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2026-02-16 04:29:32 (1 day ago)

Marco Rubio wants to build a ‘new Western century’. Will Europe join?

Europe is facing a great dilemma: continue with liberalist values or embrace Trump's defence of 'Western civilisation'?

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-16 04:17:51 (1 day ago)

Tyler Reddick wins NASCAR Daytona 500 in Michael Jordan-owned car

Toyota Racing driver triumphs in NASCAR's biggest event in a car co-owned by the NBA Hall of Famer.

RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-16 04:08:10 (1 day ago)

Kallas compares EU to Marvel superheroes (VIDEO)

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has compared the bloc to Marvel comic book superheroes
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RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-16 04:05:55 (1 day ago)

African Union elects new chairman

Burundi’s leader has pledged to strengthen Africa’s voice in the international arena under his tenure as African Union chairman
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Times of Israel - World News

2026-02-16 04:02:07 (1 day ago)

Prosecutors said set to indict settler accused of killing Palestinian activist

Yinon Levy reportedly to be charged with reckless homicide, with maximum sentence of 12 years, for shooting of Awdah Hathaleen during clash in West Bank village

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The Guardian - World News

2026-02-16 04:00:46 (1 day ago)

Frogs for Watchdogs by Seán Farrell review – about a boy

A charming child’s-eye view of rural Ireland

There’s a particular energy to novels written from the point of view of small children. Humour, of course, in the things the child misinterprets; pathos in the things they feel they must keep hidden; jeopardy in the dangers we can see, and they cannot. As any relative or babysitter can attest, even the sweetest child can become mind-numbingly dull when they’re all the company one has, so there’s a skill to charm without boring. The other skill is to find ways of enabling the reader to read over the child’s shoulder, as it were, to piece together for themselves the adult dramas to which a child’s natural egotism, or simple innocence, blinds them.

In 1988, the longsuffering mother in Seán Farrell’s first novel, Frogs for Watchdogs, is stranded. This Englishwoman has had a boy and a girl with a handsome rogue of an Irish actor, but he has walked out on them. Asked to leave a commune unsuited to children, skint, too proud, perhaps, to return to the protection of well-heeled parents in England, she rents a farmhouse on the cheap in the deep countryside of County Meath, where she can grow vegetables, raise hens and a few sheep, and attempt to scrabble a living as a healer. (From the multiple dilutions her boy witnesses her perform, her fairly batty practice would seem to be some form of homeopathy with new age elements thrown in.) While her doubtless appalled parents insist on sending the oldest child, a forthright girl called B, to an English boarding school, B’s younger brother spends months running happily feral. Once he is eight, he will be old enough to follow her and be tamed and anglicised.

Frogs for Watchdogs by Seán Farrell is published by John Murray (£14.99). To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply.

CBC News - Top Stories

2026-02-16 04:00:00 (1 day ago)

If you have Parkinson's disease, experts say you should be dancing. Here's why

Growing evidence suggests that dance can help slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. It's because of that research that experts are launching a national online arts hub that aims to connect Parkinson's patients across Canada to different programs, like singing and dancing.

CBC News - Top Stories

2026-02-16 04:00:00 (1 day ago)

Violent crime in U.S. cities is way down, and Trump is taking credit

Fresh statistics show violent crime in major U.S. cities dropped sharply in 2025 from the previous year, and U.S. President Donald Trump is claiming that his get-tough policies are the reason. The inconvenient truth for this Trump administration is that violent crime was already in sharp decline before he returned to office.

RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-16 03:53:58 (1 day ago)

EU’s Kallas dismisses US censorship criticism

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has rejected criticism of EU censorship, arguing that Estonia ranks higher than the US on free speech
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Fox News - Video

2026-02-16 03:48:40 (1 day ago)

Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy - Sunday, February 15

FNC, Fox News Sunday, Jason Chaffetz, Nancy Guthrie, DHS, shutdown, Iran, fraud

Times of Israel - World News

2026-02-16 03:41:35 (1 day ago)

Award-winning ‘Tehran’ producer found dead in Athens hotel room

Dana Eden, 52, was in Greek capital to oversee filming of drama series' fourth season

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RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-16 03:29:03 (1 day ago)

US and Europe drifting ‘far apart’ – Politico

The US used the Munich Security Conference to show Europe that it has no plans to defend “the old order,” Politico reports
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