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      First Brexit, now Trump and Musk: ignorance is back with a vengeance | William Keegan

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 January, 2025

    The aggression from the Tesla billionaire is new; but Britain has years of experience in the consequences of falling for misleading promises

    ‘Never under­estimate the power of ignorance.” I came across this thought while looking for something to watch late at night after the television news on the horrors in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and the Los Angeles fires.

    The quote comes from an old episode of my friend Paul Whitehouse’s The Fast Show . It applies, among many other things, to the background to the re-election of the criminal Donald Trump, and the continuing damage being wrought upon itself by a British electorate, 37% of whom voted, in frustration at other economic and social problems, for Brexit. With few exceptions they did not know what they were letting themselves in for; but they do now.

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      ‘Stuff happens and it sucks’: Brooke Shields on abuse, ageing and telling her own story

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 January, 2025 • 1 minute

    Brooke Shields, sexualised child star at just 11, is no stranger to tabloid controversy. Now 59, perhaps now she can tell us how she ended up so… normal?

    Brooke Shields was at a party, drifting off. The host, a small man with bare feet, was giving her a tour of his wine cellar and she was losing interest, if she’s being honest – which she is now as a matter of principle, after a lifetime of smiling politely and pretending everything’s fine. Her mind was wandering. They say wine gets better with age, she was thinking, “but isn’t there a moment when it turns to jam? And I said to him, ‘I’m 58 and I’m wondering if…’ I didn’t even get the rest of the sentence out before he said, ‘Oh, I wish you hadn’t told me that.’”

    That’s curious, she replied. “I asked him, ‘Did my age make him older?’ I was interested in the psychology of it, that kneejerk reaction.” It was partly, she thinks, her fame – people imprint on a child star, and when they grow up they take it personally. “It felt so indicative of what we do to women, too. And we do the same thing to ourselves – we get caught up, chasing something that’s gone.” It wasn’t the first time somebody had taken offence at the fact she was no longer 15 and she knew it would not be the last, but it was this conversation that inspired her new book about fame, women and the complexity of ageing. She’s called it, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old .

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      TV tonight: Martin Clunes’s urgent drama about county lines drug dealing

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 January, 2025

    Out There is a tense story from the team behind Manhunt and Steeltown Murders. Plus: unpicking the mysteries of Stonehenge. Here’s what to watch this evening

    9pm, ITV1

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      Semi-final duel looming as Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff run hot at Australian Open

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 January, 2025

    • No 1 seed Sabalenka crushes teenager Mirra Andreeva 6-1, 6-2 in Rd 4
    • Gauff recovers to beat Belinda Bencic 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 and enter quarter-finals

    Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff moved to within one round of a semi-final collision course at the Australian Open as the two highest-ranked players in the top half of the singles draw maintained their momentum on a warm day in Melbourne Park.

    On Sunday, Sabalenka extended her dominant run in Melbourne by dismantling Mirra Andreeva 6-1, 6-2. Now three wins away from becoming the first woman in 26 years to win three Australian Open titles, Sabalenka has won her last 24 sets at the tournament, a streak dating back to her three set victory over Elena Rybakina in the 2023 final.

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      Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli forces reportedly withdrawing from parts of Rafah ahead of ceasefire

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 January, 2025 • 1 minute

    Reports say Israeli troops start moving from southern Gaza city to Philadelphi corridor on border with Egypt before truce set to begin at 8.30am local time

    Welcome to our live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. It’s 7.22am in Tel Aviv and Gaza City and we’re under 90 minutes away from the ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas scheduled to come into effect at 8.30am local time (6.30am GMT) on Sunday.

    The ceasefire, set to be followed by a hostage release to follow hours later, opens the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East, as Reuters reports.

    Benjamin Netanyahu said the first stage of the deal was temporary, adding: “If we must return to fighting, we will do that in new, forceful ways.” The prime minister added that both Donald Trump and Joe Biden back Israel’s “right to resume fighting if the second stage is fruitless”. Netanyahu also said Israel would not go ahead with the ceasefire deal until it received a list of the 33 hostages kidnapped by Hamas in the deal’s first phase. “Israel will not tolerate violations of the agreement. The sole responsibility lies with Hamas.”

    Hamas said on Saturday that the mechanism of the release of Israeli hostages it held in Gaza would depend on the number of detained Palestinians Israel would free . Hamas also said Israel had “failed to achieve its aggressive goals” in Gaza.

    Yemen’s Houthis claimed an attack on a US aircraft carrier on Sunday and warned of “consequences” for any retaliation during the coming Gaza ceasefire. The Israeli military said it intercepted two missiles fired from Yemen on Saturday. The military activated air raid sirens in Jerusalem and in parts of central and southern Israel ahead of the interceptions.

    Israeli forces have killed at least 46,899 Palestinians and injured 110,725 since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in an update on Saturday. It said 23 Palestinians were killed and 83 were injured over the past 24 hours.

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      Germany is gripped by election fever … but Trump is pulling the strings

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 January, 2025

    The machinations of Elon Musk and the incoming US president loom large in the minds of politicians and voters

    A Donald Trump-shaped shadow is looming over the campaign for Germany’s snap elections next month, with unprecedented US interference on behalf of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland and a startling degree of attention from the incoming US administration scrambling the political landscape.

    In a country that puts a premium on stability, Trump’s second term is forcing all parties to revamp fundamental stances, with responses ranging from opportunistic fealty to still wan-looking resistance. The stakes for Berlin could hardly be higher.

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      TikTok goes dark in the US ahead of ban

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 January, 2025

    App no longer available on US Apple and Google stores after supreme court upholds lawmakers’ ban

    TikTok stopped working in the US late on Saturday, shortly before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app was due to take effect.

    The app was no longer available on Apple’s iOS App Store or Google’s Play Store. The US Congress passed a law in April mandating that parent company ByteDance either sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner or face a total shutdown. It chose the latter.

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      Australian Open 2025: Draper v Alcaraz, Djokovic v Lehecka to come – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 January, 2025

    • Updates from Day 8 of tennis at Melbourne Park
    • Sabalenka and Gauff in action early; Draper v Alcaraz to come

    No 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka and No 14 Mirra Andreeva are into it on Rod Laver Arena. Servers are dominating so far with both players winning their opening games to love and Sabalenka just taking the second to lead 2-1 in the first set.

    Hello tennis fans and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the 2025 Australian Open. Angus Fontaine here guiding you through the early follies and volleys before Jonathan Howcroft picks up the cudgels in the afternoon session.

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      Man charged with attempted murder after allegedly setting woman on fire at home south of Brisbane

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 18 January, 2025

    Woman, 34, in hospital after alleged domestic violence incident in Kingston on Saturday

    A Queensland man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to a woman in an horrific act of domestic violence in a home south of Brisbane.

    After being treated by paramedics at the scene in the Logan suburb of Kingston on Saturday morning, the 34-year-old woman was rushed to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a serious condition. Police say she sustained serious burns.

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