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French company Puy du Fou is planning a £600m history-themed park in Oxfordshire. A Guardian investigation has found the company continued working with associates of Konstantin Malofeyev, an under-sanctions pro-Kremlin oligarch, on plans for a theme park in Russian-occupied Crimea for longer than it...

Donald Trump’s promise of a $5,000 “Trump dividend” for every US citizen if Republicans retain control of the US Congress in November’s midterm elections has sparked incredulity and accusations of bribery.“If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000,” Trump said during the unprecedent...

OpenAI is not on track to reduce risks of “catastrophic” loss of control to an acceptable level, a member of its non-profit board has warned, amid spreading public and political concern that super-advanced AIs could one day wipe out humanity.Paul Christiano, a US government technology adviser, said ...

Testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders on the secret systems used in the war on Gaza has been revealed in a new documentary film about the mass killing of Palestinian civilians.NAZA, a film from the Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, was shown at the Venice internati...

I have no shame confessing that I’d be a crap companion during the apocalypse. My practical skills are limited, I’d be a right Debbie Downer and I don’t respond well to sharing food. Still, last November, two survival experts spent a morning making a valiant effort to prepare me for Armageddon deep ...

Wars are usually measured in the number of people killed, homes destroyed and towns erased. Far less attention is paid to what happens beneath the rubble. Across southern Lebanon, repeated large-scale detonations are not only causing human tragedy by demolishing villages, they are also destroying th...

Donald Trump said every adult citizen in the US will receive a dividend of $5,000 if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections, while delivering a historically long convention speech in Dallas in which the president assailed Democrats as radical communists and defended his unp...

Five people were confirmed dead ⁠in early counting and more than 80 were missing after a ferry caught fire ⁠off Palawan island in the western Philippines on Wednesday night, the Philippine coast ⁠guard said.Forty-three people were rescued from the MV ‌June Aster in waters off Coron, Palawan, the coa...

The head of the air traffic control provider Nats has been given a week to report back on the reasons for a technical failure which grounded thousands of flights, as the transport secretary declared that she did “not believe the issue was unavoidable”.Heidi Alexander said on Tuesday she had also com...

That's All, Folks!Alix FoxThis has been appropriately pleasurable. Thank you for being such good spurts…I mean, sports, and for your generosity in sharing such sensitive, thoughtful and vulnerable questions. There are still a huge number of queries I’d love to respond to, so hopefully the Guardian w...