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Starmer urges Trump to provide ‘backstop’ to European peacekeeping force in Ukraine
Keir Starmer has urged Donald Trump to provide a US “backstop” to a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine, saying it is the only way to deter Russia from attacking the country again.
The UK prime minister’s appeal to Trump came after an emergency summit in Paris that heard widespread calls …
‘Clubs are going to disappear’: grassroots rugby crying for help in Six Nations’ shadow
You may have noticed that the sports pages are less, well, sporty than they once were. There is rather more chance of reading stern-faced stories about Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazers or Manchester City’s latest legal dispute than, say, the muddy winter joys of grassroots rugby union. It is …
Argentina opposition calls for impeachment of Javier Milei after cryptocurrency collapse
Opposition politicians in Argentina have called for the impeachment of president
after he touted a cryptocurrency which quickly collapsed and reportedly led tomillions of dollars
in losses this weekend.Milei endorsed the little-known cryptocurrency token $Libra on Friday evening, announcing on X that …
Netanyahu seeks to draw Trump into future attack on Iranian nuclear sites
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that, with Donald Trump’s support, his government will “finish the job” of neutralising the threat from Iran, amid US reports that Israel is considering airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites in the coming few months.
Trump has said he would prefer to make a deal with Tehran, …
Meta plans to build world’s longest underwater sub-sea cable venture
Meta has announced plans to build the world’s longest underwater cable project, which aims to connect the US, India, South Africa, Brazil and other regions.
The tech company said Project Waterworth involves a 50,000km (31,000 mile) sub-sea cable, which is longer than the Earth’s circumference.
The cable would be the …
Joseph Parker: ‘This will mean something different. I’m doing it for myself now’
There’s nothing quite like watching Joe Parker lip-syncing to Take That to lift the mood in the back of an Uber on a drizzly morning in Dublin. The dangerous threat Parker faces against another big-hitting monster of the ring in Daniel Dubois, in Riyadh on Saturday night, fades with the …
‘Allo ‘Allo! Europe’s leaders get together dans Paris for emergency sommet | John Crace
Emmanuel Macron
:Bienvenu
á Paris
.
Keir Starmer
:Bonjour, Monsieur le President
. Thank you for organising this “once-in-a-generation” summit at such short notice.
Macron
: Relax,mon vieux muckeur
. No need for formalities just yet. We won’t get started for half an hour or so. Let’s just have a …UCL student accused of rape tells court he liked pornography featuring sleeping women
An engineering student accused of drugging and raping women has said he took drugs and viewed pornography, with his favourite scenes involving sleeping women.
Zhenhao Zou, 27, is accused of raping 10 women and filming his attacks. He denies all the charges.
Giving evidence in his own defence, he said …
England exposed to video nasties in bid to end losing streak in Calcutta Cup
Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US
They came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.
The leaders of France, …