Andrew and Tristan Tate face criminal charges in Britain including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking as well as a civil case. Photograph: Inquam Photos/Eduard Vinatoru/Reuters View image in fullscreen Andrew and Tristan Tate face criminal charges in Britain including rape, actual bodily…
Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images Analysis On China, Trump picked the right battle but the wrong strategy Eduardo Porter A long trade war looms. Trump’s scattershot protectionism, chaotic tariffs and belligerence against our natural al…
A courtroom sketch shows Karmelo Anthony with his lawyer in front of the judge in a courtroom in McKinney, Texas, on Thursday. Photograph: Pat Lopez via AP View image in fullscreen A courtroom sketch shows Karmelo Anthony with his lawyer in front of the judge in a courtroom in McKinney, Texas, on Th…
Peruvians will elect their new president Sunday with polls suggesting a polarized but tight race between hard-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez.
Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images Analysis On China, Trump picked the right battle but the wrong strategy Eduardo Porter A long trade war looms. Trump’s scattershot protectionism, chaotic tariffs and belligerence against our natural al…
The exchange of strikes comes as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Iran to make a deal to end the conflict.
The Israeli military confirmed hitting a vehicle and said the incident is being reviewed. Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun called the strike "a flagrant violation to Lebanese sovereignty and international law."
Scores of Ukrainian drones target St Petersburg in attack Russia calls 'unprecedented' Just now Share Save Add as preferred on Google Vitaly Shevchenko Kyiv X/ @ZelenskyyUa President Zelensky posted a video on social media showing drones and explosions Russian authorities say Ukraine has launched an…
Giant banquets rile radical left in France 41 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent BBC Berets are a kind of uniform at the banquets, which include four courses of local gastronomy Three-and-a-half-thousand hungry Alsatians wolf down platters of charcut…
Giant banquets rile radical left in France 56 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent BBC Berets are a kind of uniform at the banquets, which include four courses of local gastronomy Three-and-a-half-thousand hungry Alsatians wolf down platters of charcut…
The outgoing High Representative, Christian Schmidt, left, at a meeting of the Peace Implementation Council in Sarajevo this week. Photograph: Elvis Barukčić/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen The outgoing High Representative, Christian Schmidt, left, at a meeting of the Peace Implementation …
Peruvians will elect their new president Sunday with polls suggesting a polarized but tight race between hard-right candidate Keiko Fujimori and leftist Roberto Sánchez.
Giant banquets rile radical left in France 53 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent BBC Berets are a kind of uniform at the banquets, which include four courses of local gastronomy Three-and-a-half-thousand hungry Alsatians wolf down platters of charcut…
The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin View image in fullscreen The missing white-tailed sea eagle. Photograph: Ian Griffin Predator or prey? The confounding case of the missing sea eagle The UK’s biggest bird of prey has been compared to a flying barn door. So how can one fitted with a satellite tracker disappear in prime grouse-shooting country? The six police officers arrived at the Snilesworth estate in two pickup trucks last week, according to one account. They asked to go up on the moors, a source said, and “so off they went”. A vast expanse of spectacularly undulating lands on the western edge of the North York Moors, Snilesworth is globally renowned for its grouse, partridge and pheasant shooting. It is known locally for attracting “rich people from London in helicopters and blacked-out SUVs”. This time, though, it was another rarified flying visitor that had drawn the police’s interest: the North York Moors are at the centre of a mystery surrounding a missing bird of prey. The officers, representing the national wildlife crime unit and North Yorkshire police, were seeking clues to the whereabouts of a white-tailed eagle, also known as a sea eagle, and more colloquially called the ‘flying barn door’, due to a 2.5-metre wingspan that makes them the UK’s largest raptor. Little appears to have been found in the copse that is said to have been the focus of the officers’ attentions. But enough apparently worried them about the circumstances surrounding the bird’s disappearance for North Yorkshire police to issue a call for information from the public on Monday. “The eagle’s disappearance is being treated as suspicious,” their press release said, “and an investigation is underway”. This was a more significant matter than your average avian disappearance. Since 2019, the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation (RDWF) and Forestry England have been seeking to reintroduce white-tailed eagles to the south coast . Once widespread across the UK, human persecution caused their extinction in England , with the last pair breeding there in 1780. View image in fullscreen The Snilesworth estate in the North York Moors is famed for its game bird shooting. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian To date, 45 young white-tailed eagles have been released from the project’s base on the Isle of Wight. In 2025, two of the birds bred in Dorset – something not seen in that county for 240 years. It is the resulting chick – satellite-tagged since birth and now fully grown – that has now disappeared. The cause of the disappearance is unknown. But one possibility aligns with what the RSPB says is a largely unchallenged scandal: the routine shooting, trapping or poisoning of birds of prey in the UK. The proximity of the eagle’s last known location to a number of large grouse shooting estates has not gone unnoticed. Between 2015 and 2024, 921 confirmed incidents of raptor persecution were recorded, of which at least 55% occurred on or near land managed for game
Giant banquets rile radical left in France 53 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent BBC Berets are a kind of uniform at the banquets, which include four courses of local gastronomy Three-and-a-half-thousand hungry Alsatians wolf down platters of charcut…
Andrew and Tristan Tate face criminal charges in Britain including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking as well as a civil case. Photograph: Inquam Photos/Eduard Vinatoru/Reuters View image in fullscreen Andrew and Tristan Tate face criminal charges in Britain including rape, actual bodily…
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Ex-CIA official accused of stashing $40m in gold bars is 'master manipulator', prosecutors say 4 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Nardine Saad Getty Images A former CIA official accused of stashing millions in gold bars at his Virginia home is a "master manipulator" who lied to his neighbours about being a pilot and leveraged his "access to seniority", US prosecutors say. Siding with the federal government, a judge ruled on Friday that David Rush, 49, was a severe flight risk with the means and motive to evade detection, and must remain in jail until his trial. His defence pushed back on "sensational" allegations against him, arguing that some claims "sound bizarre and secretive" because the nature of intelligence work "can be bizarre and secretive". The government also says it found millions in cash and dozens of luxury watches during its search. Ex-US government official arrested after $40m in gold bars found in home At a hearing in Virginia on Friday, government lawyers said Rush "cannot be trusted" and was "fully willing and able to skirt the rules", according to the BBC's US media partner, CBS News. Rush is a former senior executive in a US government agency in Virginia and had top secret clearance and access to classified information, court documents state. CBS News reported he worked for the CIA, while the FBI has said it conducted the investigation and search after receiving a referral from the CIA. Rush was charged with criminal theft of public money in a complaint filed last month and currently faces a single charge related to allegedly fraudulent time-sheets amounting to around $70,000 (£52,424). Between November 2025 and March 2026, Rush received gold bars and foreign currency for "work-related expenses", according to court filings. But he allegedly did not document what he did with them and the CIA was unable to locate the bars. The FBI found more than 300 gold bars worth about $40m (£29.6m) at his home last month, as well as $2m (£1.48m) in cash and more than 30 luxury watches. Prosecutors have alleged that Rush was moving funds into commodities that could be traded, citing "strong evidence" he was trying to hide the money. They have also alleged he fraudulently took military leave with pay after being honourably discharged from the US Navy, and that he lied about his education and military service when applying for his job. Rush is accused of falsely telling employers he had been a navy pilot. The government says large sums of the funds it believes were stolen are still unaccounted for. But Rush's defence lawyer Jessica Carmichael said all the gold bars were accounted for and were a "non issue", CBS reported. She said that when the FBI searched his home, Rush told investigators about the bars, which were locked and stored in his basement, and gave them codes to access them. Carmichael said he never claimed the gold was his and argued that the government "parading around gold bars is a flaw". Rush has been held in sol
