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They wore heels, sequins and little else! The heady nights and glistening bodies of cult queer club PDA
NEWS | 24 November 2025
PDA was a popular queer club night that ran monthly in a Hackney basement from 2011 to 2021. The club night’s fluidity and inclusivity were some of the things that enraptured Johnson Artur. Johnson Artur was born in Bulgaria and spoke Russian at home, later moving to Germany, where she was raised by her mother. That’s a very painful thing.”One of the recurring figures in the PDA pictures is Carrie Stacks, the night’s co-founder DJ and nightlife icon. “I don’t look at it as a club book,” says Johnson Artur.

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Trump hints at ‘something good’ after Ukraine peace talks as EU says ‘work remains’ – Europe live
NEWS | 24 November 2025
From 2h ago 06.01 EST 'Something good just may be happening,' Trump says on Ukraine talks US president Donald Trump responded to the reports coming out of Geneva overnight, posting on his Truth Social account: “Is it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine??? We have some fresh quotes from the prime minister’s spokesperson, who said Starmer welcomed “significant progress” in the weekend talks to discuss peace in Ukraine. Share1h ago 06.32 EST 'Lot of work remains to be done,' EU says after early constructive talks on Ukraine Over in Brussels, the European Commission is hosting its daily midday press briefing. “A united and coordinated EU position is key in ensuring a good outcome of peace negotiations - for Ukraine and for Europe,” he added. But as long as the Russian aggression continues, Sweden has a clear two point plan to strengthen Ukraine and weaken Russia.

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US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan
NEWS | 24 November 2025
Having been blindsided by Washington’s initiative, Ukraine’s European allies published their Kyiv-friendly plan on Sunday. Nor does it rule out Ukraine’s membership of Nato, but points out there is no consensus over its membership. European leaders at the G20 summit in South Africa signalled on Saturday that the White House’s peace formula needed “additional work”. Rubio later insisted the US did author the proposal, with input from Russia and Ukraine. View image in fullscreen Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, heads to talks in Geneva on the US-led peace plan.

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Penny Wong says Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be upheld amid global backlash to Trump plan
NEWS | 24 November 2025
Foreign minister Penny Wong has warned any peace plan for Ukraine must not hand new territory to Vladimir Putin, amid furious international backlash to Donald Trump’s proposal. The US president’s plan prompted a furious response from Ukrainians at the weekend, before the country’s European allies released an alternative plan during talks in Geneva. That plan omits some of the pro-Russia provisions included in the original, US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected. On Monday, Wong echoed that call and said a resolution to the nearly four-year war was needed. It also rules out a European peacekeeping force and sanctions for Russian war crimes.

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European defence company shares fall amid Ukraine peace talk hopes; Novo Nordisk reports Alzheimer’s drug failure – business live
NEWS | 24 November 2025
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said he was “very optimistic” about the progress of the talks in Switzerland. In London, defence contractor Babcock’s shares have dropped by 1.4%, while BAE Systems dipped 1% at the open. They say: European natural gas dropped below €30 a megawatt-hour for the first time in more than a year amid discussions about a potential end to Russia’s war in Ukraine. In a disappointing development, Novo says that two trials of its semaglutide drug had failed to show that it slowed cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients. Share2h ago 06.06 EST An index tracking European defence stocks has fallen to its lowest level since July, down 2.2% today.

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Hezbollah chief of staff killed in Beirut airstrike, Israeli military says
NEWS | 24 November 2025
The Israeli military said several hours after the attack that Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, was killed in the strike in Lebanese capital. Videos showed damaged buildings in the densely populated Haret Hreik area of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. Tabatabai escaped Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah’s senior commanders during the 2023-24 war triggered by Hamas’s 7 October 2023 incursion into southern Israel. An Israeli airstrike in Beirut in September 2024 killed the group’s veteran leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and by the time of the ceasefire some weeks later almost its entire military leadership had been killed. The Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, called on the international community to intervene firmly to stop Israeli attacks on the country.

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Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as Israeli airstrikes continue, medics say
NEWS | 24 November 2025
The continuing violence in Gaza has strained the ceasefire, though both sides say they are committed to the agreement. One of the Israeli strikes in Gaza on Saturday targeted a vehicle, killing 11 people and injuring more than 20 in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood, said Rami Mhanna, the managing director of al-Shifa hospital, where the casualties were taken. A strike targeting a house near al-Awda hospital in central Gaza killed at least three people and injured 11, while another strike on a house in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza killed three people, including a woman, medical officials said. More food supplies are getting into Gaza since the October ceasefire but the amount is still falling short of the huge humanitarian need for supplies. More than 69,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in the ensuing Israeli offensive and in strikes since the ceasefire.

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Questions for UK embassy in Tel Aviv over employee who owns home in illegal settlement
NEWS | 24 November 2025
The British embassy in Tel Aviv may have broken both UK sanctions law and UK government security policies by employing an Israeli citizen who owns a home in an illegal settlement in occupied Palestine, legal experts have said. The embassy’s deputy head of corporate services and HR, Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips, moved to Kerem Reim in 2022. View image in fullscreen Kerem Reim was retroactively authorised by the Israeli government in 2017 but remains illegal under international law. “UK sanctions law does not have a de minimis exception. But foreign citizens working at embassies abroad must comply with UK sanctions law to get security clearances.

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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
NEWS | 24 November 2025
Jimmy Cliff, the singer and actor whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died aged 81. A message from his wife Latifa Chambers on Instagram reads: “It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia. Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness was among those paying tribute to Cliff, calling him “a true cultural giant whose music carried the heart of our nation to the world … Jimmy Cliff told our story with honesty and soul. After writing Vietnam, a song pleading for the end to that war, Cliff later recalled: “The critics in London said, ‘Wow! More recently he worked with the lead singer of punk band Rancid, Tim Armstrong, on an EP and album, the latter winning a Grammy for best reggae album – one of two wins from seven nominations over the years.

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‘Stone-cold killers’: New Zealand to eradicate feral cats by 2050
NEWS | 24 November 2025
New Zealand aims to eradicate feral cats by 2050, the country’s conservation minister has announced, in plans that a decade ago generated a fierce backlash from environmentalists. Feral cats are already caught and killed in some areas, but predators on the list are subject to coordinated targeting, with large-scale eradication programs and research. A competition encouraging children to shoot feral cats saw pushback from animal rights groups. SPCA scientific officer Christine Sumner said it understood the concerns with feral cats harming wildlife, and that it expected to see more funding and research put towards humane ways to control them. “It was a glaring omission not to include feral cats to begin with,” Morgan said.

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Spain’s attorney general quits after guilty verdict for leaking confidential information
NEWS | 24 November 2025
Spain’s chief prosecutor has announced his resignation after the supreme court found him guilty last week of leaking confidential information in a case involving a leading opposition figure’s partner. The unprecedented case is a blow to the leftist coalition government of the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, who appointed Álvaro García Ortiz in 2022 and has defended his innocence repeatedly. In a letter seen by Reuters, García Ortiz said his decision to step down, before the sentence banning him from his post for two years, came from “profound respect” for judicial rulings. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

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US reportedly ready for next phase of Venezuela military operations – live
NEWS | 24 November 2025
06.24 EST US reportedly ready for next phase of Venezuela military operationsTrump has been escalating pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and has now labelled him and government allies as members of a foreign terrorist organization. That designation is another step towards criminalizing Maduro – analysts say it could pressure Maduro into stepping down with the threat of military force. It also potentially gives the US expanded military options for striking within the country, US media is reporting. Reports of looming action have proliferated in recent weeks as the US military has deployed warships to the Caribbean amid worsening relations. Reuters had an alarming exclusive yesterday, saying the US is poised to launch a new phase of operations in the coming days, according to four unnamed US officials.

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Relatives of disappeared brace themselves as bodies are exhumed from notorious mass grave in Colombia
NEWS | 24 November 2025
“But they took him.”View image in fullscreen Teresa Gómez hopes the body of her missing son, Hermey, will be found at La Escombrera. “I can feel it.”La Escombrera, a former construction landfill, is one of the most notorious mass grave sites in urban Latin America. La Escombrera, a former construction landfill, is one of the most notorious mass grave sites in urban Latin America. Armed with satellite imagery, the testimony of former paramilitaries who have admitted to killing and burying people in La Escombrera, and investigations by the attorney general’s office, excavations are again under way. Looking down over the hills where her son was taken, Gómez said: “People say I will never find him.

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‘They began taking my friends from school’: the children being recruited by Colombia’s armed groups
NEWS | 24 November 2025
In Colombia, armed groups are battling for control of territory vital to the drug trade, including coca fields, and illegal mining and arms routes. Documented cases of child recruitment into armed groups rose from a few dozen in 2021 to more than 600 in 2024, according to figures from a government watchdog. Ana, then at high risk of being taken by one of the armed groups, locked herself away. “There are some very ugly percentages of child victims among the dead after fighting between the armed groups,” he says. View image in fullscreen Ana, now 15, fled her village last year after all her friends had been recruited by armed groups.