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Lamine Yamal: ‘Football is mechanised but players like me have that special spark’
NEWS | 26 September 2026
The battle with the one, two, three players facing you is “very psychological”, Lamine Yamal says. “We knew Ferran needed it,” Lamine Yamal says, then laughs: “Well, everyone needs a goal in a World Cup final. View image in fullscreen Lamine Yamal with the World Cup after Spain beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time. View image in fullscreen Lamine Yamal with his brother Keyne after Spain had beaten England in the Euro 2024 final in Berlin. Your way, as always, made in Rocafonda, the hard barrio whose postcode Lamine Yamal signals with every goal.

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Kyiv has become a frontline city - and winter is on the way
NEWS | 26 September 2026
Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian“At least for 10 minutes afterwards you felt a like normal person, and you could just wear a T-shirt”, he said. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianOn a stroll in the botanical gardens, Iryna Gorlach, an international cooperation expert, laughed when asked how she was preparing for the coming cold. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianPassing the market en route to work was Viktoriia Riabchenko, an accountant. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianAttitudes to winter, of course, depend on one’s perspective and experience. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The GuardianThe residents of their apartment block are voting on taking over the running of their own building.

World:
Russia strikes at heart of Ukraine’s digital economy with attacks on ISPs and datacentres
NEWS | 26 September 2026
Russia has opened a new front in its campaign against Ukraine, hitting several datacentres and internet providers in Kyiv this week in an apparent attempt to weaken the digital backbone of the economy. About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the surrounding region suffered temporary internet outages after strikes on Wednesday and Thursday, according to Ukraine’s digital transformation ministry. “Russia has targeted major Ukrainian datacentres, seeking to disrupt the flow of information,” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, wrote on X. Russia has previously targeted Ukraine’s datacentres, but attacks on this scale are new. Heavy industry has also been hit hard, with Russian strikes disrupting industrial facilities and steel production.

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Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks force closure of Ukraine’s largest steelmaker
NEWS | 26 September 2026
The world’s second biggest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal, has closed Ukraine’s largest steel plant, highlighting the growing economic toll from Russian airstrikes. The ArcelorMittal closure comes as the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said ⁠on Friday that Russia was constantly expanding its attacks on infrastructure Ukrainians relied on for daily life, such as datacentres and warehouses. Ukraine is seeking ⁠an additional $27bn from partners this year for defence, saying the cost of the war has risen. Zelenskyy said Ukraine needed to order ​drones in October and November or ‌it would face challenges ‌at the start of next year. Nato countries have called China a “decisive enabler” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

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UN adds 61 firms to settlements blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Palestinians
NEWS | 26 September 2026
The UN human rights office has added 61 more companies to a blacklist of firms that it says are involved in violating Palestinian human rights through business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The blacklist, first published in 2020, was born of a vote by the UN’s human rights council, which has no ability to force companies to act. “This report is another reminder to companies that they have human rights responsibilities and are expected to conduct due diligence to ensure that they do not become involved in human rights violations or abuses,” said Volker Türk, the UN human rights chief, in a statement. The latest report comes as Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas have faced new scrutiny. Earlier this month, Britain banned trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where it says “settler terrorists” are carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians.

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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
NEWS | 26 September 2026
Great respect.”Bunch, who earlier this month announced that he will step down at the end of the year, was speaking at an event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the African American museum, where he was founding director. “When people say you talk too much about slavery or that they’re embarrassed by slavery, I wish I was as strong as my enslaved ancestor. “So for me, it’s not saying, ‘Oh my god, I’m going to be embarrassed, I’m trying to hurt a country.’ I’m trying for people to understand, how did these people believe? Let’s tell the truth.”The White House has accused cultural institutions of seeking to “rewrite our Nation’s history” and ordered that warning signs be placed outside the nearby National Museum of American History. The departing Bunch sought to assure his audience that the African American museum would endure.

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White House blocks CNN from Air Force One in latest escalation with news media
NEWS | 26 September 2026
The White House has blocked CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One on Saturday, impeding its TV press pool duties in the latest escalation of the administration’s battle with the news media. The White House did not immediately return the Guardian’s request for comment. The extraordinary access revocation prompted swift backlash from the White House press pool, who suspended their video coverage of Trump in protest. The US district judge Timothy Kelly sided with the outlets, ordering the Trump administration to restore their White House access. CNN, MS Now and Politico’s journalists sought to enter the White House on Thursday morning, but were not granted entry until midday.

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Thomas Jefferson letter goes on the market – containing a prescient warning for Trump today
NEWS | 26 September 2026
A remarkably prescient letter written by Thomas Jefferson, the third US president, advising how the newly created country could prosper, has been put up for sale by a private collector. He wouldn’t know for weeks.”View image in fullscreen The book and letter were put up for sale by the Pennsylvania-based Raab Collection. But Raab said he has never seen anything as impressive as the letter and book given to Rittenhouse. “The breadth of knowledge that [Jefferson] brought to this letter, the many subjects in which he is completely conversant. “The important warning that he offers at the end is just so relevant today, it’s impossible to miss.

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Trump cancels nearly $1bn in funding approved by Congress
NEWS | 26 September 2026
Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1bn in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives. Trump’s office of management and budget described the funding cut as focused on “the most harmful government spending”. The government accountability office has called the maneuver, known as a “pocket rescission,” illegal. A year ago, Trump issued a pocket rescission for the first time in 50 years by blocking $4.9bn in congressionally approved foreign aid. The use of a pocket rescission fits part of a broader pattern by the Trump administration to exact greater control over the US government, eroding the power of Congress.

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The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
NEWS | 26 September 2026
Donald Trump has long coveted the oilfields of other nations and declared an agreement with Venezuela to be “the biggest oil deal in world history”. Moreover, they say, the deal as structured won’t bring new capital to Venezuela’s oil sector. And contrary to Trump’s claims, the Venezuelan oil will not help refill the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve any time in the near future. Experts are ultimately skeptical the oil deal can hold together. A former Pentagon official familiar with the project said Feinberg and Lorch structured the financial end of Trump’s Venezuela deal.

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Venezuelan shot by ICE in Austin needs surgery to avoid losing feeling in body, supporters say
NEWS | 26 September 2026
The Venezuelan man shot by federal immigration officers after a traffic stop in Texas needs surgery to avoid losing feeling on the left side of his body, according to his supporters. In a statement, the agency also disputed Garcés Pérez’s earlier claim that he had slept on the floor on his first night of detention. DHS did not respond to questions from the Guardian regarding Garcés Pérez’s medical treatment and the investigation into the shooting that is underway. A timeline for any surgery is still unknown, Garcés Pérez’s attorney, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, said on Friday. Meanwhile, new evidence offered by local law enforcement has called into question parts of Garcés Pérez’s account.

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TikTok to pay Alabama $100m and limit teenage use in first state settlement
NEWS | 26 September 2026
TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100m and enact time limits and other restrictions for teenage users, avoiding a trial with a settlement that was modelled on Instagram-owner Meta’s recent agreement with US states. Alabama described it as a “first-in-the-nation settlement” with a state in the sweeping litigation over social media’s affect on teen wellbeing. TikTok’s settlement with Alabama mirrors safety provisions agreed by Meta, including a two-hour daily time limit for teens, restricted access from midnight to 6am, and suspending notifications during school hours. It will also strengthen age verification, ban beauty filters for teenagers, and offer young users a non-personalised content feed. Alabama originally sued TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance in April 2025, alleging the app was engineered to hook young users “just like a sophisticated gambling machine”.

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Specialist coaches and hours of practice a day: the making of China’s six-year-old Rubik’s Cube prodigy
NEWS | 26 September 2026
Lian Yunzhi, known as Zhizhi, broke the women’s 3x3 average world record at a “speedcubing” event in Guangzhou hosted by the World Cube Association on 16 September. “We felt it was really good for her.”View image in fullscreen Women’s Rubik’s Cube world record-holder Lian Yunzhi with her parents. “To be honest, both as parents and the child, we felt like giving up at that point.”But after finding a specialist teacher in Shanghai and learning more than 1,300 Rubik’s cube formulas, her speeds improved “very quickly”. While physical injuries are rare in speedcubing, Lin monitors Zhihi’s eyesight for signs of myopia, a shortsightedness condition that is especially prevalent in China. Zhizhi’s mother doesn’t see a speedcubing career for her daughter, but said the sport instilled good habits.

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Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
NEWS | 26 September 2026
The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian Library, as tech companies scour academic institutions for fresh data. The Bodleian material digitised by OpenAI has been used to “populate the OpenAI training set”, according to internal documents. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company was “proud” to ensure “the AI models of today preserve the world’s historical knowledge for the future”. Scraped websites are increasingly saturated with AI-generated material, making them less useful for training models, and developers have turned to physical, often historical, book collections. The Oxford spokesperson said: “The material digitised through the project with OpenAI is modest in scale, out of copyright, and OpenAI’s use of the material is not exclusive.