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Spanish protesters demand Sánchez resignation over Ceuta migrant crisis
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona and Ceuta, to protest against prime minister Pedro Sanchez’s handling of a migrant crisis in the North African enclave of Ceuta. Opposition parties, including the conservative Partido Popular and far-right Vox, accused the government of abandoning Ceuta’s residents and called for Sanchez’s…
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Kemi Badenoch demands 3% defence spending as BoE economist urges rate rise
Badenoch cites Russian threat while the Bank of England’s Huw Pill warns rates must rise to curb Middle East-driven inflation; Apple faces a £2bn tracking lawsuit, Ultrahuman lands $70m, Maria Bartiromo exits Fox, and Netflix unveils its FTX drama The Altruists.
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Pregnant Ukrainian soldier who met her husband fighting in Russia’s full-scale invasion becomes a widow at 21 after he was killed in action
A 21-year-old Ukrainian soldier, Yeva Smyrnova, has been widowed while eight months pregnant after her husband, Junior Sergeant Danyil Smyrnov, was killed alongside three other soldiers on the Sumy front in northeastern Ukraine on 28 August. The couple had met when they both joined the army aged 18 in 2023 and married in July 2025,…
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Asia Surpasses North America and Europe to Lead in Streaming Scripted Series Orders
Asia has overtaken North America and Europe to become the world’s leading region for streaming scripted series orders, according to new research from Ampere Analysis. The shift, recorded across the first half of 2026, reflects how major global streamers are increasingly turning to the Asia-Pacific region both to win new subscribers in emerging markets and…
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Defence, rates and Big Tech scrutiny dominate as Netflix unveils FTX drama
Badenoch demands 3% defence spending amid Russian threat fears, Huw Pill urges an interest rate rise over Middle East inflation risks, and Apple faces a £2bn App Tracking lawsuit; elsewhere, Bartiromo exits Fox and Netflix reveals The Altruists and a Ravenloft series.
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Raffaele Annecchino, Former President and CEO of Paramount International, Dies at 55
Raffaele Annecchino, the former President and CEO of Paramount International, has died of acute meningitis at the age of 55, prompting tributes from across the media industry. Over more than 25 years at Paramount/ViacomCBS he rose from an early sales role in Madrid to lead the company’s international operations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa,…
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Thierry Henry says players ‘have more power than they think’ amid Fifa scandals
Thierry Henry has urged footballers to recognise and use their collective influence as Fifa faces mounting scrutiny over multiple scandals, including reports that president Gianni Infantino sought to sell off the 2026 World Cup’s commercial rights. Speaking to the Guardian alongside CBS Sports colleagues Kate Scott and Jamie Carragher ahead of the new Champions League…
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Mas extends lead as Omrzel wins Vuelta stage 12
Enric Mas extended his overall lead in the Vuelta a Espana as the race returned to the mountains, launching a late attack on the road to Calar Alto that his rivals couldn’t answer. The stage itself was won by Slovenia’s Jakob Omrzel, who at just 20 claimed his first Grand Tour stage victory by riding…
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Badenoch calls for 3% defence budget to counter Russian threat
Writing in the Daily Mail, columnist Quentin Letts offers a sketch-style account of Kemi Badenoch’s speech on defence spending, delivered at London Scottish House in Westminster on 3 September 2026. The Conservative leader warned that conflict with Russia is a real and present danger rather than hypothetical, and argued Britain must raise defence spending to…
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Two female mushroom-pickers are mauled to death and buried by bears in Russian forest
Two mushroom-picking women, Galina Teterina, 73, and Zoya G, 67, have died after being mauled and buried by brown bears near Podtyosovo in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, part of what officials are calling one of the worst summers on record for bear attacks in Siberia. The city of Krasnoyarsk has been placed on high alert, with…