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‘We make a great living’: Emma Raducanu on why she won’t moan about the tennis calendar
NEWS | 03 December 2025
Emma Raducanu has garnered many endorsement deals in her nascent career, but there is perhaps one elusive sponsorship that would be most pleasing to the British No 1 women’s tennis player: ambassador of the London borough of Bromley. View image in fullscreen Emma Raducanu beat former champion Marketa Vondrousova at Wimbledon this year and reached the third round, where she lost to Aryna Sabalenka. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The GuardianIn recent weeks, however, the goal has been to not think about tennis. “I was just like: ‘I’m trying to do everything,’” she says, smiling. “I think that’s a challenge,” she says.

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Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress
NEWS | 03 December 2025
Russia and the US did not make progress toward a peace deal for Ukraine during their talks, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin has said, hours after the Russian president issued threats that Russia was ready for war with Europe. Ushakov’s remarks were an underwhelming conclusion to talks that the Trump administration had suggested could create a framework to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Europe is preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine,” Putin said, adding: “Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.”Putin did not clarify which European demands he found unacceptable. “I am ready to receive all the signals and ready for a meeting with President Trump,” Zelenskyy posted on X. The paper implied that Moscow viewed the latest US-Ukrainian talks as a dead end, claiming Kyiv was refusing to capitulate.

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British military instructor arrested in Ukraine on suspicion of spying for Russia
NEWS | 03 December 2025
Ukrainian authorities have arrested a British military instructor accused of spying for Russia and plotting assassinations. Ross David Cutmore, 40, from Dunfermline, was allegedly recruited by Russia’s intelligence service, the FSB, to “carry out targeted killings on the territory of Ukraine” between 2024 and 2025. He was allegedly recruited by Russian intelligence officers in Odesa, southern Ukraine, and was paid $6,000 if he gave confidential information regarding the location of Ukrainian military units around the city. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. A spokesperson for the Foreign Office said: “We are providing consular assistance to a British man who is detained in Ukraine.

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Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
NEWS | 03 December 2025
The IACHR, part of the Organization of American States, is designed to “promote and protect human rights in the Western Hemisphere”. Preserving the IACHR’s autonomy is a pillar of our human rights policy in the region.”The complaint was filed by Pittsburgh-based human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik. “On September 15, 2025, the United States military bombed the boat of Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina,” the filing says, “which Mr Carranza was sailing in the Caribbean off the coast of Colombia. Secretary Hegseth has admitted that he gave such orders despite the fact that he did not know the identity of those being targeted for these bombings and extra-judicial killings,” the filing goes on. View image in fullscreen Alejandro Carranza Medina and his son.

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Pete Hegseth says he ‘didn’t stick around’ to watch second strike on alleged drug boat as Democrats slam administration over attacks – live
NEWS | 03 December 2025
“So I moved on to my next meeting,” the defense secretary said. The defense secretary has said he did not share classified information. “So I moved on to my next meeting,” the defense secretary said. Share5h ago 14.55 EST A reminder that this is the video of the first strike on 2 September that defense secretary Pete Hegseth posted to social media. As my colleague, Robert Mackey, reported, on 3 September the defense secretary said that he watched the operation in real time.

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Trump threatens strikes on any country he claims makes drugs for US
NEWS | 03 December 2025
Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that any country he believes is making drugs destined illegally for the US is vulnerable to a military attack. Asked if only Venezuela was in the Pentagon’s crosshairs, Trump said he saw any country producing drugs for contraband as fair game, echoing previous saber-rattling directed at Mexico. “If they come in through a certain country, or any country, or if we think they’re building mills, whether its fentanyl or cocaine … anybody doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack. Not just Venezuela,” Trump said, adding that he “heard” Colombia was “making cocaine, they have cocaine plants”. The admiral who ordered the second strike, Frank M “Mitch” Bradley, is scheduled to brief members of the congressional committees on Thursday.

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Pope Leo urges Trump not to try to overthrow Venezuelan president with military force
NEWS | 03 December 2025
Pope Leo has urged Donald Trump not to attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, using military force, and to instead seek dialogue. Trump reportedly gave Maduro an ultimatum to immediately relinquish power during a recent call, but the Venezuelan leader declined, demanding a “global amnesty” for himself and allies. Leo also spoke publicly for the first time about what it was like to have been picked to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. “I resigned myself to the fact when I saw how things were going – I said, ‘This could be a reality’,” Leo, 70, added.

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Trump terminates all documents, including pardons, signed by Joe Biden
NEWS | 03 December 2025
Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen. The autopen is a device used to replicate a person’s signature with precision, typically for high-volume or ceremonial documents. It is not known whether Biden used an autopen on pardons. Before leaving office in January, Biden issued several pardons, including for family members whom he said he wanted to protect from politically motivated investigations. Th US president has also questioned Biden’s mental fitness and suggested that aides, not Biden himself, made key decisions.

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More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader
NEWS | 03 December 2025
More than 200 leading cultural figures have come together to call for the release of Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian leader seen as capable of uniting factions and bringing the best hope to the stalled mission of creating a Palestinian state. An elected parliamentarian at the time of his arrest, he remains the most popular Palestinian leader, consistently topping polls as the people’s choice to lead. Most big Palestinian human rights groups have also rejected the UN resolution, something Barghouti would have to navigate if released. The campaign to release Barghouti intentionally echoes the cultural movement that was central to securing the freedom of Nelson Mandela and ending apartheid in South Africa. Just as global solidarity helped free Nelson Mandela, we all have the power to accelerate the day that Marwan Barghouti walks free.

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Police were skeptical about tip that led to arrest of UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting suspect
NEWS | 03 December 2025
“There’s a male in the [McDonald’s] that looks like the NYC shooter,” police dispatch told Detwiler of the reported sighting. We’ll be on that.”Prosecutor Joel Seidemann asked Detwiler about his tone. “Just trying to keep things calm and normal, like I said before.”How much of a role Mangione’s mask played in attracting attention remains unclear. Seidemann asked Detwiler about mask culture in Altoona. She asked Detwiler, whose pre-Altoona police résumé includes the air force and private security in Iraq, about he and his partner’s physical position at McDonald’s.

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Sam Altman issues ‘code red’ at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals
NEWS | 03 December 2025
Sam Altman has declared a “code red” at OpenAI to improve ChatGPT as the chatbot faces intense competition from rivals. Last month, Altman told employees that the launch of Gemini 3, which has outperformed rivals on various benchmarks, could create “temporary economic headwinds” for the company. The head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, marked the anniversary with a post on X pledging to break new ground with the product. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. Previously, Subramanya spent 16 years at Google, where his roles included the head of engineering for the Gemini assistant.

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India orders phone makers to preload devices with state-owned cyber safety app
NEWS | 03 December 2025
In tackling a recent surge of cybercrime and hacking, India is joining authorities worldwide, most recently in Russia, to frame rules blocking the use of stolen phones for fraud or promoting state-backed government service apps. Apple, which has previously locked horns with the telecoms regulator over development of a government anti-spam mobile app, is among the companies, such as Samsung, Vivo, Oppo and Xiaomi bound by the new order. Privacy advocates criticised a similar requirement by Russia in August for a state-backed messenger app called Max to be pre-installed on phones. With more than 5m downloads since its launch, the app has helped block more than 3.7m stolen or lost mobile phones, while more than 30m fraudulent connections have also been terminated. The government says the software helps prevent cyberthreats and assists tracking and blocking of lost or stolen phones, helping police to trace devices, while keeping counterfeits out of the hidden market.

Current Events:
Stranger Things season 5 breaks Netflix viewership record
NEWS | 03 December 2025
The upside-down is still the right way for Netflix – Stranger Things 5 is now the company’s biggest English-language debut ever. That total translates to about 22m views, meaning season 5 saw a 171% increase, according to Variety, though it should be noted that the fifth season total included five days of viewing, while Stranger Things 4’s premiere only counted three. The day before the long-awaited final season, all previous Stranger Things seasons landed in Netflix’s top 10, a first for any show on the streaming platform. Stranger Things premiered on Netflix in 2016, and quickly became one of the most popular English-language series on the platform. Stranger Things 5 will wrap later this month, with three episodes premiering on Christmas Day.

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The slow death of Pokrovsk
NEWS | 03 December 2025
Giving up land would mean fighting the same battles on different terrain.”View image in fullscreen Ukrainian police from the White Angels unit, which specialises in evacuations, in Pokrovsk city centre in May. View image in fullscreen The evacuation of a local library in Pokrovsk in August 2024. View image in fullscreen Anti-drone netting covers a Ukrainian supply route into Pokrovsk in May 2025. 0:35 Russian forces roll 'Mad Max-style' into battered Pokrovsk - videoIn October, the Russians suffered 25,000 casualties, killed and wounded, mostly around Pokrovsk, according to Zelenskyy. View image in fullscreen Military personnel from unit Code 9.2 setting a vampire drone for launch in a counterattack operation in May 2025.