Pelicot case opens nation’s eyes to ‘rape culture’
The Pelicot trial will “fundamentally change relations between men and women” in France, its chief prosecutor said on Thursday.
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Christmas cancelled for Christians in the Holy Land
Financial hardship, war and increasingly aggressive settlers are forcing the Christian community out of their ancient home.
Reform plants its tanks on Labour’s lawn with sharp left turn
Although it’s too early to say the next election is a straight fight between Labour and Reform UK, the most difficult questions Labour is likely to face in 2025 aren’t coming from the Tories.
Biden has already left the building: history will not be kind
Joe Biden’s presidency ending in failure is the climax of a career in which his defining objective was simply to be, not to do.
Residents of Assad heartland feel abandoned by him – and exposed
The Assads belonged to the Alawite sect, which has controlled Syria for decades, but now its members face reproach from the country’s new rulers.
Putin ‘will ask Assad about kidnapped journo Tice’
Speaking at the beginning of his annual marathon press conference, Vladimir Putin insisted Russia hadn’t suffered defeat in Syria and stays bullish on Ukraine.
Macron ‘finished, will go’: Le Pen
National Rally leader says French president has fallen out with everyone and no longer has any influence in the European Union
Costner’s cowboy soap Yellowstone shows how the US really thinks
Yellowstone captures a strand of American feeling that’s deeply opposed to change. It shows us that for all the idiocy of Trumpism, his success is built upon a constituency with a clear and dogged notion of who they are and want to be.
King’s relief as Duchess persuades Andrew to skip Royal celebrations
King Charles is ‘very grateful’ to Sarah Ferguson for helping convince her ex-husband to miss Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace after it was revealed he held a close relationship with a Chinese spy.
Zelensky admits Ukraine cannot retake Crimea and Donbas
The Ukrainian President says it doesn’t ‘have the strength to recover’ the stolen territories, calling for the international community to pressure Putin to come to the negotiating table.
Russia arrests ‘Ukrainian agent’ for general’s killing
Russia has arrested an alleged hitman who claims he was offered $160,000 cash and a European passport by Ukraine for the assassination of general Igor Kirillov.
‘Legitimate act’: The Times article that led to Putin ally’s threats
A leader in The London Times about the assassination of a Russian general has led to serious threats from a key Putin ally. This is the article that caused Dmitri Medvedev to describe Times editors as ‘key military targets’.
Putin ally threatens The London Times
Dmitri Medvedev said the ‘entire management team’ of The Times were military targets and warned ‘be careful’ after the paper ran a leader on Ukraine’s assassination of a Russian general.
Google Street View catches man ‘stuffing body into his car’
A Google maps image of a man loading a large white plastic bag into the boot of his car has led to the arrest of two people on suspicion of murder.
Why Les Miserables is a one-man show
Victor Hugo based two central characters on the colourful double life of crook-turned-detective Eugene-Francois Vidocq.
A lion of the theatre and musical powerhouse
Lin-Manuel Miranda has dared to be different since mixing history and hip-hop in Hamilton – now he is doing a radical Lion King.
‘I’ve grown to hate’: teenage girl shooter’s tragic manifesto
Before she started firing at her Wisconsin school, Natalie Rupnow, 15, posted a manifesto in which she spoke of her suicide plans and said she got her weapons by ‘lies and manipulation.’
How Ukraine reached into Moscow to kill the Kremlin’s general
It was just after 6am when a bomb exploded at the entrance to a Moscow apartment block killing a high-ranking Russian general, in the latest targeted assassination by Kyiv’s spy agencies.
From ‘brothers’ to deadly foes: the war between Erdogan and Assad
The Assads and the Erdogans used to holiday together until a falling out led the Turkish leader to grooming Islamist militias, partly to crush the Kurds but also to narrow the options of Syria’s leading until the dynasty collapsed.
Assassination shines a light on Ukraine’s shadowy hit squads
The explosion that killed a Russian general was the latest in a list of assassinations of Moscow’s military officials, propaganda agents and other pro-Kremlin figures by the Ukrainian security service.
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