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The Pacific voyage guided by just a spiritual GPS Researchers bid to unlock secrets of the Marshall Islands ‘wave pilots’ – and learn more about Alzheimer’s

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More Gazan children will come to UK for treatment ‘Their welfare is the world’s priority’ MP says after just two young girls granted medical visas since war began

Story this evening in @theobserveruk.bsky.social with @catneilan.bsky.social which Keir Starmer has been good enough to confirm observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Looking forward to a string of leaks about NHS Tayside in the Guardian in coming weeks.

Air India crash mystery deepens as report says fuel cut o... As cockpit recording reveals one pilot denied turning switches off, safety expert hints at risk of software failure

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Breakthrough against chemo resistance in ovarian cancer Imperial College London scientists hopeful new approach could be used in other cancers

Some important research on ovarian cancer here from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

British woman laments Brexit rules that would stop her Italian husband moving to UK Sarah Douglas says salary requirement means her husband would be ineligible for family visa to join her and their children

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If you’re going to abuse people online, probably best to be able to spell their name, Patrick.

Was a real highlight - what’s the name of that RTE doc you did?

Entertainment or emergency? Global leaders heed Attenboro... Naturalist David Attenborough’s film Ocean highlighted the destructive fishing practice of bottom trawling, which involves dragging the seabed with heavy...

Entertainment or emergency? Global leaders heed Attenborough’s warning

Naturalist David Attenborough’s film Ocean highlighted the destructive fishing practice of bottom trawling, which involves dragging the seabed with heavy chains.

@rachelsylvester.bsky.social

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Oceans | The Observer <p>A series investigating fishing and the state of our oceans</p>

The 2025 UN Ocean Conference begins today.

At The Observer, we’ve been examining the state of our oceans — from illegal fishing by foreign fleets to destruction within the UK’s marine protected areas.

Here’s a round-up of our reporting so far 🧵

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More than 3,000 species are caught by bottom trawlers and at least 10% are critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable, including hawksbill turtle and Patagonian seahorse, reveals new research. In today's Observer.

The accuser accused | The Observer The British barrister, the Netanyahu arrest warrant and the sexual assault case that could destroy the International Criminal Court

With brutal wars raging in Gaza, Sudan & Ukraine, the world’s war crimes court is needed more than ever — but it’s facing an existential crisis.

Karim Khan KC, Chief Prosecutor at the ICC, faces serious allegations of sexual misconduct.

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The train on platform 1 is now Great and British. But you’ll be lucky if it’s on time | The Observer Passengers on the first rail company to be nationalised by Labour share hopes and fears as a new era chugs in

The train on platform 1 is now Great and British. But you’ll be lucky if it’s on time.

Passengers on the first rail company to be nationalised by Labour share hopes and fears as a new era chugs in.

Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap as Treasury told to find money | The Observer Policy change will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty after pressure from cabinet and MPs

And so the thing @stephenkb.bsky.social and others predicted had to happen under Labour, sooner or later, has happened, sooner observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap as Treasury told to find money | The Observer Policy change following concern among cabinet MPs will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty

Keir Starmer backs end of two child benefit cap and tells Treasury to find the money - my story for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The train on platform 1 is now Great and British. But you’ll be lucky if it’s on time | The Observer Passengers on the first rail company to be nationalised by Labour share hopes and fears as a new era chugs in

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COYS!

In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright.

The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them.

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You could try it for a month. I’m 7kg lighter than three weeks ago via Mounjaro plus diet and exercise having stopped losing weight after losing 17kg in 18 months via diet and exercise alone.

Trump’s Alcatraz Announcement Comes The Morning After Clint Eastwood Prison Classic Was On Local TV The Clint Eastwood classic was on a local Palm Beach station the night before Trump made the announcement he is reopening the infamous prison.

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Put away your earplugs … UK children are ditching screeching recorders for mellifluous melodicas We’ve all suffered through cacophonous school assembles. Now the rise of the melodica, as recently adopted by 20 Yorkshire primaries, could turn discord to harmony

That’s old news and anyway, no Ukes! Ukes out! www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It’s slightly more complicated in that there was a Saturday Guardian web team (still is) that we would work alongside, and the news desk would push our stories their way to go online. They would also do their own live news and sometimes we’d take bits.

Not at all - wouldn’t expect anyone to know the details of how we were arranged. There was always a separate home news desk with news eds commissioning reporters just for the Obs. International, Business and Sport were shared.

And, I'm sure that the new powers-that-be would be delighted to receive all kinds of feedback from readers.

Glad you've read it but as a point of info, the Guardian news desk never had anything to do with us.

Why on earth are people objecting to this? They need a good talking to.

Ah but you're using logic and reason. This is a 4chan reflex. "Here's a thing, how can I shitpost?"

‘She was the light that lifted so many survivors’: tributes pour in for Virginia Giuffre Giuffre’s suicide has revealed the cost of justice for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims

Virginia Giuffre’s death is going to another touchstone for the Maga right, I’m sad to say. Early details in this piece with @phoebeivy.bsky.social and in the paper too - go and buy one!

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