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Southern Cal’s JuJu Watkins: basketball’s next big thing has arrived
It’s a Tuesday night outside of downtown Los Angeles and I’m in a half-empty Galen Center on the University of Southern California campus. The whole place smells like movie-theater popcorn, sticky spilled soda, and, vaguely, sweat. The cheerleaders jumping up and down on the court, attempting to amp up the …
USAid cuts sow feeling of betrayal among Yazidis, 10 years after IS genocide
During the first Trump administration,
, the vice-president, pledged hundreds of millions of dollars, mostly through USAid and the state department, to help Christians and other religious minorities who were persecuted by Islamic State and – in the case of the Yazidis –suffered a …
How Nelson Mandela’s Trafalgar Square speech still resonates, 20 years on
Nelson Mandela’s face once again lit up Trafalgar Square this week, projected on to Nelson’s column while the sound of his voice echoed out, calling for a “great generation” to end poverty – 20 years after he delivered that impassioned call to an audience of 22,000.
It was a message …
Thursday briefing: Has Labour laid the foundations for fixing Britain’s housing crisis?
Caught in the middle: UK firms brace for fallout from Trump’s global trade war
“We’re vulnerable at the moment,” says Fiona Conor, the managing director of Trust Electric Heating, a Leeds-based radiator manufacturer, who has been considering expanding into the US market.
After a predictably unpredictable start to Donald Trump’s second term as US president, Conor is worried her options could be limited, as …
‘Deeply unfair’: how attorney general became lightning rod for criticism of Starmer
If, at the end of last year, you had asked Labour insiders to choose Keir Starmer’s defining decision as prime minister, they might have said
means testing winter fuel payments
orannouncing billions in tax rises on business
.Now, however, many believe Starmer’s most consequential move …
Audrey Hepburn and Marc Bolan among stars to get London blue plaque
Audrey Hepburn, Marc Bolan and Una Marson are among those receiving a blue plaque for their impact on London’s cultural landscapes, English Heritage has announced.
The charity paid tribute to Hepburn, whose global fame brought international attention and prestige to the capital; Bolan, whose “glam rock” innovation redefined the city’s …
‘There is fear of what lies ahead’: Germans divided as snap election looms
“I live in Germany’s oldest city, founded by the Romans over 2,000 years ago,” said Gregor, 59, from Trier, a town of about 110,000 inhabitants in the country’s affluent south-west and part of the world-renowned Moselle valley wine region. A short driving distance away from the borders of Luxembourg, Belgium, …
‘Last nail in the coffin’: Israeli settlers push on with fresh West Bank land grab
Israeli settlers are pushing ahead with a largely unnoticed de facto annexation of large areas of rural land in the occupied West Bank that has already seen the almost total displacement of Bedouin in large areas.
While settler activity, including violence, has long been well-documented in the section of the …
No lasting peace in Ukraine without European role in talks, leaders say after Trump-Putin call
European powers, including Britain, France and Germany, have said they have to be part of any future negotiations on the fate of Ukraine, underscoring that only a fair accord with security guarantees would ensure lasting peace.
“Our shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine …