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Lights, tariffs, inaction
Donald Trump's plan for Hollywood is full of plot holes. But when it comes to the hidden propaganda in movies, could he have a point?
6 min |
May 16, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV An American leader with peace on his mind
Robert Francis Prevost - who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV - may not be the Latin American Jesuit wildcard his predecessor, Pope Francis, was, but his election is similarly historic.
4 min |
May 16, 2025
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Small towns 'empty out' as record numbers opt to emigrate
She considers herself a die-hard South Island girl, but Harriet Baker, 33, won't be raising her children in the city where she's spent most of her life.
3 min |
May 16, 2025
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Big break Snooker mania greets China's first champion
Chain smoking under the fluorescent lights of a cavernous billiards hall in Beijing, Brother Yuan can't stop smiling.
3 min |
May 16, 2025
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The rulesbased world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationships Is a third world war upon us?
After a fortnight in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, the sense of a runaway descent towards a third world war draws ever closer.
8 min |
May 16, 2025
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I worry I don't 'get' romance, but it's important to my husband
I have been married to my husband for more than 50 years. We married as teenagers and are now in our 70s. We love each other, and are in love.
3 min |
May 16, 2025
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Into ashes War wipes out decades of medical progress
“All that I did over 40 years has turned to ashes before my eyes,” said Prof Ahmed Fahal, of the destruction of his research centre in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. His once-gleaming laboratory, where a team of expert clinicians worked, is now little more than rubble.
3 min |
May 16, 2025
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At a treacherous moment for Germany, Merz must recover from a rocky start
The election of Friedrich Merz as chancellor by German legislators on the morning of 6 May was meant to end months of political instability, since the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s government half a year ago - itself the result of bitter infighting at the top.
2 min |
May 16, 2025
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Pod squad: which cardamom to pick to spice up your cooking
What's the difference between green and black cardamom, and when should I use pods or ground?
2 min |
May 16, 2025
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How a fragile truce over Kashmir was hastily brokered
Amid real fears of nuclear escalation on both sides, senior US figures were drawn in reluctantly to mediate
3 min |
May 16, 2025
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Community energy is lighting up remote areas
When the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, Roxana Borda Mamani had to leave Mexico, where she was studying for her degree in rural development and food security, and return to her remote village in the Peruvian Amazon.
2 min |
May 16, 2025
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How reforms affect sectors that rely on immigration
The social care sector voiced the greatest concern at Labour’s policy shift.
2 min |
May 16, 2025
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Bridges and divides Where does Leo stand on key issues?
Within hours of his election as the 267th pontiff, Leo was being talked about as a bridge builder, a pope who would continue in Francis's footsteps but without alienating traditionalists as his predecessor sometimes did.
2 min |
May 16, 2025
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Will AI make us obsolete?
When technology does what humans do-only better-we have to ensure we remain relevant
3 min |
May 09, 2025
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Heaven and hell
Their rows and injuries-are legendary, but Black Sabbath explain why they are reforming for one last star-studded hometown gig
7 min |
May 09, 2025
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Centre gains Voters reject fringe flirtations as Labor seizes middle ground
As Australians returned from the calm of summer holidays, Labor and the Coalition held their breath as Donald Trump took his oath of office in Washington.
2 min |
May 09, 2025
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Afrikaners relish the prospect of asylum in Trumpland
Kyle believed God was looking out for him when he survived a violent farm robbery in South Africa eight years ago with only a black eye and broken ribs.
3 min |
May 09, 2025
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'I wish I'd never written it'
Rust director Joel Souza on finishing his film after the fatal on-set shooting, his hopes for the western and his complicated feelings towards star Alec Baldwin
4 min |
May 09, 2025
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80 years after VE Day, I fear the lessons of that war are being ignored
It is 4am in May 2025, and I am sitting up in bed, sleepless, looking out at a huge full moon illuminating the still world.
3 min |
May 09, 2025
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Battle scars Fall of Saigon leaves its traces on city 50 years on
The day that Saigon fell, Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent, could only hear shouting and commotion.
3 min |
May 09, 2025
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'Permanent punishment' Mega-prison at heart of Trump's plan
'Don't stop,\" said the local in the backseat. \"Just slow down and you'll see it.\"
3 min |
May 09, 2025
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Reform rises Farage’s gains signal growing shift away from two main parties
In May 2014, Nigel Farage stood in front of the television cameras and declared his party’s victory in the European elections was “about the most extraordinary result that has been seen in British politics for 100 years”.
2 min |
May 09, 2025
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'Beyond expectation' Albanese wins a historic second term
Labor prime minister pledges to represent national interest after stunning victory over opposition hampered by Trump comparisons
3 min |
May 09, 2025
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Trump's mineral deal is a relief to Kyiv - but no cause for it to feel gratitude
The Trump administration, with its customary rhetorical inflation, has hailed its mineral deal with Ukraine as “historic”.
2 min |
May 09, 2025
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Down to earth
The US president's second term began with a flurry of activity, much of it legally dubious. But analysts say the honeymoon is over.
5 min |
May 09, 2025
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Screen test Will treating life as a game improve it?
Self-care apps promise to sort out our lives, but do the quests, magic potions and rainbow stones actually work? We try out four of them
6 min |
May 09, 2025
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Reform rises Farage's gains signal growing shift away from two main parties
In May 2014, Nigel Farage stood in front of the television cameras and declared his party's victory in the European elections was \"about the most extraordinary result that has been seen in British politics for 100 years\".
2 min |
May 09, 2025
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Go with the flow An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure
Tracking a river through a cedar forest in Ecuador, Robert Macfarlane comes to a 10-metre-high waterfall and, below it, a wide pool.
3 min |
May 09, 2025
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Merz's instincts are to divide, just when Germany needs a unifier
A few weeks before Germany's federal election in late February, Friedrich Merz was forced to backpedal after a daring gambit went awry.
3 min |
May 09, 2025
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The politics of aid may be toxic, but the UK must do the right thing
In more than 10 years working in the aid sector, I have seen extraordinary innovations, from childhood education programmes for refugee children, to Al-driven flood warnings that alert farmers in some of the most vulnerable places on earth.
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