maidment, it unites circus skills, comedy, lip-syncing and song into the kind of package that can nowa
  
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• I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life | Orhan Pamuk

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The jailing of President Erdoğan’s main political rival is the low point of a decade-long march towards autocracy – but the protesters aren’t done yet either• Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel prize in literatureSince the arrest earlier this month of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main political rival, Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, on what are clearly trumped-up charges of corruption and terrorism, Taksim Square, the city’s biggest tourist s
  
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• ‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

  28-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physiqueUberto Pasolini likes to say he has been thinking about adapting The Odyssey for 30 years – 10 years longer than it took Odysseus to win the Trojan war. A nephew of the director Luchino Visconti, the 67-year-old Italian film-maker has lived in London for 50 years. Pasolini, who won a Bafta for p
  
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• China looks south as it seeks to reduce reliance on a capricious United States

  28-03-2025 04:27 via theguardian.com
  
  China wants to protect against the volatility of Trump’s tariffs, and now has more than a dozen free trade agreements with global south countriesChinese vice-premier Ding Xuexiang has pledged to give stronger policy support to the Chinese economy as he delivered the keynote speech at a forum focused on bolstering the country’s role in Asia and ties with the global south.With the tariffs on Chinese goods mounting, China is trying to find a foundation for growth that does not rely on a
  
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• Starmer accuses Putin of 'playing games' over Ukraine peace deal

  28-03-2025 04:04 via bbc.com
  
  Now is not the time for pulling back or weakening sanctions, the UK PM says at Paris summit.
  
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• King experiences temporary side effects of cancer treatment

  28-03-2025 04:00 via bbc.com
  
  Charles returns to Clarence House after a short period in hospital, palace says, but postpones Friday engagements in Birmingham.
  
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• From the Oscars to Israeli detention: the attack on No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal – podcast

  28-03-2025 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  What does the attack on an Oscar-winning Palestinian director say about the situation in the West Bank today? Adrian Horton and Lorenzo Tondo reportEarlier this month, No Other Land won the Oscar for best documentary feature. The film chronicles the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta as it resists being driven off its land by settler violence and the demolitions of the Israeli military. The film’s two protagonists, Palestinian film-maker Basel Adra and Israeli film-maker Yuval Abraham, g
  
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• Anthony Albanese calls Australian federal election for 3 May

  28-03-2025 03:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Albanese visits governor general to kickstart Labor’s five-week election campaign, as Peter Dutton frames Coalition’s pitch around living standardsAustralian election campaign 2025: live updatesSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has framed the federal election as a choice between Labor’s plan to “keep building” and Peter Dutton’s “promises to cut” after announcing
  
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• How do I navigate the fear and anger of this political moment? | Leading questions

  28-03-2025 02:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The most pressing issue we face is not how to manage our feelings, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but how to show up in ways that are important to usRead more Leading questionsHow do I navigate the fear, anger and uncertainty of this political moment?Eleanor says: A long and distinguished tradition in philosophical thinking about emotions and politics, from Aristotle to Henry David Thoreau and through to Amia Srinivasan and Myisha Cherry, asks exactly this question. Anger and fear
  
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