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Venezuela’s Maduro sworn in amid outrage over alleged election theft

President, who has led country in an increasingly repressive direction since 2013, has failed to provide proof he won vote

Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, has been sworn in for a third term despite domestic outrage and a chorus of international condemnation at his alleged theft of last year’s election.

“This is a great victory for Venezuelan democracy,” the 62-year-old autocrat boasted during a sparsely attended oath-taking ceremony in Caracas that the leaders of most democratic nations boycotted.

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© Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP

Rachel Reeves faces another anxious week of second-guessing the City

10 janvier 2025 à 18:00

Markets appear to be fretting over sustainability of tax and spending plans and whether UK is heading for ‘stagflation’

Rachel Reeves intended to spend January burnishing her reputation on the global stage with trips to Beijing and Davos, and flipping the focus from her £40bn tax-raising budget to Labour’s plans to rekindle economic growth.

Instead, the chancellor was reduced to watching anxiously, as a sell-off swept through government bond markets, and sterling came under intense pressure as a result.

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© Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

Biden administration imposes toughest sanctions on Russian oil and gas

Measures targeting Russian energy sector attempt to leverage peace deal for Ukraine in Trump administration

The Biden administration on Friday imposed its broadest package of sanctions yet targeting Russia’s oil and gas revenues in an attempt to give Kyiv and the incoming administration of Donald Trump leverage to reach a deal for peace in Ukraine. The move is meant to cut Russia‘s oil revenues for the war that started in February 2022, and has killed or wounded tens of thousands and reduced cities to rubble.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the timing of the was chosen because “oil markets are in a fundamentally better place” and the US economy is better positioned to absorb any market disruption.

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© Photograph: Antti Aimo-Koivisto/AP

Musk and Ramaswamy sending agents across US government to seek cuts

10 janvier 2025 à 17:30

So-called department of government efficiency charged by Trump to help effect radical government shake-up

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have already dispatched emissaries across the US government ahead of their mission to slash public spending as joint heads of Doge (the department of government efficiency), a non-governmental body body ordered by Donald Trump to help realize his goal of a radical government shake-up.

The two tech billionaires have already sent aides to more than a dozen federal agencies as they look to identify possible cuts, according to the Washington Post.

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© Composite: Getty Images

After the fire, the insurance battles: LA victims’ ordeal may just be beginning

10 janvier 2025 à 17:04

‘Now we have to make sure there’s not a second, financial tragedy that follows the physical catastrophe,’ says consumer advocate

California homeowners who lost everything in this week’s devastating Los Angeles-area fires now have to battle their insurance companies to recover the value of their homeowners’ policies – if they are lucky enough to have insurance at all.

With estimates of the economic damage from the fires now reaching $52bn-$57bn, consumer advocates and veterans of past disasters say homeowners can expect weeks or months of paperwork to prove that they have lost what they say they have lost, if not also pressure from claims adjusters and a whole class of disaster professionals to make a quick settlement for less than they are entitled to under their policies.

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© Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Cocktail of the week: Three Sheets’ cherry americano – recipe | The good mixer

10 janvier 2025 à 17:00

A negroni-style premix that you can prep ahead so it’s ready to rustle up on a Friday night

This premix is brilliant for a crowd, and it’s also a celebration of every right-thinking bartender’s favourite garnish: the glorious maraschino cherry. Fabbri makes the best, but if you can’t find those, Luxardo is a good alternative.

Max and Noel Venning, Three Sheets, London W1

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© Photograph: Rob Lawson/The Guardian. Drink styling: Seb Davis.

© Photograph: Rob Lawson/The Guardian. Drink styling: Seb Davis.

Legal fight over €2.5bn worth of aircraft stuck in Russia plays out in Dublin

10 janvier 2025 à 16:59

World’s largest aircraft lessors and insurance firms battle over compensation for jets stranded after Ukraine invasion

Sitting in a nondescript building near the high court in Dublin, about 40 cloaked barristers have gathered almost daily since June last year. At stake is €2.5bn (£2.1bn) worth of aircraft stranded in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.

Behind multiple screens and a mountain of warehouse boxes they are fighting to determine who should pay for the losses – the aircraft lessors or the several insurance companies, including Lloyd’s, AIG and Chubb.

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© Photograph: Reuters

Mel Gibson to cast de-aged Jim Caviezel in ‘acid trip’ sequel to Passion of the Christ

10 janvier 2025 à 16:46

The director said the long-planned follow-up to the 2004 hit, which is due to start filming next year, will contain ‘some crazy stuff’

Mel Gibson says that he is going to cast a de-aged Jim Caviezel in his long-planned sequel to The Passion of the Christ, and that the film will be an “acid trip”.

Gibson was speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and when asked who “the next Jesus” was going be, Gibson replied that he was aiming to use Caviezel, who had played the lead role in the first film in 2004, in a story about Jesus’ resurrection. Asked how he would handle the 20-year time gap for a story that is supposed to take place three days after the events depicted in Passion of the Christ, Gibson said he would use de-ageing techniques that are “so good now”.

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© Photograph: Brett D Cove/Silverhub/REX/Shutterstock

Resident Evil 4 at 20: the horror game that revitalised a genre

10 janvier 2025 à 16:40

With brutishly fast zombies, raw action and most importantly an over-the-shoulder viewpoint, the influence of Capcom’s horror game can still be felt

It is an interesting quirk of video game history that one of the greatest ever horror titles debuted on the Nintendo GameCube, a toylike console better known for the cutest titles in the Zelda series and Animal Crossing. But in 2002, Capcom revealed five exclusives to boost the beleaguered platform – and among them was Resident Evil 4, technically the 13th title in the franchise, which on its release three years later would be considered its zenith. It was an exciting new lease of life for the survival horror genre.

Not that you’d guess all this from the game’s extraordinarily pedestrian setup. Six years after the fall of the Umbrella Corporation smouldering cop Leon Kennedy has been dispatched on a mission to retrieve the US president’s kidnapped daughter, who has been spotted in a tiny village in rural Spain. For some reason best known to the Secret Service, he’s going in alone.

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© Photograph: Capcom

How we met: ‘We’re like two pieces of a puzzle clicking together’

10 janvier 2025 à 16:24

Brandon, 28, and Christine, 27, became close friends when they worked together at a Covid testing lab. Now they live in different countries, but make time to continue their friendship

When Brandon and his boyfriend moved to London from Wales in April 2021, there wasn’t much going on. With the city under lockdown, he took a job in a Covid lab at Gatwick Airport. “I was processing PCR tests for people who were travelling,” he says. “I didn’t know anyone in London except my boyfriend, but luckily the team I was working with were great.”

In June, they were joined by Christine, a biology graduate who lived in London and had transferred from the PCR testing lab at Heathrow. “When I arrived, they seemed like a tightknit team, so I was a bit anxious about fitting in,” she says. “But Brandon was super friendly and that drew me to him straight away. I really wanted to be his friend.”

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Former Premier League footballer Dean Windass diagnosed with dementia

10 janvier 2025 à 16:21
  • Ex-Hull and Bradford forward has stage two dementia
  • ‘Just got to keep smiling and trying to help people,’ he says

The former Premier League forward Dean Windass has been diagnosed with dementia at the age of 55, it has been revealed.

The Hull and Bradford City player, who scored the goal that took Hull to the Premier League, has stage two of the condition, but joked with social media followers that he was “glad they found a brain”.

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© Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

‘If you hear the siren, go to the shelter’: the wrenching play about the bombing of a theatre in Ukraine

10 janvier 2025 à 16:16

In March 2022, the largest theatre in Mariupol – while in use as a bomb shelter for 1,000 people – was hit by a Russian air strike. A re-enactment based on survivors’ testimonies has been moving audiences to tears

The play opens with the usual pre-show request for audiences to switch off their mobile phones before the curtain rises, but along with this come warnings – and instructions for how the audience should evacuate the auditorium in the event of an air raid.

That is because Mariupol Drama, a play based on the real experiences of a Ukrainian theatre company during the Russian invasion of the titular city, was written and staged in the midst of war. It re-enacts the horrifying moment on 16 March 2022 when their theatre was bombed by Russian forces, even though it had by then been turned into an evacuation shelter for almost 1,000 people.

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© Photograph: Tiberi Shiutiv

There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting | Marina Hyde

10 janvier 2025 à 16:16

Fiscal crisis, corruption claims, shenanigans and legal threats. This feels like the week old-style politics sat on a grenade

The worst-timed foreign visit by a politician this week was LA mayor Karen Bass deciding to attend the inauguration of the president of Ghana. The second worst might be Rachel Reeves’s decision to push ahead with her China bridge-building trip against a backdrop of market turmoil, soaring UK borrowing costs and the inevitability of rising food prices. But look, maybe have no fear. The chancellor has apparently told all her cabinet colleagues to “cease anti-growth measures” – amazing – and also to come up with specific plans to boost economic activity. I am already picturing her opening the bits of paper from the hat. “Right, I’ve got 20 for ‘build an effing time machine’ and one that just says ‘Pass’. Sorry, Lammy – this isn’t Celebrity Mastermind.”

As for auto-satirical lowlights further down the ministerial ladder, do keep your eye on anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq. The very regrettable lesson of the past few years in UK politics is that no matter how bad things seem, they can always take on a rosy glow in light of what comes after. The premiership of David Cameron seemed less foolhardy once we were living through the premiership of Theresa May. The premiership of Theresa May seemed less chaotic once we were living through the premiership of Boris Johnson. The premiership of Boris Johnson – well, lettuce not be too hasty. But contemplating the Siddiq situation, was it really so bad that Chris Grayling once gave a ferry contract to a firm with no ferries, considering that these days the anti-corruption minister could have three London properties she’s tied to investigated by the National Crime Agency’s international corruption unit? Siddiq has distanced herself from her deposed aunt’s authoritarian regime in Bangladesh – but not, it seems, from the properties given or made available to her by people with close links to that regime. Either way, we are asked to have full confidence in Keir Starmer’s assertion that he has full confidence in her.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

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© Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

NFL wildcard weekend predictions: how the Steelers can pull off a miracle at the Ravens

10 janvier 2025 à 09:00

A heap of drama beckons in NFC as the 14-3 Vikings meet LA, while in AFC a pair of underdogs attempt to stage heists

What the Chargers need to do to win: The league’s stingiest defense cannot afford the complacency that allowed Tampa Bay to rain 40 points down on them in December. The Chargers’ stats look good – they gave up the fewest touchdowns (31) in the regular season, including 18 on 39 red-zone drives, a league-leading efficiency mark of 46% – but would be even better without a few aberrations. Handily, the away day will not faze them considering their 6-3 record on the road this season. LA should take care of an underpowered Houston offense if they can forget about their wildcard shocker against Jacksonville two years ago.

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© Photograph: David Butler II/USA Today Sports

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