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Blackwater founder Erik Prince has joined the drone-warfare fray in Ukraine, SEC filings reveal

22/02/2026 12:00 The Guardian

Battle-tested Ukrainian startup that advertises a ‘Killbox’ drone recruited Prince as non-executive chairAfter multiple sources previously told the Guardian that Erik Prince – Maga ally and founder of the now defunct mercenary company Blackwater – was looking to work with Ukraine’s invaluable drone sector, recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents confirm he now is.Swarmer, which bills itself as a battle-tested Ukrainian startup specializing in autonomous drone software, filed for an initial public offering and has recruited Prince to help sell the company as non-executive chair. Continue reading...

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High energy prices threaten UK’s status as manufacturing power, business groups say

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22/02/2026 07:00 The Guardian
Romance fraud: warning over scam that turns victims into insurance cheats

Insurers say cases of scammers manipulating people into staging crashes and filing bogus claims are under-reportedRomance fraud typically evokes images of people being tricked out of their life savings by partners they meet on dating sites, but some scammers use a different tactic: recruiting unsusp...

22/02/2026 07:00 The Guardian
Matt Goodwin is running: the search for Reform’s elusive byelection candidate

Nigel Farage’s man in Gorton and Denton has a huge public platform, and a taste for culture war. What happens when he concerns himself with bin collections?On a bracingly cold February night in Levenshulme, a black Volkswagen people-carrier draws up outside a little parish church, around which a s...

22/02/2026 06:00 The Guardian
Tony Burke says Australia has few options to block return of 34 women and children from Syrian camp

One woman is subject to temporary exclusion order over security concerns, but home affairs minister says group is ‘not consistent’ in their beliefsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTony Burke says authorities “know...

22/02/2026 01:36 The Guardian
New York City gets first blizzard warning in nine years as area hunkers down

New Jersey and other east coast areas brace for storm threatening more than 1ft of snow and 55mph wind gustsBlizzard warnings were issued Saturday for New York City, New Jersey and coastal communities along the east coast for a late-winter storm set to arrive on Sunday that could dump more than a fo...

21/02/2026 21:28 The Guardian
Labour minister faces calls to be sacked over false claims against journalists

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21/02/2026 13:38 The Guardian
Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds

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21/02/2026 11:00 The Guardian
Iran prepares nuclear counterproposal as US considers limited military strikes

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21/02/2026 10:39 The Guardian
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20/02/2026 21:52 The Guardian
Former New Haven police chief charged with stealing $85,000 in agency funds

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20/02/2026 21:29 The Guardian
UK clinical trial into puberty blockers on hold after medicines regulator steps in

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20/02/2026 21:26 The Guardian
Israeli settlers kill 19-year-old Palestinian American, officials and witnesses say

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20/02/2026 20:14 The Guardian
Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’

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20/02/2026 17:24 The Guardian
Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants

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20/02/2026 17:01 The Guardian
Amid Trump crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them altogether

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20/02/2026 14:00 The Guardian
Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals

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20/02/2026 14:00 The Guardian
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20/02/2026 13:45 The Guardian
Aston Martin issues another profit warning and sells F1 naming rights for £50m

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20/02/2026 12:00 The Guardian
Trump weighs strikes as he gives Iran ‘10 to 15 days’ to agree deal over nuclear programme – US politics live

The US has amassed an arsenal of military assets in the Middle East that would allow it to launch an aerial bombing campaign against IranExperts say there are already sufficient US military assets in the Middle East to begin an aerial bombing campaign against Iran, potentially in conjunction with Is...

20/02/2026 11:45 The Guardian
‘A momentous watershed’: Europe’s papers react to arrest of former prince Andrew

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20/02/2026 11:15 The Guardian
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

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20/02/2026 10:00 The Guardian
‘Al-Aqsa is a detonator’: six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses

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20/02/2026 09:32 The Guardian
Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ

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20/02/2026 09:00 The Guardian
Bolivia’s ex-leader Evo Morales reappears after months-long unexplained absence

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20/02/2026 00:02 The Guardian
Australia news live: mayor says Pauline Hanson should face charges over anti-Muslim comments; NSW to introduce minimum age for ebikes

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19/02/2026 23:08 The Guardian
Avalanche risks remain high in California after deaths of skiers

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19/02/2026 20:39 The Guardian
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