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Why is this Fox News host speculating about AOC’s sex life? | Arwa Mahdawi www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is this Fox News host speculating about AOC’s sex life? | Arwa Mahdawi

Even his colleague has dubbed Jesse Watters’s claim about Ocasio-Cortez and Stephen Miller ‘creepy’

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 6m

Pity poor Trump, whose Nobel hopes were dashed by common sense | Dave Schilling www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pity poor Trump, whose Nobel hopes were dashed by common sense | Dave Schilling

Maga supporters are upset the president didn’t receive the peace prize. One thing’s for sure: it’s all about him

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 7m

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 7m

‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies

With the US release of Rose Byrne’s anxiety-inducing motherhood spiral If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, writers relive their most uncomfortable movie watches

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 9m

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen wi...

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 17m

‘My Led Zeppelin road trip was counted as a class credit’: Cameron Crowe on the interview that changed everything www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘My Led Zeppelin road trip was counted as a class credit’: Cameron Crowe on the interview that changed everything

In an extract from his new memoir, the writer and film-maker on how as a teenager he managed to bag the exclusive of a lifetime

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 18m

People claim London crime is rising because it suits them, Met commander says www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

People claim London crime is rising because it suits them, Met commander says

Nigel Farage and right-wing commentators seek to portray capital as ‘lawless’ despite evidence to the contrary

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 18m

‘London has turned into something crazy’: is the city in the grip of a crime wave? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘London has turned into something crazy’: is the city in the grip of a crime wave?

Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 19m

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 20m

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 20m

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says she is terrified her sons will ‘join manosphere’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says she is terrified her sons will ‘join manosphere’

Nigerian-American author tells Cheltenham literature festival audience having boys made her ‘worry more’

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 21m

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after being attacked in prison www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after being attacked in prison

Forty-eight-year-old was serving 29-year prison sentence after admitting multiple child sex offences

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 23m

‘Our job is to maximise their losses’: how Ukraine’s forces attempt to claw back against Russian advances www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Our job is to maximise their losses’: how Ukraine’s forces attempt to claw back against Russian advances

Along Donetsk’s frontline, a small counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops aims to help change perceptions about the war among Kyiv’s western allies

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 26m

Zelenskyy urges Trump to use Gaza ceasefire momentum to broker peace in Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Zelenskyy urges Trump to use Gaza ceasefire momentum to broker peace in Ukraine

Ukrainian leader discussed request for Tomahawk cruise missiles in phone call with US president

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 26m

Agencies prepare to bring aid to starving people in Gaza as ceasefire appears to hold www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Agencies prepare to bring aid to starving people in Gaza as ceasefire appears to hold

Unicef says ‘humanitarian crisis continues’ and expects to scale up aid deliveries on Sunday

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 27m

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 27m

‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza

Malak A Tantesh’s grim experience of living with perpetual fear and uncertainty amid Israel’s war after 2023 Hamas attack

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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 28m

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

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What's the difference between the Republicans and the Taliban?
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Hundreds of missiles delivered to Ukraine months ahead of schedule as UK leads Kyiv trade delegation

Crucial missiles for Ukraine are months ahead of their delivery schedule, as the Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, Luke Pollard, led a UK trade delegation visit to Kyiv.

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Photos: Police fire tear gas in violent Madagascar protests

Security forces fire rubber bullets at protesters in Madagascar in eruption of violence causing civil society alarm.

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Taiwan leader promises robust air defence system amid rising China tensions

Lai pledges accelerated building of T-Dome system to enhance safety against frequent Chinese military manoeuvres.

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US judge blocks Trump’s deployment of National Guard in state of Illinois

Federal judge blocks deployment for two weeks, says sending Guard troops would 'add fuel to the fire'.

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Captured Tajik tells of life on Ukraine frontlines alongside Russian forces

Russia and Ukraine have swapped thousands of PoWs, but Mohammed* says he would rather fight alongside Kyiv than go home.

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