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The Observer
'We all felt he was our grandfather': crowds throng Rome for final farewell
As the faithful lined the streets for a solemn if sometimes festive spectacle, cheers met mentions of Francis's concern for refugees,
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Injured Gazan children to be allowed into UK for treatment
Children wounded in Gaza will be allowed into the UK to receive treatment in what charities have described as \"a historic first\".
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
£45m to bring home the World Championships?
It doesn’t have to be a marathon effort
3 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Purpose in the deep freeze
Ice-cream is a seasonal business — except if you're the CEO of Unilever, in which case it’s year-round.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Now US defence chief Hegseth leaves mobile number online
The former Fox News host in charge of an $850bn-a-year war machine is likely to still be in post this week, but not for want of reasons to fire him.
1 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
From Al to a lie: chatbots open the door to learning art of deception
A team of scientists at the AI safety nonprofit, Apollo Research, last year set up a series of experiments.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Is a phone ban in schools the way to protect children?
In the first of a series of Observer debates, Damian McBeath, principal at John Wallis Academy in Ashford, discusses pupils' phone use with Dr Robert Harrison, director of education and integrated technology at ACS International Schools
6 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Church of bitcoin awaits blessing
One way to think about the relationship between gold, bitcoin and the dollar is as a battle between three monetary religions.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Online 'satanists' stalking vulnerable young victims in new blackmail threat
A playbook for blackmailing vulnerable young people into sharing sexually explicit images is being circulated among \"satanist\" extremists online, analysts have warned.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Why bother rolling out the red carpet? There's no courting King Donald
People in government are already beginning to shiver that it will be \"the mother of all nightmares\", and not just in terms of the security.
4 min |
April 27, 2025
The Observer
Welcome to SitCen, finger on the pulse of a nation
At 6.29 on a cloudy September morning in 2022, the last person in The Queue stepped through the entrance to Westminster Hall.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Elbows up! Carney woos Canada with hockey and Trump defiance
In the suburban city of Surrey, an hour-or-so from Vancouver, the red, barn-like building of the Cloverdale Agriplex, surrounded by flat expanses of berry and fruit farmland, is best-known for hosting rodeos, farm shows and agricultural fairs. But on a warm Wednesday evening as the sun sets, it has become a political arena ahead of tomorrow’s pivotal Canadian election.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Thames Crossing's £450m planning bill
The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) - a planned road crossing between Essex and Kent - is the poster child for the planning purgatory plaguing the UK.
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April 27, 2025
The Observer
Exposing the 'western' spies sent by the KGB to keep tabs on the Prague Spring
Kremlin's most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to watch and at times whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then copied across the eastern bloc.
4 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Miliband in attack on Farage's net zero 'lies'
Ed Miliband today tears into Nigel Farage and the Tories for peddling dangerous \"nonsense and lies\" by suggesting the UK's net zero target is responsible for destroying Britain's businesses, including its steel industry.
4 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
'People were lying at my feet. I told them: get up, get up. They were silent'
Alla Shyrshonkova was on the 62 bus when Russian missiles fell on a warm spring day. She staggered out into a vision of hell.
5 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
How women suffer when their partners fall into the manosphere
More and more boyfriends and husbands are being seduced by the increasingly mainstream ideology of toxic masculinity, putting entire families at risk. Maya Oppenheim meets women who are still dealing with the wreckage
4 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Rosie Brown
The ready-meal boss on keeping the business in the family, helping offenders back to work and why ethical practices pay dividends for society.
4 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Be a sim-only saver Could you join the phone users shunning bundles?
People are switching to deals with better flexibility and value, and there are a rising number of providers
3 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Fear and despair rise in Gaza as seven-week Israeli blockade bites
Gaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip.
4 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Orbán's stance on Ukraine pushes Hungary to brink in EU relations
Member states are considering removing the country's voting rights after its attempts to stymie support for Kyiv.
4 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Another crisis, another IMF summit: but unlike 2008, the delegates are disunited
Where once the world came together to fight the credit crunch, Trump’s tariffs will set amore divisive test
3 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Artists creating a new way to regenerate 'City of Gold'
Bethabile Mavis Manqele mops the veranda of the house she has lived in for most of the last 40 years.
3 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
'People have forgotten how far Weinstein's damage went. It hasn't gone away'
As the disgraced film mogul returns to court, a British victim's play recalls how the abusive culture did not only harm celebrities
2 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Monster tax break hands Jurassic film studio millions
HMRC paid £89m for one of the most costly movies ever - and another's on the way
1 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved
The problems that now afflict attempts to establish a military presence in the far north of Canada and Greenland provide timely warnings about the miseries that lie ahead for the rest of the planet as global warming continues its remorseless spread.
2 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
The supreme court carefully ringfenced protections for women. That's all we wanted
Last week's ruling clarified the legal safeguards of the Equality Act. However, it was a travesty that the battle needed to be fought at all
4 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Oat milk rises to top as Britain's preferred plant-based drink
UK brands are working hard to satisfy growing consumer thirst for non-dairy alternatives,
3 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
Stepmothers, relax, you'll always be wicked but true love is worth it
Stepmothers have always been witches.
2 min |
April 20, 2025
The Observer
I'm paying someone else's debt on my prepay meter
British Gas is causing me mental breakdown. I am a refugee and was grateful to be given a social housing flat. I duly informed British Gas, which supplies the gas on a prepayment meter and electricity, which was supposed to be billed. They sent me a new code and top-up card and I paid in £60. It turned out the previous tenant had left a £236 debt, presumably on the electricity account. British Gas siphoned off £54 and left me with £6 worth of fuel.
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