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The US invasion of Greenland might be off the table for now, but the Trump administration won't have an easy time using the rare earth elements and critical minerals it claims it's getting access to as part of a deal with NATO. …
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David Ehrlich is back with my favorite end-of-year celebration of film; here’s his look back at the best films of 2025 (YouTube). See the full list at Letterboxd. I’ve only seen five of these so it’s difficult to comment on the list as a whole, but I feel like Sinners should have been higher?
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Nottingham Forest’s first European adventure for almost 30 years was supposed to be a hoot but the mood music to a slender defeat in Braga felt rather alarming. The fact is Forest failed to perform and a stale display was typified by the chain of errors that culminated in the captain, Ryan Yates, scoring an own goal that proved sufficient to earn Braga victory. A section of away fans who made the trip to northern Portugal made their feelings plain to Sean Dyche, jeering their players on several occasions and on another singing: “Sideways and backwards, everywhere we go.”
Kick-off at this striking stadium felt a landmark achievement in itself given the biblical rainstorms in the hours before the game, with some of the 2,100 away supporters beginning to fret the main event of their final league-phase trip may not actually take place. But the ominous weather subsided and a formal pre-match pitch inspection was not required. Even Dyche ditched the shorts in favour of a full Forest tracksuit. Forest supporters again travelled in their numbers, hundreds without tickets, and they came hoping this would not be their final European trip of the season.
Continue reading...In post-Davos speech, Canadian PM jabs at Trump, saying the arc of history ‘can still bend towards progress and justice’
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said his country must be a “beacon to a world that’s at sea” and that national unity was critical as his government faces a dramatic reshaping of the world political order – and mounting domestic challenges
The national address, given at a historic military fortress in Quebec City, was far narrower in scope than the prime minister’s remarks earlier in the week at the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland. Dubbed the ‘Carney Doctrine’, the Davos speech lamented the disintegration of rules-based order amid a rise of “great powers” that used economic “coercion” as a weapon.
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