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The Irish novelist Anne Enright is one of eight writers set to receive $175,000 (£135,000) each in recognition of their life’s work. American writer Sigrid Nunez was also selected as part of this year’s Windham-Campbell prizes, which each year award $1.4m to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, with the aim of allowing writers … Read more
Foreign workers at US government-backed media outlets being cut by the Trump administration say they face deportation to their home countries, where some risk imprisonment or death at the hands of authoritarian governments. Earlier this month the Trump administration moved to defund the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent federal agency that oversees … Read more
Don’t mention the cuts. Your life won’t be worth living if you start talking about austerity. Anything but the A word. Anything except tax breaks for tech oligarchs. These are a tough few days for the Labour party. All anyone outside government wants to talk about is Rachel Reeves’s spring statement. What it means. How … Read more
Senior members of Donald Trump’s cabinet have been involved in a serious security breach while discussing secret military plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen. In an extraordinary blunder, key figures in the Trump administration – including vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Peter Hegseth, Marco Rubio and the director of … Read more
A group of Venezuelan immigrants were deported from the US to Honduras on Sunday, who were then sent to Venezuela, via an apparent deal between the three countries. The flights came one day after a Venezuelan government official announced on social media it would resume accepting deportees from the US. Deportations from the US to … Read more
Noel Clarke told an actor that he kept explicit photos of women he had sex with to use as “collateral” in case they ever wanted to speak out about him or tell his wife, the high court has heard. Clarke, 49, is suing the Guardian over over publications from 2021-22 accusing him of sexual misconduct, … Read more
Four alpacas have been shot dead with a rifle in a field in Cambridgeshire, police said. The animals, called Calvin, Klein, Martha and Juniper, were attacked between 6pm on Saturday and 8:30am on Sunday in the parish of East Hatley, near Gamlingay. A ewe was also attacked by a dog and had to be put … Read more
The 10-page risk report within Heathrow Airport’s latest annual report does not mention North Hyde substation, or even substations in general, but it does describe the company’s approach to managing risks. Heathrow rightly has “no appetite” for safety risks that could lead to loss of life. “Robust controls and contingency measures” are also in place … Read more
Police in Texas said they found “incendiary devices” at a Tesla dealership in Austin on Monday morning, as the Trump administration has pledged to crack down on vandalism and protests against Elon Musk’s car company. “On Monday, March 24, 2025, at approximately 8.04am, Austin police department (APD) officers responded to a found/abandoned hazardous call at … Read more
US and Russian officials have begun talks in Saudi Arabia as Donald Trump pushes to broker a limited ceasefire that Washington hopes will mark the first step toward lasting peace in Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia have agreed in principle to a one-month halt on strikes on energy infrastructure after Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders … Read more