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Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, said a history of contradictory messaging meant that President Trump’s rejection might not be a final position.
Erika Solomon and Alan RappeportUS and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)Araghchi, Abbas
Pope Leo spoke to bishops before leading a service attended by thousands of worshippers in France.
I don’t take calls from Premier League managers, he saysEngland play Czechia in Prague on TuesdayThomas Tuchel says it would be “madness” to allow his England players or the clubs to pick and choose their matches during the elongated Nations League window as he promised to go full throttle for victory against Czechia in Prague on Tuesday.The manager did accept that Declan Rice needed to rest and could not be part of the squad in light of the Arsenal midfielder’s heavy workload across a number of seasons and well-documented fitness issues. Rice was at Wembley on Saturday to watch England lose 3-2 against Spain in their opening Nations League game. Continue reading...
David HytnerEnglandThomas Tuchel
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’The Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a Silicon Valley mogul to discuss what a state designed to maximize science and tech powered by commercial models might look like. The gathered technologists were drawn to the idea of building a small nation-state dedicated to the endeavor, Reich recalls in “System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot it”.When Reich asked whether this state would be a democracy, he got a cool no. “Democracy is too slow, and it holds science back,” he was told. “To optimize for science, we need a beneficent technocrat in charge.” Continue reading...
Eduardo PorterAI (artificial intelligence)Technology
Are you taking fewer journeys by car? Or are you cutting back in other areas to pay your diesel bill? Russia’s war-damaged refineries and the Middle East crisis have erased about a fifth of the world’s diesel supplies and are pushing up the price of diesel at forecourt pumps.We would like to speak to people living in Shetland and the Outer Hebrides who are paying the highest average price for diesel per litre. How are you coping with the surge in cost? Are you taking fewer car journeys? Have you cut back in other areas to pay for your diesel bill? Continue reading...
Guardian community teamPetrol pricesMoney
Every one of the Grammy-nominated Floridian’s songs reveal a different side of him. His latest album, Roadrunner, is all languid reggae basslines and come-hither lyricismFrom Tampa, FloridaRecommended if you like Kwn, Tyla, OdealUp next Performing in Dallas, Texas, 1 NovemberDestin Conrad has had a busy couple of years: three albums, one Grammy nomination and a string of collaborations with fellow R&B up-and-comers such as Bellah and Nia Smith. Pick any record and you’ll hear a different side of the 26-year-old. His spring 2025 debut Love on Digital pays its dues to the genre that raised him while swerving derivative cliches with small production quirks – a vocal glitch here, a skittering Jersey beat there. Last summer’s Whimsy is a sprawling alt-jazz album that was written in two weeks, inspired by his time in a high-school jazz choir. A year later, Roadrunner arrived as a celebrati
Olive Pometsey, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Laura SnapesMusicCulture
A publisher whose warehouse was hit twice said Moscow “thinks that books are more dangerous for them than military equipment.”
Kim Barker and Oleksandra MykolyshynRussian Invasion of Ukraine (2022)Books and Literature
The U.S. military formally ends a more than two-decade-long presence in Iraq this week.
Jane Arraf
An Israeli Apache helicopter struck a commercial centre near Mayfadoun in Southern Lebanon.
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Our reporter Kim Barker goes inside a storied Kyiv book market that was hit by an air strike. Russian attacks have damaged millions of books in Ukraine in the last few months.
Kim Barker, Leila Medina, Thomas Vollkommer and Oleksandra MykolyshynBooks and LiteratureUkraine
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