Acknowledgment shows shift in tone after six years of diplomatic spats over colonial abuses
Spain has acknowledged and expressed regret over the “pain and injustice” suffered by the Indigenous people of Mexico during its conquest of the Americas, heralding a shift in tone after six years of diplomatic spats over the abuses of the colonial period.
In March 2019, Mexico’s then president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote to King Felipe VI and Pope Francis, who was then the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics, urging them to apologise for the “massacres and oppression” of colonialism and the conquest.
The political differences between the two main candidates could have major implications for next year’s midterms
New Yorkers will find out the identity of their next mayor on Tuesday, in a race that will decide who will run, and defend, the US’s largest city at a time when Donald Trump has threatened to send military troops there.
Against that backdrop, New York has seen a mayoral election that has pitted two very different Democrats against one another. The race has become an increasingly bitter face-off, laced with alleged racism and Islamophobia, but it is the political differences between the two main candidates that could have major implications for how the Democratic party performs in next year’s midterm elections.
On holiday in his home town of Aurillac, the photographer was drawn to a pretty puddle of reflected umbrellas
Guillaume Lavrut was visiting the small French town of Aurillac with his wife and three children when he took this photo. The family were looking for souvenirs together and exploring the streets when they happened on a canopy of umbrellas. Aurillac is home to one of the world’s oldest umbrella factories and is regarded by many as the umbrella capital of Europe. For Lavrut, however, a visit to Aurillac is about returning home.
“My family are from there, so we go every summer. It’s so difficult to reach that we need at least a day to get there, but it’s worth it,” Lavrut says. Its peaceful, relaxed atmosphere offers something different from their homes in Paris and Nantes. “The capital is constantly bustling, and Nantes can be busy at times, too, but Aurillac is lost in the mountains, and nature is omnipresent.”
US forces and CIA actions target Venezuela’s leader, recalling coups and assassinations across the region
The ghosts of sometimes deadly Latin American coups of the past are being evoked by Donald Trump’s relentless military buildup targeting Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s autocratic socialist leader, whom Washington has branded a narco-terrorist.
Salvador Allende, the democratically elected Marxist president of Chile toppled in a military coup in 1973, and Rafael Trujillo, the longstanding dictator of the Dominican Republic who was assassinated in 1961 in an ambush organized by political opponents, are just two regional leaders whose fates serve as a warning to Maduro.
The question is not whether we will reshape our institutions to manage climate impacts, but how
For decades, “stopping climate change” has been the singular goal of climate politics.Across the political spectrum, from grassroots climate campaigners to elite UN negotiators, reducing carbon emissions to avoid future catastrophe has been the organizing logic of climate policies.
Yet climate change has arrived and its material impacts are already being felt. This means that climate politics can no longer focus only on preventing future catastrophes. It must now also encompass struggles over how society manages climate impacts already reshaping economic and social life. Insurance markets, housing, water and land use policies, national labor markets, and local economies – all will need to be radically remade as we adapt to a changed and increasingly volatile climate.
Leah Aronowsky is a historian of science and assistant professor at the Columbia Climate School
Genoa, Serie A’s bottom side, have sacked Patrick Vieira after a winless start to their campaign, with three draws and six losses.
The former France midfielder Vieira took over in November last year when Genoa were 17th and helped the club avoid relegation, finishing 13th in the Italian top flight. However, they made a dismal start to the new season, scoring four goals in nine matches.
Dartford representative James Buchan says ‘devastating’ immigration plans had created a lot of fear and anxiety
A Reform UK councillor has defected to the Conservatives, saying he became uncomfortable in Nigel Farage’s party.
James Buchan, who sits in the south-east London borough of Dartford, said he had struggled with the idea of facing his relatives while a member of a party whose anti-immigration policies spread fear.
Former England goalkeeper reveals full story behind her international retirement, her problems with eating and alcohol, and why she’d struggle on The Traitors
“I’ve learned a lot about what truly matters in life,” Mary Earps says on a quiet and cloudy afternoon as, at Paris Saint-Germain’s training centre on the outskirts of the French capital, the former England goalkeeper reflects on the achievements and drama of her last five years. “My life has accidentally come into the court of public opinion. People talking about your performance comes with the territory but when it starts to become about your character, and assumptions people make about you, that can be really, really challenging.”
Between 2020 and 2023 Earps overcame depression, a drinking problem, eating issues, won the Euros with England, forced Nike to change their attitude to female goalkeepers, saved a penalty in a World Cup final and won the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year.
Exclusive: Bruce MacInnes, whose grandfather was archbishop of Jerusalem, told genocide remarks were antisemitic
A former Conservative member, whose grandfather was the archbishop of Jerusalem, is suing the party after he was suspended for making critical remarks about the state of Israel.
Bruce MacInnes was told by Tory party officials that his “repeated allegation that Israel is committing genocide in Palestine” constituted “allegedly antisemitic”, “discriminatory” and “insensitive and highly offensive” language, which resulted in his suspension from the party last year.
The McFly singer on getting kicked out of Busted after two days, peeing himself on stage and learning to love his ‘big chin’
Born in London, Tom Fletcher, 40, attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School and founded McFly in 2003. The band had seven No 1 singles, won a Brit Award for best pop act and continue to perform. In 2016, Fletcher published his first solo-written book for children, The Christmasaurus, which was shortlisted for a British Book Award. His titles have been translated into 40 languages. Paddington: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Fletcher, is at the Savoy theatre until next May. He is married to podcaster and author Giovanna Fletcher, has three children and lives in Hertfordshire.
Crisp chicken and sweet onions with rosemary and salty pancetta, set off by a sweet-sour apple salad with pickled red onion and hazelnuts
I recently invested in a beautifully wide, Shropshire-made pan that works on the hob and in the oven with equal ease, and without the chemical nonstick lining I keep reading about. It is a brilliant pan. As I turn on the heat to crisp the skin on my chicken thighs on the stove top, I can prep the vegetables I will then roast in the same pan. There is a soothing rhythm to this type of cooking, where most of the work is done in the oven. Here, I use jerusalem artichokes, the most delicious of autumn vegetables, parboiled in lemon juice to make them more digestible and then roasted with garlic and onions, until beautifully caramelised, and it’s a marvellous thing to put down on the kitchen table.
Conservatives see these institutions as finishing schools for the next generation of leaders – and they won’t cede them to progressive ideas
When I was a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Cambridge University, I was plastered all over the national press for making a tweet about white people. It has not turned out to be a big deal for my life or career, but at the time it felt monumental: racist hate mail was sent to my college for months; the Conservative MP Bob Blackman called for my prosecution; and tabloid journalists turned up at my home and harassed my mother (it was August, a famously slow news month). I received a lot of support from the student population, alumni and the police (and none from the university, bar a few kind academics), but it cast a shadow over the rest of my time there – I worried about what future I could have or what employer would hire me if they were to Google my name and see I had attracted scandal. Mostly I wondered why this was national news.
I found myself revisiting those memories when considering the storm around George Abaraonye, the now ousted Oxford Union president-elect who attracted significant media attention for laughing at the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk in September. In a WhatsApp group, Abaraonye wrote: “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s fucking go”, and on his Instagram account wrote: “Charlie Kirk got shot loool”. This was seen as especially egregious as in May this year Abaraonye had debated Kirk on the subject of toxic masculinity at the Oxford Union. Abaraonye apologised for the posts, stating that he wrote these messages before realising the shooting was fatal, and they were intended to highlight the irony of someone so pro-gun being shot. But then he doubled down, saying: “My words were no less insensitive than his – arguably less so.”
Liverpool v Aston Villa: It’s a massive week for Arne Slot’s defending champions – after today’s game they face Real Madrid in the Champions League before a visit to Manchester City next weekend.
Speaking yesterday, Slot identified Liverpool’s difficulties in converting chances as being more concerning than their leaky defence. They’ve lost six of their last seven games in all competitions and tonight face a Villa side who have won their last four league games.
Against United, how many chances did we concede? Against Frankfurt when we were 3-1 up, we hardly conceded a shot on target. In all the games we played until now we haven’t conceded a lot of chances. Not at all. We do give away a bit more than last season but that has to do with us being 1-0 down so you take a bit more risk. But in general I don’t think that our issue is that we concede too many chances. Our issue is we don’t score the chances we create.
I had lunch with him, there were a couple of water bottles on the table and he was shuffling them, saying: ‘He moves in here and he moves right. He should go, he should commit, he should come out.’ And he was talking about connections on the pitch. I arrived quite tired after a long day but I was buzzing. Watching the coaching, he was on Kevin De Bruyne, sharp as a knife. It gave me energy.
Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killed
Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Rio favela that this week suffered the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history to demand an inquiry into the killings and an end to security policies that have turned working-class neighbourhoods into “war zones”.
At least 121 people, including four police officers, were killed on Tuesday during a police assault on the Complexo da Penha and the Complexo do Alemão, two large tapestries of favelas in north Rio. The operation made global headlines when scores of mutilated bodies were dumped at the entrance to one of those favelas.
With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our times
Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975. His blood-soaked body was found the next morning on waste ground in Ostia, on the outskirts of Rome, battered so badly the famous face was almost unrecognisable. Italy’s premier intellectual, artist, provocateur, national conscience, homosexual, dead at the age of 53, his scandalous final film still in the editing suite. “Assassinato Pasolini,” the next morning’s papers announced, alongside photographs of the 17-year-old accused of his murder. Everyone knew his taste for working-class hustlers. A hookup gone wrong was the instant verdict.
Some deaths are so suggestive that they become emblematic of a subject, the deceiving lens through which an entire life is forever after read. In this weirdly totalitarian mode of interpretation, Virginia Woolf is always walking towards the Ouse, the river in which she drowned herself. Likewise, Pasolini’s entire body of work is coloured by the seeming fact that he was murdered by a rent boy, the crowning act of a relentlessly high-risk life.
Black Caps dominate from start to very near finish
England can only hope there are fewer red faces when they get their hands on a red ball, even if the final action of their white-ball year was in the end not as humiliating as had long seemed inevitable. New Zealand stumbled as they approached the end of what appeared to be another procession, losing three wickets for eight runs in 17 balls to shoehorn some drama into the dross, only for Zak Foulkes and Blair Tickner to see the side home with two wickets to spare.
In truth, on a ground known as the Cake Tin, the tourists were again half-baked, with their key batters not so much laying a foundation as undermining one, leaving the team to limp to an underwhelming total and New Zealand, for all that they faltered, a straightforward target.
Passenger reworks songs from his hit musical while Tanika Gupta gives Ibsen a Hollywood makeover and TikTok becomes a stage for young playwrights
When Rachel Joyce’s bestseller about a retiree’s road trip was turned into a 2023 film, it had a couple of lovely numbers by Sam Lee. Earlier this year, fellow folkie Passenger (AKA Michael David Rosenberg) provided the music and lyrics for Chichester Festival theatre’s production, which transfers to the West End in January. Passenger’s album of renditions of the songs, One for the Road – with a few tracks that didn’t make the musical and an appearance from Jack Wolfe, who played the show’s Balladeer – is available to stream now.
Hosts have golden chance after years of grind against institutional misogyny but epic semi-final makes it a big ask
Psalm 30:5 … “Weeping endures for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” That was one of the pieces of scripture Jemimah Rodrigues was reciting to herself as, battling exhaustion, she shepherded her team towards a stunning win against Australia, the reigning champions, in Thursday’s World Cup semi-final.
India have wept plenty over the years. They lost to Australia in the 2005 World Cup final, felled by a Karen Rolton hundred. More recently, three of the current team – Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma – will remember the sinking feeling of watching their team choke in a run chase of 229 against England at Lord’s in July 2017.
Result of Sunday’s League Cup semi-final could be key to an unlikely return or quest for a fresh managerial face
It feels unwise to be fooled by Martin O’Neill’s self-deprecation. The 73-year-old remains publicly steadfast that his second stint in charge of Celtic will be short term. “I think my remit was that they would be looking for somebody [else] pretty quickly,” he said on Friday. “I don’t think this is a renaissance. I just think this is a fill-in.”
Shock is still reverberating around Celtic Park, not so much about Monday’s resignation of Brendan Rodgers but the follow-up savaging of the former manager by the main shareholder, Dermot Desmond.
England need to turn volume up and lean into tone of exceptionalism that continues to annoy their rivals
A few weeks ago there was a wave of newspaper interviews with the stepson of the king, Tom Parker-Bowles. These seemed at first glance to be about absolutely nothing at all, froth and chatter, a wincing man in a tweed hat talking about how he makes Sunday lunch. Why was this happening? Scanning the text for meaning, the clouds finally cleared. He was launching a cordial.
You might say, do we need … a cordial? What is a cordial? A way of ruining water. A drink that isn’t actually a drink. But this is to miss the point, and in way that is frankly embarrassing and I feel sorry for you. Because this is not any old cordial. It’s not the kind of really crappy cordial you might launch. As Parker-Bowles puts it, devastatingly: “Look, we have Belvoir and Bottlegreen. But they use concentrates. Why can’t we make a really high-end British cordial?”
Feyenoord coach on how a chat with his daughter changed his life, memories of Arsenal and Manchester United and a lunch with Guardiola
Robin van Persie was warming to his theme, imparting wisdom to his children, Shaqueel and Dina, then 14 and 10. “We were at the kitchen table in our new house and I was giving them a speech: ‘You have to find your passion as soon as possible!’” He is, however, self-aware enough to realise how parental monologues are received. “I was ‘passion this, passion that’. It went on and on and on.”
It was Dina who brought him up short. “Yeah, Dad, but what is your passion now?”
Carney said he had made the apology privately to Trump when they both attended a dinner hosted by South Korea’s president on Wednesday
The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, said he had apologised to the US president, Donald Trump, over an anti-tariff political advertisement and had told the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, not to run it.
Carney, speaking to reporters on Saturday after attending an Asia-Pacific summit in South Korea, said he had made the apology privately to Trump when they both attended a dinner hosted by South Korea’s president on Wednesday.
Indian Ocean archipelago bans anyone born after 1 January 2007 from buying or using tobacco in order to ‘promote a tobacco-free generation’
The Maldives began implementing a smoking ban on anyone born after January 2007, becoming the only country with a generational prohibition on tobacco, according to its health ministry.
The move, which was initiated by the president, Mohamed Muizzu, earlier this year and came into effect on 1 November, will “protect public health and promote a tobacco-free generation”, the ministry said.
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