Andrew Tate and brother Tristan arrested in Romania on UK warrant (www.theguardian.com)
British-American online influencers facing charges dating to 2012-15 including sexual aggression, representative says...
Hundreds of Palestine supporters protest Israeli real estate event at New Jersey synagogue (www.theguardian.com)
‘We stand here as Jewish men who refute the Holocaust being hijacked’: The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer calls for end to Gaza attacks at Oscars (www.theguardian.com)
Glasgow’s disastrous Wonka character inspires horror film (www.theguardian.com)
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EU fines Apple €1.8bn over App Store restrictions on music streaming (www.theguardian.com)
Penalty for breaching competition law is four times higher than forecast as Brussels looks to send message to tech firms...
France makes abortion a constitutional right in historic Versailles vote (www.theguardian.com)
Eiffel Tower lit up to mark change, seen as way of protecting law that decriminalised abortion in 1975...
‘It’s greed, that’s what it’s about’: documenting the UK’s cost of living crisis – photo essay (www.theguardian.com)
Photographer Kirsty Mackay’s project The Magic Money Tree explores the impact of poverty in the Black Country, South Shields and Bristol...
Scientist fed classified information to China, says Canada intelligence report (www.theguardian.com)
Report says Xiangguo Qiu secretly worked with Wuhan Institute for Virology and posed a ‘threat to Canada’s economic security’...
Red Army Faction militant arrested in Germany after decades on run (www.theguardian.com)
Art shows the surreal reality of wartime Ukraine in a way the news never could (www.theguardian.com)
Russia’s war against Ukraine has never been only about territory and artillery, about politicians and putative peace deals. Of course, that is the easiest and most acceptable register in which to consider unthinkable violence: as a geopolitical problem happening at a far distance. But Russia’s aggression is an event of...
Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays (www.theguardian.com)
Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000 people...
Restaurants bustle, new bookshops open, the air raid app goes off. This is our defiant reality in Kyiv (www.theguardian.com)
As Russia seeks to destroy our way of life, Ukrainian efforts to keep society going should never be taken for granted...
Hungary set to remove final barrier to Sweden joining Nato (www.theguardian.com)
Sweden and Hungary have said they are “prepared to die for each other” as their prime ministers meet in Budapest for what has been described as Hungary preparing to remove the final barrier to the Nordic country joining Nato....
Navalny’s mother shown body and ‘blackmailed by authorities’ over funeral (www.theguardian.com)
Lyudmila Navalnaya says she was told to agree to secret burial as Kremlin appears to fear funeral turning into political action...
Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide...
Bleaching fears along 1,000km stretch of the Great Barrier Reef (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists are investigating reports of dying coral from Lizard Island in the north to Heron Island in the south...
UK indie films will ‘die’ without fiscal aid, Ken Loach producer says (www.theguardian.com)
The Bafta-winning producer behind Ken Loach’s acclaimed films has warned that the UK indie film sector will “die” without additional fiscal support....
Russia adds Republican senator Lindsey Graham to ‘terrorists and extremists’ list (www.theguardian.com)
HMRC investigations of wealthy ‘tax dodgers’ halve in five years (www.theguardian.com)
The number of civil investigation cases opened by a HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) fraud unit investigating offshore, corporate and wealthy taxpayers has fallen by more than half in five years, figures reveal....
Trump fraud trial ruling expected today as Fani Willis misconduct hearing resumes (www.theguardian.com)
Trump faces a potential $370m fine and a lifetime ban on doing real estate in New York; Trump Georgia prosecutor won’t take stand again after fiery first day
Colorado city of Loveland is hub of postal activity each Valentine’s Day (www.theguardian.com)
South Africa urges ICJ to consider Rafah intervention (www.theguardian.com)
In a request submitted to the court yesterday, the South African government said it was gravely concerned that the unprecedented military offensive against Rafah, as announced by Israel, has already led to and will result in further large scale killing, harm and destruction. This would be in serious and irreparable breach both...
Russell Simmons sued over alleged rape of Def Jam executive in the 1990s (www.theguardian.com)
Musk ordered to testify again in SEC investigation of Twitter takeover (www.theguardian.com)
US regulator sued in October to compel Musk to testify as part of an investigation into his $44bn purchase of what is now known as X...
Louisiana governor accused of using public records law to intimidate EPA and ‘Cancer Alley’ community (www.theguardian.com)
Louisiana’s far-right government has quietly obtained hundreds of pages of communications between the Environmental Protection Agency and journalists, legal advocates and community groups focused on environmental justice. The rare use of public records law to target citizens is a new escalation in the state’s battle with the...
