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Dec 3, 2025 - World

Store employee found masked bandit sleeping off a bender after invading booze store and tippling a tad too muchA liquor store employee in Virginia was startled on Saturday to discover smashed whisky bottles on the floor of the shop and, upon entering the bathroom, an apparently drunk, sleeping and spread-eagled raccoon.“He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything,” Samantha Martin, an local animal control officer, told the Daily Mail. Continue reading...

Dec 3, 2025 - World

Minneapolis mayor condemns the plan to target people who just look like they could be from the East African nation after Trump attacks Somalis in White House rantTrump calls Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ as US reportedly targets Minnesota communityJamal Osman, a Somali American city council member in Minneapolis, also spoke alongside Mayor Jacob Frey at last night’s press conference, delivering a message in both Somali and English to his worried community.As reports spread on Tuesday that ICE agents were due to launch raids, he had visited affected neighbourhoods. Continue reading...

Dec 3, 2025 - World

PM responds to report that Nigel Farage told donors he expects Reform could do an election deal with the ConservativesThis is from Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, on Nigel Farage’s denial of the FT story. (See 9.33am.)A handy reminder that in 2019 Farage did a deal to put Boris Johnson in No10 and push through his disastrous Brexit deal.But instead of taking responsibility, of course Farage plays the victim. Continue reading...

Dec 3, 2025 - World

Debt-ridden utility warns of ‘material uncertainty’ with potential for a rapid collapse despite profit riseThames Water has reported a leap in half-year profits to £414m after bills rose by nearly a third, even as it warned it faced huge funding uncertainties that could result in a rapid collapse into government control.Britain’s biggest water company on Wednesday said it had swung into profit for the six months to September, after losing £149m in the same period in 2024. Continue reading...

Dec 3, 2025 - World

Option of EU loan based on common borrowing also proposed in concession to concerns raised by BelgiumEurope live – latest updatesThe European Commission will move ahead with a controversial proposal to fund Ukraine with a loan based on Russia’s frozen assets, it has announced.But in a concession to concerns raised by Belgium, which hosts most of the assets, the EU executive has also proposed another option: an EU loan based on common borrowing. Continue reading...