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More than £900,000 has been raised for local groups bringing people together, with the appeal closing this week
The Guardian’s 2025 charity appeal theme has been about hope: practical and inspiring grassroots voluntary projects that encourage community pride, tolerance and unity as a positive and joyful antidote to polarisation, racism and hatred.
We aim to raise £1m for our five partner charities. Donations are now just over £900,000. The appeal closes at midnight on Wednesday evening.
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Despite significant support for the shah, Iranian society may be looking for any ‘escape from a dead end’
Supporters of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s deposed shah, were claiming the crowds out in the streets of Iran were a direct response to his call to action. They described it as a referendum on his leadership and that the response showed he had won.
Yet the issue of an alternative leadership for Iran remains unresolved. Many Iranians, eager to end the 47-year-long rule of the clerics, still view a return to monarchical rule with suspicion.
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Donald Trump appeared to blindside Marco Rubio as he read a note aloud from the Secretary of State during a televised sit-down with oil industry executives on Friday (9 January).

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The Traitors' latest banished contestant, Fiona Hughes, left the Uncloaked studio in stitches as she revealed she'd been confronted by police after the show.

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An "opportunist" thief who prowled London St Pancras station to steal a rucksack was caught by plain clothes police officers last week.

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A 13kg deer decided to take on a 1.7-tonne rhinoceros in a curious confrontation at Wroclaw Zoo in Poland on Friday (9 January).

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