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• May expects no quick Brexit breakthrough as she seeks EU help

  13-12-2018 16:00
  Britain's weakened prime minister, Theresa May, said on Thursday she did not expect to secure a quick breakthrough in Brexit talks that would give her fractured party the reassurances needed to get her deal through parliament.Arriving in Brussels just a day after a failed attempt to topple her at home, May was met largely by readiness to help from European Union leaders and one demand: tell us want you want.Britain's departure from the EU, its biggest shift in trade and foreign policy for more t
  
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• Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy claims US deliberately delaying interceptor missile deliveries to Kyiv

  20-10-2026 02:44 via theguardian.com
  Ukrainian president tells US senators the delayed missiles have already been paid for by European countries, amid growing rift. What we know on day 1,700Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the US is deliberately delaying deliveries of interceptor missiles to Ukraine, deepening a public spat with Donald Trump. Speaking to US senators on Monday, the Ukrainian president claimed that “the Pentagon is delaying the delivery of missiles” already paid for by European countries under the prioritised
  
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• Milan luxury shops close as Italy prepares to deploy troops in the city after days of protests

  20-10-2026 02:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Demonstrations over poor public services and rising costs spiralled over the weekend, with shops looted and property vandalisedWhy are people protesting across Europe?Italy’s government will dispatch 500 army troops to “defend Milan” after two days ⁠of unrest that saw demonstrators ⁠clash with police, ​loot shops and vandalise property, deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini said on Monday.The deployment is expected to be included in a package of security measur
  
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• ‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

  20-10-2026 01:37 via theguardian.com
  Scientists hope Martian material collected will shed light on the origins of the solar system and life on EarthJapan has successfully launched a spacecraft on an unprecedented mission to bring back samples from one of Mars’s moons that scientists hope will shed light on the origins of the solar system and life on Earth.The Martian ⁠Moons Exploration (MMX) spacecraft, propelled by Japan’s flagship H3 rocket, lifted off before dawn from Tanegashima island in the country’s f
  
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• Colorado wildlife overpass cut vehicle-animal collisions by 91%, report finds

  20-10-2026 01:17 via theguardian.com
  Elk, bear, frogs and other animals have used the overpass, which connects 39,000 acres of habitat, since its completionColorado officials have tracked herds of elk, bears, pronghorn and even northern leopard frogs ambling across its new wildlife overpass. According to a newly released report, the overpass, which acts as a bridge over a busy stretch of interstate, has helped cut wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% since its completion 10 months ago.The overpass is the centerpiece of a larger syste
  
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• New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests

  20-10-2026 00:30 via theguardian.com
  System can estimate a person’s biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photographDoctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict a cancer patient’s chances of survival from a single photograph of their face.The AI system was custom-built by experts at Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit, integrated academic healthcare system in Massachusetts, to estimate biological age and directly predict survival outcomes in patients diagnosed with
  
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• Andy Burnham outlines new rules to outlaw ‘rip-off’ private parking fines

  19-10-2026 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Drivers to get five minutes to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after their session endsDrivers will get a guaranteed five minutes to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after their parking session ends before they face a fine under new rules for private car parks that Andy Burnham said were designed to outlaw “rip-off” charges.In the latest in a series of “everyday fixes” to ease the cost of living and give consumers a “fairer” deal,
  
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• Helen Haines was chatting with locals at a dog park on Monday morning. By the afternoon, she was fighting for her life

  19-10-2026 23:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Australia’s politicians have been facing increasing threats and abuse. It can no longer be dismissed as social media noise or harmless commentFollow our live blog for latest updatesPoliticians condemn alleged attack after independent MP Helen Haines critically injuredWho is Helen Haines, the MP allegedly attacked in Victoria?Victorian independent MP Helen Haines was at the opening of a dog park in Mansfield on Monday, out and about in the sprawling northern Victorian electorate, talking to
  
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• Davies ensures Spurs off the bottom after first win of season against Coventry

  19-10-2026 23:05 via theguardian.com
  Tottenham are level with Beyoncé at last. Progress is represented in Roberto De Zerbi’s side earning only their sixth home win in the Premier League since November 2024. Cynics will point out that this spectacular stadium has hosted as many Beyoncé gigs during that time, but Spurs are finally singing a happier tune after dragging themselves out of the bottom three thanks to a messy but gritty 3-1 win over Coventry.It was not especially convincing. Coventry raged at the second
  
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• Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back review – the contempt they have faced to get justice is sickening

  19-10-2026 23:00 via theguardian.com
  As we witness the endless indignities these grieving families have endured in the six decades since the mining disaster, it is impossible not to turn red with rage‘I’d like to have known her that bit longer, really. Those eight years went very, very quickly. I loved the child. I lost her. And that seemed to me to be the end of everything really, when she’d gone.”Ray Lee, now 90, lost his daughter Anne on 21 October 1966. It was the day her primary school, along with sever
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo receives 30-day suspension and £215 fine over Portugal walkout

  19-10-2026 22:34 via theguardian.com
  Disciplinary council upholds charge against 41-year-oldFifa suspends Egypt’s Hossam Hassan and Mostafa ZikoCristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for 30 days by the Portuguese ⁠FA after leaving the national team camp following a rift with the coach, ⁠Jorge Jesus, over ⁠his role in the side. The federation’s disciplinary council said it had upheld the charge against ⁠the 41-year-old forward in full and imposed a fine of €255 (£215).Ronaldo left Portuga
  
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• Over three dozen Congress members’ offices targeted with white powder envelopes

  19-10-2026 21:44 via theguardian.com
  Envelopes containing powder come weeks before midterms as federal agents try to identify who is behind campaignMore than three dozen members of US Congress have had their offices targeted with envelopes containing white powder, less than three weeks before the 3 November midterms, as federal agents try to identify who is behind the campaign.The latest is the Virginia Democrat Suhas Subramanyam, whose Leesburg district office was evacuated on Monday after an envelope containing a suspicious subst
  
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• Melting Ron DeSantis statue unveiled to call out his inaction on climate crisis

  19-10-2026 21:22 via theguardian.com
  Florida governor has consistently opposed any legislation to curb planet-heating emissions, calling it a ‘radical climate agenda’A life-sized statue of Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, was unveiled and promptly began melting in front of an audience in Tallahassee in a symbolic protest at his rejection of action on the climate crisis.The silvery statue, revealed to an audience of onlookers last week, melted away to show a skull under DeSantis’s face. The structure was cast fr
  
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• ‘Crucial opportunity to act’ as study finds most of Europe’s wild bee species in decline

  19-10-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  As Cop17 kicks off, records since 1921 show more bee species declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alps Most of Europe’s wild bee species and about half of its hover fly species have declined over the last century, a study has found, as a UN biodiversity summit begins in Armenia.Records since 1921 show more bee species are declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alpine region. The richness of bee and hover fly species suffered a persistent drop in
  
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• Uefa demands Fifa releases documents relating to World Cup sell-off scheme

  19-10-2026 20:52 via theguardian.com
  European governing body gives two-week deadlineLetter addresses other issues including Balogun affairUefa has given Fifa a two-week deadline to release key documents relating to Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan and other governance issues in its latest critique of football’s world governing body.A letter sent to Fifa’s general secretary, Mattias Grafström, by his counterpart at Uefa, Theodore Theodoridis, is accompanied by an eight-page document that has more tha
  
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• Eagles QB Hurts reportedly played after not sleeping for 36 hours amid blood clot diagnosis

  19-10-2026 20:40 via theguardian.com
  28-year-old set to miss season after diagnosisTanner McKee has taken over as Eagles starterPhiladelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is set to miss the rest of the season after further testing ⁠revealed blood clots had traveled from his leg to his lungs, the team announced on Monday.Hurts’s condition is considered stable and ⁠he “has no significant ⁠functional limitations,” ​the team said. His treatment for a new diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and b
  
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• Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water

  19-10-2026 20:37 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Utility seen as ‘litmus test’ of PM’s promise to bring ‘essentials of life’ under public controlAndy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present him with more radical options for what to do with the stricken company.In an early test of his promise to bring “the essentials of life” under public control, the prime minister is urging his advisers to go back to the drawing board and create a new list of
  
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• France imposes partial curfews in several cities, including parts of Paris

  19-10-2026 20:16 via theguardian.com
  Interior minister concedes police ‘lost control’ of weekend protests as PM vows to restore public orderPartial curfews have been issued for a number of French cities, including parts of Paris, after the government admitted police had “lost control” during violent weekend protests around the country.Sébastien Lecornu, the French prime minister, said after an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday he was “fully resolved to restore public order” and had calle
  
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• Israeli police detain 10 people in rare raid against West Bank settlers

  19-10-2026 20:05 via theguardian.com
  Move comes after US photojournalist and group of European diplomats and Palestinians were assaulted in separate attacksIsraeli police have detained 10 people in a rare raid against settlers, after a weekend of extreme violence in the occupied West Bank including an attack on US photojournalist Heidi Levine, which she described as an “attempted lynching”.She was knocked down, kicked and beaten by a group of masked Israeli men as she covered the olive harvest in a Palestinian village o
  
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• ITV’s exposé of racism and misogyny in Reform? Just a few (more) bad apples | John Crace

  19-10-2026 19:42 via theguardian.com
  While the party’s MPs went into hiding, it was left to its failed byelection candidate Matt Goodwin to defend itIt was the dog that didn’t bark in the night. After Sunday night’s ITV exposé of widespread racism and misogyny within Reform, you might have expected one of its MPs to have taken to the airwaves on Monday morning to defend the party’s honour. To try to persuade viewers that the real problem lay with the journalists who couldn’t stop themselves from
  
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• North Sea strikes could severely disrupt UK fuel supplies, union warns

  19-10-2026 19:39 via theguardian.com
  More than ⁠160 ​offshore rig workers plan walkout amid rising tensions between unions and oil companies North Sea workers are preparing to strike at oil rigs across the ageing basin over the coming weeks in a sign of growing tensions between trade unions and oil companies.The Unite union said on ⁠Monday that more than ⁠160 ​offshore rig workers would take part ⁠in a 24-hour ​strike from Wednesday that could “severely disrupt” UK fuel supplies
  
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• The Guardian view on France’s protests: a polarised country is in a perilous political moment | Editorial

  19-10-2026 19:30 via theguardian.com
  The scenes of social unrest and violence at the weekend are an ominous portent, ahead of elections which may deliver a far-right presidencyIn Emmanuel Macron’s book Revolution, published ahead of the 2017 presidential election that he went on to win, he promised to restore hope to a country that was losing faith in its future. As Mr Macron’s lame-duck second term enters its last phase against a quasi-insurrectionary backdrop of torched public buildings and looted shops, the fail
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump and Putin: Ukraine’s future is not theirs to bargain away | Editorial

  19-10-2026 19:25 via theguardian.com
  Russia wants America and China to decide Ukraine’s future without Kyiv. Europe must challenge this dangerous return to diplomacy of the strong for the strongDoes Vladimir Putin know exactly how to play Donald Trump? The history of chummy phone calls, high-profile meetings and attempts to bring Russia in from the cold certainly suggests that Moscow’s thuggish ruler has a hold on this American president. If Mr Trump agrees to negotiate Ukraine’s future with Mr Puti
  
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• ‘Money and medals over safety’: Nassar judge warns gymnasts are still being failed

  19-10-2026 19:22 via theguardian.com
  Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse crimes came to light 10 years agoSurvivors gather at world championships to call for reformThe judge who sentenced the former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar to up to 175 years in jail in 2018 for the sexual abuse of more than 250 women and girls has condemned the lack of meaningful change in the decade since Nassar’s crimes were exposed.With the World Gymnastics Championships taking place here this week, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said human rights
  
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• Christiane Amanpour announces she’s leaving CNN after 43 years

  19-10-2026 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Anchor’s departure not thought to be linked to company’s recent acquisition by David Ellison’s Skydance MediaChristiane Amanpour, one of CNN’s most decorated and venerated journalists, is leaving the network after 43 years, she said in a statement on Monday.Amanpour, who began working for the then-fledging network as an assistant on the international assignment desk in 1983 and is now its chief international anchor, will end her show Amanpour in May and leave the network
  
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• Funding social care is a collective responsibility | Letters

  19-10-2026 19:18 via theguardian.com
  Roger Steer says the solution is to adopt the NHS model, Janet Dubé suggests an audit, while Sally Byers says language that respects people living with dementia is crucialPolly Toynbee asks a seemingly difficult question and discusses a knotty issue (In Liverpool I saw the tough choices Louise Casey faces on social care – starting with who will pay?, 13 October). Her question is framed as an issue of individual choice inviting the response: “Not me if I can avoid it.&rdqu
  
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• We need to stop disinformation in UK political adverts. Here’s a chance to do so | Letter

  19-10-2026 19:17 via theguardian.com
  Alex Tait on a proposed amendment to the representation of the people bill, and Dr Joseph Mullen on Russian interference in the Brexit referendumAndy Burnham’s comments about Russian interference in Brexit (Report, 11 October) and the warning by the MI5 chief, Ken McCallum, against exaggerating its impact (Report, 13 October) risk overlooking another serious threat to electoral integrity: disinformation from our own political parties and campaigners.Foreign interference deserves scrutiny,
  
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• The cinema, punk music and swimming helped me through grief | Letters

  19-10-2026 19:17 via theguardian.com
  Rachel Walsh responds to an article by Georgina Elliott in which she describes the comfort she felt sitting alone in the cinema after losing her brotherI could relate to Georgina Elliott’s finding comfort and relief in the dark at the cinema (The one change that worked: numb with grief, I sat in the dark, surrounded by strangers – and began to heal, 12 October). After my mum died, I felt like a balloon floating further and further from my life, incorporeal and ghostly.The cinema
  
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• Birmingham was a BBC radio powerhouse. Now even The Archers is leaving | Letter

  19-10-2026 19:17 via theguardian.com
  Former BBC employee Owen Bentley laments the final nail in the coffin for what once was a hub of quality programmingI can understand why the BBC is reluctant to build a new drama studio for The Archers when it moves to Digbeth, seeing that there is no other radio drama being made in Birmingham that would plump out its use (BBC to stop recording The Archers in Birmingham for first time in its 75-year history, 12 October).Is this to be the final nail in the coffin of programme-making for the natio
  
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• Houthi attack kills 53 in biggest single loss of life since Yemen civil war reignited

  19-10-2026 19:15 via theguardian.com
  More than 200 mostly young people said to be injured after ballistic missile attack on training camp for government forces At least 53 people have been killed in a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a training camp for Yemeni government security forces, making it the largest single loss of life since the country’s civil war reignited in September.The attack on al-Alam camp in the southern Shabwa province was said to have injured more than 200 others, mostly young recruits, and was describe
  
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