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Deadly nor’easter hammers East Coast with millions bracing for more floods and rain
New York Governor Kathy Hochul warned: ‘Anyone who goes in or near the water this weekend is literally gambling with their life’
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Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open
President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public office
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‘I wanted to help another family’: four surrogates on how they feel about the surrogacy discourse
The Guardian spoke with surrogates across the US about what they think of the controversy surrounding the practice
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Venezuela releases dozens of political prisoners as election calls grow
A slew of dissidents being released from long-term detention comes days after the nation's interim leader met the US president.
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Trump rejects Iran’s seven-day peace deal to reopen strait of Hormuz
US president is said to expect renewed strikes after the midterms
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Watch: Salman Rushdie denounces ‘horrifying’ behaviour of ‘thin-skinned’ Trump
Sir Salman Rushdie said he looked forward to the “demolition” of Donald Trump in a wide-ranging interview with The Independent's editor-in-chief, Geordie Greig. The Booker Prize-winning author criticised the US president’s decision to rip down the White House’s East Wing to replace it with a ballroom, and described Trump’s planned 250-foot triumphal arch as “ridiculous.” “We’ll see if he builds it,” the author told The Talk Show. “I look forward to the day when there is no more Trump and every ugly thing he's built gets torn down.”
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Before BTS and Blackpink, there was Big Bang: Now the 'Kings of K-pop' are back
Big Bang played London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, marking a long-awaited return for the group that helped build the blueprint for modern K-pop.
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‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Supplies cut off from Ukrainian city where bodies are being left to be eaten by dogs because of deadly risk from drones
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Rory Stewart reveals family’s reaction to viral Newsnight moment
Rory Stewart has revealed his family’s reaction to his viral moment on BBC Newsnight. The former Conservative minister spun in his chair and stared at a fellow panelist, New Statesman political editor Ailbhe Rea, during his appearance on 18 September. Presenter Matt Chorley later told The Guardian that he believed Stewart was genuinely “probably just intently listening to what Ailbhe had to say, and that behaviours that look normal in person can appear to be strange on screen. Stewart later said his family told him to disable all of his social media on his phone.
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Two giant pandas head to Atlanta zoo from China after Trump-Xi agreement
The pandas set off for Atlanta on Sunday morning
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Russian strikes kill 2 in Ukraine after Moscow rejects German calls to de-escalate
Russian strikes on Ukraine have killed at least two people overnight into Sunday, officials said
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Germany calls on Russia to 'abandon its dangerous path'
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called on Moscow to "abandon its dangerous path of escalation" during a meeting with Russia's Sergei Lavrov at the UN on Saturday, a diplomat for Berlin said.
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The MTV VMAs are here with Taylor Swift making history and Madonna leading the nods: How to watch
The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards are here and Taylor Swift is set to make history
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Have minimum wages kept up with food prices in Europe?
Euronews Business compares five years of food price rises and minimum wage changes in 26 European countries to see where workers on the lowest pay can afford more food than they could in 2021.
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These are the most popular cities for group travel in 2026
Where are groups travelling to for the rest of 2026? London, Paris and Marseille top Kayak’s most searched destinations for group holidays. #Destinations
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AFL grand final breaks TV audience records – as it happened
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Air attacks intensify, killing 10 people, despite Trump’s plea for peace deal - live
Volodymyr Zelensky says overnight strikes show urgent need for international community to rein in Moscow
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Small bites from the UN: Canada's wider view, one chaotic rumor and reframing someone else's words
China and Russia got their turns to speak at the United Nations on Saturday, but that wasn't call.
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Iran says it will wait for official US response after Trump rejects Strait of Hormuz proposal
The US president earlier said that Tehran only made the proposal to open the strait within seven days because "they're losing so badly".
