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• Rating system launched for care homes in Wales

  27-03-2025 23:59 via bbc.com
  
  Ratings will be displayed online and at the home to help families asses the quality of care provided.
  
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• Premier League Darts: Luke Littler's win in Newcastle as it happened - BBC

  27-03-2025 23:54 via news.google.com
  Premier League Darts: Luke Littler's win in Newcastle as it happened  BBCPremier League Darts results: Luke Littler wins night eight in Newcastle  BBC2025 BetMGM Premier League - Night Eight preview  PDC.tvChris Dobey ready for Newcastle homecoming despite Premier League pressure  Sky SportsMind-blowing stat emerges as Luke Littler rampages to Premier League win over Luke Humphries...  talkSPORT
  
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• Chelsea vs Man City LIVE: Result and Women’s Champions League reaction - The Independent

  27-03-2025 23:49 via news.google.com
  Chelsea vs Man City LIVE: Result and Women’s Champions League reaction  The Independent'Bring on Barca' - Chelsea's 'quadruple mentality' is back  BBCChelsea race into WCL semi-finals as early goal rush floors Manchester City  The GuardianWomen’s Champions League semi-final ticket news | News | Official Site  Chelsea FCChelsea vs Man City: Sonia Bompastor urges her side to leave Champions League quarter-final with 'no regrets'  Sky Sp
  
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• Could Scotland have Europe's lowest electricity bills?

  27-03-2025 23:48 via bbc.com
  
  The boss of Octopus Energy says regional pricing would make bills cheaper because of abundant renewables in Scotland.
  
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• Brianna: A Mother’s Story review – surely this exploitative documentary should not have been made

  27-03-2025 23:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Esther Ghey’s grief for her murdered daughter is so raw that her participation here is agony to watch. Sadly, the important thing in TV is to be firstIt is possible to make a cynical piece of television without anyone who appears on screen having a drop of toxicity in their veins. Documentaries with subjects ripped from the headlines are particularly likely candidates; documentaries centring the recently, appallingly bereaved even more so.We turn, then, to Brianna: A Mother’s Story.
  
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• Amsterdam: Several wounded after stabbing near Dam Square - DW (English)

  27-03-2025 23:18 via news.google.com
  Amsterdam: Several wounded after stabbing near Dam Square  DW (English)Five people injured in stabbing in Amsterdam, police say  BBCFive injured in Amsterdam knife attack  The TelegraphA stabbing attack in Amsterdam wounds five people, including four foreigners  The Associated Press‘People started to panic’: Five injured and suspect arrested in Amsterdam knife spree  The Independent
  
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• Chelsea race into WCL semi-finals as early goal rush floors Manchester City

  27-03-2025 23:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Sonia Bompastor channelled compatriot Édith Piaf, saying she wanted her players “to have no regrets” come the final whistle of their Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City, and three first-half goals and a relentless performance overturned the two-goal deficit from the first leg.We have been waiting for Chelsea to move into fifth gear, for a display across 90 minutes reflective of their dominance in all competitions and the talent in the squad, and here Bompast
  
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• UK child poverty numbers reach a record high

  27-03-2025 22:26 via bbc.com
  
  About 31% of children are living in relative poverty after housing costs, government figures show.
  
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• King undergoes hospital observation due to cancer treatment side-effects

  27-03-2025 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Charles back at Clarence House after ‘temporary side-effects’, with Friday engagements postponed, Palace saysKing Charles required hospital observation on Thursday after experiencing “temporary side-effects” as part of his continuing medical treatment for cancer, Buckingham Palace has said.The 76-year-old monarch underwent scheduled treatment for cancer on Thursday morning, which required “a short period of observation in hospital”, according to a palace state
  
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• Rapper who appeared with Trump at rally pleads guilty to attempted murder

  27-03-2025 22:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Prosecutors say Sheff G, who supported the president last year, used career earnings to fuel gang violence in BrooklynA New York City rapper who joined Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges after prosecutors say he used earnings from his music career to fuel gang violence in Brooklyn.Sheff G, whose legal name is Michael Williams, agreed to serve five years in prison as part of the plea entered in a Brooklyn court on Wednesday
  
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• Australia to hold federal election on 3 May - BBC

  27-03-2025 22:04 via news.google.com
  Australia to hold federal election on 3 May  BBCAustralia election: Albanese faces headwinds ahead of May vote  BBC.comAustralia's prime minister has survived a volatile political era  The Independent
  
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• Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal plans to leave UK after non-dom tax change - Financial Times

  27-03-2025 22:00 via news.google.com
  Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal plans to leave UK after non-dom tax change  Financial Times
  
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• Woman charged in stalking investigation involving Madeleine McCann’s family

  27-03-2025 21:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Karen Spragg, 60, and Julia Wandel, 23, to appear in courts in Leicester on FridayA 60-year-old woman has been charged as part of an investigation into the alleged stalking of Madeleine McCann’s family.Karen Spragg, of Caerau, Cardiff, has been charged with one count of stalking involving serious alarm or distress between 3 May 2024 and 21 February this year, Leicestershire police said. Continue reading...
  
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• Interactive guide to electorates in the 2025 Australian election: from safe to marginal

  27-03-2025 21:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Familiarise yourself with the state of play ahead of the election with our data-driven electorate guideSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageIn the election there will be a total of 150 electorates. This is one fewer than at the 2022 election, as two electorates were abolished due to redistributions by the AEC, and one new one – Bullwinkel in Western Australia – was created. Continue reading...
  
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• Nigel Farage says men make sacrifices many women don't for jobs - BBC

  27-03-2025 21:39 via news.google.com
  Nigel Farage says men make sacrifices many women don't for jobs  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Pete Hegseth’s Arabic tattoo stirs controversy: ‘clear symbol of Islamophobia’

  27-03-2025 21:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Critics say US defense secretary’s tattoo of the word kafir, meaning ‘infidel’ or ‘non-believer’ could offend MuslimsThe US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth has a tattoo that appears to read “infidel” or “non-believer” in Arabic, according to recently posted photos on his social media account.In photos posted on Tuesday on X, the Fox News host turned US defense secretary had what appears to be a tattoo that says “kafir”, an Arabi
  
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• Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests

  27-03-2025 21:19 via theguardian.com
  
  EPA sets up email address where ‘regulated community’ can request exemption to evade air pollution rulesDonald Trump’s administration has offered fossil fuel companies an extraordinary opportunity to evade air pollution rules by simply emailing the US president to ask him to exempt them.Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set up a new email address where what it calls the “regulated community” can request a presidential exemption from their requi
  
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• Pierce Brosnan, 71, reveals horrific injury he suffered to his FACE while playing Bond and addresses if he wil - Daily Mail

  27-03-2025 21:07 via news.google.com
  Pierce Brosnan, 71, reveals horrific injury he suffered to his FACE while playing Bond and addresses if he wil  Daily MailPierce Brosnan: ‘Playing M in Bond? That’s nuts! But I do want to play Dumbledore’  The TelegraphFormer James Bond Pierce Brosnan backs Brit star for 007 role calling him ‘impressive’ and perfect for the...  The SunPierce Brosnan breaks silence on return to Bond films with 6-word response  Belfast LivePierc
  
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• The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods wins Waterstones children’s book prize

  27-03-2025 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mikey Please’s book inspired by game family played during lockdown, while Carlos Sánchez and Nathanael Lessore win for young readers and teens categoriesA book inspired by a game the author’s family played during lockdown has won this year’s Waterstones children’s book prize.The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please was announced as the winner of the £5,000 award, voted on by Waterstones booksellers, at a ceremony on Thursday evening. Continue reading
  
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• University of Sussex taking legal action over £585,000 free speech fine

  27-03-2025 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Vice-chancellor Sasha Roseneil accuses Office for Students of seeking to ‘persecute’ rather than solve problemsThe University of Sussex is taking legal action to overturn a record fine levied by England’s higher education regulator, accusing the regulator of seeking to “persecute” it rather than solve problems.This week the Office for Students (OfS) said it would fine Sussex £585,000 for two “historic” breaches of its regulations related to freedom
  
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• Woman charged with stalking McCann family

  27-03-2025 20:45 via bbc.com
  
  A 60-year-old woman from Cardiff is due to appear in court on Friday, police say.
  
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• Bank payday outages 'will absolutely happen again', tech expert says - Sky News

  27-03-2025 20:45 via news.google.com
  Bank payday outages 'will absolutely happen again', tech expert says  Sky News
  
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• Italian government approved use of spyware on members of refugee NGO, MPs told

  27-03-2025 20:34 via theguardian.com
  
  National security committee is investigating whether secret services breached law by using surveillance tool to monitor activists and journalistsThe Italian government approved the use of a sophisticated surveillance tool to spy on members of a humanitarian NGO because they were allegedly deemed a possible threat to national security, MPs have heard.Alfredo Mantovano, a cabinet undersecretary, made the admission during a classified meeting with Copasir, the parliamentary committee for national s
  
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• Sue Gray warns No 10 to be careful about cuts to civil service

  27-03-2025 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff uses maiden Lords speech to emphasise importance of public servantsKeir Starmer’s former chief of staff Sue Gray has told No 10 to be “careful” about civil service cuts and derogatory language about the work of Whitehall.Making her maiden speech in the House of Lords, Gray made the case that civil servants were integral to realising the government’s objectives and would be listening to language that referred to them as “blo
  
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• City trader jailed for Libor rigging says he was convicted in a ‘morality trial’

  27-03-2025 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Tom Hayes tells supreme court hearing that the jury in 2015 was guided by a ‘judge who had made his mind up about me’The City trader jailed for Libor rigging in 2015 has said he believes he was convicted during a “morality trial” of bankers’ conduct, as he concluded his fight to clear his name at the UK’s highest court.Speaking after a three-day hearing at the supreme court in London on Thursday, Tom Hayes said his original conviction a decade ago was a reacti
  
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• Lancashire prison governor denies alleged relationship with drug gang leader inmate

  27-03-2025 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Kerri Pegg, 42, also accused of accepting gift of Mercedes from man styling himself Jesse PinkmanA prison governor has denied two counts of misconduct in a public office after she allegedly entered into a relationship with an inmate and drug trafficker who called himself Jesse Pinkman, the name of a meth dealer from the TV show Breaking Bad, a court has heard.It is alleged Kerri Pegg, 42, became “emotionally and personally involved with a serving prisoner”, Anthony Saunderson, the bo
  
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• Stereotyping a factor in loss of life in deadliest Channel crossing, inquiry told

  27-03-2025 20:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Migrant dinghy was also confused with vessel from which 35 people were rescued, so incident was marked ‘resolved’Survivors and bereaved relatives have told an inquiry into the biggest ever loss of life in a migrant dinghy in the Channel that they believe stereotyping them as “foreigners” contributed to the failure to rescue them before the majority died.The Cranston inquiry into how at least 27 people drowned on 24 November 2021 heard that survivors believed many on board
  
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• William visits first resident helped by homeless charity

  27-03-2025 20:04 via bbc.com
  
  The prince also toured Aberdeen by foot as he celebrated the success of his Homewards project.
  
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• Why Trump’s 25% tariffs on autos could backfire | Steven Greenhouse

  27-03-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nearly half of the cars sold in the US are imported and Trump’s 25% tariff will add at least $6,000 to the sticker price of the average car, industry experts sayAfter two months of flip-flopping on tariffs, imposing them one day and often suspending them the next, Donald Trump gunned the accelerator of his trade war on Wednesday by announcing a 25% tariff on autos and auto parts imported into the United States. That’s a very big deal, and while the president insists this hefty import
  
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• Bar managers investigated over sexual assault of 41 women in Belgium

  27-03-2025 19:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Prosecutors allege suspects spiked victims’ drinks with drugs at venues in Kortrijk between 2021 and 2024Belgian authorities are investigating the alleged rape and sexual assault of at least 41 women whose drinks are thought to have been spiked, with three bar managers identified as prime suspects, prosecutors have said.Officials believe drugs were mixed into the women’s drinks, including ketamine, a general anaesthetic used for recreational purposes because of its hallucinogenic eff
  
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• Zelenskyy employs strategic optimism to highlight Russia’s abundant bad faith

  27-03-2025 19:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukrainian president has learned Trump’s team demand positivity and there is little point in trying to ‘inject reality’At a press briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, explaining where initial US-brokered peace negotiations had got to, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, struck a notably different tone. Long gone is the tetchiness on display in London in the aftermath of the Ukrainian leader’s catastrophic trip to the White House. In its place was a degree of optimism s
  
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• Harry Redknapp appears to make Nazi salute after calling Thomas Tuchel ‘German spy’

  27-03-2025 19:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Former manager jokes Tuchel aims to ruin England teamRedknapp briefly puts on German accent at charity eventHarry Redknapp called Thomas Tuchel a German spy and appeared to perform a Nazi salute during a discussion about the England head coach at a charity event.Redknapp, the former Portsmouth, Tottenham and West Ham manager, was speaking in front of an audience at a London venue last week. The Guardian has seen footage of the 78-year-old’s remarks about Tuchel, which came when he was aske
  
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• Clean energy superpower – and now defence superpower. Can the UK really be both? | Nils Pratley

  27-03-2025 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  The government’s plan to ramp up defence spending means relying on carbon-intensive industries – and those won’t be the only policy compromises they have to makeThe UK will become a “defence industrial superpower”, said the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, in Wednesday’s spring statement, an ambition that will involve using much more steel, one assumes.Now comes news that the Chinese owner of the UK’s second largest steel plant may close its two blast furnaces
  
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• The Guardian view on child poverty: Labour must advance from a bleak base | Editorial

  27-03-2025 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  About a third of children were living in deprivation even before this week’s benefit cuts. This appalling situation can’t go onA record 4.5 million children in the UK were growing up in poverty in the year to April 2024, according to figures released on Thursday, which provide a chilling backdrop to the government’s newly announced benefit cuts. Staff at a Blackpool charity, Disability First, have received “terrified phone calls” as claimants struggle to understand
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

  27-03-2025 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior figures were using messaging apps such as Signal to avoid oversight. Last week, it released
  
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• Men more ready to sacrifice family life for career than women, Farage says

  27-03-2025 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Reform leader also says Andrew Tate has so many young male followers because society ‘feminises’ them too muchNigel Farage has said men will more readily sacrifice their family lives to be successful in their business careers than women, and that young men are being too “feminised” by modern society.The Reform UK leader set out his view on gender balance in the workplace in a conversation with journalists in Westminster, saying women made “different life choices&rdq
  
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• NHS hospital too slow to treat doctor’s son who died of sepsis, coroner rules

  27-03-2025 19:36 via theguardian.com
  
  William Hewes, 22, died after delays in giving antibiotics at London hospital where his mother worked, inquest heardA hospital failed to treat the son of one of its consultants with antibiotics and fluids with the required urgency hours before he died of sepsis, a coroner has ruled.It was unclear whether mistakes and delays in the treatment of William Hewes, 22, on 21 January contributed to his death, the coroner, Mary Hassell, said. Continue reading...
  
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• RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney wins confidence vote as grassroots revolt fails

  27-03-2025 19:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Members back him by 466 votes to 206Special general meeting called after row over bonusThe RFU chief executive, Bill Sweeney, has survived a vote of no confidence in his leadership at a special general meeting at the Allianz Stadium.A motion of no confidence in Sweeney and proposal for the RFU directors to terminate his contract was rejected by 466 votes to 206 after an 80-minute meeting. Continue reading...
  
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• Six dead and 39 rescued after tourist submarine sinks in Egypt, says local governor - live updates - BBC.com

  27-03-2025 19:33 via news.google.com
  Six dead and 39 rescued after tourist submarine sinks in Egypt, says local governor - live updates  BBC.comSix dead after tourist submarine sinks in Red Sea  BBCSix Russian tourists dead after submarine sinks in Red Sea, Egyptian officials say – as it happened  The GuardianSix tourists killed in submarine sinking off Egyptian coast  The TelegraphTourist submarine crew's 'mistake' that condemned six tourists to a terrifying death beneath the waves off
  
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• Red Bull need to adapt fast and that is why they axed Liam Lawson | Giles Richards

  27-03-2025 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  The dismissal of the New Zealander and his replacement by the more experienced Yuki Tsunoda illustrates fundamental problems with the RB21Red Bull’s dismissal of Liam Lawson after only two races was a ruthless decision, brutal even by their standards. Yet while it was neither unexpected nor particularly surprising, there is more to it than simple dissatisfaction with an underperforming driver. Replacing him with Yuki Tsunoda was a U-turn that indicates fundamental problems the team are fac
  
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• Gloucestershire company wins prize for inventing way to produce clean water on moon - The Guardian

  27-03-2025 19:30 via news.google.com
  Gloucestershire company wins prize for inventing way to produce clean water on moon  The Guardian
  
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• Police say “no ongoing cause for concern” after Ysgol Y Grango emerges from ‘precautionary’ ‘lockdown situation’ - Wrexham.com

  27-03-2025 19:22 via news.google.com
  Police say “no ongoing cause for concern” after Ysgol Y Grango emerges from ‘precautionary’ ‘lockdown situation’  Wrexham.comWrexham school in lockdown after 'threat' sees doors locked with no one allowed in or out  Daily StarSchool locked down with 'no one allowed out' as parents told 'do not contact your child'  LBCWelsh school was placed into lockdown  Wales OnlineRECAP: 'No ongoing concerns' say police after Wrexham
  
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• BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey after covering protests

  27-03-2025 19:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Mark Lowen considered ‘threat to public order’ after reports on nationwide anti-government demonstrations Europe live – latest updatesThe BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been arrested and deported from Turkey, where he was reporting on the country’s largest anti-government protests in years, in an incident described by the corporation as extremely troubling.The broadcaster said Lowen had been arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday, having been there for several days to cover
  
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• French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal sentenced to five years in prison

  27-03-2025 19:09 via theguardian.com
  
  French president Emmanuel Macron has called for authorities to free the novelist who was convicted in Algeria for allegedly undermining the country’s territorial integrityFrench president Emmanuel Macron has called on Algeria to free Boualem Sansal, after the French-Algerian novelist was on Thursday sentenced to five years in prison and fined for allegedly undermining Algeria’s territorial integrity.Sansal was arrested on 16 November at Algiers airport on arrival from Paris, after sa
  
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• Scientists perform a necropsy on a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found perfectly preserved in Siberia - one of - Daily Mail

  27-03-2025 19:04 via news.google.com
  Scientists perform a necropsy on a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found perfectly preserved in Siberia - one of  Daily Mail
  
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• European leaders agree now ‘not the time’ to lift sanctions against Russia

  27-03-2025 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Support for Ukraine continues with divided opinion on Franco-British plan for ‘reassurance force’ to help ceasefireEuropean leaders have affirmed their support for Ukraine at a Paris summit and agreed now was “not the time” to lift sanctions against Russia, but with splits remaining on Franco-British plans for a “reassurance force” to help guarantee an eventual ceasefire.France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Thursday the meeting of more than two d
  
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• European leaders agree now ‘not the time’ to lift sanctions against Russia - The Guardian

  27-03-2025 19:03 via news.google.com
  European leaders agree now ‘not the time’ to lift sanctions against Russia  The GuardianStarmer says sanctions should increase on Russia to secure Ukraine peace  BBCKey European leaders say it is ‘not the time’ to start lifting sanctions against Russia – as it happened  The GuardianPutin is playing games with you, Starmer and Macron warn Trump  POLITICO EuropePM remarks following the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris:
  
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• European allies not united on armed deployment in Ukraine as Macron announces 'reassurance force' - Sky News

  27-03-2025 19:00 via news.google.com
  European allies not united on armed deployment in Ukraine as Macron announces 'reassurance force'  Sky NewsLive: France and Britain will lead mission to support a future Ukrainian peace deal, Macron says  FRANCE 24 EnglishUkraine war briefing: Russia desires war while Ukrainians ‘take risk of peace’, says Macron  The GuardianEuropeans back strong Ukraine army, differ on future 'reassurance force'  ReutersEurope’s reassurance force in Ukra
  
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• Noel Clarke told producer to ‘fuck off’ when warned about behaviour before sex scene, court hears

  27-03-2025 18:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Producer tells court female actor said Doctor Who star Clarke had been pressuring her to be nude in sceneNoel Clarke told a producer to “fuck off” after being warned that his behaviour with a female actor before a sex scene would “end up on the front of a national newspaper”, a witness has told the high court.The producer said he had approached the former Doctor Who star after being informed by a distressed actor, named as Maya, that Clarke had said “things like &ls
  
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• Shameless welfare cuts are a betrayal of Labour voters | Letters

  27-03-2025 18:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers express their dismay at Rachel Reeves’s spring statement, with some lifelong party members feeling no longer able to support itMany Labour supporters, including myself, have waited a decade and a half for Labour to return to government and bring about a sea change in the governance of the country. We are now beginning to wonder why we bothered. Labour in opposition promised to ensure that the public would see a significant improvement in essential public services and in their econo
  
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