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Mélenchon Proposes Wiping Out 18% of French Debt as PM Warns Investors Could Flee Jean-Luc Mélenchon has detonated one of the most radical economic proposals of France’s emerging 2027 presidential campaign by arguing that the country should effectively erase the portion of its public debt held by the Banque de France. The radical-left presidential candidate says roughly 18% of France’s debt could...

City’s New Midfield Future Manchester City have completed the signing of 18-year-old Morocco international Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille, making one of European football's most coveted young midfielders the latest piece of their rapidly changing squad. Bouaddi has signed a five-year contract running until the summer of 2031, with the total transfer package reported to be worth around £86million. C...

Rare Four-Cyclone Formation Puts China on Alert as Another Typhoon Closes In China has been confronted by an extraordinary concentration of tropical weather after four cyclones swirled simultaneously across the Northwest Pacific and South China Sea, while flooding forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. The rare formation involved Saudel, Narra, Gaenari and Atsani — four consecutive n...

Meta Considered Cutting Some Teams by 60% as Zuckerberg Bet on an AI-First Workforce Mark Zuckerberg reportedly considered shrinking some Meta teams by as much as 60 per cent as part of an extraordinary attempt to rebuild one of the world's largest technology companies around artificial intelligence. The idea was simple but radical: smaller groups of highly capable employees would use autonomo...

SpaceX’s $100bn Gateway to Mars Elon Musk’s vision of turning rocket launches from rare national events into something closer to an industrial transport network has just acquired an extraordinary new home. SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in Starbase Louisiana, a sprawling 125,000-acre complex designed to become the largest spaceport in the world and ultimately support thousands of Starship fli...

Taiwan’s Unmanned Arsenal Taiwan is pushing ahead with an extraordinary plan to acquire more than 210,000 unmanned military systems in a multibillion-dollar attempt to make the island dramatically harder for China to attack. At the heart of the proposal is a simple calculation: Taiwan cannot match Beijing platform for platform, but it could make any invasion, blockade or coastal assault vastly mor...

The Threat Has Reached Trump’s Family The U.S. Secret Service has responded after Iranian state television aired an extraordinary video appearing to threaten Barron Trump, taking the increasingly personal confrontation between Tehran and the Trump family into disturbing new territory. The roughly three-minute broadcast focuses on President Donald Trump’s 20-year-old son, purports to identify place...

America Suddenly Reschedules Immigrant-Visa Interviews Worldwide — And There Is No Clear End Date The Trump administration has temporarily put immigrant-visa interviews on hold across the world as US consular officers undergo new training designed to tighten screening of people seeking permanent residence in America. Applicants who already had interviews arranged are being told their appointments...

The Warning to Moscow America’s top spy flew quietly into Moscow this week as US intelligence watched for signs that Vladimir Putin may be preparing another major military escalation. CIA director John Ratcliffe’s unannounced visit immediately drew comparisons with one of the most consequential intelligence missions of the period before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The purpose of Ratcl...

Bill Gates Fears AI Could Destroy Jobs and Empower Attackers — Now He Wants Global Rules Bill Gates spent decades believing technology could solve almost any problem humanity placed in front of it. Artificial intelligence has pushed him into unfamiliar territory: he now appears increasingly worried that innovation may be moving faster than the institutions capable of controlling its consequences....

Farewell to the Rhinestone Queen Who Changed Country Music Forever Dolly Parton, one of the most recognisable, successful and widely loved entertainers of the modern era, has died aged 80. The singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist died peacefully in Nashville on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, bringing an extraordinary seven-decade journey from poverty in the Tennessee mountains t...

Trump Turns on Ontario as Tariff War Erupts Across US-Canada Border Donald Trump has opened an extraordinary new front in his confrontation with Canada, saying the United States is giving “serious consideration” to changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” What might otherwise sound like political theatre has landed in the middle of a rapidly intensifying trade fight between two countri...

74 Restricted AI Servers Reached China Before Taiwan Stopped Another 56 Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine people in an extraordinary case involving high-end artificial intelligence servers allegedly diverted towards China, including a manager at Nvidia and people linked to server manufacturer Super Micro. The case centres on 130 advanced B300-based servers that prosecutors say were obtained...

Trump Wanted Canada To Fall In Line — Canada Just Did The Opposite Canada has answered Donald Trump’s latest tariff offensive with one of its clearest acts of economic retaliation yet, imposing new duties on C$27.6 billion of American imports and matching Washington dollar for dollar and rate for rate. The measures will take effect on September 8 and cover more than 700 products at tariff rates of...

The Strait Trump Says Iran Can No Longer Mine Donald Trump says the United States Navy has removed or detonated every mine from the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz, declaring one of the most dangerous physical obstacles to Gulf shipping cleared after months of conflict. He coupled the announcement with an unmistakable warning to Iran: any vessel caught laying new mines will be destroy...

Why Has America’s CIA Chief Just Flown Into Moscow? CIA Director John Ratcliffe has reportedly travelled to Moscow for meetings with Russian officials after a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III made an unusual flight into the Russian capital. The journey turns what initially appeared to be a mysterious military-aircraft movement into something considerably more significant: a direct, high-level cha...

‘Miscarriage of Justice’ Claim Crushed by Federal Judge Ghislaine Maxwell has suffered another major legal defeat after a federal judge rejected her attempt to overturn the conviction that put her in prison for 20 years. The latest challenge was significant because Maxwell argued that newly disclosed material connected to the Jeffrey Epstein files exposed serious constitutional problems with her p...

Hundreds Feared Abducted in Nigeria as Tinubu Orders Immediate Rescue Nigeria has ordered an immediate national rescue operation after a mass abduction in Niger State escalated into what could be one of the country’s largest kidnapping incidents in recent years. President Bola Tinubu has directed the military, police, intelligence services and other security agencies to find the captives and bring...

Inside The Calder Road Investigation The Interstate, The Payphone, The Empty Acreage And A Mystery Stretching Across Generations South of Houston, Interstate forty-five runs towards Galveston through a landscape shaped by water, industry and relentless development. Today the journey passes subdivisions, shopping centres, refineries and junctions carrying thousands of vehicles. Decades ago, there w...

A Ceasefire, Donbas Deal And a Deadline: Zelenskyy Reveals Ukraine’s Emerging Endgame Volodymyr Zelenskyy has put a political clock on one of the biggest diplomatic questions of the war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president believes the strongest opportunity for American-led diplomacy could run from the US-hosted G20 summit in December 2026 until the end of summer 2027, before America’s 2028 preside...

The World’s Oil Map Is Turning Into a War Map The global oil market has crossed an extraordinary threshold. Countries affected by wars and related geopolitical disruption accounted for roughly 45 million barrels a day of oil production based on 2025 output — more than 43% of global supply. What once looked like a series of separate regional crises is increasingly becoming one interconnected threat...

America’s Spy Loophole A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is demanding that the Trump administration close a loophole they say could allow American citizens and companies to provide expertise and technology to foreign intelligence and security agencies, including those belonging to China and Russia. Their warning cuts to an uncomfortable national security problem: Washington has spent years restri...

Could the Iran War Be Nearing an End? Pakistan says it has made “significant progress” in high-level talks with Iran aimed at stopping further escalation, reviving negotiations with the United States and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The announcement is one of the strongest diplomatic signals in weeks that the six-month confrontation could again be moving towards negotiation rather than an expan...

UN Warns World Is Near ‘Moral Red Line’ As Machines Move Closer To Killing Humans Autonomously The world is edging towards a form of warfare in which a machine could identify a human being, decide that person meets its targeting criteria and apply lethal force without a human making the final decision. The United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross have now issued one of their str...

The Pan Am 103 Case Explained The Suitcase, The Flight, And The Investigation Still Moving Nearly Four Decades Later On the evening of December twenty-first, nineteen eighty-eight, Pan American World Airways Flight 103 is preparing to cross the Atlantic. The Boeing 747 has begun its journey in Frankfurt, passengers have connected through London Heathrow, and the aircraft is now heading from London...