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Elon Musk replies to post by far-right Austrian linked to Christchurch terrorist after X account restored
Founder of Identitarian Movement, Martin Sellner, preaches superiority of European ethnic groups and was banned from Twitter in 2020Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA far-right Austrian who received donations from and communicated with the Christchurch terrorist prior to the 2019 attack has had his X account restored, with X owner Elon Musk replying to one of his tweets.The founder of the so-called Identitarian Movement, Martin Sellner, who preaches the superiority of European ethnic groups, was banned from Twitter in 2020 under the former management along with dozens of other accounts linked to the movement amid criticism over the platform’s handling of extremist content.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
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Why are Indian and Nepali men ending up on the frontline in Ukraine? - podcast
Thousands of young Indian and Nepali men are being killed on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Their families want answers. Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports from DelhiHemul Mangakia grew up in Surat, a city in the Indian state of Gujarat. At 23 he was looking for opportunities and a way to make his mark on the world. So when he came across a video on YouTube posted by a recruitment agent in St Petersburg, Russia, he was intrigued. The man on the video said there were openings for security guards in the historic city. The pay was up to £2,000 per month. The chance was too good to miss.As Hannah Ellis-Petersen, the Guardian’s south Asia correspondent, tells Michael Safi, this is a scene that has played out hundreds, maybe thousands of times in recent months. The young men, mainly from India and Nepal, fly to Russia on the promise of lucrative work and are then pressured into signing a different kind of contract: one that enlists them in the Russian military and pushes them to the frontline of the war in Ukraine, where many are now dying. Continue reading...
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US and Japan push for ban on nuclear weapons in space with UN security council resolution
UN chief António Guterres says risk of nuclear war has escalated and that ‘humanity cannot survive a sequel to Oppenheimer’The US and Japan are sponsoring a UN security council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the US ambassador has announced.Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a UN security council meeting that “any placement of nuclear weapons into orbit around the Earth would be unprecedented, dangerous, and unacceptable.” Continue reading...
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In the busy waters between China and Taiwan, the de facto border is being tested
After a fatal capsize off Kinmen island, China has rejected the existence of the prohibited waters line, which has been tacitly respected since the 1990sMotoring across the calm waters of the South China Sea, Taiwanese captain Lu Wen-shiung recalls the old days, when Chinese and Taiwanese fishers used to meet behind rocky headlands, anchoring their boats out of the authorities’ sight, to share a meal. There was less surveillance then, and the two sides were more friendly, fishing the same waters, occasionally selling to each other on the sly.“We were like brothers, we had a good relationship, they would even cook for us,” he says. “But … now the control has become more strict, the [Chinese] coast guard will call me if the boats are too close.” Continue reading...
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Peter Navarro: US supreme court denies Trump ally’s bid to avoid prison
Justices find ‘no basis to disagree’ with lower court’s ruling after Navarro, former Trump trade adviser, convicted of contemptThe US supreme court on Monday denied a request by Donald Trump’s former aide Peter Navarro to avoid prison while he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction for defying a subpoena from a panel that investigated the 2021 Capitol attack.Navarro, who served as trade adviser during Trump’s presidency, is set to become the first senior member of his administration to be imprisoned for actions related to the attempt to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss. Continue reading...
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Second man charged with stealing Dorothy’s Wizard of Oz ruby slippers
Jerry Hal Saliterman, 76, of Minnesota allegedly threatened to release a sex tape of a woman if she told anyone about the caperNearly five months after an ailing man with a history of theft admitted to stealing the shining shoes worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, a second person has been charged in the caper, according to the Associated Press.Jerry Hal Saliterman, 76, of Crystal, Minnesota, was charged with theft of a major artwork and witness tampering. He did not enter a plea when he first appeared on Friday in a US district court in St Paul, Minnesota. He was released on his own recognizance after the hearing. Continue reading...
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£58bn plan to rewire Great Britain expected to spark tensions along route
‘High-capacity electrical spine’ to run onshore from north-east Scotland to north-west EnglandA £58bn plan to rewire Great Britain’s electricity grid to connect up new windfarms off the coast of Scotland is expected to trigger tensions with communities along the route.National Grid’s electricity system operator (ESO) has mapped out power “motorways” across Great Britain to allow for the biggest investment since the 1960s. Continue reading...
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‘Sneaky’ fees add up to 25% to UK music ticket prices, says Which?
Consumer body calls for a crackdown on ‘bewildering’ range of extra charges at big ticketing sitesLive music fans are losing out because of an array of “sneaky” fees that can add up to 25% to the cost of concert and festival tickets, research from the consumer body Which? has found.With booking open for big summer gigs, the lobby group has called for a crackdown on the “bewildering” range of extra charges that some of the UK’s biggest ticketing websites impose. Continue reading...
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24 in 2024: salsa parties, stinky tofu and being queer in Taiwan
Social media manager Noya Lee says gen Z struggles with ‘everything’ but going straight into the workforce has given her confidenceRead more from our 24 in 2024 seriesTwenty-four in 2024 is a series on the lives, hopes and fears of 24-year-olds around the world in a year of election uncertainty, conflict and climate change. Continue reading...
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Emma Raducanu pulls out of Miami Open with lower back injury
Briton was due to face China’s Wang Xiyu in first roundLate withdrawal another injury setback for 21-year-oldEmma Raducanu has pulled out of the Miami Open due to a lower back injury. She was due to face Wang Xiyu of China today in the first round.Britain’s 2021 US Open champion made an encouraging showing at Indian Wells last week, losing 6-3, 7-5 against the world No 2 Aryna Sabalenka in the third round. Continue reading...
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New Zealand v England: first women’s T20 international – live
Updates from the first T20 in Dunedin (Tuesday 12am GMT)Get involved! Email Tanya with your thoughts Susie Bates wins the toss, leading New Zealand for the first time on home soil. “With the games we’ve played here in the past, the wicket gets better and better so we trust in our seam attack. My job is to lead from the front, we’re focused on the cricket we want to do, the brand of cricket we want to play.”Heather Knight “This is a great place to have a bit of prep, enjoying Queenstown. A slightly different group but great to give girls an opportunity who have been on the fringes. Lauren Filer is making her T20 debut today, runs in and bowls quick, hits the deck hard.” Continue reading...
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Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure review – a woeful failure to challenge racism
Ade Adepitan is a charming presenter, but his ‘chilled-out’ approach to entering a ‘whites-only’ South African town is utterly feeble. At points, his passivity is borderline offensiveNot every attempt at documenting real events ends up fulfilling its intended purpose. Capturing the Friedmans started as a sweet tale about clowns and ended up lamenting harrowing crimes. Metallica’s Some Kind of Monster was planned to be a couple of infomercials, not a nuanced portrait of the poisonous effects of fame. Tom Cruise went on Oprah to chat on the sofa and discuss his love for Katie Holmes in a totally normal way.In the case of Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure, Ade Adepitan’s attempt to see if “racial separatism can ever be justified” becomes a cautionary tale for black people who think they can one-of-the-good-ones themselves out of white supremacy. Continue reading...
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Tell us: how did your relationship survive infidelity?
Many consider sexual affairs to be the ultimate dealbreaker, but some couples can overcome these transgressions. If that is you, we want to hear how you did itGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailCheating is often regarded as the mother of all relationship crimes, but it doesn’t always result in a couple calling it quits.We want to hear how you navigated the fallout from a sexual betrayal. What motivated you to try to work things out? And how did you find your way back to a place of trust and togetherness? Continue reading...
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‘What’s the big deal?’: London Black Out night welcomed despite No 10 concerns
Theatre evening that encourages Black-only audience dubbed ‘divisive’ by Downing Street gets seal of approval from puntersStephen, an international education consultant, goes to about 20 theatre shows a year. “It’s a lot compared with most Londoners,” he says, “and every time, it’s the same crowd. It’s very white and it’s a shame – theatre is for everyone.”On Monday night, he was going to see Blue at the Seven Dials Playhouse during one of its Black Out night performances. On these nights “the Black community is invited to enjoy the show and welcome to linger after the performance with the playwright, cast and director”, the theatre’s website says. Continue reading...
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Rachel Reeves: Treasury will ‘hardwire’ growth into tax and spending decisions
Shadow chancellor to outline plans to shake up department after Labour election victoryThe Treasury under a Labour government would “hardwire” raising Britain’s growth rate into its budget tax and spending decisions as part of plans to shake up Whitehall’s most powerful department, Rachel Reeves is to announce.The shadow chancellor will use a lecture in London on Tuesday to say that a decade of national renewal must start with “day one” reform after a Labour election victory to make growth more pivotal to the Treasury’s work. Continue reading...
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English football regulator close as government confirms ‘historic’ bill
Football governance bill to be published on TuesdayPrime minister: bill will ‘prevent a breakaway league’An independent regulator for English football is imminent after the government confirmed plans to put a bill before parliament under which clubs could be fined up to 10% of revenues if they breach agreed conditions.The long-awaited football governance bill is to be published on Tuesday and will define the powers of the regulator according to three objectives: “to improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure financial resilience across the leagues, and to safeguard the heritage of English football”. Continue reading...
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MPs vote to throw out amendments to Rwanda deportation bill
All 10 amendments made by peers voted down, giving much-needed boost to beleaguered PMRishi Sunak’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda took a step forward on Monday night after MPs voted overwhelmingly to throw out a series of amendments made to the Rwanda bill by the House of Lords.MPs voted down all 10 amendments made by peers over the past few weeks to return the bill to the form in which it was initially passed by the Commons in January, giving a much-needed boost to the beleaguered prime minister. Continue reading...
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West Midlands PCC wins case to stop his role being given to Tory mayor
Home Office had planned to scrap the police commissioner role held by Labour’s Simon Foster and give powers to mayorThe police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands has won a high court challenge against government plans to transfer his powers to the region’s mayor.Simon Foster, a Labour politician, took legal action against the Home Office’s move to scrap his role in time for local elections in May. Continue reading...
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Ryder Cup doubts over Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton after LIV switch
Pair will receive fines and suspensions from DP World TourBans could stop them playing for Europe at Bethpage in 2025Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton will still receive fines and suspensions from the DP World Tour because of their switch to LIV, in the latest indication that much work needs to be done to secure the influential pair a berth in Europe’s next Ryder Cup team.A sporting arbitration panel ruled last April that the DP World, formerly European, Tour was correct to impose sanctions on members who appeared on LIV without securing releases from their home circuit. The fines and suspensions range in value, depending on the impact on whatever DP World Tour event is taking place on the same week the golfers in question appear on LIV. Continue reading...
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Sunak and ministers stoking division over UK’s net zero target, warns Ed Miliband
Labour shadow energy minister will use speech to say Tory approach is also leading to higher billsMinisters are stoking the fires of the culture wars over the UK’s net zero target instead of addressing the urgency of the climate crisis, Ed Miliband will say.The shadow energy secretary will make a pitch directly to Conservative voters who are concerned that the party has made major U-turns on cutting greenhouse gas emissions amid increasingly anti-green rhetoric. Continue reading...
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Brazil’s Gabriel Magalhães pulls out of squad for England and Spain games
Arsenal defender will hope to return for Manchester City clashGriezmann’s record run of 84 straight France games to endThe Arsenal centre-back Gabriel Magalhães will miss Brazil’s friendlies against England on Saturday and Spain next week because of injury, with Juventus’s Bremer named as his replacement.Brazil’s coach, Dorival Júnior, gave no details on the injury when announcing the news, but Arsenal will be desperate for Gabriel to be fit for their Premier League trip to Manchester City on 31 March. Dorival said: “Today we had another casualty. Unfortunately, Gabriel Magalhães is uncalled. In his place, we’re calling up Bremer, from Juventus.” Continue reading...
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Emma Hayes wary of Ajax’s threat to Chelsea in Champions League
WSL champions visit Amsterdam in quarter-final‘They are a club with serious ambition in Europe’Emma Hayes praised the development of Ajax and said their rise had come as no surprise, as she prepared her Chelsea side for Tuesday night’s first leg of the Champions League quarter-final in Amsterdam.Ajax were the first Dutch team to make the group stage this season and then escaped a section with Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Roma with three home wins at the Johan Cruijff ArenA. They welcome Chelsea as the ­underdogs, but their threat is real, said Hayes. Continue reading...
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Michelin hails ‘cultural dynamism’ as 52 French restaurants earn their first stars
One chef receives three stars at first attempt in 115th edition of the French foodies’ bibleA record 52 restaurants in France – including 23 that only opened in the past year – have been awarded one or more Michelin stars for the first time, which the French foodies’ bible said reflected the “cultural dynamism” of a new generation of innovative young chefs.“This year’s is a generous vintage, and also true to our values,” said Gwendal Poullennec, the director of the Michelin Guide, at the launch of its 115th edition on Monday. Well over half of the new laureates were under the age of 40, he said. Continue reading...
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Motherboard review – enthralling smartphone self-portrait of family life
Copenhagen documentary film festival Victoria Mapplebeck’s documentary stitches 20 years’ worth of footage into a home video love letter to her son, whose whole life so far is observedVictoria Mapplebeck is a British director and lecturer who has worked in film, video, VR, user-generated content, and with her personal, revelatory projects she’s shown a magic touch with a smartphone camera: she won a TV Bafta in 2019 for her iPhone short Missed Call, about her life as a single mum, working out her relationship with her teenage son and his absent dad. Now she has developed this into a tender, intimate, funny and entirely absorbing full-scale feature documentary, the title of which is a reference to the central circuit board on a computer – meaning perhaps both the importance of the digital equipment she’s using to record everything, and her own central importance to the computer of their own family unit, the motherboard that isn’t allowed to go wrong or take a day off.Motherboard is essentially a home video love letter to her son Jim that crafts 20 years’ worth of footage, showing her own life and that of Jim growing surreally from a tiny baby into a fiercely opinionated, smart young adult who suddenly towers over the parent. The film lasts around 90 minutes, which is about how long the growing up process seems to take in real life for a parent. And at the same time she has to deal with exhaustion, a breast cancer diagnosis, anxiety and her own complex relationship with her father who walked out on the family when she was still young. Continue reading...
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Nearly 130,000 children exposed to lead-tainted drinking water in Chicago
Study says the 19% of kids using unfiltered tap water have about twice as much lead in their blood as they would otherwiseAbout 129,000 Chicago children under the age of six are exposed to poisonous lead in their household drinking water because of lead pipes, according to a study published on Monday.The study used artificial intelligence to analyse 38,000 home water tests conducted for the city of Chicago, along with neighborhood demographics, state blood samples and numerous other factors. Continue reading...
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Sunak braces for backlash as smoking ban bill to be introduced in Commons
Libertarian faction of Conservatives expected to stage a rebellion but measure has widespread supportRishi Sunak’s public health policy banning the next generation from being able to buy cigarettes is to be introduced in parliament this week, with officials braced for a backlash from Conservative rebels.While the policy commands considerable support in Conservative ranks, the scale of an expected rebellion by libertarian Tories – whose ranks includeLiz Truss – has yet to become clear. Continue reading...
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Cuba blames US for stoking protests amid power cuts and food shortages
US embassy says ‘absurd’ to suggest Washington behind protests in Santiago de Cuba led by parents struggling to feed their childrenThe Cuban government has summoned the US ambassador, Benjamin Ziff, to its foreign ministry, accusing Washington of stoking a protest which saw hundreds of people take to the streets in the island’s second city of Santiago de Cuba.The demonstration late on Sunday was a rare public show of disenchantment against Cuba’s communist government, and was apparently led by parents struggling to feed their children in the face of a worsening food crisis. The protesters reportedly chanted: “Without electricity and food, the people burn.” Continue reading...
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Supporters should blame club owners – not the rules – for points deductions | Barney Ronay
Clubs may not like what they sign up to and object to the extent of sanctions, but cannot cry corruption if rules are transparentWelcome to the Premier League’s latest sensational product innovation: the courtroom drama relegation battle. Two things seem certain after the decision to dock four points from Nottingham Forest over breaches of profitability and sustainability rules. First, this isn’t over by any measure.Buckle up for some really excellent legal wrangle content over the coming months as Forest, Everton and at least four other clubs cling like Indiana Jones on a collapsing rope bridge to a league table primed to shuffle and rejig with every fresh tribunal hearing and special circumstances appeal. Continue reading...
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Simona Halep happy to return but stark contrast in judgments baffles | Tumaini Carayol
As she warms up in Miami, we don’t know why the court of arbitration for sport ruled so differently to the original tribunalFor a player of her stature, a former world no 1 for 64 weeks and a two-time grand slam champion, Simona Halep has often preferred to conduct her work in peace and remain outside of the spotlight. But all eyes will be on her this week as she makes her return to professional tennis for the first time in 19 months at the Miami Open after the court of arbitration for sport (Cas) reduced her four-year ban for intentional doping to nine backdated months, ruling that she was not guilty of intentional doping and allowing her to return to the court immediately.The Romanian will begin with a notable first round match in Miami against Paula Badosa, a former world No 2, but a win would lead to a certified headline battle. Aryna Sabalenka, the Australian Open champion and current world No 2, awaits the winner. Continue reading...
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False King Charles death story spread by Russian media outlets
One site tweeted of monarch’s purported demise only to later concede: ‘Most likely, the information is fake’The news broke in the Russian media on Monday afternoon. King Charles III was dead. He was not, but no one really had time to check the details. The saga of the royal family finally had its latest twist: a viral Russian disinformation angle.The rumour went into overdrive when it was shared on a Telegram channel used by Vedomosti, once Russia’s most respected business newspaper. There was a photo of Charles in ceremonial military uniform and the curt caption: “British King Charles III has died.” It made it through Russian internet channels, including Readovka, a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel with more than 2.35 million subscribers. Continue reading...
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