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• Zelenskyy meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London following Trump Oval Office clash

  01-03-2025 23:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was warmly greeted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing St. in London on Saturday, a day after Zelenskyy's tense exchange with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. Zelenskyy and Starmer, who met with Trump in Washington on Thursday, embraced, shook hands, waved and gave a thumbs up to reporters before heading inside the prime minister’s residence for their meeting. The scheduled London visit comes after Zelenskyy&
  
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• ‘I said there was no reason to make it a musical!’ Mel Brooks on The Producers’ West End transfer

  01-03-2025 22:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Veteran director, who originally opposed adapting 1967 film for the stage, is ‘very proud’ as Menier Chocolate Factory production will move to London’s Garrick theatreThe Menier Chocolate Factory has announced that its acclaimed production of The Producers is to transfer to the West End this autumn. Having sold out its three-month run at the 180-seat London venue before first night, it is set to move to the Garrick theatre. But according to its original creator Mel Brooks, the
  
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• ‘You have full backing across the UK’: Zelenskyy leaves Downing Street after meeting with Starmer – as it happened

  01-03-2025 22:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukrainian president has held talks with PM Keir Starmer ahead of defence summit with European leaders tomorrow. This blog is now closed.‘He defended our honour’: Ukrainians react to Zelenskyy’s clash with TrumpUkraine has destroyed 103 drones launched by Russia during an overnight strike, its air force has said.In full: Zelenskyy and Trump meeting descends into heated argument in front of the press – video Continue reading...
  
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• Soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63

  01-03-2025 21:46 via theguardian.com
  
  The star, who had been in the Sequence before solo hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died from her injuries in AlabamaSinger Angie Stone, known for her hit Wish I Didn’t Miss You, has died at the age of 63.A representative for the singer confirmed to Variety that Stone was killed in a car crash in Montgomery, Alabama. She had reportedly been on her way home from a show and was the only person who died in the crash. Continue reading...
  
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• ACLU sues to block White House from sending 10 immigrants to Guantánamo

  01-03-2025 21:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Latest federal lawsuit so far applies only to 10 men detained in the US and facing transfer to the naval base in CubaCivil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration Saturday to prevent it from transferring 10 undocumented immigrants detained in the US to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, their second legal challenge in less than a month over plans to hold up to 30,000 people there for deportation.The latest federal lawsuit so far applies only to 10 men facing transfer to the naval base in Cuba,
  
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• Trump officials fume at Zelenskyy for disregarding advice before meeting

  01-03-2025 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Officials say minerals deal would serve as commitment to US security guarantee and Ukraine leader shouldn’t have pressed issueInside the Trump White House, officials blamed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the meltdown in the Oval Office on Friday, and expressed frustration that he pushed for security guarantees even though the US had made clear they wanted to negotiate that later, according to people familiar with the matter.The officials had told their Ukrainian counterp
  
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• Taiwan’s volunteer military shrinks amid growing Chinese aggression

  01-03-2025 21:00 via foxnews.com
  
  KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan: As China continues and intensifies its campaign of aggression against the island, Taiwan’s military is struggling to reach recruitment goals for professional personnel, and the challenges to reversing this situation are formidable. Between 2022 and 2024, some 12,000 service people left Taiwan’s military. Officials in both the government and the military are voicing concern, and once again, there is talk of enlisting foreign migrants into the armed forces, an i
  
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• Friend or foe? Keir Starmer now walks a tightrope between Europe and US

  01-03-2025 20:57 via theguardian.com
  
  No sooner had the PM charmed the president in the Oval Office than consensus over Ukraine – and the future of Nato – was starting to fall apartEven as Keir Starmer and his entourage heaved sighs of relief and tried not to grin too broadly as they filed out of the Oval Office after the prime minister’s meeting with Donald Trump, there were some in British circles who were, even then, anxious.The invitation from King Charles for a second state visit had been handed over to Trump
  
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• UK gives royal welcome to Zelenskyy after White House meltdown

  01-03-2025 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  King Charles to hold official audience for Ukrainian president as show of support after Trump clashKing Charles will hold an ­official audience at Sandringham with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday as the UK and EU demonstrate their “unwavering” ­support after his humiliation at the hands of Donald Trump and JD Vance in the White House.Keir Starmer will also host European heads of government and the leaders of Canada and Turkey at a special defence summit
  
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• Andrew Cuomo announces run for mayor of New York City

  01-03-2025 20:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Democrat resigned as governor three years ago after being accused of sexual harassment and Covid mismanagementFormer New York state governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday announced a run for mayor of New York City, an attempt to come back from a sexual harassment scandal that forced him to resign more than three years earlier.Cuomo, 77, served as governor from 2011 to 2021, guiding the state through the worst, deadliest months of the Covid-19 crisis. But he was forced to resign in August of his final
  
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• Pope Francis remains in stable condition, a day after respiratory crisis

  01-03-2025 20:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Pontiff, 88, spends long periods off noninvasive ventilation, showing improving lung function as he battles pneumoniaPope Francis remains in stable condition a day after a respiratory crisis, and has spent long periods off the noninvasive ventilation he initially needed, in a sign that his lung function was improving as he battles double pneumonia.
  Francis had no further episodes of bronchial spasms, the Vatican said in its late update on Saturday. He had no fever and no signs of new infection,
  
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• Labor backs household batteries in bid to win over voters on cost-of-living and climate worries

  01-03-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Coalition energy efficiency package also on the cards as climate advocates urge better subsidies on solar and other alternativesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor is expected to flick the switch on a household battery incentive scheme in a dual cost-of-living and climate action pitch to voters.Guardian Australia understands the government is preparing a large residential energy efficiency package as pa
  
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• Gaza ceasefire talks stall, as Egypt proposes long-term reconstruction plan

  01-03-2025 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Israel had agreed partial troop withdrawal by 9 March, but start of second phase of truce hits impasseTalks aimed at maintaining the ceasefire in Gaza hit an impasse in Cairo on Saturday over whether the truce should advance to a second phase.A Hamas official said the multilateral negotiations in the Egyptian capital had made no progress on Friday, and there was no evidence the talks had resumed on Saturday, the last day of the ceasefire’s first six-week phase. Continue reading...
  
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• Vatican gives health update as Pope enters third week in hospital

  01-03-2025 19:10 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis' condition remains stable, and he is alternating between mechanical ventilation and high-flow oxygen therapy, the Vatican said on Saturday. The 88-year-old pontiff apparently does not have a fever and has not experienced another bronchospasm.Vatican sources say the pope's is in a "complex," but "stable" situation as he enters his third week in Rome's Gemelli Hospital. His white blood cell count is apparently "so low" that infections are likely under control, the sources added.POPE F
  
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• David Johansen, frontman of New York Dolls, dies aged 75

  01-03-2025 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Flamboyant singer helped point his city’s music scene towards punk, before a successful solo career and eye-catching acting roles• Alexis Petridis: Johansen was wild and whip-smart
  • David Johansen: a life in picturesDavid Johansen, the swaggering, peacocking frontman with glam rock band New York Dolls, has died aged 75.Last month he had announced he was living with cancer, and recently suffered a broken back. “David Johansen passed away peacefully at home, holding the hand
  
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• Labour must target deprived areas or lose out to Reform, says former minister

  01-03-2025 18:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Peer argues that national ‘trickledown’ approach will fail to benefit those in most needKeir Starmer’s government must strictly target the delivery of its core “missions” at areas of maximum deprivation or lose huge numbers of votes to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, an independent commission led by a former Labour cabinet minister will suggest this week.The Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (ICON), chaired by Labour peer Hilary Armstrong, a former party chie
  
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• Three teenage girls charged with manslaughter over death of man, 75, in London

  01-03-2025 18:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Fredi Reviro was attacked in Islington on Thursday night, and died in hospital the following dayThree teenage girls, aged 14, 16 and 17, have been charged with manslaughter after a 75-year-old man died in north London.The Metropolitan police said the man, named as Fredi Reviro, was attacked on Seven Sisters Road in Islington at about 11.35pm on Thursday, and died in hospital the following day. Continue reading...
  
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• Guyana triggers military response after Venezuelan vessel enters its waters

  01-03-2025 18:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Guyanese president says Venezuelan coastguard patrol approached oil facility in latest incident in longstanding feud between the two nationsGuyana’s president has triggered a military response and diplomatic action after a Venezuelan coastguard patrol entered its waters and approached an off-shore oil facility, breaching international maritime agreements.President Irfaan Ali issued a strongly worded statement after the Venezuelan vessel transmitted a radio message claiming that it was oper
  
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• FedEx plane catches fire after bird strike in New Jersey, makes emergency landing

  01-03-2025 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Cargo aircraft caught fire after striking bird shortly after departure from Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday morningA FedEx cargo airplane caught on fire after striking a bird shortly after the plane’s departure from Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday morning, according to officials.There were no injuries reported onboard, and the plane made an emergency return to Newark Liberty international airport. Continue reading...
  
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• Former Brookside actor sentenced to jail over sham modelling agencies

  01-03-2025 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Philip Foster lives in Spain and was sentenced in his absence after defrauding more than 6,000 people A former TV soap actor has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison after masterminding a £13.6m fraud that targeted aspiring models.Former Brookside actor Philip Foster, 49, ran an operation involving a network of sham modelling agencies for more than eight years. Continue reading...
  
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• How do we make Europe more secure? Here are five steps we need to take now

  01-03-2025 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Europe can’t wait to react to Trump’s mood swings but must show we have the will and the wallet to take back control• Ukraine war liveIt’s exhausting and humiliating to have no control – watching every meeting in the Oval Office for a glimmer of Trump’s approval or displeasure, our security resting on a perceived slight or a mood.The last week of meetings between Trump, Macron, Starmer and finally Zelenskyy always felt like crawling across a minefield. Some mig
  
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• ‘It’s packed with dealers. Look around you’: life amid the cocaine cartels of the French Riviera

  01-03-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nice may be at the heart of France’s upmarket Mediterranean coast, but violent drug gangs making €1.5m a month are colonising part of itThe sight of the gun tucked into the man’s trousers told us it was time to go. We had been in one of France’s most notorious estates for several hours, trying to understand life on the frontline of the country’s spiralling drug war.Seeing three people he did not know and a camera, he decided enough was enough. “You, where do yo
  
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• Russia revels in Oval Office spectacle after Zelenskyy spars with Trump, Vance

  01-03-2025 14:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia is loving the Oval Office spectacle that took place yesterday with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. However, there is one prominent Russian voice that has not been heard yet, that of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, at the time of this writing, has yet to comment on the situation.Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is a staunch defender of Putin, was delighted by what he called the "proper slap down" that Zelenskyy
  
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• Who could lead Ukraine if Zelenskyy resigns?

  01-03-2025 13:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Volodymyr Zelenskyy's future as president of Ukraine was cast into doubt by longtime supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, and others after the embattled leader got into a nationally televised spat with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office Friday.Graham's call wasn’t the first time key Republicans have suggested Zelenskyy might need to step down, or at least stand for re-election. Trump pushed the idea earlier this month following a call with Russian Pr
  
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• Gaza ceasefire talks have made no progress on second phase, Hamas says

  01-03-2025 13:24 via theguardian.com
  Negotiations on next part of truce have begun in Egypt, but militant group has accused Israel of procrastinationThe latest round of talks on the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has yet to make any progress and it was unclear whether they would resume on Saturday, a senior Hamas official has said.The ceasefire took effect on 19 January after more than 15 months of war following Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, the deadliest in the country’s history. Cont
  
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• Japan battles largest wildfire in decades

  01-03-2025 11:22 via theguardian.com
  
  More than a thousand people have been evacuated near forest of Ofunato in northern region of IwateMore than a thousand people have been evacuated as Japan battles its largest wildfire in more than three decades.The flames are estimated to have spread over about 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres) in the forest of Ofunato in the northern region of Iwate since a fire broke out on Wednesday, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. Continue reading...
  
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• Pope Francis had peaceful night, is resting after breathing crisis, Vatican says

  01-03-2025 09:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis, 88, had a peaceful night and is resting after a breathing crisis, the Vatican said on Saturday.Francis had an isolated breathing crisis on Friday requiring non-invasive, mechanical ventilation, the Vatican said. He had experienced a bronchospasm that led to an episode of vomiting and inhalation. He then began non-invasive ventilation and was responding well.The pontiff still remains conscious and alert.POPE SUFFERS BREATHING CRISIS AMID PNEUMONIA BATTLE, VATICAN SAYSFrancis was adm
  
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• Australia’s second-hottest summer in 2024-25 ‘not possible without climate change’, scientist says

  01-03-2025 06:14 via theguardian.com
  2024-25 summer at 1.89C above long-term average ‘will be one of the coolest in the 21st century’, according to one expertGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLast summer was Australia’s second-hottest on a record going back to 1910, at 1.89C above the long-term average, according to data from the Bureau of Meteorology.The second-hottest summer – coming after the second-hottest winter and the hottest spring on record – included the second-hottes
  
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• Gunshots and a surge of panic: footage shows last moments of boy, 12, killed in the West Bank

  01-03-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Two children a week are killed in the West Bank. Two cameras recorded the circumstances of one such deathThe last time Nassar al-Hammouni talked to his son, Ayman, it was by telephone and the 12-year-old was overflowing with plans for the coming weekend, and for the rest of his life. He had joined a local football team and planned to register at a karate club that weekend. When he grew up, he told Nassar, he was going to become a doctor, or better still an engineer to help his father in the cons
  
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• FBI returns records from Mar-a-Lago search to Trump, White House says

  01-03-2025 04:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  The White House said that the FBI had given President Donald Trump boxes stemming from a search of his Florida property for classified documents that were taken after Trump left office during his first term.
  
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• Special counsel who prosecuted Hunter Biden quietly resigned in January

  01-03-2025 03:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  David Weiss stepped down as both a U.S. attorney and special counsel three days before President Donald Trump's inauguration.
  
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• Zelenskyy says ire with Trump began with pro-Putin rhetoric

  01-03-2025 02:42 via foxnews.com
  
  In the chaotic aftermath of an explosive Oval Office press conference Friday with President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his frustration with the administration began after it issued a series of controversial comments in the five weeks after Trump’s inauguration."It's not about [being] mad," Zelenskyy told Fox News’ Chief Political Anchor Bret Baier on "Special Report." "[When you hear] president, vice president or somebody or senators — doesn
  
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• Elon Musk takes familiar fraud, waste claims to Joe Rogan with DOGE discussion

  01-03-2025 01:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  In one of his first in-depth interviews since joining the U.S. government, Elon Musk pushed a variety of claims about waste and fraud but offered little new information or insight into the work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
  
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• Jury finds Illinois landlord guilty of killing 6-year-old Palestinian American boy after October 7th

  01-03-2025 00:56 via nbcnews.com
  An Illinois landlord was found guilty on all counts in a murder and hate crime trial. He was accused of fatally stabbing a Palestinian American boy and attacking his mother, who survived. NBC News’ Maggie Vespa has the latest from the courthouse where the jury returned after one hour of deliberating.
  
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• More than 160 measles cases reported in 10 states

  01-03-2025 00:50 via nbcnews.com
  Texas now has 146 reported cases of measles statewide. Officials in San Antonio warn hundreds, if not thousands of people may have been exposed to a single infected patient. Doctors say the best protection against infection is vaccination. NBC News’ Sam Brock reports the CDC has issued its first advisory since the outbreak began in early February.
  
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• Investigators speak out on deaths of Gene Hackman and wife

  01-03-2025 00:43 via nbcnews.com
  Investigators provide new clues in the deaths of Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa and their German Shepherd dog. Santa Fe authorities have called the deaths “suspicious” as they found no signs of a gas leak, foul play or anything out of place at the sprawling property. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz has the latest on the investigation from New Mexico.
  
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• For the first time, Alabama governor commutes a death sentence

  01-03-2025 00:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  In a first, Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, an ardent supporter of capital punishment, commuted the death sentence of an intellectually disabled man convicted of murder on Friday.
  
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• Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker amplifies his fight against Trump

  01-03-2025 00:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is trying to be ubiquitous at a moment when Democrats nationally are stumbling for their footing.
  
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• The Oval Office showdown heard round the world: From the Politics Desk

  01-03-2025 00:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  The fallout at home and abroad from today’s White House meeting between Donald Trump, JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelenskyy that devolved into a shouting match.
  
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