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• Three charged with £5m fraud at elite Cardiff college

  24-03-2025 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  Yasmin and Nadeem Sarwar are accused of multiple theft and fraud offences between 2012 and 2016.
  
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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.
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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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• The Papers: King's 'bump in the road' and 'coalition course'

  28-03-2025 02:18 via bbc.com
  
  The King experiencing cancer treatment side effects and plans for a UK-French deployment in Ukraine lead the papers.
  
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• End of an era for Canada-US ties, says Carney, as allies worldwide decry Trump’s car tariffs

  28-03-2025 02:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Canadian PM says Donald Trump has permanently altered relations, as countries around the globe insist import taxes are harmful to all, including WashingtonCanada’s prime minister has said the era of deep ties with the US “is over”, as governments from Tokyo to Berlin to Paris sharply criticised Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on car imports, with some threatening retaliatory action.Mark Carney warned Canadians that Trump had permanently altered relations and that, regardl
  
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• No Other Land co-director condemns Academy’s letter to members after Hamdan Ballal attack

  28-03-2025 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Yuval Abraham criticised the Academy’s statement defending its silence after Israeli settlers attacked his co-director Hamdan BallalThe Israeli director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has condemned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its response to a violent attack on his Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal, who was beaten by Israeli settlers and detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank on Monday.Earlier this week, Israeli journalist and filmmaker Yuva
  
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• JD Vance to expect frosty reception in Greenland amid diplomatic row

  28-03-2025 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Visit by US vice-president and wife met with hostility by leaders after Trump’s threats to acquire territoryThe US vice-president, JD Vance, and his wife Usha are due to touch down in Greenland on Friday in a drastically scaled down trip after the original plans for the unsolicited visit prompted an international diplomatic row.The visit to Pituffik, a remote ice-locked US military base in northwestern Greenland, will be closely watched by leaders in Nuuk and Copenhagen, who have aired the
  
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