Posted on April 17, 2024
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World newsThe chemist, the bus drivers and 187 bodiesMurder squad survivor leads police to the maniac who hired killers from his Mexican prison cellIn the cold desert night, the stranger appeared like a ghost. Blood streamed from a cut above her puffy, blackened eye. Her baggy pants and blouse were dirt-streaked, and she was missing a shoe.
To the peasant who saw her staggering towards his house, she was a terrifying sight.
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Posted on April 17, 2024
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Book of the dayFood and drink booksReviewFisher exposed the private appetites most of us struggle to hide. Her celebrated book from 1943 has been reissued and reads very differently now
WH Auden’s famous observation on the writer MFK Fisher – “I do not know of anyone in the States who writes better prose” – has been pressed into service on the cover of this reprint of Fisher’s most beloved book The Gastronomical Me (1943).
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Posted on April 17, 2024
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ShortcutsLGBTQ+ rightsFrancis’s reported remarks show a new Catholic acceptance of LGBT people and confirm what many of us have always known: God doesn’t make mistakes
It is immensely powerful to hear that Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic church, reportedly told Juan Carlos Cruz, a gay man: “God made you like this and loves you like this.”
Cruz is a survivor of clerical abuse who spoke privately with the pope a few weeks ago, and has since reported his conversation to Spanish newspapers.
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Posted on April 17, 2024
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The ObserverIndian food and drinkHow a legacy of the British Raj has become a staple of Indian culture
Read the Bombay Lunchbox recipes hereHow tiffin came about When the British established themselves in India in the late 18th century, it soon became clear that adaptation was needed. For a start, the rituals of eating were going to have to change to accommodate the hot, languid days and nights. In the heat of the day lunch became a much lighter meal – but what to call it?
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Posted on April 17, 2024
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OpinionLanguage This article is more than 4 years oldWhy is everyone suddenly using the C-word?This article is more than 4 years oldStan CareyFrom viral videos about Tommy Robinson to Game of Thrones, there are signs the taboo is lessening – for someA journalist from Canada recently shared a video on Twitter in which she asked people in Manchester their opinion of Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon). Two young people – one male, one female – replied immediately with the word “cunt”.
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Posted on April 16, 2024
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European Union This article is more than 1 month oldEU revealed as hub for ‘cruel’ live animal transport amid fears of disease This article is more than 1 month oldExclusive: Previously unpublished records show millions of animals traded over long distances between European countries or exported globally
Europe live – latest updates Previously unpublished records have revealed evidence about the EU’s role in the controversial trade in live farm animals, with millions of livestock being transported across Europe and internationally on long distance journeys condemned by campaigners.
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This is a trailer for Mirrors. Starring Kiefer Sutherland, this concerns a former policeman who takes a job as a security guard at a department store is haunted by terrifying visions in the large mirrors at night
Posted on April 16, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
OpinionIsrael This article is more than 3 months oldHamas may have pushed Israelis into a far darker place than Netanyahu ever dreamed of This article is more than 3 months oldDahlia ScheindlinIsrael was already deeply rightwing. But after this horror, even hardcore leftwingers, full of rage, will slide towards the right
Before Gal Navon’s coffin was wheeled in, two family members shrieked in anguish and nearly fainted. His cousin marshalled the most eloquent adjectives in the Hebrew language to describe him, but added that: “All possible words can only detract from the truth of who you really were.
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Posted on April 16, 2024
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Just as you wouldn’t force extroverts to refuse invitations and stay in, introverts should not be required to go out. Illustration: Nishant Choksi/The GuardianJust as you wouldn’t force extroverts to refuse invitations and stay in, introverts should not be required to go out. Illustration: Nishant Choksi/The GuardianChristmasThree writers who struggle with socialising explain how they make it through festive season
The partyphobe: Lucy ManganFanny Brice was right. People who need people are the luckiest people, at least when party season rolls around.
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Posted on April 16, 2024
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The 15th-century ring believed to have been owned by French heroine Joan of Arc. Photograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty ImagesThe 15th-century ring believed to have been owned by French heroine Joan of Arc. Photograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty ImagesFrance This article is more than 7 years oldJoan of Arc ring stays in France after appeal to QueenThis article is more than 7 years oldFrench theme park has refused to return 15th-century relic that belonged to the teenage warrior who helped defeat English invaders
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