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US special envoy meets with Putin, then meets with Zelensky

On the 12th, US special envoys Kushner and Witkov met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow regarding the war in Ukraine. Putin emphasized that Russia's position, including its territorial demands, remains unchanged. The two envoys then traveled to Dublin, Ireland, where they met with President Zelenskiy of Ukraine. Mr. Zelenskyy welcomed the explanation that European representatives would be included in future peace talks.

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Sports

Chess: Carlsen comes to town with tantalising tests for London Classic Super Rapid

The Norwegian world No 1 will be among 500 competitors in the 10-round contest of 15-minute games Magnus Carlsen makes a very rare appearance in an open tournament on 5-6 December when the Norwegian, who has topped the world rankings for 15 successive years, competes in the 10-round Super Rapid at the XTX Markets London Classic. The venue is the Novotel West at Hammersmith and the time limit is 15 minutes per player for the entire game, plus a 10 seconds increment for each move. In 2025, 267 players entered the Super Rapid. On Monday, when Carlsen’s participation was announced, the entry doubl

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Politics

Ofsted’s menacing inspections are still disastrous. Schools should answer to the communities they serve | Simon Jenkins

For all the supposed improvements, inspectors still obsess over statistics and adjectives, but surely school success depends on teachers and parents The government regulation of state schools by Ofsted in England is a fiasco. Following the 2023 suicide of the Reading headteacher Ruth Perry, after her school was downgraded from outstanding to inadequate, Ofsted appears to have referred to a dictionary. Single words were replaced by colour-coded report cards, which use a wider range of different adjectives to grade abstractions such as personal development and wellbeing, achievement and leadersh

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International

‘Would you breastfeed your own father?’ The goofy, spiky world of art-pop duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul

After wittily blending pop and politics on their debut, the Belgians are now processing their personal lives. We join them for a mindbending tour of their home city of Ghent Boris Kor Tom Zeebroek is staring up at a grey gothic building in the centre of Ghent, squinting through the late September sun that is covering his home town in a cloak of unseasonal warmth. Zeebroek is encouraging his bandmate Charlotte Adigéry and I to crane our necks towards the Mammelokker, an 18th-century Flemish relief on the top of the building. It’s a gruesome bit of stone, which sits above the town square and dep

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