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Doctored videos impersonating Euronews and other major media outlets have been used to spread false claims about the war in the Middle East, shared across social media and relayed by the pro-Kremlin Pravda network. According to researchers from the Antibot4Navalny collective, the campaign is tied to the Russia-linked “Matryoshka” operation, which carries out mass, coordinated disinformation campaigns across social media and online, targeting Ukraine and the West. Researchers say the campaign is not directly focused on the Middle East war, but that the crisis has been used to push unrelated narratives to tarnish the West. This includes presenting Ukrainians as…

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If you’ve ever visited Tokyo, or are planning an upcoming trip, there’s a good chance you will have come across the work of international art collective teamLab. The group’s exhibitions, which see visitors walk (or in some cases splash) through rooms filled with colourful projections and art you can interact with, are pure social media fodder. Tickets can sell out months in advance, and teamLab has long since expanded from its base in Japan’s capital with openings in destinations across Asia including Osaka, Kyushu, Macao, Abu Dhabi and Jeddah. Now there’s another museum in the pipeline, and this time it’s…

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The campaign, he said, has benefited Russia’s war in Ukraine “by flouting international law,” driving up energy prices and diverting military assets that could otherwise have been sent to support Kyiv. Oil prices spiked in the wake of the aerial campaign, with crude briefly rising beyond $100 a barrel earlier this week and analysts warning it would help the Kremlin plug holes in its wartime budget. The EU, Costa went on, wants to see Iranians gain rights and freedoms, “but freedom and human rights cannot be achieved through bombs. Only international law upholds them.” Instead, he said, the rules-based international…

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Published on 10/03/2026 – 10:33 GMT+1 One of Hollywood’s biggest action stars hasn’t been seen on the big screen since 2019’s poorly received Terminator: Dark Fate… But now, “The Austrian Oak” is staging a comeback. Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that he is currently in talks to return to his first franchise, Conan the Barbarian. The 1982 action-adventure film was the former body builder’s breakout role, before James Cameron’s The Terminator propelled him to international fame two years later. The 78-year-old former Governor of California is not just limiting his return to one franchise though… He’s in talks to return to…

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Sackman said a decision about whether the march could happen would be made by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and the police. “I don’t want to see marches and the views expressed in this go ahead,” Sackman said. “The decision’s not for me, but I’ve made my views very clear.” Sackman later told LBC that marchers “shouldn’t be on the streets of London calling for hate and hostility against this country. That’s thoroughly anti-British.” Organized by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), the march is named after the Arabic word for Jerusalem and part of a wider international event expressing support…

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Oil prices fell sharply after US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the war against Iran could be short-lived and that Washington was considering waiving oil-related sanctions on certain countries to ease pressure on crude markets. “So in some countries, we’re going to take those sanctions off until this straightens out,” Trump told reporters, without naming which countries were under consideration. The United States currently maintains sanctions affecting oil trade against a small group of countries: Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Syria and North Korea. Trump also said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to discuss the war…

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The government, like the rest of us, is trying to work out where it stands this morning after Donald Trump swung from hitting Iran ‘twenty times harder’ to ending the war ‘very soon’. If Mr Trump’s got things to boiling point and now looking for an off-ramp, how will that make the UK response look? Sam and Anne pick up on what they’re hearing about relations between the PM and his defence chiefs. Back in parliament, the Courts and Tribunal Bill returns to the Commons – we go over the streamlined plans for juries, and where any rebellion could come.…

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There have been more than 39,000 cases of human trafficking recorded in Europe in the past two decades, according to the latest data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Between 2002 and 2022, 85% of victims were adults, especially between the ages of 30 and 38, while 15% were children. Globally, the number of victims of trafficking increased to more than 125,000 adults and 30,000 children. IOM experts believe the true number is much higher due to underreporting and gaps in detection. In Europe, the victims were mainly from nine different countries, with more than 19,000 victims from Ukraine,…

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