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At least 80 film-makers and stars sign open letter after German festival jury president Wim Wenders says they should keep out of politics More than 80 current and former participants of the Berlinale, including Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton and Adam McKay have signed an open letter condemning the festival’s “silence” on Gaza. It comes after the film festival was swept up in what it called a “media…

Group says they intend to establish permanent settlement but Mauritius attorney general calls their move a ‘publicity stunt’ Four Chagos Islanders have landed on one of the archipelago’s atolls to establish what they say will be a permanent settlement, in an attempt to complicate a British plan to transfer the territory to Mauritius. The Mauritius attorney general said the move was a publicity st…

Chair of UK government review says dramatic changes in labour market risks creating ‘a generation on the scrap heap’ On any given day, Poppy Blackman is engaged in the “soul-crushing” process of applying for a new job, and rarely ever hearing anything back. The 22-year-old has been unemployed since January 2025 and says she applies to an average of 50 roles a month, using one of four different CV…

Jackson’s two presidential runs brought the civil rights movement into the heart of the Democratic party and opened doors for others to walk through Share your tributes and memories of Jesse Jackson He witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King at the Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Forty years later, he joined the jubilant crowd in Chicago’s Grant Park to greet Barack Obama ’s elect…

Official rules say government should keep gifts worth more than £140 unless ministers pay the value over that limit Keir Starmer has bought a pair of personalised silver cufflinks which were given to him by Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, according to the latest transparency records . The cufflinks, which were worth more than £140, were an official gift from the Trumps during the US president…

Shooting at hockey game in Pawtucket that left three dead and three injured may have also been a ‘targeted event’ The shooting at a Rhode Island high school hockey game that left three dead and three injured may have been a “targeted event” stemming from a “family dispute,” officials have said, with local media reporting that one of the victims was the suspect’s son. The Pawtucket police chief, T…

Exclusive: ICE more than tripled the amount of data stored in Microsoft’s cloud at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology ballooned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deepened its reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology last year as the agency ramped up arrest and deportation operations, leaked documents reveal. ICE more than tripled the amount of data it stored in Micr…

Extensive works on key bridge in New Jersey – part of $16bn Gateway project – will disrupt rail services into New York New Jersey ’s transit authority has urged commuters into Manhattan to work from home for up to a month if possible due to a huge railroad upgrade that is expected to upend travel to New York City from Tuesday morning. The national rail operator, Amtrak, will move some train traff…

Users of Birdex get points for each bird they see and can compete with friends, with 200,000 sightings logged so far A new app has launched that aims to gamify birdwatching by allowing people to collect digital cards of UK bird species whenever they record seeing one. Users of Birdex accumulate points for each bird they see, with less common and rare species yielding the greatest rewards. It is p…

Prior of hermitage says digital technologies are designed to be addictive and present ‘challenge for monastic life’ The prior of a hermitage in Tuscany has urged monks living in the secluded retreat to avoid the use of social media and streaming services, arguing that their rooms are sacred places for prayer and “not for Netflix or other platforms”. Father Matteo Ferrari, the prior general of the…

Descendants of Jewish brothers forced to sell company to Nazis say appropriation by German far right is ‘repulsive’ The Jewish descendants of a German motorbike manufacturer that was forcibly relinquished by the Nazis have voiced their repulsion at the appropriation of the vehicle by far-right populists. Members of the family, whose ancestors were forced to flee Germany in the 1930s, say they con…

Jailed then exiled in London, Rahman returns home as the main contender to be next prime minister of Bangladesh Tarique Rahman, who after 17 years in exile is the main contender to be the next prime minister of Bangladesh, has pledged to end entrenched corruption and put the country on a “new path” as voting began in the first free and fair elections in almost two decades. Speaking to the Guardia…

The former PM is open to resurrecting his parliamentary career, if Angus Taylor does what Peter Dutton wouldn’t and actively drafts him in Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In June last year, the Liberal party’s federal executive met to discuss the next phase of an intervention into the troubled New South Wales division. The meeting will be a short footnote in the moder…

Thinking ‘supply is the answer’ lets politicians dodge a much more difficult conversation about tax – for investors and owners Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Is building more homes the answer to Australia’s housing crisis? No, it’s not. Not even close. Continue reading...

Mark Aitken, who worked in the sector for 16 years, said eight times out of 10 he disagreed with the integrated assessment tool Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Aged care clinicians and carers say an algorithm-based assessment tool that determines federal home support funding packages is “cruel” and “inhumane”, stripping away clinical expertise and leaving elderly peop…