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4 days ago | 
ca.movies.yahoo.com | Tom Ambrose
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has been voted the UK’s favourite second world war film, beating classics such as The Dam Busters and The Bridge on the River Kwai. The 2017 film, starring Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan, portrays the 1940 evacuation of more than 330,000 Allied troops from the French coast. Saving Private Ryan (1998) placed second, followed by The Great Escape (1963) in third, with The Dam Busters (1955) and Battle of Britain (1969) completing the top five.
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Martin Belam |Tom Ambrose |Maya Yang
Pakistan denies attack on Indian-administered KashmirHere’s more from Pakistan’s defence minister, Khawaja Asif, after reports of explosions in Jammu city in Indian-administered Kashmir. Asif has denied Pakistan is responsible for any attack in Indian-administered Kashmir. He told the BBC: We deny it, we have not mounted anything so far. “We will not strike and then deny,” Asif said, adding that “it will be known all over the world” when Pakistan decides to attack.
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Amy Sedghi |Kate Connolly |Shaun Walker |Jon Henley |Deborah Cole | +1 more
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWinston Churchill’s great-great-grandson Alexander Churchill, 10, lit the VE Day 80th candle of peace during a service at Westminster Abbey today. The youngster, dressed in a suit and tie, stepped forward and made his way up the steps in front of the altar, where he was handed a flame to light the large cream church candle.
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureTrump expected to announce framework of UK trade agreementGood morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Lucy Campbell |Marina Dunbar |Sam Levine |Mark Oliver |Tom Perkins | +3 more
'We care about Europe being self-sufficient', says VanceTrump would like to see 5% spending on defense in Nato, Vance says. European countries have “some catching up to do” as it hasn’t kept up with that, Vance says. We really want and we really care about Europe being self-sufficient.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Lucy Campbell |Tom Ambrose |Tom Perkins |Lauren Gambino |Patrick Wintour |Helen Livingstone
'We care about Europe being self-sufficient', says VanceTrump would like to see 5% spending on defense in Nato, Vance says. European countries have “some catching up to do” as it hasn’t kept up with that, Vance says. We really want and we really care about Europe being self-sufficient.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Yerushalmy |Hamish Mackay |Tom Ambrose |Martin Belam |Aakash Hassan |Shah Meer Baloch | +1 more
What we know so far …It is approaching 5.30pm in Islamabad and 6pm in New Delhi. Here are the latest headlines At least 26 people, including several children, have been killed and 46 injured after India launched attacks on what it claimed were nine sites of “terrorist infrastructure” inside Pakistan, in a sharp escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Pakistan called the strikes an “act of war” and claimed it had shot down several Indian air force jets.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Helen Livingstone
Biden warns Europe losing confidence in US under Trump will change course of modern historyJoe Biden has accused Donald Trump of “modern-day appeasement” in his approach to Russia and expressed fears that Europe would “lose confidence in the certainty of America” in his first interview since leaving the White House in January. “He [Vladimir Putin] believes it [Russia] has historical rights to Ukraine,”Biden told the BBC.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe US Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday that it was ending billions of dollars in research grants and other aid unless the school accedes to a list of demands from the Trump administration that would effectively cede control of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university to the government.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureTrump signs executive order to cut funding for public broadcastersGood morning and welcome to the US live blog amid news that Donald Trump has pulled funding from news outlets NPR and PBS, accusing them of being biased. NPR and PBS are only partly funded by the US taxpayer and rely heavily on private donations.
