Faced with economic disruption, Beijing is presenting itself as too powerful to succumb to U.S. pressure. It is also censoring criticism at home.

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If global long-only funds start to rotate out of risk the market turmoil could get worse

A bill in the New York state legislature would ban police from conducting traffic stops for minor violations in an effort to further "racial equity and public safety."

China's yuan slipps to its lowest value since January over Trump tariffs

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Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie Reynolds, 75, were arrested by Taliban officials in February

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Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people

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One of Africa’s most famous refugee camps could transform into a city

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Zelensky calls on West to amp up pressure after Putin's latest deadly air raid on Kyiv

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Pubs serving fine food without the faff of fine dining have come to define British hospitality – but with £30 roasts and Michelin stars now par for the course, have we lost sight of the boozer altogether? Hannah Twiggs pulls up a barstool

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The role of dogs in Italian alpine rescues is becoming more important as the number of people caught by avalanches increases — up by 50% over the last 25 years

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Labor leader seeking to be first prime minister in two decades to win second consecutive term

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Regional Mexican music is crossing borders and going global

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Japan’s Emperor Naruhito is visiting Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of World War II's harshest battles was fought 80 years ago

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As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

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Twenty-five years ago, Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke played libidinous teenage monsters in one of the most successful Britflicks in UK box office history. Since then, the British film industry has become crisis-stricken and largely Americanised, writes Adam White. Where did all the local stories go?

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Having an existential breakdown in your forties looks a little different than it used to, writes Lydia Spencer-Elliott

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Cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Solana sink in value by over 12 per cent

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays agreed to a $500 million, 14-year contract that starts in 2026, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press, a deal that removes what would have been the biggest star from next offseason’s free-agent market

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On Feb. 3, the Trump administration ended two federal programs that together allowed more 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work legally in the U.S. It’s all anyone discusses in Doral, Florida, the largest Venezuelan community in the United States

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Duo will be ‘reunited’ on screen in new ‘The Grand Tour’ specials

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‘That was the first time I met Hugh,’ actor said

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Asian markets plunged on Monday following last week’s two-day meltdown on Wall Street, and President Donald Trump said he won’t back down on the sweeping new tariffs he announced on April 2 that have roiled global trade

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Advanced CT scanners at some UK and European airports mean liquids and laptops can stay in the traveller’s bag – but the 100ml size limit remains

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A mother with doomsday religious beliefs who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to kill a romantic rival in Idaho is on trial again

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‘Two absolute icons and legends,’ said one fan

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The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the first trade partner to take punitive action against a decadeslong problem on salt farms in remote islands off South Korea’s southwest coast

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Lori Vallow Daybell is already serving life sentences in Idaho for murdering her two youngest children and conspiring to kill her lover's wife

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Obama opened up about recent struggle in surprise admission

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This spring homebuying season is shaping up to be more favorable for home shoppers than it’s been in recent years — as long as they can afford to buy

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Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” returning for its sixth and final season and Viola Davis playing a U.S. president in the action movie “G20” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

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For nearly four decades, residents in southern India's coastal city of Chennai have patrolled moonlit beaches at night trying to protect sea turtles and their hatchlings that for millennia have nested along these shores.

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Leaked version, uploaded ahead of movie’s big release, showed incomplete CGI and green screens

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The Magpies are three points off fourth-placed Chelsea.

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‘We finna get fined for that,’ Nwodim said in shock

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Millions took to the streets worldwide on Saturday to protest Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s policies

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Kanda, on Japan’s southern coast, grew in tandem with an auto plant that sends half of the cars it makes to the United States.

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Authorities in Florida arrested a man who allegedly shared posts on social media threatening to kill President Donald Trump.

Tit-for-tat levies on American goods may appeal to voters but would risk adding to UK’s economic headwinds

Keir Starmer has said he wants to shelter Britain from the storm of Donald Trump’s escalating trade wars.

Governments the world over are considering how best to respond to the turmoil unleashed on the global economy by the US president last week.

Meat, fish and dairy products.

Whiskey and rum.

Clothing.

Motorcycles.

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The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake

Graphic images. Distressing footage. Blurred-out posts that only clicking a consent button will reveal. For a year and a half now, disclaimers have hung over what the world sees from Gaza. Sometimes, the scenes stop me in my tracks as they are suddenly recalled, like a nightmare forgotten but then vividly remembered. Except without the relief that it was all a dream. Last week, I watched footage that showed what appeared to be the shattered, headless corpse of a baby. I have seen shredded body parts collected in plastic bags. Heard the screams of the dying and the silence of the dead, as cameras capture them piled together, some in entire families. Israel’s assault on Gaza defies inurement. As time goes by, even as the threshold for what is seen as intolerable increases, the graphic and varied forms of killing continue to scale the hurdle of numbness.

All the while, politics does one of two things. Either it smoothes over this historic calamity, resorting to the bland language of encouragements to return to the negotiating table, as if it were all some regrettable falling-out that could be resolved if only heads cooled a little, or the calamity is reversed. Calling for it to stop, rather than being the most natural of human instincts, is now an impulse that in some countries meets the bar of arrest or removal. This narrative renders the people of Gaza, so ever-present on our screens and timelines in their daily massacre, distant and remote. Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply. Geographically it has been sealed off and wrenched away from the Earth. Foreign journalists and politicians are not allowed in. Local journalists are killed. Foreign aid is blocked. Local relief workers are murdered. International courts and human rights organisations speak with one voice about the criminality of what is occurring. They are summarily ignored or attacked by Israel’s sponsors.

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

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Proposal that ships pay levy on emissions to fund climate action in poor countries opposed by powerful economies

Poor countries have accused the rich world of “backsliding” and betrayal of their climate commitments, as they desperately tried to keep alive a long-awaited deal to cut carbon from shipping.

Nations from 175 countries have gathered in London this week at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to hammer out the final details of a deal, more than a decade in the making, that could finally deliver a plan to decarbonise shipping over the next 25 years.

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UK’s £800m research body backs project that could unlock radical therapies to extend human lifespans

The curious case of the queen bee has long had scientists pondering whether the head of the hive harbours the secret to a long and healthy life.

While queen bees and workers have nearly identical DNA, the queens enjoy what might be regarded as royal privileges. They are larger, fertile throughout life and survive for years compared with workers, who last a few months at best.

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His contract saga came to a lucrative end.

With tornados threatening that area, tornado warnings continued to pop up on the station and even cut into the audio during the game. 

Hospital waiting lists among worst in UK and children with special needs waiting a year for support, report finds

Northern Ireland’s public services, including hospitals, schools and police, are being “crippled” by lack of funding, impinging on the quality of life for many people, a report by a government committee has concluded.

The Northern Ireland select committee found patients waiting more than 12 hours to be seen in accident and emergency departments and mental health needs 40% greater than anywhere else in the UK. Hospital waiting lists are among the worst in the country.

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Under Arnolds Field, tonnes of illegally dumped waste have been burning for years, spewing pollution over the area. Locals fear for their health – and despair that no one seems willing to help

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It’s got sex jokes, Hitler gags and endless gallows humour. The comedian once famed for being ‘ignorant-arrogant’ reveals why she’s written a show about the deaths of her stepmother and the father who taught her to swear

‘There was one night,” says Sarah Silverman, describing a recent standup gig, “when I hid notes for myself all over the stage. I’m a stoner: I don’t want to have to remember what happens next. And I was in a pretty heavy part of the show, looking down at my notes. It was taking a few seconds, so I said sorry to the audience – and they all started applauding! Because they thought I was overcome with emotion and apologising for it.”

She might well have been. The special in question, Postmortem, is about the death of her father and stepmother. But it’s not that kind of show. “Probably I should’ve just gone with it,” says Silverman, recalling the moment with a shudder. “But I was like, ‘Oh no, no! I’m not crying!”

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Supporters in Europe can offer new opportunities and minimise the isolation. Certainly they can avoid making things worse

Universities in the US are under attack. While the Trump administration pretends to punish them for their alleged compliance with or support for “antisemitism” (ie pro-Gaza demonstrations) and “anti-white racism” (ie diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives), the real targets are academic freedom and freedom of speech. Going after the most prominent and privileged universities, such as Columbia and Harvard, kills two birds with one stone: it garners prime media attention and spreads fear among other, far less privileged universities.

The rest of the world has taken note and has started to respond, though mostly without knowing much about the specifics of US academia and without asking US-based academics what they need. Obviously, different academics face different challenges – depending on, for example, their gender and race, legal status, the state they live in and the university they work at – but here are some suggestions from a white, male, tenured green-card holder working at a public university in a GOP-controlled state.

Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, and author of The Far Right Today

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Exclusive: Met to be handed dossier of evidence alleging crimes including killings of civilians and aid workers

A war crimes complaint against 10 Britons who served with the Israeli military in Gaza is to be submitted to the Met police by one of the UK’s leading human rights lawyers.

Michael Mansfield KC is one of a group of lawyers who will on Monday hand in a 240-page dossier to Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit alleging targeted killing of civilians and aid workers, including by sniper fire, and indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, including hospitals.

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She is one of the heirs to the Walt Disney fortune – and has long argued for rich people like her to pay more tax. Now she is working out how best to meet the challenge of Trump, Musk and the politics of chaos

My conversation with Abigail Disney opens with the kind of bog-standard line that starts most chats. But because she is a left-leaning American, with a record of righteous criticism of the man now once again in charge of her country, I suspect it might invite a very long answer indeed.

Still, out it comes: “How are you?”

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For many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the country’s new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay?

The view from the plastic chair in which Fatou Samba sits, looking out to sea, takes in many of the elements of the sorry tale of Senegal’s lost men. She can see the distant shapes of the big industrial foreign fishing ships and tankers, from Europe and China, strung across the horizon.

Closer to shore are dozens of empty pirogues, Senegalese wooden fishing boats, rocking idle on a sea mostly denuded of fish.

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The Knicks didn’t have to lean on Jalen Brunson because the star version of OG Anunoby resumed Sunday.

There will be enough time to obsess over the things the Knicks don’t have, and why they don’t do well. Maybe today, just this once, can be devoted to something else. 

If Ilya Sorokin had to give up a record-breaking goal, it’s unlikely there is anyone he’d rather have been on the other side of it than Alex Ovechkin. After all, he grew up watching Ovechkin, who broke into the NHL when Sorokin was just 10. They’ve played together on the Russian national team, count each...

Surveillance footage reportedly showed the woman making a noose and tying it around her neck. Shockingly, there was no medical response for two hours after she hung herself.

Despite its links to oral cancer, people in Hainan have for centuries produced and eaten betel nuts, which give a natural high. But sales are falling

Many cities across southern China are known for the art of relaxing. Chengdu in Sichuan province is the tea house capital. Guangzhou is the birthplace of dim sum, a time to share steamed dumplings and chew the fat with friends. And in Haikou, the capital of Hainan province, people have been chewing the betel nut for centuries.

You don’t have to walk far in Haikou to find a vendor. The small, hard, green fruits are sold in little piles alongside fresh coconuts and bottled water at pretty much any convenience store, for about five yuan (£0.52) a piece. Some vendors, mostly women, sit by the side of the road to dish out betel nuts to passing drivers on mopeds, nearly all of them men.

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Beijing has room to more strictly enforce export controls and step up pressure on US companies

Given its record, the risk is that the US central bank will do just that

Defence secretary’s trip comes after Washington threatens to retake waterway because of Chinese influence

Yannis Stournaras says looming trade war will drag on growth and inflation

Deloitte report finds more businesses seeking shareholder approval for new policies to compete with US

Some characters got happy endings, while some decidedly did not. But there were enough twists to keep viewers guessing until the end.

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Cambodia’s authoritarian dynasty had silenced almost all of the country’s independent media. The remaining few are facing extinction because of an executive directive from President Trump.

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President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are using similar playbooks as they face turmoil.

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The rapid drop shows that cryptocurrencies, which the president has promoted, are subject to the same market gyrations as any other risky asset.

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With the Nets officially lottery-bound several games ago, these past few weeks of the season they’ve seemed free in fully embracing a youth movement. 

The man who some believe came up with the “tush push” is warning the NFL not to ban the practice, now most associated with the Eagles.  Former Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr told TMZ that it would be a “slippery slope” if the NFL decided to make the “tush push” illegal.  “It’s a slippery slope,” Barr...

It is the classic case of projection against production, an almost annual debate when it comes to the NBA draft. 

In the present, Peter Laviolette was just like the rest of the NHL, watching from afar as Alex Ovechkin approached and surpassed Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record. But during Laviolette’s three seasons with the Capitals, he witnessed Ovechkin’s chase to pass Gordie Howe for No. 2 on the all-time goals list and was perched behind...

Peter Laviolette chuckled as a grin started to spread across his face. His answer, in a way, was fitting given everything that has gone wrong for the Rangers recently.

You’re five years older by curtain call. 

“It’s not just despicable, but it’s also a sin. Every kind of commerce over faith is a sin,” said the Rev. Enzo Fortunato, who leads the Vatican’s World Children’s Day committee.

Which branch of the hotel is next? 

It was the last hurrah – literally. 

The two met at the Islanders game at UBS Arena in Elmont Sunday, where they spoke about more than Alex Ovechkin's record-breaking performance.

Mike White delivered his most devastating ending yet.