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“Claudio has changed my life,” Borja Iglesias said and all around him, as they jumped and sang and smiled and hugged, his teammates felt the same; he has changed all of their lives. At the end of Celta Vigo’s victory over Villarreal on Wednesday, players and staff crouched low before fans and for the first […]

In the new and final season of Andor, an occupied civilian population is massacred; their cries for help ignored by the Empire-run media who instead paint the victims as terrorist threats to public safety. Meanwhile, the politicians who have enough backbone to speak out, and use the word “genocide” to describe these aggressions, are met […]

A student at a French high school stabbed four other students at his school on Thursday, killing at least one and injuring three others before being arrested, police said. The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear. A national police official said it had taken place at the private Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides high school in Nantes […]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo and a coalition of militias including the Rwanda-backed M23 have agreed to work toward a truce to end the fighting that has engulfed the eastern part of the country since January. In similarly worded statements released on Wednesday night, the government and Alliance Fleuve Congo (Congo River Alliance) said […]

China calls reports of ongoing US tariff talks ‘baseless’ Beijing said on Thursday that any claims of ongoing trade talks with Washington were “baseless”, a day after Donald Trump suggested there were active discussions with China about tariffs. Asked on Wednesday if his administration was “actively” talking to China, the US president said: “Actively. Everything […]

St Peter’s Basilica has reopened for thousands of people to pay their final respects to Pope Francis for a second day, following a brief pause after keeping its doors open all night. The 16th-century basilica, where Francis’s simple wooden coffin is placed on the main altar, was scheduled to close at midnight but remained open […]

Zelenskyy cuts visit to South Africa short after overnight attacks Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has just reacted to the latest wave of attacks on Ukraine. The Ukrainian president, visiting South Africa today, said in a social media update that he would inform the country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa “about the situation and our need to intensify […]

Ed Miliband rejects claim southerners would pay more for electricity under zonal pricing plan Good morning. Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has been doing an interview round this morning. The government wants to talk about a £300m investment in offshore wind. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero sums it up in its news […]

Introduction: BoE governor Bailey warns trade war will hit UK growth Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. Fears are mounting that Donald Trump’s trade war will hurt the UK economy, even as the US president backtracks over some of his tougher measures. Even though […]

At first, Étoile looks as if it’s shaping up to be Fame in pointe shoes. One character even knowingly quotes the “This is where you start paying, in sweat” speech. This would be fine – great, even, because who didn’t love the quintessential 80s series about the high-energy kids from New York City’s High School […]