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The 50 best films of 2023 in the UK | Film

From Scorseses macabre western to Ridley Scotts Napoleon, a Bernstein biopic, a queer cowboy yarn and a swansong from a master Japanese animator, our critics have selected the years screen standouts Read the US cut of this list More on the best films of 2023 More on the best culture of 2023

17bn of UK arms sold to rights abusers | Arms trade

Weapons licensed for export to two-thirds of states on not free register, including Libya, Saudi Arabia and Turkey Two-thirds of countries classified as not free because of their dire record on human rights and civil liberties have received weapons licensed by the UK government over the past decade, new analysis reveals.

A betrayal: Google workers protest Israeli military contract at vigil for ex-intern killed in

Employees paid tribute to Mai Ubeid, who was killed in Gaza, and denounced Project Nimbus, which provides services to Israels military In the shadow of Googles sprawling New York City campus, former and current Google and Amazon workers gathered on Tuesday evening to pay tribute to Mai Ubeid, a young woman and software engineer who

Argentinas new leader is a snake-oil salesman with extreme views on abortion, gay rights and more

After his landslide victory in the presidential election, Javier Milei is threatening to undo 40 years of democracy in Argentina Anti-woke libertarian Javier Mileis landslide win in Argentinas presidential election poses not only a worrying question for my countrys fragile 40-year-old democracy, but could also embolden other extreme libertarians in the US and Europe in

German firebrand politician quits far-left Die Linke to set up her own party | Germany

Sahra Wagenknecht joined by nine other MPs in migration-sceptical party which will court unhappy voters on left and right A leading German radical-left politician who has questioned the green transition and blamed the west for Russias war on Ukraine has left her party to set up a new one, in a move likely to cost