Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in British octopus landings have jumped nearly 1,500% from 2021, rising to more than 3,700 metric tons from an annual average of about 220 tons. That explosion prompted fishermen, regulators and
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks on nine regions of Ukraine caused emergency power outages for hundreds of thousands of households and damaged numerous homes, wounding at least 15 people, officials said Friday, as civilian casualties from Russia’s invasion climb steeply. Russia’s heavy bombardment of the power grid before winter sets in has been an
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Journalists broke into laughter at a press conference in Brussels after he met EU leaders. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a knowing smile and stayed mum Friday, when asked if Donald Trump was scapegoating him for troubles in the US. “This is my answer,” Zelensky said, as journalists broke into laughter at a press conference
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Talk of suicide is hard to avoid in Britain. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, recently warned that inheritance-tax changes mean farmers “are literally committing suicide so that their children don’t have to pay it”. Watch “The Social Reckoning”, a new film about Meta, and an advert will pop up: “Instagram helped kill my daughter”. It
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Trump said he expects China to “catch up” with the US within the next five years US President Donald Trump said on Thursday Washington is holding talks with Moscow and Beijing aimed at denuclearising the countries with the biggest stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Russia has the most stored nuclear warheads followed by the United States
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Published on 15/10/2026 – 11:27 GMT+2 Britain’s hard-right anti-immigration Reform UK party was hit by a fresh scandal on Thursday after party councillors and candidates were filmed in an undercover investigation using racist language. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In one excerpt from the 90-minute programme “Undercover: A Year in Reform” by ITV News, black children were referred
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Oct 15 (Reuters) – The editor-in-chief of Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta was taken in for questioning by investigators in Moscow on Thursday, the outlet said, after authorities searched his home. The TASS state news agency, citing law enforcement sources, said Sergei Sokolov was being questioned in a case regarding the “unlawful use of personal
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Labour has said it will end its power-sharing agreements with the Green Party on local councils if they do not reject the “Zionism is Racism” policy adopted earlier this month. All Labour council groups who are currently in coalition, or other power-sharing arrangements, with the Greens at council level have been asked to write to
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BEIJING (AP) — A new bridge linking China and North Korea opened Thursday after more than a decade of delay, signaling deeper ties between the two countries. China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported that a ceremony for the launch of the New Yalu River Bridge was held in the morning. An online video from state
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WASHINGTON — Tech titan Elon Musk on Wednesday indicated the Trump administration, not SpaceX, caused the throttling of a military version of Starlink in Ukraine that set off panic in the war-torn country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned the slowdown of Starshield, a military offshoot of Starlink, would cost lives by limiting its ability to
Elon Musk said that Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. SpaceX boss Elon Musk said Wednesday that any disruptions reported by Ukraine in using the Starshield satellite communications system would be the responsibility of the US government, not his company. “Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any
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ISTANBUL (AP) — The Istanbul governor’s office declared schools closed, placed some public sector workers on leave and urged people to stay at home after heavy rainfall caused floods across the city on Wednesday. Media reports said that the downpour flooded homes and businesses and inundated roads and underpasses, stranding vehicles and causing traffic chaos
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For the third straight month, workers’ paychecks did not keep pace with rising prices, the Labor Department’s final inflation report ahead of the midterm elections revealed. U.S. consumer prices rose 0.6% from the month before in September, above forecasters’ expectations. Over the year, prices for all items were up 3.7%, surpassing August’s 3.4% pace. In
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The quality of major roads across nearly half of local authorities in England has deteriorated over recent years, according to new figures. Local councils are required to perform routine assessments of their road networks, grading surfaces as red, amber or green. A red classification indicates that roads are in “poor” condition and should have been
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Shoppers have been told the store will close 13:13, 14 Oct 2026Updated 13:20, 14 Oct 2026 Co-op Peverell store closing announcement (Image: Submitted ) Supermarket chain Co-op is shutting the doors of a well-used store in Plymouth, with shoppers being told it’s set to bow out by the end of November. The store on Peverell
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BEIJING (AP) — A new bridge linking China and North Korea is set to open on Thursday, more than a decade after the Chinese side of it was built, in the latest sign of closer ties between the two countries. The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday that both sides will hold a ceremony
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CEUTA, Spain, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia visited Ceuta’s Muslim cemetery on Tuesday where most of more than 100 migrants who died in July’s mass crossing into the North African enclave from Morocco were buried. The visit, the first by Spain’s head of state since 2007 and in Felipe’s 12-year reign,
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When foreign consumers are trying to decide whether to buy a Chinese-made electric vehicle, they might weigh the cost, the comfort, the availability of chargers on their regular routes, the range and the speed. They might even worry about what happens to their personal data. But consider the foreign policymaker debating whether – and to
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After months of speculating that China and Russia are helping Iran amid the conflict with the United States, President Donald Trump now has reason to “believe” the two nations are not helping Tehran. Since the breakout of the US-Israel war on Iran, Washington has speculated the involvement of China and Russia in “enabling Tehran.” (AP)
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The suspects, whose names were not released in line with Polish privacy rules, were arrested in Germany, Polish officials said Monday. They are accused of deliberately setting fire to Starlink infrastructure on Sept. 23 in Wola Krobowska, Poland, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Warsaw. “We have no doubt that Russian intelligence services are
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