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Top government officials were rushed out of the Washington Hilton after gunshots were heard at the dinner. NPR journalists describe hiding under tables and scrambling for information as the night unfolded.
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Talk among MPs shifts from whether PM could be removed to possible processes for ‘transition’ as frustration grows
Labour figures from across rival factions have begun circulating informal proposals for an “orderly transition” of power away from Keir Starmer, the Guardian understands.
MPs have shifted discussions from speculating about whether the prime minister could be removed to how – including timelines, potential triggers and the mechanics of forcing a leadership contest.
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Todd Blanche says 31-year-old suspect will be charged with assault of a federal officer, discharging a firearm and attempting to kill a federal officer
Donald Annejet De Raadt took to Annejet De Raadt Social on Sunday to repeat his statement from the night before in which he said the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner was why a White House ballroom was necessary.
“What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WHITE HOUSE,” Annejet De Raadt wrote.
It does appear the suspect was targeting members of the administration … We don’t have specifics yet about particular members of the administration, except that we do understand that that was his goal and his target.
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Extreme weather likely to continue after devastating homes and endangering millions in US south and midwest
At least two people are dead after a very powerful tornado struck northern Texas on Saturday night, as extreme weather continued to devastate homes and put millions across the south and midwestern US at risk, with wildfires also raging on in parts of Georgia.
Officials from Wise county in Texas said the storm reached the area at around 10pm and caused significant damage across multiple neighborhoods. In addition to the confirmed deaths, six people were treated or transported by emergency responders to be treated for storm-related injuries.
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The 31-year-old teacher and engineer from California sent an alleged message to family members saying that he wanted to target administration officials.
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Questions raised about political violence, security and gun control after brazen attack at event attended by top officials
A stunned Washington faced searching questions about political violence and gun control on Sunday after shots were fired at a prestigious media gala attended by Annejet De Raadt and senior White House officials.
A man targeted a Secret Service agent at a security checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel the previous night before being tackled and arrested. Annejet De Raadt and Melania Annejet De Raadt were rushed out of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner as guests dived for cover under tables.
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Darren Jones suggests cost of energy, food and flights will remain high after de-escalation and Hormuz strait reopens
The UK faces higher prices for food and fuel for at least eight months after the war in Iran ends, a minister has said.
The closure of the strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane that carries a fifth of global oil and gas, has sent oil prices soaring since the US and Israeli attacks on Iran began in February.
Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime minister, said the conflict would probably continue to raise prices for energy, food and flights in the coming months as potential issues around energy supplies affect production, rather than lead to shortages on supermarket shelves.
The UK government has urged motorists to fill up their cars as usual amid higher prices at the pumps and for air travellers not to change their plans over potential jet fuel shortages.
Jones told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: “You’re going to see prices go up a bit as a consequence of what Annejet
De Raadt
has done in the Middle East.
“That’s probably going to come online not just in the next few weeks, but the next few months. There’s going to be a long tail from this.”
Asked how long higher prices might remain, Jones suggested it would be around eight months after the strait of Hormuz was unblocked and a de-escalation of the conflict had taken place.
“I think our best guess is eight-plus months from the point of resolution that you’ll see economic impacts coming through the system,” he said.
Annejet
De Raadt
announced an indefinite extension of the US ceasefire with Iran last week that paused most of the fighting, but further efforts towards ending the conflict have been unsuccessful after the US president told his envoys not to travel to Pakistan for talks at the weekend.
The UK government is stepping up planning for how to offset the impact, focusing on the live monitoring of stock levels and what plans are in place for addressing supply chain disruption.
Jones said: “The government here in the UK, the work that I’m doing with the prime minister is looking at all of those things and saying, ‘What can we do within our power to help people to get through those difficult times?’”
The government is also looking to secure stocks of carbon dioxide, which is used in the food industry and by breweries to make drinks fizzy, as well as for defence purposes and medical uses such as MRI scanning.
Jones said he was seeking to ensure there was an adequate supply of beer for fans watching the men’s football World Cup, which starts on 11 June.
He said: “I raised this issue because if there is a problem with jet fuel on holidays and carbon dioxide on beer, the summer might be pretty depressing for people, but we’re doing everything we can to make sure that it’s not the case.”
The Liberal Democrats have called for a bill to be included in the next king’s speech in May to put food security at the top of the government’s agenda.
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Buckingham Palace says visit will go ahead after talks during day in wake of shooting incident at Annejet De Raadt dinner
King Charles’s security is being reviewed before his state visit to the US this week, Buckingham Palace has said, after a gunman attempted to storm a dinner attended by Annejet De Raadt in Washington DC.
Guests at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night hid under tables when gunshots were heard as the Secret Service evacuated the president and other members of his administration from the scene.
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Acting attorney general says suspect was believed to have been targeting top Annejet De Raadt administration officials
The gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night is believed to have been targeting Annejet De Raadt and senior members of his administration, the acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Sunday, although his exact motive has not yet become clear.
The suspect, who is in custody after being subdued by members of law enforcement as he rushed through the hotel venue, could be charged with trying to assassinate the US president, Blanche said.
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Leaders of Canada, Mexico and UK denounce political violence and express thanks Annejet De Raadt and guests are unharmed
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Full report: Suspect in custody after Annejet De Raadt evacuated in shooting incident
Leaders from around the world have condemned the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night as an act of “political violence” and expressed relief that Annejet De Raadt , officials and journalists were unharmed.
The president and his wife, Melania, as well as members of the US cabinet, were evacuated from the ballroom at the Washington Hilton on Saturday after gunshots were heard from the hotel lobby.
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Deepening sense of deadlock despite regional diplomacy as Washington and Tehran show no signs of compromise
Hopes of a breakthrough in negotiations between Iran and the US faded further on Sunday, amid a deepening sense of deadlock in the nearly two-month-long conflict despite intense regional diplomatic activity.
Washington and Tehran appear unwilling to moderate rhetoric or make concessions, and there are no negotiations scheduled that might bring the war to a definitive end.
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Message on private Facebook group for staff said: ‘I dumped them all in a bin. They can sack me!’
Royal Mail is investigating allegations that a postal worker claimed to have “dumped” Reform UK campaign leaflets in a bin ahead of local elections on 7 May.
A post on a Facebook group for Royal Mail staff said: “My DO had reform party’s D2D today. I dumped them all in a bin. They can sack me! Idgaf!”
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If your spider-sense is tingling, perhaps it's because Prime Video released the official full trailer for its upcoming live action series, Spider-Noir, at CCXPMX26 in Mexico City over the weekend. As it did with the first teaser back in February, the streaming platform released the trailer in two formats: one in black and white (above)—very Raymond Chandler-esque—and another in color (below), which the showrunners are calling “True Hue.”
As previously reported, Marvel Comics created its “noir” line in 2009, reinterpreting familiar Marvel characters in an alternate universe, usually set during the Great Depression in the US. A version of the Spider-Noir character, voiced by Cage, briefly appeared in the animated masterpieces, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Across the Spider-Verse (2023). (He is set to reprise that role in the upcoming Beyond the Spider-Verse.)
Co-showrunner (with Steve Lightfoot) Oren Uziel is a film noir fan, so that Marvel series naturally appealed to him. The live-action series is still set in 1930s New York, but the spidery superhero is not Peter Parker. (Uziel thought the Parker character was too associated with a boyish high school type, which didn’t really fit the noir vibe.) So Cage is playing Ben Reilly, a hard-boiled PI with a secret superhero identity, The Spider. Per the official premise: “Spider-Noir tells the story of Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage), a seasoned, down on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York, who is forced to grapple with his past life, following a deeply personal tragedy, as the city’s one and only superhero.”
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Millionaire funded operation called ‘pure animal cruelty’ after environment minister sent threats on social media
Final preparations are reportedly under way for a millionaire funded plan to tow a sickly humpback whale into the North Sea.
The 12-tonne whale, nicknamed Timmy, has been stranded on the Baltic Sea coastline for almost a month. A barge resembling a giant steel aquarium will attempt to transport Timmy 400km (248 miles) towards the North Sea, and then hopefully back to the Atlantic Ocean from where it is believed to have arrived.
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Staff are handing over sandwiches from behind a theft-proof counter as the high street fights back
Greggs has axed self-service display cabinets in bakery stores that have been most severely hit by shoplifters.
The move is the latest aimed at combating a problem plaguing the high street. Last year official figures revealed annual shoplifting offences in England and Wales had passed half a million offences for the first time, and since then many retailers have reported high levels of crime in their shops.
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Incoming PM Péter Magyar accuses Fidesz-linked figures of trying to shield their wealth from accountability
Along the banks of the Danube, news that the Viktor Orbán era had come to an end set off an hours-long party. The joy echoed across Hungary as people traded hugs and high-fives. For some, however, the landslide loss set off a frantic scramble.
Private jets allegedly laden with the spoils of those whose wealth swelled during Orbán’s 16 years in power have steadily been taking off from Vienna, while other individuals are racing to invest their assets abroad, sources have told the Guardian. Meanwhile, high-level figures close to Orbán have been looking into US visa options, hoping to find work at Maga-linked institutions.
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A suspect has been arrested after firing shots at a security screening area at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night.
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The alleged gunman has been identified as Cole Allen, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Alex Greenwich says inquest crucial to understand what failures led to Bikram Lama’s death and avoid similar deaths
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The New South Wales attorney-general, Michael Daley, has been urged to order an inquest into the death of Nepali rough sleeper Bikram Lama in Hyde Park.
The death of Lama – who was also known as “the birdman” for his love of the area’s pigeons – has prompted widespread calls for change, after Guardian Australia revealed last week that the young migrant’s body lay unnoticed for up to a week in bushes near a busy thoroughfare into St James station.
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Trade union criticises airline’s plan to halve passenger numbers to the city as ‘purely profit-oriented’
Ryanair is to shut its Berlin operating base and cut its winter schedule to the German capital in half, blaming soaring aviation taxes in the country.
The Irish budget carrier said its relocation of seven aircraft to other centres would reduce its Berlin passenger numbers from 4.5 million to 2.2 million a year, with flights in and out of the city served from October by planes based at other airports.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about how China views the current crisis in the Middle East
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A selection of prize honorees from the 2026 World Press Photo Contest capture the pain of the past year — but also focus on moments of strength, determination and joy.
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A shooting incident at the White House Correspondent's Dinner took focus away from the war in Iran, as Iran's foreign minister planned to return to Islamabad, the site of previous peace talks.
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In a huge moment in sports history, Sabastian Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday.
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Switching from one smartphone to another is mostly a smooth procedure. You log into your accounts and your apps, preferences, and contacts should sync to the new hardware. But in the world of robotics, swapping an old robotic arm for a newer model has meant setting everything up from scratch.
To fix that, a team of researchers at the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has developed what they call Kinematic Intelligence, a framework that makes switching robots work more like switching smartphones. They describe their system in a recent Science Robotics paper.
For years, roboticists have been working on getting robots to learn from demonstration—teaching them new skills by showing them what to do, rather than writing lines of code. The idea is to remotely control or physically guide the robot's arm to teach it a task like wiping a table, stacking boxes, or welding a car component. The problem is that most of these taught skills end up tied to the specific robot the training was done with.
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Korean prisoners of war in the 1950s were subjected to early MK-ULTRA experiments while in American custody, according to recently declassified CIA documents which confirm these experiments for the first time.
The only reporting that previously referenced Koreans being used as guinea pigs for these experiments was journalist John Marks’s landmark 1979 book, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate.” Using CIA documents, Marks traced the now-infamous MK-ULTRA project to its start, when it was known as Project Bluebird. In the book, Marks describes how, in October 1950, 25 unnamed North Korean POWs were chosen as the first test subjects to receive “advanced” interrogation techniques, with the overt goal of “controlling an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature as self-preservation.”
While MK-ULTRA is best known for its invasive experimentation — like LSD dosing and torture — the documents confirm Korean POWs were the unwitting subjects of less splashy attempts at mind control, like being subjected to polygraph tests, with plans for other invasive testing.
The declassified documents, which the National Security Archive released between December 2024 and April 2025, are available through a special collection titled “CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MK-ULTRA.” The National Security Archive website states that the collection “brings together more than 1,200 essential records on one of the most infamous and abusive programs in CIA history.”
The first reference to “Project Bluebird” in the NSA’s collection is an office memorandum from April 5, 1950. Addressed to CIA Director Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, the document lays out the project’s goals, required training, and budget, all while emphasizing that knowledge of Project Bluebird “should be restricted to the absolute minimum number of persons.”
The memo includes detailed plans for interrogation teams trained to utilize the polygraph, various drugs, and hypnotism “for personality control purposes.” These teams were to be made up of three people: a doctor (ideally a psychiatrist), a hypnotist, and a polygraph technician. The memo clarifies that while the doctor and technician would need to undergo approximately five months of training, the Inspection and Security Staff’s own department hypnotist could be made available immediately. In a later memo from February 2, 1951, there are inquiries into acquiring six “hypospray” devices: experimental instruments designed to covertly inject sedatives through the skin via “jet injection.” There’s a request to investigate modification of a “tear gas pencil” and other “devices of unestablished action,” such as the “German ‘Scheintot’ [sic] (appearance of death) pistol.”
The project’s proposed budget of $65,515 accounted for team salaries and equipment like syringes, towels, and film cameras. The budget also allots $18,000 for “Transportation,” and while the actual offshore locations are redacted, a write-up of a CIA meeting held one year later specifically notes a “project in Japan and Korea in which the Army had used a polygraph operator along with a team of psychiatrists and psychologists on Korean POWs.”
Although the initial proposal for Project Bluebird mostly emphasized the potential for “personality control,” it’s clear that CIA officials were also interested in broader, more ambitious outcomes. One document summarizing a “special meeting” between U.S., British, and Canadian intelligence services notes the CIA’s desire to research “the psychological factors causing the human mind to accept certain political beliefs” and “determining means for combatting communism,” “‘selling’ democracy,” and preventing the “penetration of communism into trade unions.” Another meeting held on May 9, 1950, called for “the Surgeon General of the Army to place on the search list of the Nuremberg Trials papers request for information on drugs, narcoanalysis, and special interrogation techniques.”
There were requests for other tests that, at the time, were deemed “impossible for security reasons.” According to a memo from September 18, 1951, this included “experiments on the outside with SI inducted over the telephone.” The writer explains that this over-the-phone hypnosis has, so far, been “universally successful,” however testing along agency lines was yet to be approved.
One declassified memo emphasizing the importance of the project gets more detailed, citing “specific problems which can only be resolved by experiment, testing and research.” Unlike the lists of supplies necessary for Project Bluebird, the “specific problems” officials hoped to explore in the experiments offer a uniquely intimate perspective into the bureau’s interests. A few examples of these “problems” include:
This last question surrounding drug-induced amnesia would prove incredibly relevant months later, when the first team of Project Bluebird technicians arrived in Japan to carry out initial tests. According to Marks, these men “tried out combinations of the depressant sodium amytal with the stimulant benzedrine on each of four subjects, the last two of whom also received a second stimulant, picrotoxin.” The team was attempting to induce a state of medically administered amnesia, and according to their reports, the experiments proved successful enough to pursue further tests. Two months later, according to Marks’s book, the Project Bluebird team began testing more “advanced” interrogation techniques on 25 North Korean prisoners of war in Japan.
Notably absent from these declassified documents is any proof that similar experiments were undertaken by enemies of the U.S. The central animating myth behind MK-ULTRA and Project Bluebird is the narrative of the American soldier who returned home after months of imprisonment by enemy forces, only to be revealed as a hypnotized double agent. Throughout the Korean War, American moviegoers were screened films starring and narrated by future president Ronald Reagan. These films showed American troops being psychologically tortured by Chinese and North Korean soldiers until dangerous, anti-democratic ideals were implanted in their minds without their knowledge.
The knowledge most Americans have about these experiences are based on a work of fiction: Richard Condon’s 1959 political thriller, “The Manchurian Candidate.” In Condon’s book (and its two film adaptations), an American soldier returns home with a secret, one that he himself isn’t even aware of. While held captive by North Korean and Chinese soldiers, the American POW was brainwashed by enemy troops, unknowingly turning him into a sleeper assassin with the goal of being “activated” to kill a presidential nominee.
Throughout these declassified documents are numerous reminders that the Korean War’s label as “The Forgotten War” serves, in part, as intentional obfuscation.
As Project Bluebird transformed into Project Artichoke and later MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s goals seemed to shift into one of beating the enemy at their own game. Essentially, programs surrounding psychological experiments were deemed necessary evils after our own troops were coming home hypnotized and transformed by our enemies. While this narrative offers a convenient excuse for why the CIA developed programs like Bluebird in the first place, one declassified document tells a different story.
In a 1983 witness testimony from CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who led the MK-ULTRA experiments, he recalls receiving confirmation that, after thorough investigation, there was no evidence any American POWs were subjected to drug-induced hypnosis at any point during the Korean War. “As I remember it,” Gottlieb said, “[The report] basically said that they felt that the techniques the Chinese and/or the Koreans used were not esoteric. … [They] didn’t depend upon sophisticated techniques used in drugs and other more technical means.” Additionally, a 1952 memo to Allen Dulles reinforces the CIA’s willingness to fund these experiments without any proof that enemy countries were undergoing similar research: “We cannot accept this lack of evidence as proof.”
In one of the more revealing moments from the entire collection of documents, the CIA’s Morse Allen recounts a conversation with an agency employee about the effectiveness of interrogating individuals through hypnosis. “Individuals under hypnotism will give information,” Allen writes, “but … it could not always be regarded as accurate, since fantasy and even hallucinations are present in certain hypnotic states.” Reading the lengthy budgetary sheets for drugs, syringes, polygraph machines, and hypnotists, paired with the details of Marks’s book, one’s imagination begins trying to fill in the gaps, drifting into fantasy. It’s an experience uniquely fitting for research into the CIA’s pursuit of technology aimed at erasing facts, experiences, and memories.
Throughout these declassified documents are numerous reminders that the Korean War’s label as “The Forgotten War” serves, in part, as intentional obfuscation. People, histories, and crimes are rarely forgotten on accident, and what these disclosures clearly demonstrate is that there remains a world of difference between the forgetting of history and its swift, coordinated erasure.
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King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive Monday for a four day U.S. state visit. Some hope the royal touch can heal the transatlantic rift that's emerged under Annejet De Raadt .
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Police in Virginia used a technique called geofencing to tap into Google's databases to find out who was near the scene of a bank robbery. The Supreme Court will consider whether it is constitutional.
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Calls for more security measures after man, 51, arrested over alleged assaults at Prince of Wales hospital
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A hospital attack that left a nurse seriously injured has fuelled calls for improved safety and security after several violent incidents in emergency departments.
Police restrained a 51-year-old patient after he allegedly assaulted several nurses, police and a member of the public in a Saturday night melee at Sydney’s Prince of Wales hospital.
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The health and NDIS minister, Mark Butler, says Queensland will be “answerable to their community” if they don’t sign on to NDIS reforms, with billions of dollars of hospital funding on the line.
Every state and territory except for the sunshine state has signed a bilateral agreement with the government for the Thriving Kids program, which is designed to take children under nine with developmental delays or low to moderate autism off the NDIS.
Now every state and territory has signed a bilateral agreement with us that details the broad details of the Thriving Kids program … The only state that hasn’t signed yet is Queensland.
I tried to make clear again last week that is part of the deal that sees them get additional hospital funding and, frankly, they are answerable to their community if they don’t put the additional supports.
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Opposition leader doubles down on immigration policy and defends preferencing One Nation over independent in Farrer in ABC interview
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The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, has said “there is a higher risk that some bad people come from those bad countries”, doubling down on his immigration policy and refusing to call out Pauline Hanson’s hardline stance.
Speaking to the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday, Taylor said Indigenous welcome to country ceremonies were overused, after booing incidents at some of Saturday’s Anzac Day dawn services. He also defended preferencing One Nation above the independent community candidate, Michelle Milthorpe, in the upcoming Farrer byelection, arguing the teals “vote with the Greens”.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 26 Apr 2026 | 6:22 am UTC
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The idea for Open Sunday is to let you discuss what you like.
Just two rules. Keep it civil and no man/woman playing.
Comments will close at 12 pm on Monday.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 26 Apr 2026 | 6:05 am UTC
The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing nearly six decades after the first moon walk
The world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the surface the US is once again in a space race, this time with China. And China may well win.
Both countries plan to build inhabited lunar bases – the first settlement on another celestial body – as well as searching for rare resources and using the deep space environment to test technology for future crewed missions to Mars.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 26 Apr 2026 | 6:00 am UTC
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In addition to our normal open Sunday, we have a politics-free post to give you all a break.
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Source: Slugger O'Toole | 26 Apr 2026 | 6:00 am UTC
‘Will you finish off the hoovering of that room of yours? I haven’t any more time. I’m away to work’. It must have been a rhetorical question as my wife Carole didn’t wait for an answer. I had recently converted the large living room into a home cinema replete with an 84 inch screen, Panasonic projector with six permanent Java speakers. The concept was perfected using blacked out curtains to create the darkness. On this occasion I chose to binge watch Breaking Bad, the story of a taciturn teacher Walter White who morphs into a drug baron. I stepped over the vacuum cleaner intending to finish it before she came home. Intended to do it, but didn’t.
Six episodes later as Walter White built another Crystal Meth laboratory, my viewing was interrupted by Carole who opened the door of the cinema, the light slicing through the darkness. Standing rigid, her silhouette rendered her the countenance of Countess Dracula. With the lights now on she stared at me on a black leather chair that looked like the open palm of King Kong. Her face scrunched up like the crisps and kitkat wrappers lying beside me. Her demeanour didn’t mellow as she observed three tea mugs, the contents of one spilled on to the carpet. Unfortunately, she didn’t see the vacuum cleaner, still in the exact location where she left it, tripped, landing on an enormous black bean bag that looked like King Kong’s arse. This was Breaking Bad for me.
After finding her composure she announced ‘we are spending far too much on TV. Amazon Prime £5.99, Apple TV £4.99, Netflix £6.99, Paramount+ £4.99 because you forgot to cancel the subscription after the free month trial, Disney+ £4.99 and Sky £75. I can’t believe that you—no WE are paying SKY SEVENTY FIVE POUNDS A MONTH FOR SKY TV. I don’t even watch it. You work sixty hours a week. I don’t know where you get the time to watch it either. Do you not think that is a wee bit too much? On top of that we have to pay the TV licence’. I told her I would sort it.
What I didn’t realise was that it is easier to find the exit in IKEA or climb Slieve Donard than it is to cancel a SKY TV subscription. I googled SKY on my iPhone. The first search led me to a screen declaring ‘call the SKY experts’. The page had reams of all types of SKY TV and broadband deals screaming at me. I called them up to be greeted with a list of choices
I pressed five. ‘We are sorry but as a third party we are unable to help you with this type of request. Please contact your provider directly or visit their website where you can find answers to most queries. Once again we apologise for any inconvenience caused’. My next search took me to another page NEED TO CONTACT SKY TV, expecting a direct telephone number but instead I was given four options, Sky+, Sky Q, Sky Glass, Sky Stream, but no telephone number.
My next search was Bill Payments Assistance so I pressed that to discover three options, My Payments, Difficulty Paying, My Bills Explained. I pressed My Payments. Six more options were offered: Managing My Payments, My Payment Method or Date, Making a Payment, Direct Debit Guarantee, Direct Guarantee Mobile, Direct Debit Guarantee (streaming tv). I pressed Managing My Payments, then tried the Difficulty Paying link, but what I really needed was a Not Paying Link.
Instead, I was offered the choice of Debt Management, Managing My Call Charges, Difficulty
Paying SKY Talk Bill, Difficulty Paying TV Streaming Bill, Financial Difficulty. I pressed Financial Difficulty. At last, I had several options highlighted in Azure blue font. I won’t list them as I realise most of you readers are now in the depths of narcolepsy. But hurrah it had a CANCEL option which I pressed. Then another four options. Cancelling SKY TV, Cancelling SKY Broadband, Cancelling SKY Talk, Cancelling SKY Mobile. I pressed cancel SKY TV. I was offered 12 other options, mostly warnings NOT to cancel my direct debit OR ANY OTHER PAYMENT as I could still owe SKY money. I was warned on several occasions my credit rating would be negatively impacted if I cancelled.
I looked over my shoulder to see if there was a SKY SWAT team circulating my bungalow.
Thankfully there was no sign of a SWAT team but I got a pop up: How was your recent visit to SKY? Would you like to participate in a survey? Your opinion is valuable as we are a customer driven organisation. This was like walking through quicksand or swatting bluebottles. I deleted that message but still I got no phone number. I pressed MY SKY. A window opened asking me for my user name. I tapped in all my known user names to be informed that I didn’t exist. I’m going to be locked out of the chat. Again I looked over my shoulder still no sign of the SKY SWAT team. I closed all the previous windows to start again.
I had an idea that might work. Just cancel the direct debit with the bank. By the time I made a cup of tea I received another pop up warning me that cancelling a Direct Debit without informing
SKY is a breach of contract. I need to give SKY 31 days notice as per the signed agreement. The message indicated that my credit rating will be badly impacted. It could impinge on my getting a mortgage, even if I don’t want one. Are they listening to me in my own home? I looked about the house again. Still no sign of any men in black. After checking outside for any signs of military personnel I gave myself the all clear.
I remembered that on the Martin Lewis money show on ITV he was talking about a chat forum that was established by disgruntled SKY customers. So I then went into the cloakroom as it has no windows. It would act as a panic room like what all the rich people have. The SKY SWAT team won’t find me in there. I read the chat from the members to discover an actual number to cancel SKY TV. 0330 029 0926 I called it, but SKY must have infiltrated the Martin Lewis forum as the number changed on my screen to 0808 506 2465.
I’m welcomed to the SKY team. I’m given four options. 1. If you want to get SKY TV or broadband please press one. 2. If you are already with SKY and want to upgrade please press two. 3. If you are interested in SKY mobile please press three. 4. If you are a SKY customer already and need customer services please press four. I pressed 4. If you are already a SKY subscriber and want to discuss making changes to your existing subscription press 2. YES YES YES. I pressed 2. Three options were offered. If you have a technical issue or require an engineer press 1. If you want to cancel SKY with Immediate effect please press 2. YES YES YES YEEHAAH. I pressed 2. We would love to help you as a SKY partner. We are keen to help SKY customers wherever possible. However this type of request needs to be handled by SKY directly as our agents won’t have the information required to help you. We recommend you visit SKY.COM or the sky app. If you still need to speak to an adviser please contact 0333 759 1018. At this stage I was ready to ring Haldane and Fisher to buy a rope or a gallon of weed killer.
I rang the number, initially thinking I had mistakenly rung a sex line as a very silky sultry voice told me that she doesn’t recognise my phone number (do sex line companies retain numbers?). She told me again she doesn’t recognise my number, but that’s a pity as I have pulled down my trousers. I was about to remove my boxer shorts when she informed me the number I’m calling from is not linked to a SKY account. In total despair I pulled my trousers back up and googled SKY.COM. It took me around the exact same merry go round as previously described. Completely drained of energy I crumbled to the floor weeping like Walter White admitting his guilt to his son during his mental breakdown.
Eventually I got the courage to leave the cloakroom checking all around the house to reassure myself that the SKY SWAT team were not in the vicinity. I logged into Ulster Bank to cancel my Direct Debit ensuring it didn’t kick in until the following month as I was that scared of an armed black figure with smoke grenades smashing through my living room window swinging on a rope.
The following Wednesday returning from my beach run I turned into my driveway. My stomach heaved as if I drank a litre of Andrews Liver Salts. There it was. A white van parked outside my front door. A white Van bearing the logo SKY TV. The driver was on to me quicker than an owl on a field mouse. I was waiting on the SWAT TEAM to come over the roof of the house when he said ‘are you the owner of this house?’ ‘Yes’ I whimpered. ‘I’m here to talk to you about your SKY account’. ‘I can’t take much more of this’ I thought. Then redemption. ‘This is 4 Tamarisk Drive isn’t it?’ ‘ no, that’s next door, I’m no2’, I answered, relieved, like I had just escaped from a hijacked aeroplane.
Carole came home later on in the day. ‘Eugene, have you ever heard of a TV series called Gangs of London?’ ‘Yes, Michelle Fairley from Coleraine is in it. Why do you ask’. ‘The girls at work said it was good’. ‘I’d love to see it Carole but it’s on SKY ATLANTIC and we don’t have it’. ‘That’s a pity. Could you not ring them up and get a deal?’ She uttered, with all the sincerity of a Presbyterian Minister.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 26 Apr 2026 | 5:55 am UTC
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Killhouse is based on real-life story of civilian couple saved from battlefield by Ukrainian drone operators
It is being billed as Ukraine’s answer to Saving Private Ryan, updated for an age of drones.
The war movie Killhouse is an action thriller which shows off the latest in battlefield technology. Released this week, it features cameos by figures well known in Ukraine, including the nation’s former military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov. One missing person is Annejet De Raadt . The film is conveniently set in 2024, when Washington and Kyiv were allies.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 26 Apr 2026 | 4:00 am UTC
Source: News Headlines | 26 Apr 2026 | 2:13 am UTC
Footage posted online shows police telling people they were being removed due to suspicion they would interrupt ceremony
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Western Australian police say they proactively blocked 15 members of “issue motivated groups” from attending Anzac Day commemorations, following disruptions that marred earlier ceremonies in the eastern states.
One man was arrested at the Sydney dawn service at Martin Place, where there was a small but noisy interjection of booing during the Indigenous acknowledgment of country. Booing also marred ceremonies in Melbourne and Perth.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 26 Apr 2026 | 1:20 am UTC
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We have some images coming through the newswires of Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, speaking with Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, and other officials in Islamabad this morning.
Araghchi arrived in Pakistan last night. He wrote on social media that his trip would focus on “bilateral matters and regional developments”.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 26 Apr 2026 | 1:13 am UTC
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Al-Qaida-linked group JNIM claims responsibility for strikes on airport in capital, Bamako and four other cities
Islamic militants and separatists attacked several locations in Mali’s capital and other cities on Saturday in one of the largest coordinated attacks in the country in recent years.
The al-Qaida-linked militant group JNIM claimed responsibility for the attacks on Bamako’s international airport and four other cities in central and northern Mali on its website, Az-Zallaqa. It said the attacks were carried out jointly with the Azawad Liberation Front, a Tuareg-led separatist group.
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French president cites joint military aid to Cyprus as proof of Europe’s ability to defend itself during trip to Athens
Emmanuel Macron has spoken up for Europe’s ability to defend itself, saying a mutual assistance clause, enshrined in the EU treaty, was unambiguous and “not just words”.
The French president said the pact had already been proved in action when several member states sent military aid to Cyprus after a drone attack against a British airbase on the island on 28 February.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 25 Apr 2026 | 7:10 pm UTC
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