​Charli xcx, Jade and Ezra Collective’s Brit awards cap a vintage year for adventurous pop | Alexis Petridis

Playing music that is as smart as it is successful, Brit winners made articulate calls for artist development – while host Jack Whitehall was brilliantly riskyThe Brits has long been in the business of underlining success; upsets and shock wins aren’t ...

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‘We cleared rubble with our bare hands’: Iraqis rejoice as shattered Mosul rises from the ruins

City damaged during occupation by Islamic State group reopens 850-year-old mosque in time for Ramadan as reconstruction gathers pace In the small courtyard of Sara’s grandmother’s house, children are running and playing as if time had never passed. “T...

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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy willing to ‘restore dialogue’ with Trump as European leaders head to UK for defence summit

European heads of government and leaders of Canada and Turkey will attend talks aimed at presenting a united front on Ukraine crisis. What we know on day 1,103See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageVolodymyr Zelenskyy is willing to “restore dialogue” w...

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Trump’s firing of watchdog agency chief illegal and would give ‘license to bully officials’, judge rules

Case is seen as early test of scope of presidential authority as Trump seeks to rein in federal agencies’ independenceA US judge on Saturday declared president Donald Trump’s firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of t...

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