Trump says Ukraine deal is not ‘final offer’ as officials gather for Geneva summit
Donald Trump said on Saturday that his “peace plan” was “not my final offer”, after a furious backlash from Ukrainians who described it as reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler. Trump’s peace plan came from the same “recognisable genre”, with the victim invited “to formulate his own defeat so everyone else can live easier”. ‘I think that this peace deal is a try to break Ukraine and force unjust conditions on Ukraine,’ he said. It belongs to Ukraine.” She said Zelenskyy was a “smart person” and predicted he would not give up Ukrainian land. ‘I am very grateful to President Trump for him taking part in helping Ukraine and creating peace,’ she said.
Source:The Guardian
November 23, 2025 11:57 UTC
All the world loves a larva: the ‘amazing’ maggots at the centre of an agricultural revolution
Food waste collected from local markets is fed to the fly larvae, which can eat double their body weight in a single day. Luke Wheat is the founder and managing director of Arvela, a company that breeds black soldier fly larvae for the wider market. The target market for the dried larvae, Wheat say, is aquaculture, but live larvae can also be fed to poultry in some Australian jurisdictions. Dried larvae, marketed as BSF protein, has been approved for use in specialty dog food, which advertises it as a “hypoallergenic novel protein”. That company said its palatability testing showed “canine satisfaction” with the insect protein was equivalent to other animal protein sources.
Source:The Guardian
November 23, 2025 11:31 UTC
Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point
“Right now, our people are losing their lives and livelihoods from storms of unprecedented strength which are being powered by warming seas. Our coral reefs, the lifeblood of our islands’ food systems, culture and economies are at a tipping point in dieback. “We are dangerously close to a 1.5C global warming overshoot, driven by the actions of bigger countries,” he said. The $120bn (£92bn) a year promised by 2035 must also be compared with the $360bn they are projected to need. That makes a huge difference to countries with overstretched budgets that are already spending on climate defence instead of health and education.
Source:The Guardian
November 23, 2025 11:30 UTC
US tells Nato if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future
US officials have told Nato allies they expect to push president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into agreeing to a peace deal in the coming days, under the threat that if Kyiv does not sign, it will face a much worse deal in future. “No deal is perfect, but it must be done sooner rather than later,” he told them, according to one person who was present. Trump is keen for Zelenskyy to agree to the deal by Thanksgiving, which is on Thursday. Earlier this week, Davis told reporters Trump was pursuing an “aggressive timeline” to get the deal agreed. They said they envisaged Trump and Zelenskyy sitting down together and signing a document “for peace”.
Source:The Guardian
November 23, 2025 11:29 UTC
What will a ban on most US hemp products mean?
The US hemp industry is preparing for a ban on most hemp products that Senator Mitch McConnell slipped into the spending bill just before the Senate voted to pass it and end the government shutdown. The US hemp industry generates $28bn a year in revenue and employs 300,000 people, according to Jonathan Miller, general counsel for the US Hemp Roundtable. Hemp products, on the other hand, are often available for purchase in liquor stores, grocery stores and online. If states are given autonomy over their hemp markets, hemp might continue to be available outside of cannabis dispensaries in those states. A total ban could mean that manufacturers will simply be forced to close or shift their focus to other kinds of products.
Source:The Guardian
November 23, 2025 10:32 UTC
TNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claims
“Polish TNT is exported entirely abroad and the bombs produced from it fall on the heads of innocent civilians in Gaza and Yemen,” Konieczny told the Guardian. The Polish factory is estimated to produce between 10,000 and 12,000 tonnes of TNT a year. It is not known precisely what proportion of exported Polish TNT is being used in Ukraine or Gaza, or retained for use by the US army. The US is not permitted to buy TNT from China, and the environmental hazards involved in producing the explosive make building a TNT factory a formidable exercise. General Dynamics, the fifth-largest defence company in the world, has been producing the MK-80 series at its Garland Operations facility near Dallas, but the Garland facility was recently taken over by a US subsidiary of the Turkish defence company Repkon.
Source:The Guardian
November 22, 2025 00:15 UTC
Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers
Sophisticated and deadly “brain weapons” that can attack or alter human consciousness, perception, memory or behaviour are no longer the stuff of science fiction, two British academics argue. “It does sound like science fiction,” said Crowley. During the cold war and after, the US, Soviet Union and China all “actively sought” to develop CNS-acting weapons, said Crowley. The academics argue that the ability exists to create much more “sophisticated and targeted” weapons that would once have been unimaginable. after newsletter promotionDando is emeritus professor of international security at the University of Bradford and a leading expert on biological and chemical weapons control.
Source:The Guardian
November 22, 2025 00:15 UTC
Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda
Hundreds of English-language websites – from mainstream news outlets to fringe blogs – are linking to articles from a pro-Kremlin network flooding the internet with disinformation, according to a study released by a London-based thinktank. The disinformation operation – known as the Pravda network – was identified by the French government last year. “More than any other Russia-aligned operation, the Pravda network is playing a numbers game,” said Joseph Bodnar, a senior researcher at the ISD. after newsletter promotionThe ISD found that 40% of the Pravda network content picked up by mainstream websites appeared to be related to Russia’s war in Ukraine. As well as surfacing on news websites, the Pravda articles have also appeared on social media.
Source:The Guardian
November 22, 2025 00:09 UTC
Eleven injured after grizzly bear attacks schoolchildren and teachers in Canada
Eleven people were injured, two of them critically, when a grizzly bear attacked a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in British Columbia, Canada. The Nuxalk Nation said the “aggressive bear” remained on the loose and police and conservation officers were on the scene. Conservation officers worked overnight to find the grizzly but have not yet located the bear. Grizzlies, which have coexisted with the Nuxalk Nation for generations, have a deep cultural significance for many of the First Nations along the Pacific coast. The Nuxalk bear safe program, which applies non-lethal approaches to preventing and mitigating conflict, also acknowledges that incidents need to be treated on a “case by case basis”.
Source:The Guardian
November 22, 2025 00:00 UTC
‘I wouldn’t compare us’: Sindre Walle Egeli, the Ipswich teenager who has outscored Haaland
But as Sindre Walle Egeli and his family reached the turnstiles, the cruelest of realities dawned. It was the pathway to Premier League football Walle Egeli had craved; Ipswich, despite stern competition, had landed one of the most sought-after prospects in Europe. View image in fullscreen Sindre Walle Egeli, celebrating after scoring for Norway Under-21s last year, has one senior cap. Walle Egeli scored a six-minute hat-trick for the under-17s and made his senior debut against Kazakhstan last September at a younger age than Haaland achieved. View image in fullscreen Sindre Walle Egeli feels Ipswich, who play Wrexham on Saturday, are ‘starting to really get into the flow’.
Source:The Guardian
November 22, 2025 00:00 UTC
Cop30 draft text omits mention of fossil fuel phase-out roadmap
A new draft text on the outcome of the Cop30 climate talks has been published that contains no mention of a phase-out of fossil fuels, despite countries supporting such action having threatened to block any agreement without it. An option to start the process of drawing up a potential roadmap for the “transition away from fossil fuels” was included in the first draft of a potential outcome from the two weeks of talks, published on Tuesday. But early on Friday morning, a “mutirão” text was published by the presidency which contained no mention of the roadmap, and no mention of the term “fossil fuels”. It reads: “We cannot support an outcome that does not include a roadmap for implementing a just, orderly, and equitable transition away from fossil fuels. Some started to draw up proposals for a forum in which all countries could take part, to discuss a possible roadmap for the transition.
Source:The Guardian
November 21, 2025 23:57 UTC
Zelenskyy warns of 'most difficult moment in history' amid pressure to accept US plan – video
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said his country was facing 'one of the most difficult moments in our history' after being presented with a 28-point peace plan drafted by the US, which pressed Kyiv to end its war with Russia and concede territory. In a 10-minute address, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was facing the pressure of having to choose between accepting the plan or losing a key partner, the US, and dealing with 'an extremely difficult winter' ahead
Source:The Guardian
November 21, 2025 23:42 UTC
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
The Liberal Democrats are forcing a vote in parliament on creating a new customs union to put pressure on Labour MPs to take a more pro-EU stance. However, the Lib Dems are hoping to demonstrate support among pro-EU MPs for the idea of a new customs union. View image in fullscreen The Lib Dems’ bill will be voted on two weeks after the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, publishes her budget. “A customs union with the EU is the single biggest lever this government could pull to turbocharge the UK economy. Keir Starmer’s government has repeatedly said it does not want to join a customs union with the EU, saying it was a red line.
Source:The Guardian
November 21, 2025 23:34 UTC
A translation of the Nauruan president’s remarks will stay suppressed for a decade – but secrecy in Australia’s offshore policy is nothing new
When the new deal was publicly announced, the Nauruan president posted an interview online, explaining the arrangement to his country. That version has never been disputed by either the Australian or Nauruan governments. Responding to a demand from the Australian Senate, the government refused to release the translation it acknowledges it holds. This is an alarming level of secrecy, but not a novel position when it comes to Australia’s tenacious offshore policy. If Australia’s offshore processing regime is as uncontroversial as the government insists, why is nobody allowed to see it, to interrogate it?
Source:The Guardian
November 21, 2025 23:31 UTC
Nigeria reels after 215 children taken in second mass school abduction in a week
Unknown gunmen have abducted 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass abduction in the country in a week. The incident in the early hours of Friday is the third documented mass school abduction in the state in the last decade. In the last attack in Niger state, in May 2021, 135 pupils were abducted from an Islamic seminary, six of whom died while being held. On Monday, gunmen stormed a girls’ boarding school in neighbouring Kebbi state, abducting 25 schoolgirls and killing the vice-principal. Trump has since said that US forces could go “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria if the country fails to protect its Christian population.
Source:The Guardian
November 21, 2025 23:31 UTC