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STEPHEN GLOVER: Most of us are fed up to the back teeth with Harry and Meghan. Why should we have to fork out for their protection?
Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover argues that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should not receive taxpayer-funded police protection when they return to live in Britain, warning that any such move would provoke public anger and further damage the monarchy. He notes that Harry has long insisted he would not return without a guarantee of official…
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Minister tells social media firms to remove posts that ‘celebrate’ dangerous driving after A66 crash
Seven people, including two police officers, died after a car being pursued by police collided head-on with a marked armed response vehicle on the A66 near Middlesbrough in the early hours of Saturday. The tragedy prompted the government to demand social media platforms remove videos glorifying dangerous driving, amid concern such content may have influenced…
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Ministers’ Big Tech access, online child-safety alarm, and rising fraud losses dominate
Labour faces scrutiny over 200+ meetings with Big Tech firms as the NCA warns children aren’t safe online and Lloyds reports impersonation scams up 10%; also: a US deputy’s death in prison, a shark-attack survivor’s recovery, Maradona’s Hand of God ball sold at auction, and a Dumfriesshire woodmouse photo.
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The Visitor review – existential Lithuania-set homecoming drama leaves everything in limbo
Vytautas Katkus’s film The Visitor follows Danielius, a man in his thirties who returns from Norway to a Lithuanian resort town to sell the flat he shared with his late father, whose funeral he missed the previous year. The Guardian’s review finds the film a quietly existential, understated drama about grief, fatherhood and displacement, praising…
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Taiwan reportedly indicted NVIDIA employees for exporting prohibited AI servers to China
Prosecutors in Keelung, Taiwan, have indicted nine people, including employees of NVIDIA and Super Micro, for illegally exporting high-end AI servers to China in breach of export controls. The case highlights how smuggling networks have continued to circumvent restrictions even as the United States has eased some rules on selling older-generation chips, such as the…
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‘Half my business will be gone’ – Firms in Canada and US fear trade war
Business owners in Canada and the US are bracing for significant financial damage after trade talks between the two countries collapsed over the weekend, prompting both governments to impose 50% tariffs on each other’s goods. US tariffs on Canadian products such as wine, dairy, cement, clothing and hockey equipment took effect on Saturday, while Canadian…
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Iranian rial hits record low before fresh US sanctions
Iran’s rial has slumped to a record low against the US dollar, coinciding with a warning from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of an approaching “economic D-day” for Tehran ahead of fresh US sanctions. The currency collapse formed part of a broader bout of global market turbulence, which also took in a flare-up in US-Canada…
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‘It’s absolutely criminal’: US tipping culture has reached the UK – and is causing chaos
US-style tipping culture is spreading across the UK, with service charges and tip prompts now appearing in settings where they were previously rare or non-existent, such as pubs, coffee shops and self-service card machines. Customers increasingly feel obliged to tip even before any service has been provided, and the amounts expected are creeping upwards, with…
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Ukraine hits major Russian shopping hubs in huge drone attack as Andy Burnham makes first trip to Kyiv
New details have emerged on Ukraine’s Independence Day drone campaign, including specific strikes on Ozon warehouses in Makhachkala, Krasnodar, Adygeysk and Nevinnomyssk in southern Russia, with several people reported wounded in the Makhachkala attack and major fires breaking out elsewhere, alongside a hit on homeware firm Kuchenland’s Krasnodar warehouse. Separately, NATO scrambled two F-16 jets…
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How to spot a Brit abroad! The tell-tale holiday habits that give us away – from packing teabags and downing airport pints to always getting sunburnt
A light-hearted travel feature runs through the habits and quirks that reveal British holidaymakers abroad, from constant apologising to distinctive food, drink and clothing choices. It reflects on how Britons often assume they blend in with locals while abroad, but in reality display a range of unmistakably national traits, much as other nationalities are known…