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• Ghostrunner 2 Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis - DSOGaming

  23-10-2023 17:57 via news.google.com
  
  Ghostrunner 2 Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis  DSOGamingGhostrunner 2 Review  TheSixthAxisHow to Beat Madhu the Dismantler in Ghostrunner 2  The EscapistGhostrunner 2 review (PS5): beautiful design let down by a need to grow up  Creative BloqHere’s How You Can Effectively Beat Machine Gunners in Ghostrunner 2  AFK GamingView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 5: Expected release date, Chapter 1 map return, movement changes, more - CharlieINTEL.com

  23-10-2023 17:44 via news.google.com
  
  Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 5: Expected release date, Chapter 1 map return, movement changes, more  CharlieINTEL.comFortnite Chapter 4 Season 5 Leaks: Zero Build to Stay  AFK GamingFortnite Chapter 4 Season 5 leaks suggest five fan-favorite vehicles making a return  SportskeedaFortnite Chapter 1 Map Return Is All But Confirmed  GameSpotFirst Fortnite Map Coming Back for Season 5  Esports.net NewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Pakistan v Afghanistan: Cricket World Cup 2023 – live

  23-10-2023 10:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Over-by-over updates from 9.30am BST match in ChennaiHealy sidelined after dog bite leads to surgery for Australia starEmail Tim with your thoughts or tweet him hereThe anthems are being sung with both teams giving it some welly. What a shame it is that they have only ever met on neutral ground.A quite different approach from Afghanistan: they’ve picked a fourth spinner! It’s Noor Ahmad, who is (a) a left-arm wristie and (b) only 18. In a more abstract sense, though, their strategy i
  
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• China launches tax investigations into Apple iPhone maker Foxconn

  23-10-2023 10:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Tax audits and land use probes follows company founder announcing his run for Taiwan presidencyBusiness live – latest updatesChina’s tax authorities have launched multiple investigations into the company that makes the iPhone, months after its billionaire founder announced he would run in Taiwan’s presidential elections.Foxconn is facing tax audits of its operations in China, as well as investigations into land use in two Chinese provinces, according to reports by local media.
  
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• Israel-Hamas war live: White House promises ‘continued flow’ of Gaza aid as Israel steps up airstrikes in north of strip

  23-10-2023 10:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Another convoy of 14 trucks enters Gaza via Rafah border crossing with Egypt; Israel warns civilians to evacuateHamas and Israel at war: what we know on day 17The leaders of the US, UK, France, Canada, Germany and Italy have called on Israel to adhere to international law and protect civilians, while also reiterating Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism.In a statement put out after a phone call, the leaders’ offices said:The leaders reiterated their support for Israel an
  
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• Weather tracker: Tropical Cyclone Tej approaches Yemen

  23-10-2023 10:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Al Ghaydah area could get 500-750mm of rainfall, compared with annual average of 50mmTropical Cyclone Tej is forecast to make landfall in Yemen this week, bringing significant rainfall and a flooding threat across the eastern half of the country and western parts of Oman.At the time of writing, Tej is centred about 250 miles south of Salalah, Oman. The system is moving north-west at 10 knots, with maximum sustained winds of 100 knots, making Tej an extremely severe cyclone storm on the Indian me
  
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• Chinese stocks fall to pre-pandemic level; oil prices drop as aid arrives in Gaza – business live

  23-10-2023 10:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Rolling, live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as property market turmoil and slowing growth drag back Chinese economyChina’s stock market index has dropped to its lowest level since before the coronavirus pandemic in 2019, a sign of the struggles of the world’s second biggest economy.The CSI 300 index in Shanghai fell by more than 1% to a low of 3,450 points on Monday, the lowest since February 2019.Global investors need two floors before they get back into Chin
  
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• How to Save the Immortal review – spectacularly rubbish eternal-fiend animation

  23-10-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A tiresome film about an immortal villain who kidnaps a maiden, which treats its plucky heroine poorly and the viewer even worseI’m not sure how desperate a day with the kids would need to get to make this animated adventure from Russia an appealing option. It’s possible that standing in a 76-minute downpour would be more fun (and cheaper). Or being locked in a broom cupboard with a toddler tantrumming about the wrong colour icing on a cupcake. This is a family movie that is spectacu
  
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• Holding the Note by David Remnick review – erudite portraits of musical greats

  23-10-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A collection of the New Yorker editor’s pieces on the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Aretha Franklin displays enviable knowledge and scopeHow to critique a compendium of writings on music by the Pulitzer prize-winning editor of the New Yorker? Praise would read like a job application. A hatchet job would be absurdly polemical. In a 2016 piece on the late, great Leonard Cohen, David Remnick quotes a conversation between Cohen and Bob Dylan in which the two singer-songwriters discuss
  
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• Booking.com customers targeted by scam ‘confirmation’ emails

  23-10-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Travellers are getting seemingly convincing messages asking them to provide bank card details and threatening their reservation will be cancelledTravellers using the popular hotel website Booking.com are being warned not to fall for scam emails asking them to confirm their hotel payment, after a hack of Booking.com’s email system.In recent weeks the Observer has been contacted by a number of customers claiming that they had received scam emails from within the Booking.com system. Continue
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: ‘Our positions are being held’ at besieged Avdiivka, says Zelenskiy

  23-10-2023 09:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Shattered town is key for Ukrainian counter-offensive into Donbas; reports of Kyiv’s forces making gains across Dnipro river at KhersonWhat we know on day 607 of the Russia-Ukraine warHere are some of the latest images from the newswires.Ukraine’s defence systems destroyed all air weapons Russia launched overnight, Ukraine’s air force said on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• Venezuela: Machado takes big early lead in presidential primary vote

  23-10-2023 09:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Challenger to crisis-ridden presidency of Nicolás Maduro claims victory after Venezuelans queue for hours in rainstorm to voteEarly returns in the Venezuelan opposition’s presidential primary have given a big lead to former legislator María Corina Machado, who quickly claimed victory as the candidate to end the decade-long, crisis-ridden presidency of Nicolás Maduro.The independent National Primary Commission, which organised the vote, said about 93% of the first 601,1
  
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• Viticulture, the UK’s fastest growing agricultural sector – in pictures

  23-10-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The cultivation and harvesting of grapes is the UK’s fastest-growing agricultural sector, with wine production expected to reach between 25 and 29m bottles by 2032, according to an industry report. Research published in the journal OENO One predicts that climate change will increasingly allow UK winemakers to grow varieties of grape, such as Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling and Semillion, which have previously been extremely difficult or impossible to cultivate in the British climate Conti
  
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• ‘Time-lapse’ film-maker Helena Třeštíková: ‘Every life is interesting enough to produce a story’

  23-10-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As a season of the Czech director’s remarkable Seven Up-style documentaries comes to a streaming channel, she talks about filming under communism, funding projects that take decades to complete and forging relationships with unruly protagonistsOver the course of a 40-year career making documentaries that shook the Czech Republic – but have gone largely unnoticed outside her native country – film-maker Helena Třeštíková has set one international record
  
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• Talking Horses: Dettori brings down curtain with epic Hollywood script

  23-10-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The credits may have rolled on his British career but this special jockey could not have written a more fitting finale at AscotThe Writers Guild of America is still on strike, so someone in Hollywood must be moonlighting to come up with Frankie Dettori’s scripts. The credits may, or may not, have rolled on his British career at Ascot on Saturday (spoiler alert: it is 1-8 with the bookies that he will be back at some point next year) but he could ride for another 30 years and never come up
  
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• Mad for it. This is why Liam Gallagher doing public transport announcements is a shrewd move | Jonn Elledge

  23-10-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We are bombarded with public messages that are bland and boring. Maybe a familiar voice will cut through the noiseBleary-eyed passengers sleepwalking through their commutes on Manchester’s Metrolink tram network recently may have been in for a shock: in place of the usual recorded announcements was the distinctive drawl of Liam Gallagher, letting them know where their tram was off to and where it might be stopping next.All this was a publicity stunt – an effective one, apparently, si
  
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• Laura Smyth: ‘I did my comedy show to silence – it was humbling and hilarious’

  23-10-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Funny Women award-winner on her witty family, why she loves being mocked and the best heckle she’s hadHow did you get into comedy?
  My husband bought me a day’s writing course with Logan Murray as a wedding gift (I had confessed to him that it was my dream to do it). I loved the day, but it took me a few more years before I got brave enough to book a full course. On the penultimate week, we were given the homework to book ourselves a gig. I did – and have been addicted ever
  
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• Doctors, poets, families, babies: victims of Israel’s war on Gaza

  23-10-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The IDF says it has targeted Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, but thousands of civilians, including children, have been killedIsrael’s military has bombed Gaza for more than two weeks in an unprecedentedly fierce and relentless assault – retaliation for Hamas’s murderous onslaught on 7 October.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has targeted Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, but thousands of civilians, including children, have been killed in strikes that have flattened r
  
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• Can a swift turn of the head give me the perfect eyeliner flick?

  23-10-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Don’t move your hand, move your face. That’s the theory anywayThe hack
  Can a bizarre “head turn” help you achieve that perfect eyeliner wing?The test
  I’m pretty good at makeup, but a perfect eyeliner wing is the one thing that seems to evade me. So I’m curious to see if this will take the painstaking application out of my hands entirely. Continue reading...
  
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• TV tonight: a remarkable story about abducted Ukrainian children

  23-10-2023 08:54 via theguardian.com
  
  A staggering account of the families who travelled to Russia to find their loved ones. Plus: the return of MasterChef: The Professionals. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• Toxic by Sarah Ditum review – a decade of misogyny, from Britney to Paris Hilton

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  These nine feminist essays about female celebrities of the 00s expose the casual sexism of the era and the way it shaped ordinary women’s livesBritney, Paris, Kim. Poor Jen, messy Lindsay, talented yet tragic Amy. If you were an even vaguely young woman in the 00s, these celebrities’ first names alone probably conjure memories. They were our cultural wallpaper, female icons made and too often broken by mass media, in whom we hunted “for clues about what a woman ought to be&rdqu
  
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• Should we take a two-year fixed mortgage or a cheaper five-year deal?

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We feel very squeezed as our mortgage is heading for a big jump in November but we can’t work out whichdeal to takeQ My husband and I are remortgaging in November. Our options aren’t the best. We’ve been offered a two-year fixed-rate deal at 5.64% with a product fee of £1,249. If the fee is added to the loan, the monthly repayment is £1,837, or £1,830 if it’s not. The alternative is a five-year fixed-rate deal with an interest rate of 5.23% and product f
  
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• My O2 mobile contract was cancelled against my will

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I was suddenly switched to another company without realising itFor the last three years I’ve had a mobile phone contract with O2, which has been excellent. Out of the blue, I was phoned by a salesperson suggesting I should renew it.I was assured, on several occasions, that my contract would stay with O2. Having renewed, I then discovered it was actually with another firm called Plan.com. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I went into labour at a Radiohead gig’: Sadie Frost’s honest playlist

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The actor and star of Pulp’s Common People video likes a little cry to the Bangles and Blur. But which 60s pop classic did she used to sing with her old boyfriend?The first song I remember hearing
  Space Oddity by David Bowie, in our flat in Belsize Park in north London, as a kid. My parents played a lot of music. They were real hippies, bohemians. They’d listen to David Bowie and I’d listen to musicals like West Side Story.The first single I bought
  I had a little record player
  
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• I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germany’s mistakes over Gaza | Lana Bastašić

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As a child, I saw what follows ethnic cleansing. That’s why I am speaking out about my new home’s silence over Palestinian deathsWhen I moved to Berlin, I developed a habit of stopping by the Stolpersteine (“stumbling stones” memorials) and reading about Jewish people who were taken from their homes and transported to the concentration camps. There is one building on my way to the U-Bahn from which 16 people were taken. But it was Lucie’s stone that chilled me to th
  
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• ‘I am afraid I will kill myself, like my husband’: spotlight on loan firms in Cambodia after Indigenous suicides

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Microfinance was meant to reduce poverty, but borrowers allege they have been victims of ‘predatory’ loans and repayment tactics, which have led to desperation and deathsKwak Nga was still reeling from her husband’s suicide when his microfinance creditors showed up at her home to remind her that they still expected the approximate $170 (£140) monthly interest payments the couple had struggled to make.Nhu Laen hanged himself at his farm in November 2022. In the months befo
  
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• How to choose the right UK health insurance

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From saving money with an excess or discounts to weighing up the ethicsHealthcare for most UK residents is available for free on the NHS but the number of people choosing to turn to private insurance for health problems has risen sharply: 44% more people used insurer-provided healthcare services in 2021 than in pre-pandemic 2019, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).Some of that will be to do with NHS waiting lists hitting a record high. Earlier this month it emerged that the n
  
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• Golden Delicious review – high school athlete’s dormant desire in queer coming-of-age tale

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Intended as an issue drama that also addresses intergenerational tensions, this film doesn’t manage to dig far beneath the surfaceGrappling with the growing pains of an Asian-Canadian teenager, Jason Karman’s well-intentioned debut aims to tackle a multitude of big themes – but it also makes a mistake that plagues other issue-driven films where the characters take the backseat to the talking points. Split between a queer coming-of-age narrative and a portrait of intergeneration
  
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• Don’t listen to Arnold Schwarzenegger – join the rest and relaxation resistance! | Emma Beddington

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Arnie’s brand of hustle culture is taking a bashing online and I am all for it. Do less, enjoy more and take that nap‘Rest is for babies and relaxation is for retired people,” barks Arnold Schwarzenegger in his new self-help book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life. I am definitely not the target audience for this tome: I get exhausted just trying to type his surname. It is interesting that Schwarzenegger is viewed as a relatively benign figure whose advice you might want to hear,
  
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• Church bingo – in pictures

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While visiting her grandma in 2019, Angela Christofilou joined one of her regular bingo games at St James church hall in Heywood, Lancashire. The experience reminded her of ‘the profound joy that can be found in the simplest things in life’ – friends, a cuppa and bingoChurch Bingo is available from Pendle Press Continue reading...
  
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• Chris Packham launches shoestring wildlife series on YouTube

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Autumnwatch presenter describes 8 Out Of 10 Bats show as ‘the Sex Pistols of wildlife TV’A new upstart is entering the big-budget world of wildlife film-making. After the BBC scrapped Autumnwatch, Chris Packham is launching his own nature show, which will be broadcast for two weeks on YouTube.In stark contrast to the multimillion-pound Planet Earth III, which premiered on Sunday night with 97-year-old Sir David Attenborough narrating, 8 Out of 10 Bats, which begins on Monday e
  
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• A new start after 60: my son died – so I changed career to keep his dream alive

  23-10-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Jill Wright’s actor son Harry told her she would love working in the theatre. After she lost him, she discovered how right he had beenJill Wright’s son, Harry, had song and dance in his bones. At 18 months old, he was dancing like the Spice Girls, copying the choreography from the TV. At seven, he won a talent contest and, at 16, a scholarship to the Urdang academy of performing arts in London. At 23, he was performing in The Book of Mormon in the West End when he was diagnosed with
  
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• ‘Crabs everywhere’: off Canada’s Pacific coast, Indigenous Haida fight a host of invasive species

  23-10-2023 07:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The unique wildlife of Haida Gwaii’s 150 islands is under attack by invasive crabs, rats and deer – echoing how local people also became vulnerable to outside forcesIt was Matt Peck’s first season of field work in the archipelago of Haida Gwaii when he found himself on a rocky island overflowing with oystercatchers, thousands of the orange-billed seabirds trilling and squawking in a riot of life.As the researchers counted eggs on the islet off Canada’s west coast, they di
  
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• Trump is ‘single most dangerous threat’ to the US, warns Republican Liz Cheney

  23-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Moderate, whose opposition to former president had cost her a congressional seat, considers a 2024 presidential runDonald Trump is “the single most dangerous threat” the US faces as he seeks a return to the Oval Office, according to Liz Cheney, the moderate Republican whose opposition to her party leader’s presidency had cost her a congressional seat she held for six years.“He cannot be the next president because if he is, all of the things that he attempted to do but was
  
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• ‘Trees have no legal status’: calls rise for stronger protection in UK against felling

  23-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After destruction of the tree at Sycamore Gap, campaigners warn more must be done to protect country’s arboreal heritageOne morning just days after the nation woke to find the Sycamore Gap tree felled by an unknown vandal, Paul Lawrence was walking his dog in a field in East Sussex. His route passed close to a massive and ancient yew, where he had scattered his grandfather’s ashes. Or, at least, close to where the tree used to be.The yew was still in the field about a mile from Senla
  
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• The ‘let Rishi be Rishi’ plan is a disaster. Only a John Major strategy can halt Tory armageddon now | Justine Greening

  23-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The byelection routs proved that rebranding the PM as a rightwing radical alienates voters. Time for a U-turn, and fastJustine Greening is a former Conservative ministerPurpose and authenticity matter in politics. People need to know who you are and what you stand for.It’s true for political parties, and it’s especially true for their leaders. The Conservative party’s disastrous byelection results in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire show an electorate that doesn’t know what
  
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• High rents and benefit cuts push poorer renters out of UK’s cities, report finds

  23-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Surburbanisation of poverty’ is changing social fabric of cities and widening gap between rich and poorThe social fabric of the UK’s biggest cities is being transformed by sky-high rents and cuts to housing benefits as thousands of low-income private renters are pushed out of central areas, accelerating the “suburbanisation” of poverty, according to a study.The trend – driven also by the gentrification of once largely working-class neighbourhoods and the sell
  
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• Drug-spiking reports rise fivefold but proportion leading to charges fall

  23-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  FoI requests reveal number of reports resulting in prosecution fell from 1 in 25 in 2018 to 1 in 400 in 2022Drug-spiking incidents reported to the police have increased five-fold in five years, yet the proportion leading to a criminal charge is falling, freedom of information (FoI) requests show.Almost 20,000 reports of spiking were received in the past five years by 39 police forces that responded to FoI requests sent out by Channel 4 for a documentary. Continue reading...
  
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• Belgium investigating alleged criminal breach of data protection laws over Ulez fines

  23-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands of fines sent to EU drivers by TfL debt collection agent may be unlawful, Belgian transport ministry claimsThousands of fines for breaches of London’s ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) rules may have been sent unlawfully to drivers of EU-registered vehicles, Belgian authorities claim.The Belgian ministry for transport has ordered an investigation into alleged criminal breaches of data rules after motorists received penalty charge notices from a collections agent acting for Transpor
  
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• Access to remains of Bambuti baby withdrawn by London museum

  23-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hunterian had listed stillborn child of African descent as viewable for medical research but removed it after criticism from authorThe remains of a stillborn Bambuti baby have been removed from a museum’s catalogue of items that can be viewed for medical research after criticism from a Booker prize-shortlisted author.Novelist Nadifa Mohamed is the presenter of an upcoming Channel 4 documentary examining the history of “human zoos” in Britain, in which African and Asian people w
  
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• The Philippines summons Chinese ambassador after two South China Sea collisions

  23-10-2023 06:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The Philippine coast guard claims that ships were ‘bumped’ by Chinese vessels in incidents close to outposts in the Spratly IslandsManila has summoned Beijing’s ambassador after accusing China of “illegal and dangerous” behaviour that resulted in two collisions in the highly disputed South China Sea.Philippine foreign ministry spokesperson Teresita Daza said Manila was “making full use of diplomatic processes” after the incidents involving vessels belong
  
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• Russell Crowe endorses his lifesized chocolate Gladiator statue: ‘I will be available to eat’

  23-10-2023 06:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Oscar winner shares photo of sculpture, modelled on his Gladiator strongman Maximus, made for chocolate festival in MaltaThe latest addition to Russell Crowe’s long list of accolades is six-feet tall, wrapped in armour, and edible.On Thursday, the 59-year-old actor shared a photo of a statue crafted from chocolate and modelled on his Gladiator strongman Maximus – the role for which he won his only Oscar. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘You may have been poisoned’: how an independent Russian journalist became a target – podcast

  23-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  My reporting on the invasion of Ukraine led to an assassination order being issued – and then came the mysterious illness Continue reading...
  
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• In this neverending news cycle of violence, art speaks to our shared humanity

  23-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From crushed fathers and their waiting children to haunting stacks of empty chairs, art can tell us about the true nature of suffering in ways that headlines never canA man crouches in despair. His back is hunched and he is facing down, leaning over an empty bottle. His features are unidentifiable and his body is frail as he struggles to support himself on impossibly spindly legs, visible through his trousers. It’s an image of hardship, heightened by the four infants who stand around him,
  
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• Iceland’s first full-day women’s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap

  23-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  PM will take part in stoppage by women and non-binary people calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violenceTens of thousands of women and non-binary people across Iceland, including the prime minister, are expected to stop work – both paid and unpaid – on Tuesday in the first strike of its kind in nearly half a century.Organisers hope the women’s strike – whose confirmed participants include fishing industry workers, teachers, nurses and the PM, Katrí
  
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• ‘I stood up and fought back’: how revenge porn survivor Georgia Harrison got her abuser jailed

  23-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The reality star’s life was almost destroyed when an ex secretly filmed them having sex and posted it online. He went to prison – and she waived her right to anonymity to help the many women similarly affected‘What’s the worst that can happen?” That is what Georgia Harrison asked herself one Sunday morning in August 2020 when Stephen Bear, who lived opposite, invited her over for a cup of tea. They knew each other through the reality television and influencer circui
  
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• Escape from tyranny: the gentle pastor who smuggles North Koreans to freedom

  23-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Using footage shot by escapees, Beyond Utopia is a gripping film about the man of God on a mission to liberate North Koreans, end brainwashing – and toppleKim Jong-un’s totalitarian regimeAs Kim Jong-un’s recent 12,400-mile round trip to Moscow on a 35mph train demonstrated, the art of leaving North Korea can be an intricate business, requiring in his case bulletproof windows, an onboard helicopter and lobsters by the plateful.By contrast Kim Seongeun, also known as Pastor Kim,
  
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• ‘The fight will continue’ for India’s LGBTQ+ campaigners for equal marriage

  23-10-2023 05:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Homosexuality was decriminalised in 2018 but the supreme court has declined to change marriage lawsUtkarsh Saxena had been secretly planning the proposal for weeks. He had secretly measured his boyfriend’s finger while he was sleeping and bought a pair of matching steel rings from a Delhi market. They had been together for 15 years, having fallen in love on the university debating team, and Saxena felt optimistic that this would be an auspicious moment to ask the love of his life to marry
  
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• Second convoy of aid enters Gaza as Israel increases bombardment

  23-10-2023 04:18 via theguardian.com
  
  White House says there will be ‘continued flow’ of aid after Joe Biden speaks with Benjamin NetanyahuFollow live for latest updates in Israel-Hamas warThe White House has promised a “continued flow” of aid into Gaza, after a second convoy entered on Sunday and Israel continued to bombard the besieged enclave into the early hours of Monday.US president Joe Biden and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed in a call that “there will now be continued flow of &
  
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• How a contested history feeds the Israel-Palestine conflict – podcast

  23-10-2023 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Certain dates are seared into the minds of those who have tried to untangle the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict, be it 1917, 1947, 1967, 1973 – and now 2023. Chris McGreal reports on an escalating war that is only understandable by looking to the pastEverything about the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is contested, from the events themselves to how far back in history to find a starting point. Some begin with the Romans. Others the late 19th-century Jewish migration to wh
  
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