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‘She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Liam Neeson still remembers his shock and shame when he read a New York Times article about the mother and baby institution in Tuam, County Galway. The result, nine years later, is The Lost Children of Tuam, a feature film that is released in Ireland this week and in the UK next month. View image in fullscreen Catherine Corless at the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, where it is believed 796 infants were buried. View image in fullscreen Monica Dolan, who plays Catherine Corless, in a scene from The Lost Children of Tuam. View image in fullscreen Director Frank Berry, Monica Dolan and Liam Neeson promote The Lost Children of Tuam in Toronto.

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At Trump meeting, Xi Jinping lays out terms to avoid US-China military conflict
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Xi invoked the phrase in his meeting with Trump in Beijing in May, asking the US president how he planned to avoid it. View image in fullscreen Trump and Xi speak next to Marine One at the White House. View image in fullscreen China’s first lady Peng Liyuan, Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and US first lady Melania Trump walk to a state dinner. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesLater on Thursday, Trump hosted Xi at the White House for a state dinner. Despite the trade war between the two countries, Chinese imports have continued to surge into the US.

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Pomp over progress as Trump rolls out red carpet for China’s president Xi Jinping
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Trump rolled out the red carpet for Xi when he landed on Wednesday, and broke with decades of precedent to meet the Chinese leader at Joint Base Andrews. “The biggest takeaways is that Trump has been displaying an extraordinary degree of deference to Xi Jinping,” said Julian Gewirtz, who served as a senior China official in the Biden administration. On Thursday, it was revealed that Xi’s first state visit to the US in over a decade had resulted in a mere two-month extension. View image in fullscreen For China, the lack of big news from the state visit is a win in itself. According to the Chinese readout of the X-Trump meeting, Xi told Trump that he hoped “the US side will adhere to the correct position of opposing Taiwan independence”.

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US politics live: Trump to wrap up Xi summit with a tour of US archives
NEWS | 25 September 2026
07.29 EDT Trump to wrap up Xi summit with a tour of US archivesHello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump is taking Chinese president Xi Jinping to visit the National Archives later today, showing off the sacred texts of US democracy to the leader of the world’s most powerful communist country. Trump showed Xi one copy of the Declaration of Independence on Thursday - a wall-mounted copy he keeps in the Oval Office. The US president also said he wanted to show Xi artefacts about the relationship between the two countries. Xi’s day will begin at the White House, where Trump and first lady Melania Trump will host the Chinese leader and his wife, Peng Liyuan, for tea.

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Xi Jinping meets Trump: who holds the cards? – podcast
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Eavesdropping silently on another extension, just out of sight, there is always someone like Jon Czin listening in. Czin was the director for China on Joe Biden’s national security council from 2021 to 2023, having honed his expertise as the CIA’s in-house expert on Xi Jinping. He dealt with a lot during his two years working for the White House, but as Donald Trump prepares to welcome Xi Jinping to Washington today, the stakes are arguably even higher. Trump has started a war he cannot seem to stop, and the Chinese are helping his enemy. I think it’s much better to think of Xi Jinping as operating like a jack-in-the-box.

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Lula says Trump wants to ‘colonise’ and capture Brazil’s resources by meddling in election
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidential campaign has accused Donald Trump of wanting to “colonise” Brazil in order to capture its natural resources by meddling in next month’s presidential election. The state department has denied claims the US is meddling in Brazil’s election. Writing on X, Lula accused Bolsonaro of wanting to “hand our natural resources over to the United States”. This week, another of the right-wing candidates in Brazil’s election, Renan Santos, also denounced Trump’s behaviour and said he did not want Brazil to become a US vassal state. They asked Rubio if Trump’s administration would commit to respecting Brazil’s electoral process and requested a response by 1 October.

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Pope Leo warns against AI creating ‘paradise of machines’ in first visit to France – Europe live
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI Read more You will be able to watch it live here, but for now, they’re just playing some nice jazz music. View image in fullscreen Pope Leo XIV greets journalists aboard the papal plane bound for Paris, as he begins his four-day visit to France. Share2h ago 07.16 EDT Pope Leo warns against 'a paradise of machines' in first France remarks - summary Pope Leo has warned against AI creating “a paradise of machines” as he expressed concerned about “losing our humanity” as a result of the uncontrolled technological advance, including the AI (12:49). Share Updated at 07.19 EDT2h ago 06.41 EDT Pope Leo responds in French, which no doubt will delight the hosts. View image in fullscreen President of France Emmanuel Macron welcomes Pope Leo XIV to Élysée Palace in Paris, France.

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Meloni accused of ‘running scared’ with cap on foreign children in classrooms
NEWS | 25 September 2026
The prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party, said her government had approved what she called “commonsense measures that do not divide but genuinely help to integrate”. “Because there are now new parties pushing from the right, I think Meloni is scared,” she said. View image in fullscreen Roberto Vannacci’s party Futuro Nazionale has galvanised the extreme right. “Faced with all this, the government’s response is to kick foreign children out of the classroom,” Schlein said. After four years of cuts and no serious investment in school buildings, they’re inventing a witch-hunt that targets the youngest children.”

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Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech
NEWS | 25 September 2026
“If there are any other moral cowards in the audience, I urge them to walk out,” Netanyahu said before launching into his prepared remarks. Because if we hadn’t done it, we’d all be dead.”He branded Turkey’s Erdoğan as a “tyrant” who “hosts Hamas terrorists”, decried Mamdani as the “antisemitic mayor of New York”, and declared that Israel’s war in Gaza is not genocide – “it’s the opposite of genocide”. “As a consequence of their failure to reform, contrary to their commitments to the United States, and their ongoing activities that undermine the prospects for peace, the United States will extend sanctions that deny visas to PLO members and PA officials,” the state department said last week in a statement. By the end of Netanyahu’s speech, more than 100 demonstrators, including several local elected officials, had been arrested by New York City police. Netanyahu has said that he needs to return to Israel quickly because of the election campaign and the holiday of Sukkot, which begins on Friday.

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Full house: which world leaders got bums on seats at the UN? – in pictures
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Full house: which world leaders got bums on seats at the UN? – in picturesThey were all there for António Guterres and Donald Trump but did anyone else manage to pull a crowd? Donald Trump addresses the 81st UN general assembly in New York. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

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Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder arrested at anti-Netanyahu protest in New York
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and Hacks star Hannah Einbinder were among people detained by police in New York on Thursday as they moved in to break up a protest against Benjamin Netanyahu. Agence France-Presse footage shows NYPD officers cuffing Thelma & Louise star Sarandon at the demo in the city as the Israeli prime minister was readying to address the United Nations general assembly. View image in fullscreen Hannah Einbinder (R) with Saturday Night Live star Sarah Sherman (L) at the protest. Democratic congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier and New York ⁠City council member Chi Ossé were also among those arrested. 1:38 UN delegates walk out as Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to address general assembly – video“They accuse Israel, tiny Israel, of colonialism – some colonialism.

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Nepal’s PM says flash flood was ‘warning to world’ as he scolds leaders at UN over climate change
NEWS | 25 September 2026
Nepal’s prime minister scolded world leaders at the UN on Thursday, saying last month’s catastrophic deadly flood was a reminder that climate change keeps hurting people who didn’t cause the crisis. The disaster “was a warning to the world,” Balendra Shah told the general assembly. Shah said that Nepal contributed less than one-tenth of 1% of the heat-trapping gases behind climate change. The Nepalese leader said the flood had swept away roads, bridges, schools, homes and livelihoods, interrupting Nepal’s development progress. The US this week announced $31m in aid to Nepal for flood recovery, which brings America’s total financial help up to $36m.

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Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after alleged dinghy slashing in Channel
NEWS | 25 September 2026
The far-right agitator Daniel Thomas has denied causing criminal damage after he was filmed appearing to slash a boat in the Channel with a blade, while an emergency responder was onboard. Prosecutor Kevin Lucie, outlining the basis of the criminal damage charge, alleged Thomas slashed an adrift boat with a knife. Dozens of police officers could be seen monitoring the group outside the investigation centre as the protest continued for several hours. Thomas has said he would like a crown court trial. A hearing will take place in Portsmouth crown court on Tuesday 29 September.

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PM rejects ‘nonsense’ suggestion he delayed revealing OpenAI Medicare hack as Labor considers changing laws
NEWS | 25 September 2026
The federal government could change Australian laws if the current legal framework could not respond to the unprecedented OpenAI hack of Medicare, ministers have confirmed. “It’s just nonsense … I was informed while I’ve been in New York,” Anthony Albanese told News24 on Friday. If current laws could not touch the tech company, they would need updating, environment minister, Murray, Watt said on Friday. Labor has announced it would legislate an AI standard, which Charlton said would be informed by the rapid review. “The person is not the AI agent, so it’s not about what the AI agent intended.