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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 00:00:14 (1 week ago)

‘The minute I had success, I stopped taking drugs’: John Waters on 60 years of screen carnage

As Hairspray and his ‘angriest movie’ Desperate Living are rereleased, the ‘Pope of Trash’ reflects on dead dogs, dirty rats, ‘that lunatic RFK’ and why there are no novelty dances any more

John Waters still remembers the day his 1988 comedy Hairspray was awarded a PG certificate. “It was horrible,” he says.

Until then, Waters, christened the “Pope of Trash” by the novelist William S Burroughs, was notorious for filming the unfilmable. In Eat Your Makeup, he recreated JFK’s assassination only five years after the event, casting the boisterous Divine in drag as Jackie Kennedy. He invented a blasphemous sex act called the “rosary job” in Multiple Maniacs, which also featured a rape-by-giant-lobster. Most repulsively, in Pink Flamingos, he persuaded Divine to scoff a fresh dog turd on camera.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 00:00:14 (1 week ago)

Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences

Uncrewed systems are the future for armed forces and the Netherlands is leading the way ‘to keep people out of danger zones’

On each side of the target ship, a black vessel keeps a watchful distance. Defender 1 and Defender 2 are the eyes and ears of the navy – but they have nobody onboard, and their paths are controlled by a computer system.

This is the future of the Royal Netherlands Navy, according to Capt Sjoerd Feenstra, head of the expertise centre for unmanned systems. He is leading a five-week mission, off the coast of Den Helder in the north of the country, to test the limits of systems that operate without the human touch.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 00:00:14 (1 week ago)

What is Ukraine’s 40-day campaign against Russia and has it worked?

Taking war to heart of Russian territory has seized initiative and reset Zelenskyy’s relationship with Trump

On 26 June, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, announced that he was ordering Ukraine’s state security service to launch a 40-day campaign against Russian targets aimed at “influencing the aggressor state in order to compel it to end to the war”.

Since then, Kyiv has sharply escalated attacks on Russia under the aegis of a series of overlapping operations striking key supply lines in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied territories, including Crimea, and striking Moscow and St Petersburg in a series of high-profile long-range missile attacks, triggering a fuel crisis.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 00:00:14 (1 week ago)

The most beautiful act of resistance I’ve seen: Madrid tenants fighting landlords with art | Leah Pattem

When an investment fund bought their building, the residents of Tribulete 7 protested in the only way they knew how – through radical creativity

Spain’s housing crisis finally came for the tenants of Madrid’s Calle Tribulete 7 when their block was sold to an investment fund. Feeling pressured to leave by rent increases and aggressive construction works that flooded some apartments, they did everything they were supposed to do: organise meetings, contact the tenants’ union and find a lawyer. They also protested, spoke to journalists and created an Instagram account to spread the word. But they also did something I’d never seen before.

They opened up their homes to the public and invited musicians to play inside, in the very flats and shops that were suddenly at risk. A month later they flipped this concept on its head and took their furniture out on to the street. There the tenants cooked, knitted, played chess in their dressing gowns, worked from home and bobbed in their armchairs to a local band playing a brass version of Freed from Desire. It was a spectacular theatrical performance of everyday existence, but also a fight for their lives.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 00:00:13 (1 week ago)

The Dacre dynasty: how the Daily Mail’s fearsome former editor still shapes the British press

Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples

In 1986, 131 years after the Daily Telegraph was founded, its editor, Max Hastings, wrote a memo to senior colleagues about the newspaper’s nature and purpose. “The Daily Telegraph is … ‘nice’,” he said, “in the business of reassurance, of providing confirmation each morning for our readers that their world is looking pretty safe and stable.” He went on: “We are not a strident campaigning newspaper – our business each day is to seek to give our readers the fullest possible information about what is happening in the world, and to suggest what it might mean.”

In practice, under Hastings and many other Telegraph editors, this ethos produced a journalism of pervasive but usually understated conservatism: often focused on the English countryside, the value of hierarchy and tradition, the pleasures of seasonal pursuits such as foxhunting and gardening, the interests of farmers and retired military men – and cautionary tales about more reckless lives gone wrong, often presented through enjoyably detailed reports from the divorce courts. The Torygraph, as many non-readers called it, could be inward-looking and “numbingly dull”, says Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the historian of British conservatism, but it was “thoroughly respectable”. Many of its most renowned figures, such as Hastings’s predecessor as editor, Bill Deedes, were “mildness itself”.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-07-15 23:58:17 (1 week ago)

Eisenkot: PM asked me as IDF chief to order troops into bunkers in area where his son was serving

Former top military commander says he rejected the 'strange demand,' which he links to current reports that Netanyahu's wife is pushing for lifetime Shin Bet security detail

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Le Monde - World News

2026-07-15 23:55:01 (1 week ago)

'Mad Max' on the ocean: The cocaine-loaded speedboats racing to Europe's shores

In the Atlantic, hundreds of powerful go-fast boats, custom-built to transport tons of cocaine, retrieve shipments from vessels traveling commercial routes between South America, Africa and Europe, according to an investigation by Le Monde in partnership with NDR, WDR, Süddeutsche Zeitung, NRC, IrpiMedia and The Washington Post.

Times of India

2026-07-15 23:52:00 (1 week ago)

'They better behave': Trump says Iran wants settlement amid fresh strikes

President Trump warned Iran to behave if it desires negotiations with Washington. US forces conducted new military strikes targeting Iranian command centers and air defense systems. These strikes aimed to degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian authorities reported a missile attack near a cancer hospital in Ahvaz. Damage was also reported at an industrial facility in Qeshm following an enemy attack.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-15 23:45:33 (1 week ago)

Senior Chinese delegation visits North Korea for talks

China's fourth-highest-ranked official, Wang Huning, held talks with a top official of North Korea's governing party.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-15 23:41:50 (1 week ago)

South Korea’s international adoptees seek justice, not homecoming

South Korea's government has acknowledged wrongs, but advocates say accountability is still lacking.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-07-15 23:35:25 (1 week ago)

Beaten, abused, underfed: life inside an ICE detention facility in Texas

Detainees at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas told two rights groups they were beaten by guards, denied medical care and prevented from contacting family and lawyers, according to a report issued on Wednesday. The report, issued by Human ‌Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, spans dozens of pages and is based on 80 interviews HRW conducted with detainees that focused on conditions at Camp East Montana, which is located at the US Army’s Fort...

Fox News - Video

2026-07-15 23:34:56 (1 week ago)

President Donald Trump: Iran has freed detained American citizen

'Fox News @ Night' has the latest on President Trump's announcement on the Middle East conflict.