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Sarkozy starts five-year prison term for criminal conspiracy
Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday started a five-year prison sentence for a criminal conspiracy to obtain election funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Family law shift hailed as win for children who face abuse
added: “It sends a clear message: children’s welfare will always be the priority and parents who undermine their welfare cannot use the system to continue to perpetrate harm.”
3 min |
October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Haaland and Silva waste no time as City dispatch Villarreal
Villarreal were Erling Haaland's latest victims, a ninth consecutive Manchester City game clocked up with the Norwegian scoring.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Orkney islanders stand to reap all profits from £62m windfarm plan
Every islander on Orkney is expected to benefit from a major windfarm being built with £62m in financing from the UK's national wealth fund.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
'Time feels right': Red Roses' dual world champion Scarratt retires
Emily Scarratt has announced her retirement from rugby after a 17-year international career. The two-time World Cup winner said in a statement the “time feels right to step away”.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Decades of welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right, UN expert says
Decades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an \"extremely dangerous\" discourse that has helped fuel the rise of the far right and rightwing populists, a top UN expert has told the Guardian.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Illegal wood burning going on unchecked, campaign finds
Only one prosecution for illegal wood burning has been made in the past year despite 15,195 complaints across England, data shows.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Bank chief warns of 2008 crash echoes in US credit markets
The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has warned that recent turmoil in US private credit markets has worrying echoes of the subprime mortgage crisis that kicked off the global financial crash of 2008.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
'A great day' Cloud glitch offers brief glimpse of tech-free life
Workers were sent home, exams were delayed, coffee machines had to be turned on manually and language app users feared their hard-won progress was lost as a result of the global outage of Amazon Web Services on Monday, as some made light of their briefly tech-free existence.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Delhi air falls into 'severe' category after fireworks for Diwali add to thick smog
Delhi awoke to a thick haze yesterday, a day after millions celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali with fireworks, marking the beginning of the pollution season that has become an annual blight on India's capital.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Johnson rejects claim his government did not plan for Covid school closures
Boris Johnson yesterday rejected claims that his government failed to prepare for school closures at the outbreak of the pandemic, telling the Covid-19 inquiry that it would be “amazing” if the Department for Education (DfE) had not realised that plans were needed.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Experts call for bar on building of superintelligent AI systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneers and Nobel laureates have been joined by figures including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in calling for a ban on developing superintelligent AI systems.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Trump-Putin summit called off as Europe pushes for a ceasefire
Plans to hold a summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Budapest have been put on hold as Ukraine and its European allies rallied in pushing for a ceasefire without territorial concessions from Kyiv.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
'They're not sad at all' Zoo says gorillas are relaxed after intruder filmed a 'lonely' ape
It was a rainy afternoon in Bristol, but the troop of western lowland gorillas did not seem to mind the damp as they foraged for snacks of lettuce and cereal scattered around their zoo enclosure.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Hundreds of churches may have to close in next five years amid soaring costs - survey
Hundreds of churches in the UK may have to close in the next five years as the cost of maintaining heritage buildings becomes unmanageable, a conference at the V&A in London heard yesterday.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
CIA providing 'most intelligence' for strikes on boats in Caribbean
The CIA is providing the bulk of the intelligence used to carry out lethal airstrikes in the Caribbean against small boats suspected of carrying drugs to the US from Venezuela, according to three sources familiar with the operations.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Outage exposes government's rising reliance on Amazon servers
Amazon was left scrambling to fix a devastating global outage on Monday that left thousands of businesses in limbo - and shed light on the UK government's reliance on its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Japan's Thatcher? Admirer of ex-Tory PM and opponent of same-sex marriage
When candidates for the leadership of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) were invited during a debate to say a few words in English, Sanae Takaichi kept her contribution brief. “Japan is back,” she declared.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
First female prime minister makes history - but appoints only two women to cabinet
Sanae Takaichi made history yesterday when she became Japan's first female prime minister. But hours after she was elected by MPs, it was evident that female underrepresentation in the country's political establishment would continue when she appointed just two women to her cabinet.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
'Remorseless' rapist who owned tanning salon jailed for 26 years
A man who ran a teeth-whitening and tanning salon in Plymouth has been jailed for 26 years for a series of rapes and sexual assaults against women, including customers he lured with offers of free treatment.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Maccabi fans viewed by police as 'biggest risk' of violence
Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned from watching their game against Aston Villa after police intelligence concluded that the biggest risk of violence came from extremist fans of the Israeli club.
2 min |
October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Walking just 4,000 steps once a week could cut risk of early death
Older people who only achieve 4,000 daily steps once a week still reduce their risk of dying early by a quarter, a study suggests.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Wales recall Rees-Zammit after Bristol move ended NFL exile
Louis Rees-Zammit is in line for an international comeback for Wales next month, 21 months after abandoning the sport to try his luck in American football. Rees-Zammit, now 24, is among 39 players named in the first squad to be picked by the new national head coach, Steve Tandy.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
'I've still 100% got the hunger to play for my country'
Adil Rashid will be 38 during the next T20 World Cup but has no thoughts of ending his international career
3 min |
October 22, 2025
The Guardian
'Ask your daughters': Merz defends use of far-right rhetoric to call for deportations
Critics have accused Germany's chancellor, Friedrich Merz, of adopting “dangerous” rhetoric on immigration, after he championed “very large scale” expulsions of people from cities - and claimed that anyone with daughters would agree with him.
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October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, seek posthumous pardon
The grandchildren of the last woman to be hanged in the UK are asking ministers to posthumously pardon her in light of evidence that she was emotionally and physically abused by her partner before she killed him.
3 min |
October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Government borrowing in September hits £20.2bn
UK government borrowing was the highest for five years in September after rising debt interest costs and higher welfare payments pushed the public finances deeper into the red.
1 min |
October 22, 2025
The Guardian
White House wing partly demolished for Trump ballroom
Construction crews have started demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House to make way for Donald Trump's planned ballroom, prompting widespread criticism on social media and beyond.
2 min |
October 22, 2025
The Guardian
Jones and England face battle to escape Ashes shadow in rematch
Amy Jones has claimed that January’s Ashes whitewash “hasn’t been a topic of discussion” before today’s World Cup clash between England and Australia. If you believe that, you will believe anything.
2 min |
October 22, 2025
The Guardian
'My show would be White Collar to World Champion'
The former Ipswich academy footballer Fabio Wardley fights Joseph Parker hoping victory will secure a title shot against Usyk, with whom he once sparred in Ukraine
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