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This is how we do it: ‘I have an urgent desire to have group sex – and I want Sophie to join me on this journey’
NEWS | 01 December 2025
She told me about the group sex she’d had, and we arranged to meet a couple from a dating app, but Sophie got cold feet. Now we’re no longer in the honeymoon phase, Sophie has changed her mind about wanting to have group sex with me. My urgency to have group sex is partly existential. I had group sex with my ex during lockdown, when online sex parties developed into real ones. Group sex isn’t even that great.

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Death toll passes 900 in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka floods
NEWS | 01 December 2025
Authorities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand are racing to clear debris and find hundreds of missing people after more than 900 died in devastating floods and landslides across the south of Asia. Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka in south Asia, the death toll from floods and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah rose sharply on Sunday to 334, with many more still missing and low-lying areas of the capital, Colombo, under water, authorities said. View image in fullscreen Rescuers search for victims after floods and landslides in North Sumatra. The annual monsoon season, which typically occurs between June and September, often brings heavy rain, causing landslides and flash floods. Authorities say that Cyclone Ditwah, which developed in the sea east of Sri Lanka, is likely to move toward India’s southern coast on Sunday.

World:
Ukrainian and US officials meet in Florida to discuss proposals to end Russia’s war
NEWS | 01 December 2025
Ukrainian negotiators have met US officials in Florida to thrash out details of Washington’s proposed framework to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as Kyiv faces pressure on military and political fronts. A source close to the Ukrainian delegation later told AFP the talks were “not easy” and “the search for formulations and solutions continues. Rubio said: “The end goal, obviously, is not just the end of the war. “It’s not just about the terms that end fighting,” Rubio said. During negotiations last weekend in Switzerland – led by Rubio and Ukrainian negotiators – the plan was revised substantially.

Current Events:
Ukraine: are we closer to a peace deal? – video explainer
NEWS | 01 December 2025
Over the past week, there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity to end Russia's war in Ukraine. As Kyiv battles to minimise Vladimir Putin's maximalist demands, including the cessation of territories in the east, the Guardian's Russian affairs reporter, Pjotr Sauer, explains why despite some advances, the agreement to a peace deal still appears unlikely

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Benjamin Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon in corruption case
NEWS | 01 December 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel’s president for a pardon for bribery and fraud charges and an end to a five-year corruption trial, arguing that it would be in the “national interest”. “The office of the president is aware that this is an extraordinary request which carries with it significant implications,” a statement from his office said. A pre-emptive pardon of a politician in a corruption case without an admission of guilt would be precedent-setting and highly controversial. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/APNetanyahu rejects the allegations, and has condemned the case as a “witch-hunt” orchestrated by the media, police and judiciary. “What Netanyahu wants now is actually to be above the law.”Civil society leaders and opposition leaders made it clear that they would fight any move to grant Netanyahu a pardon.

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Trump confirms he recently spoke with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro
NEWS | 01 December 2025
Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had spoken with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, but he did not provide details on what the two leaders discussed. The answer is yes,” the US president said when asked if he had spoken with Maduro. The New York Times first reported Trump had spoken with Maduro earlier this month and discussed a possible meeting between them in the United States. The socialist Venezuelan president has denied having any links to the illegal drug trade. Trump told military service members last week the US would “very soon” begin land operations to stop suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers.

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Trump news at a glance: president says freeze on asylum decisions will last ’a long time’
NEWS | 01 December 2025
US President Donald Trump has said his administration intends to maintain a pause on asylum decisions for “a long time”, after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard members near the White House, killing one of them. When asked to specify how long it would last, Trump said he had “no time limit” in mind for the measure, which the Department of Homeland Security says is linked to a list of 19 countries already facing US travel restrictions. “We don’t want those people,” Trump continued. “You know why we don’t want them? Because many have been no good, and they shouldn’t be in our country.”Here are the key stories:Catching up?

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Hong Kong mourns as apartment fire death toll rises to 146
NEWS | 01 December 2025
The death toll in Hong Kong’s apartment complex fire has risen to 146 after investigators discovered more bodies in the burnt-out buildings. View image in fullscreen A mourner holding a flower at a makeshift memorial near Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong. View image in fullscreen People line up to lay flowers near Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Tai Po on Sunday. View image in fullscreen Residents pay tribute to the victims of the fire in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Sunday. The Wang Fuk Court fire is the worst on record in Hong Kong since a warehouse blaze in 1948 killed 176 people.

This Just In:
Thousands rally in Madrid to demand snap election over corruption allegations
NEWS | 01 December 2025
Tens of thousands of people have attended an anti-government demonstration in Madrid to demand a snap general election as the country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, tries to weather a series of corruption allegations involving his family, his party and his administration. View image in fullscreen People wave Spanish flags and hold placards during the protest called by the People’s party in central Madrid. He added that Ábalos’s detention before trial proved Sánchez’s style of politics – labelled sanchismo – was rotten. “Eta is preparing its assault on the Basque Country and on Navarra while it props up Pedro Sánchez,” she said. View image in fullscreen The leader of the People’s party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, speaks during the rally in Madrid.

Today:
Dignitas founder ends his own life through assisted death
NEWS | 01 December 2025
The head of the Swiss right-to-die organisation Dignitas has ended his life through an assisted death, the group has said. Internationally there has been a significant shift in attitudes towards assisted dying in the nearly three decades since Dignitas was founded. France recently voted to allow some people in the last stages of a terminal illness the right to assisted dying. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Austria have all introduced assisted dying laws since 2015. About 1,900 people from the UK are members of Dignitas, including the TV presenter and assisted dying campaigner Esther Rantzen.

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Sydney police charge four men over alleged ‘international satanic child sex abuse material ring’
NEWS | 01 December 2025
NSW police say they have uncovered an “international satanic child sex abuse material ring” and charged four Australians for their alleged involvement. Detectives from the sex crimes squad said that as part of Strike Force Constantine, an investigation into the online distribution of child sexual abuse material involving ritualistic or satanic themes, they disrupted a Sydney-based network. In a statement, police alleged the network was actively involved in possessing, distributing and facilitating this material through a website that was “administered internationally”. The man was charged with numerous offences including possession of child abuse material, making available child abuse material, and disseminating and possessing bestiality material. They were also charged with possession of child abuse material and other charges.

World:
Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told
NEWS | 01 December 2025
The former director of UK special forces and other senior military officers tried to cover up concerns that SAS units were carrying out unlawful killings in Afghanistan, an inquiry has heard. A summary of his evidence said: “It was apparent when he came back to UK special forces in 2014 that it had not stopped at all. Citing one raid, he told the military police that special forces shot at a mosquito net until there was no movement. He said he was “surprised” and “disappointed” that a special forces lawyer did not recommend reporting the concerns to the special investigations branch. “We also remain committed to providing the support that our special forces deserve, whilst maintaining the transparency and accountability that the British people rightly expect from their armed forces.

Current Events:
Ivan Milat was convicted of murdering seven people. Could he have killed scores more?
NEWS | 01 December 2025
Hughes is convinced that Rowland, who went missing from Canberra on 26 February 1971, was the first victim of the notorious serial killer Ivan Milat. But the Legalise Cannabis party’s NSW MLC, Jeremy Buckingham, is convinced Milat killed many others. But Buckingham wants the inquiry to go much further and investigate “impediments in the justice system that impacted the delivery of justice”. “My interest is solely in Keren,” Hughes says, when asked about the possibility that Milat was a serial killer of monstrous proportions. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The GuardianBuckingham’s obsession with Milat and unsolved cases began when looking at a missing person case in Bellingen, where he lives.

News Flash:
A teenager redrew the Alabama voting map – and it’s now state law
NEWS | 01 December 2025
Earlier this month, after years of litigation, a federal judge in Alabama ordered a new state senate map. After the Alabama legislature declined to implement a new map, she appointed a special master to come up with a new one. “Black voters could only rarely elect Black candidates and can only sometimes elect their preferred candidates if those candidates are White,” they wrote. “I just think it’s a bit funny I can say I’m better at my craft than a court-appointed special master,” he said. And it appears that trying to use my map as a demonstrative may have backfired on the special master.” While the special master will be paid for his work, DiDonato will not.