I’m A celebrity star Angry Ginge opened up about his feelings to Ruby Wax OBE just hours after the content creator became emotional due to not seeing his family
21:53, 25 Nov 2025Updated 22:06, 25 Nov 2025
Angry Ginge has opened up(Image: James Gourley/ITV/Shutterstock)
I’m A Celeb’s Angry Ginge became emotional as tension started to brew. Tensions have been bubbling in camp in recent days, with the group becoming noticeably divided after Angry Ginge sparked a feud among his fellow contestants.
The star caused uproar when he told campmates he had won only five stars in his Bushtucker Trial – only for the truth to come out when a full ten-star dinner turned up.
The revelation left several celebrities questioning whether they could “trust Ginge” going forward. Ginge has also caused a stir after he was appointed camp leader alongside Aitch. The mood in camp shifted when the pair were made leader and deputy, leaving some stars, including Ruby feeling uneasy about the new hierarchy. The actress openly admitted she felt the camp had split into two. However, the 24-year-old appeared to bond Wax, 72 during latest scenes from the programme.
Ginge – whose real name is Morgan Burtwistle – was recently seen visibly emotional on the ITV reality show, after the stars received pictures of their loved ones.
During one conversation from Tuesday night’s episode (November 25), he opened up about his family life. While showing Ruby his new digs in the leader and deputy treehouse, Ginge also revealed his family photo, pointing out each of his family members to her as she jokingly tells him: “You look a little dorky!”
Checking in on Ginge after his emotional day before, Ruby asked whether he was feeling in a better mood. He then responds: “Much better, yesterday I was just terrible…”
He opens up saying: “Do you know what it was? I’ve gone ten days without seeing my mum for example but I’ve always been able to ring her and text her, so not being able to communicate at all, it all gets on top of you.”
Ginge asked Ruby who she missed more, her husband or her cats, asking her to be honest. She replied: “My cats”, which had Ginge in stitches, before explaining she had been with her husband for 35 years.
As Ruby said she didn’t think Ginge was the romantic type, he explained for his ex before he asked her to be his girlfriend, he had “rose petals, from the front door all the way up the stairs and then it opened to my room, there’s a teddy bear, there’s a rose and then I officially asked her to be my girlfriend.”
In a heartbreaking admission, he went on to reveal that his ex-girlfriend had broken up with him via text message. “I got the message,” he said, adding: “I don’t think it’s working, stuff like that, I agreed,” before saying he had 10,000 people watching him on his livestream.
“I had to carry on for six more hours but in the long run, it’s funny isn’t it,” he said, as he and Ruby went on to laugh about the situation. “When I want to be, I can be romantic,” he said. In the Bush Telegraph, he said to the camera that for ladies who fancied him, he can be romantic.
“She’s an extraordinary woman, she has the same banter as me,” Ginge said of Ruby. Fans were obssesed over the duo. Taking to X, one person said: “Really enjoyed that conversation between Ginge and Ruby. They get on really well. Nice to learn more about Ginge #ImaCeleb.”
Another wrote: “Ginge and Ruby remind me of Maura and The reverend such an unlikely partnership but bloody brilliant #ImACeleb.” A third viewer wrote: “Ruby and Ginge’s chemistry is insane! #ImACeleb.”
Amazon shows off its new logo at a logistic and distribution center in Werne, Germany, in 2017. On Tuesday, the company announced the rollout of its satellite-based Amazon Leo Internet service for select enterprise customers, with a wider rollout planned in 2026. File Photo by Friedemann Vogel/EPA-EFE
Nov. 25 (UPI) — Online retailer Amazon has begun to roll out its Leo Internet service that offers gigabyte speed via its satellite network for businesses and other organizations.
Amazon’s enterprise customers will be the first to use the Amazon Leo Internet service that includes a new “Ultra” antenna, and a wider rollout is planned for 2026, Amazon announced on Tuesday.
Amazon officials said Leo is designed to extend reliable, high-speed Internet to those beyond the reach of existing networks, including millions of businesses, government entities and organizations that are located in areas where Internet service is unreliable.
“Amazon Leo represents a massive opportunity for businesses operating in challenging environments,” said Chris Webber, vice president of consumer and enterprise business for Amazon Leo.
“We’ve designed Amazon Leo to meet the needs of some of the most complex business and government customers out there,” Webber added.
“We’re excited to provide them with the tools they need to transform their operations, no matter where they are in the world.”
The Amazon Leo Internet service uses an innovative network design, satellites and “high-performance phased-array antennas” to support download speeds of up to 1 gigabyte per second and upload speeds of up to 400 megabytes per second.
A new antenna dubbed Leo Ultra enables users to attain such downloading and uploading speeds, which exceed those of the competing Starlink Performance Kit, according to The Verge.
SpaceX officials said a new V3 satellite will support faster uploading and downloading speeds next year.
Amazon also has more than 150 satellites orbiting the Earth to provide digital communications that are undergoing initial network testing that involves a small group of enterprise customers.
Commercial airline JetBlue is among Amazon Leo’s enterprise customers participating in the service’s initial rollout.
“We knew Amazon Leo would share our passion for customer-first innovation,” JetBlue President Marty St. George said.
“Choosing Amazon Leo reflects our commitment to staying ahead of what customers want most when traveling, such as fast, reliable performance and flexibility in our free in-flight Wi-Fi.”
Amazon Leo also enables enterprise customers to connect directly to their cloud-based accounts and establish private network interconnects so that they can connect and communicate with remote locations using their respective data centers and core networks.
Watch: Jewish classmate claims Nigel Farage told him “Hitler was right”
A Jewish former classmate of Nigel Farage has told the BBC the Reform UK leader is being “fundamentally dishonest” by suggesting former pupils who say they witnessed his racism are not telling the truth.
Peter Ettedgui said Farage, now aged 61, had repeatedly told him “Hitler was right” and “gas them” when they were teenagers at Dulwich College, in London.
On Monday, Farage said he had “never directly racially abused anybody” after claims by former Dulwich College pupils, including Mr Ettedgui, that were first reported in The Guardian.
Mr Ettedgui said Farage’s claim that those making allegations about his past behaviour were not telling the truth had left him “really angry”.
The BBC has spoken to two former Dulwich College pupils who have backed up Mr Ettedgui’s version of events.
In response to Mr Ettedgui’s claims to the BBC, Farage told GB News: “I categorically deny saying those things, to that one individual, and frankly, frankly for the Guardian and the BBC to be going back just shy of half a century to come out with this stuff it shows how desperate they are.”
In a previous interview with the BBC’s Welsh political editor on Monday, Farage said he had probably “misspoken in my life, in my younger days, when I was a child”.
But he insisted he had not “directly racially abused” anyone “by taking it out on an individual on the basis of who they are or what they are”.
Asked if those making the allegations about him were telling the truth, he said: “Well, suddenly after 49 years they seem to have perfect recollection. I would say to you there is a strong political element to this.”
Pushed again on whether they were telling the truth, Farage said: “No, they are not telling the truth.”
After watching Farage’s denials in Monday’s BBC interview, Mr Ettedgui told the BBC: “This is a man who has power, influence, has had a massive impact on the direction of this country, for which, you know, hats off to him.
“And he is being fundamentally dishonest in everything that he says there. So I feel upset and angry about that.”
Mr Ettedgui is one of more than a dozen former Dulwich College pupils from the late 1970s and early 1980s who have claimed they witnessed Farage being racist.
As someone who sat near the future Reform leader in Class 3R at Dulwich College, Mr Ettedgui says he can clearly remember antisemitic abuse being directed at him, something he says he had never experienced before.
“One of the most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me and, knowing that I was Jewish, saying Hitler was right and ‘gas ’em’, and that was frequently followed by a ‘sssss’, you know, kind of imitating the sound of escaping gas.
“That’s my abiding memory of him, and that sort of verbal abuse happened quite consistently over the year that we were together in the same class.
“And it was pretty vicious, it was pretty nasty, it was absolutely directed in a very personal way at me.”
He said Farage’s words had “hit hard” because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust.
“It wasn’t the normal sort of vaguely antisemitic banter that you might encounter in the school grounds at that time in the 1970s. It was much worse,” he added.
Asked how he could be sure that his memory was correct, given that the events he describes happened many decades ago, Mr Ettedgui said: “I think anyone who suffers any kind of abuse, it’s going to mark their lives.
“And I carry that memory with me very, very strongly.”
He also hit back at Farage’s claim that he was a “child” at the time of the alleged incidents.
“We were teenagers, which in many religions is the age where you turn your gaze towards the adult world,” he said.
He added that the teenage Farage was “very well-informed” and “had a sense of history and politics already at that time”.
He rejected claims that his allegations were part of a politically motivated smear campaign, saying that he had “a deeply personal motivation” to speak out now because the idea of Farage becoming prime minister was “repellent and horrifying” to him.
“Is Farage saying here that around 20 people who go on the record, who either experienced or witnessed this kind of abuse, are we all lying?” he asked.
“Is this some sort of conspiracy between us all? Well, I can tell him right now, we haven’t spoken to each other. We haven’t coordinated this in any way.”
Watch: Nigel Farage denies racism allegations against him
Asked by GB News, a channel that employs Farage as a presenter, whether Mr Ettedgui was “fundamentally dishonest”, he replied: “Had what he said been true do you think I would have been promoted in the sixth year to be a prefect?
“Do you think I’d have become a senior member of the school if they really thought, if the school knew and thought any of that stuff was true?”
Farage added: “His recollections are wrong. Beyond him, all the others say is they disagree with me politically which is perhaps not a huge surprise.”
Claims about Farage’s alleged teenage racism were first raised 13 years ago by journalist Michael Crick, when he was a reporter for Channel 4 News.
When The Guardian published fresh allegations last week, Reform UK said they were “entirely without foundation”.
In a statement issued after Mr Ettedgui and other former pupils spoke to the BBC, Farage said: “I can tell you categorically that I did not say the things that have been published in the Guardian aged 13, nearly 50 years ago.
“Isn’t it interesting: I am probably the most scrutinised figure in British politics, having been in public life for 32 years.
“Several books and thousands of stories have been written about me, but it is only now that my party is leading in the polls that these allegations come out. I will leave the public to draw their own conclusions about why that might be…
“We know that the Guardian wants to smear anybody who talks about the immigration issue.
“But the truth is that I have done more in my career to defeat extremism and far-right politics than anybody else in the UK, from my time fighting the BNP right up to today.”
He said many of the people making allegations “just happen to be political opponents” and it was “not the first time the desperate establishment has come after me, and it will not be the last”.
Some former Dulwich College pupils say they do not recognise the picture that has been painted of Farage or the allegations of racism against him.
Patrick Neylan, who was in the year below Farage at Dulwich College, told the BBC there was some singing of songs that he would not be proud of now.
But he added: “I never saw Farage being openly racist, antisemitic towards any individual…I’d be disappointed because I never thought of him as an overt racist.”
The BBC has spoken to two former pupils who say they remember Farage personally targeting Peter Ettedgui.
Jean-Pierre Lihou said: “I remember him specifically talking about ‘do go home, Hitler was right’, singing ‘Gas Them All’ and all of these absolutely antisemitic comments directed straight at Peter.”
He said he was convinced his memories were accurate and it “seems like yesterday to me”.
Another former pupil, Martin Rosell, who is now chair of the Liberal Democrats in Salisbury, also corroborated the antisemitism claims, claiming Farage used to “mutter something like ‘Jew’ under his breath” when Mr Ettedgui answered a question in class.
Asked if there was a political motivation behind his decision to speak out now, Mr Rosell said: “I don’t think so. I’m not doing this as a member of my local party.
“I am doing this as a human being who remembers something from 49 years ago, and my recollections are clearly the same as many other people.”
Reacting to the latest developments, Liberal Democrat president-elect and MP for Eastbourne, Josh Babarinde, said “people across the country will be watching with horror”.
“To make matters worse, the Reform leader shamefully brands them all liars rather than takes responsibility for his actions.
“The British public deserve decent politicians with integrity, not weasels who try to rewrite history when it doesn’t suit them.”
The government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, Labour peer Lord John Mann, said: “Nigel Farage’s appalling attempt to shrug off serious allegations of antisemitism and other appalling forms of racism as playground banter is as insulting as it is unbelievable.
“Farage needs to do the decent thing and come clean with the British public about the full extent of his past behaviour and apologise to those who have bravely come forward to share their deeply upsetting and disturbing experiences.
“The British people expect all their party leaders to act with integrity and humility and are unforgiving of those who choose not to. Nigel Farage must confront the seriousness of this situation and apologise in person.”
JEFF Brazier has broken his silence on his marriage split from wife Kate.
The television presenter has been married to PR guru Kate for 12 years but separated earlier this year.
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Jeff Brazier has broken his silence on his marriage splitCredit: InstagramJeff and Kate have split after seven years of marriageCredit: Can Nguyen/Shutterstock
Now he has broken his silence with an emotional statement.
He said: “I’m so full of love and gratitude for Kate.
“For all we achieved, for how much we grew, for everything we endured.
“We separated in the Summer and kept it private for as long as we could to give us some time to adjust.
President Donald Trump pardoned Thanksgiving turkeys Gobble and Waddle — joking he nearly named them after Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer — while also taking swipes at Joe Biden, stating last year’s turkey pardons were “invalid” because Biden used an autopen to sign them.
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A Ukrainian attack on the aircraft manufacturer Beriev’s facility in Taganrog in southwestern Russia overnight appears to have knocked out a unique laser testbed aircraft, the A-60, and at least one more. While the most recent status of the A-60 program remains unclear, the attack once again underscores Ukraine’s ability to strike high-value Russian military aircraft on their airfields, a capability that has been bolstered through the addition of long-range cruise missiles, as well as an expanding inventory of attack drones, both large and small.
Videos posted to social media reveal the immediate aftermath of the attack, with a significant blaze illuminating the night sky. At least one video shows a burning aircraft, which appears to be the unique A-60, an aircraft based on a converted Il-76MD Candid transport. Its identity was subsequently confirmed by satellite imagery, which also revealed the destruction of another airframe, apparently a testbed associated with Russia’s new airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) platform.
🇺🇦Ukrainian Armed Forces struck an experimental Russian A-60 aircraft — a laser weapon carrier — at the airfield in Taganrog during the night
During the project, only two prototypes of this experimental system were built in the USSR.
There are differing accounts of whether Ukraine used drones or cruise missiles to attack the factory airfield at Taganrog/Tsentralnyy in the Rostov region, a facility that has also been struck in the past. According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, both Bars jet-powered long-range one-way attack drones and Neptune cruise missiles were employed. As you can read about here, Ukraine has been steadily increasing the range of the land-attack versions of the Neptune missile, which is derived from an anti-ship cruise missile. Meanwhile, the Bars is one of a growing series of Ukrainian munitions that blur the line between drones and traditional cruise missiles, and which also includes the Peklo ‘missile drone’.
Confirmed by Ukraine’s General Staff: the rare Russian A-60 airborne laser aircraft was likely destroyed in a strike on the Beriev plant in Taganrog. Also hit: drone factory “Molniya,” oil terminals in Novorossiysk, Tuapse refinery, and an S-400 launcher. pic.twitter.com/yaz74Y592k
The second A-60 test aircraft, the 1A2, appears to have been destroyed in the overnight attack on Taganrog. Beriev
The Russian Telegram news channel Astra confirmed that drone strikes had caused a fire at Taganrog/Tsentralnyy, while eyewitness accounts from the area also point to at least one aircraft left burning on the flight line. The Fighterbomber account on Telegram, which is closely connected to the Russian military, also reported the destruction of the A-60.
Russian aviation-linked channel Fighterbomber confirms the A-60 laser lab aircraft was destroyed in the Taganrog strike. The plane reportedly hadn’t flown since 2016 and was claimed abandoned. About 50 drones and three missiles hit the airfield. While they claim no losses to… pic.twitter.com/NuZ9mzPFvl
Subsequent satellite imagery of the airfield confirms that, as well as the A-60, clearly identified by its signature tail-section hump, another aircraft was also destroyed. This may have been an A-100 AEW&C platform, or more likely, the A-100LL test aircraft related to the same program, evidenced by the rear-fuselage supports for the main radome, which is not fitted. Meanwhile, damage is also visible to buildings associated with the Beriev facility.
In addition to the A-60 flying laboratory, a regular Ilysuhin Il-76 transport plane was also destroyed as a result of Ukrainian strikes on the Taganrog Yuzhny Air Base last night.
— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) November 25, 2025
FIRMS data confirms two separate fires in Taganrog after yesterday’s Ukrainian drone/missile attacks, one at the Beriev Aircraft Company and one, likely, at industrial interprise Natek-Neftekhimmash, manufacturing heating equipment. https://t.co/JPgO7NIdUZpic.twitter.com/gYf4QOvE15
The strike on Taganrog/Tsentralnyy was part of a wider series of Ukrainian attacks on Russian targets in Krasnodar Krai and the Rostov region overnight. Local officials and Telegram news channels reported that key military infrastructure was among the targets.
The governor of the Rostov region, Yury Slyusar, also confirmed an attack on Taganrog, but did not mention the specific target. According to Slyusar, Ukrainian attacks in the region damaged several homes, a warehouse, and an external gas pipeline. He also said three people were killed and eight people were injured in the attack.
Taganrog/Tsentralnyy, which is co-located with the Taganrog-Yuzhny military airfield, is the main facility of the Beriev Aircraft Company. While best known for its amphibious aircraft designs, Beriev is also responsible for converting special-purpose aircraft, among them the A-50 and A-100 AEW&C platforms and the A-60. Beriev also uses this facility to conduct deep maintenance of Tu-95MS Bear-H strategic missile carriers as well as Tu-142 Bear-F/J long-range maritime patrol aircraft. This also makes it a prime target for Ukraine.
The prototype A-100 airborne early warning and control aircraft. Rostec
As we have discussed in the past, the A-60 was originally developed by the Soviet Union starting in the mid-1970s as a way of combating high-altitude balloons. It was fitted with the carbon dioxide (CO2) laser gun, thus creating the Dreyf (Drift) system for combating aerostats.
The first experimental A-60 took to the air in 1981. The aircraft’s laser was housed in the cargo hold. On the fuselage spine, there was a large fairing covering a mirror system, which directed the laser ray onto the target. The laser had a range of 25 miles and was able to ‘shoot’ for a total of 50 seconds, at least according to the design specification; reportedly, the actual firing time was only 11 seconds.
An early study for the Dreyf airborne combat laser system. NPO Almaz
The targeting system consisted of a Ladoga radar with an upward-directed five-foot-diameter Cassegrain antenna fitted under a large bulbous fairing in the aircraft’s nose and a laser locator. A balloon could be detected and tracked from 31 to 44 miles.
The Ladoga radar for the A-60 aircraft in the museum of the Phazotron-NIIR company in Moscow. Piotr Butowski
During one test in 1984, the A-60 flying at an altitude of 32,800 feet damaged a balloon over the Volsk aerostat research center, 430 miles southeast of Moscow.
In 1988, the first A-60 was destroyed in an accidental fire at the Chkalovsky test airfield near Moscow. In 1991, tests commenced with the second experimental aircraft. After two years, however, the trials were suspended due to a lack of funding. By now, the threat from high-altitude balloons had also evaporated.
According to Piotr Butowski, a long-time Russian aerospace observer and TWZcontributor, Russia revived the A-60 project in late 2002, now with the plan to use the laser gun to ‘blind’ the infrared sensors of reconnaissance satellites.
The A-60 at Beriev’s Taganrog airfield in May 2021. Other aircraft in this photo are an Il-80 airborne command post, a Be-12 amphibian, and a Yak-40K business jet. Google Earth
Flight trials of the reworked second A-60 then resumed around 2006, with the official goal of the program being “to counteract infrared surveillance sensors on the ground, the sea, in the air, and in space.”
In late 2019, Russia’s deputy defense minister Alexsei Krivoruchko said that “work is underway on high-power lasers of various types. It is planned to put it on an airplane in the coming years.”
Dep def minister Alexei Krivoruchko said Krasnaya Zvezda on 28 Dec 2019, “work is underway on high-power lasers of various types. It is planned to put it on an airplane in the coming years”. It is not known whether the A-60 destroyed today was already fitted with a laser gun.
Since then, it’s unclear what, if any, progress the program made, and whether the A-60 that was hit during the attack overnight was actually equipped with a laser weapon.
It is likely that Ukraine was primarily attempting to target Russia’s prized A-50 and A-100 AEW&C aircraft.
These vital assets have already taken a beating during the war in Ukraine, with two examples shot down and another damaged by a drone strike. Russia’s radar plane problems have been exacerbated by difficulties in fielding the new-generation A-100 AEW&C platform, a situation that has led to a proposal to restart production of the A-50. As we have discussed in the past, the viability of relaunching production of these high-value aircraft is questionable, to say the least.
Again? Again! The Ukrainian Air Force destroyed another enemy A-50 long-range radar detection and control aircraft, worth $330 million.
“These aircraft can provide a unique ‘look-down’ air ‘picture’ that can extend deep into Ukrainian-controlled territory, depending on their patrol zone. From the outset, the A-50 was designed to detect low-level cruise missile attacks, and the same capability means it can potentially spot Ukrainian drone attacks, too, as well as low-flying fighter sorties. They also provide command and control and situational awareness for Russian fighters and air defense batteries. Ukrainian authorities also assess that Russia uses A-50s to help plan and execute its own cruise missile attacks.”
Prior to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia was estimated to have nine A-50s, including a number of modernized A-50Us, in active service. As it stands, the best-case scenario puts seven of these aircraft in active service as of today.
Provided the other aircraft destroyed overnight was the A-100LL (or even an A-100), then the damage inflicted on the Russian radar plane fleet will have been even more significant. The A-100 program has already been hampered by sanctions and has yielded just one operational-standard aircraft so far. Losing the A-100LL, which has been used to prove the new systems for this aircraft, will likely have a significant effect on the progress of the program.
Aside from Taganrog/Tsentralnyy, overnight Ukrainian drone strikes also occurred in Novorossiysk, in Krasnodar Krai, according to reports from Russian officials and media.
Officials tell me Ukraine’s SBU and GUR and military special forces units attacked the port of Novorossiysk, the second largest oil export center in Russia and the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet with drones overnight. They claim strikes on an oil terminal and Russian… pic.twitter.com/J0s4PMI7Ap
The governor of Krasnodar Krai, Veniamin Kondratyev, said that the region “was subjected to one of the longest and most massive attacks” since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He claimed that six people were injured and at least 20 homes were damaged in the attack.
The Russian news channel Astra reported that a drone struck a high-rise building close to a Russian military unit operating S-400 air defense systems. This was presumably the Kuban Red Banner Regiment military base, which came under a previous Ukrainian drone attack earlier this month.
A video posted to social media by a resident of Novorossiysk showed what appears to be a Russian air defense missile hitting a high-rise building in the city, after failing to intercept an incoming drone.
A video of the moment when a Ukrainian long-range OWA-UAV imapcted a multi-storey residential building in the city of Novorossiysk, southern Russia, tonight.
The drone likely fell off its course due to the work of Russian electronic warfare systems. pic.twitter.com/ZHoUSorV6E
— Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able) November 24, 2025
Novorossiysk has repeatedly found itself in Ukraine’s sights, its value as a target being derived from its military status, as well as its use as a major transshipment point for oil. The port handles over two million barrels of oil per day, meaning that it’s responsible for roughly five percent of global maritime oil supplies. Meanwhile, the port is also now home to much of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, providing it with something of a safe haven, after its warships were essentially forced out of waters closer to Crimea following a concerted Ukrainian campaign waged against them.
In total, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that Russian forces shot down 116 drones over the Black Sea and 76 over Krasnodar Krai overnight. These claims have not been independently verified.
Ukrainian strikes have repeatedly targeted Russian aircraft at their home bases deep inside the country, as well as in occupied Crimea. Most dramatically, Operation Spiderweb, the large-scale Ukrainian drone strike against airbases across Russia in June of this year, targeted Moscow’s fleet of strategic bombers. On that occasion, a reported 117 drones were launched against at least four airfields.
While the full results of the overnight attack on the airfield at Taganrog/Tsentralnyy remain unclear, it seems that, at the very least, Russia’s sole A-60 and another aircraft were put out of action. Since the status of the A-60 program remains mysterious, its long-term effect is hard to determine. The damage to the A-100 program will likely be a harder blow, especially in the short term. Regardless, the A-60 and the A-100LL were both unique assets, and their losses will be hard, if not impossible, for Russia to replace anytime soon.
They certainly didn’t want to provide opponents with bulletin board fodder during their attempt to bring a Super Bowl championship to their home city after the 1985 season.
As a large group of players from that team — billed as the Chicago Bears Shufflin’ Crew — said in the lyrics to one of the most unlikely hit songs and music videos of the 1980s: “We’re not here to start no trouble. We’re just here to do ‘The Super Bowl Shuffle.’”
All of those thoughts weighed on the minds of the 30 or so players who recorded “The Super Bowl Shuffle” four decades ago this month, several weeks before the NFL regular season even ended.
“If we don’t go to the Super Bowl, we’re gonna be the biggest idiots ever,” former Bears linebacker and Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Singletary says in “The Shuffle,” an NFL Films production presented by HBO Documentary Films. “We gotta win this thing, man.’”
Singletary is one of several of people who share their thoughts and memories about their participation in what has become a beloved relic during the 40-minute documentary that premieres Tuesday at 9 p.m. PST on HBO and streaming on HBO Max. Director Jeff Cameron told The Times that it’s no coincidence that “The Shuffle” is dropping during the 40th anniversary season of the Bears’ only Super Bowl title.
“Outside of some print media or some articles, no one had really chronicled the entire genesis, development and production of ‘The Super Bowl Shuffle,’ which is so intertwined with that team,“ Cameron said.
The song was the brainchild of Chicago businessman Dick Meyer, who had formed Red Label Records the previous year. With the Bears off to a strong start to the 1985 season, Meyer thought a hip-hop record featuring many of the already beloved personalities from that team might have some success in Chicago.
Many players agreed to participate after learning that part of the proceeds were going toward the Chicago Community Trust. “We’re not doin’ this because we’re greedy,” running back Walter Payton rapped during his verse, “the Bears are doin’ it to feed the needy.”
The vocal tracks were recorded on Nov. 21, 1985. The Bears were 11-0 at the time, coming off a 44-0 rout of the Dallas Cowboys. They continued to roll the following weekend with a 36-0 victory against the Atlanta Falcons.
But their run of perfection came to an end Dec. 2, 1985, with an ugly 38-24 loss to the Dolphins in Miami on “Monday Night Football.” It just so happened that the music video shoot for “The Super Bowl Shuffle” was scheduled for the next morning in Chicago.
Suddenly, Gault said in the documentary, “Guys don’t want to do the video.”
Two of the team’s biggest stars, Payton and McMahon, didn’t show up. They were added into the video after shooting their parts one day after practice.
“It was pretty audacious of us to talk about going to the Super Bowl, winning it, you know?” McMahon said in the documentary. “We still got games to play, and we just lost.”
Chicago Bears players Mike Singletary (left) and Gary Fencik take part in the filming of ‘The Super Bowl Shuffle’ music video Dec. 3, 1985, at the Park West in Chicago.
(Paul Natkin / HBO / Getty Images)
But the video shoot may have had unexpected benefits for the players who participated.
“If not for ‘The Shuffle,’ they probably don’t even get together” that day, Cameron told The Times. “They probably don’t see each other until Wednesday because they have Tuesdays off after Monday night, and they’re right back in the film room or the practice field. They don’t properly get to just forget about the loss for a second, get together as a group of guys who like playing with each other and just who love each other.”
In behind-the-scenes footage provided to Cameron’s team by Meyer’s widow, Julia Meyer, the players are seen laughing and joking around as they attempt to learn a few dance moves and lip-sync their parts, all with varying degrees of success.
“We bonded in a way that we could never have bonded in any other way,” Singletary said in the documentary. “That was the fun part of working together in a totally different realm. There were guys that were backups teaching guys that were starters. We mixed in a way that we had never had a chance to do before. And it became a rallying point that brought us together, got us refocused. ‘This is what we said we were gonna do, let’s go get it done.’”
The single spent nine weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 41, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Assn. of America (500,000 units moved). The music video, released commercially on VHS and Betamax, was certified platinum (one million units moved).
The song was even nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or a Group with Vocals,” eventually losing to Prince and the Revolution for the song “Kiss.”
“I think it was the perfect marriage of that cast of characters from the top down … and the fact that, outside of the Miami game, of course, they just kept winning,” Cameron said. “And it wasn’t close. I think that certainly helps propel this video, along with the rise of MTV. It was a perfect storm of a pop cultural phenomenon.”
U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens to then National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd (C) deliver a statement on border security in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington in January 2019. Now ambassador to Chile, Judd sparked controversy with his press conference. File Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA
Nov. 25 (UPI) — A diplomatic controversy with the United States spilled into Chile’s presidential campaign after the new U.S. ambassador, Brandon Judd, used his first public appearance to level sharp criticism at President Gabriel Boric, prompting a formal protest from the government.
During his initial press conference, Judd directly accused the Chilean president of “damaging the bilateral relationship” and undermining investment and strategic cooperation with the United States.
He said he was “disappointed” by Boric’s criticism of President Donald Trump‘s environmental policy and argued that such remarks “harm the Chilean people.”
He also made an explicit reference to the election, saying that “with governments that are ideologically aligned, it will be easier to work,” a comment widely interpreted as support for far-right candidate José Antonio Kast.
Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren called the ambassador’s remarks “inappropriate and unfortunate” and said his comments on the political process “amount to interference in our country’s internal affairs,” a message delivered to the U.S. Embassy’s chargé d’affaires.
Regarding the issue, left-wing candidate Jeannette Jara said, “Chile doesn’t need any granddaddy looking after it, and that goes for the Americans, as well as any other country,” Emol reported.
She added that her government would maintain good relations with everyone, but expects “Chile’s sovereignty to be respected, as well.”
Right-wing candidate Kast questioned Judd’s intervention, but focused his criticism on the Chilean government.
“Every time our president leaves Chile, he creates a conflict with some foreign country,” he said. He then directed a message at the administration.
“Spend your time solving problems with other governments instead of sending protest notes,” Kast said.
In the hours that followed, the issue moved into Congress.
Opposition lawmakers urged Boric to receive the new ambassador’s credentials before the end of the month, arguing that the ceremony signals seriousness, stability and a normalization of the bilateral relationship to investors and partners.
The president of the Communist Party, Lautaro Carmona, accused the ambassador of interfering in the election by “indicating that one candidate would be better than another for the United States.”
At the center of the dispute are Chile’s regulatory rules.
Judd has argued that Chilean bureaucracy is delaying U.S. projects ready to invest, linking the political climate to the business environment and the need for clear timelines.
That narrative has seeped into the campaign, where credentials, protocol and signals to investors have become points of dispute and tools for political positioning before the electorate.
Chile’s presidential runoff will be held Dec. 14. Polls show Kast with a wide lead.
Neither of Sudan’s warring factions has officially accepted a truce plan from the United States, according to senior U. S. envoy Massad Boulos. Although there were no objections to the plan’s content, the Sudanese army returned with what Boulos described as unachievable “preconditions. ” U. S. President Donald Trump has expressed willingness to intervene in the conflict that started in April 2023 amid a power struggle, leading to famine and mass displacement.
Previous peace efforts involving the U. S., Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE have not succeeded. Boulos noted that the recent proposal builds on an earlier one submitted in September. Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, criticized the latest U. S. proposal, claiming it undermined the army and favored the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Boulos countered that Burhan’s criticisms were based on misinformation.
The Sudanese army has opposed the UAE’s involvement in peace talks and stated it would only agree to a truce if the RSF withdrew from civilian areas. The UAE has denied accusations of supplying arms to the RSF. On Monday, RSF chief Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo declared a unilateral ceasefire under international pressure, but it remained unclear if it was upheld. Boulos welcomed this announcement, stressing that external support to both sides must end. The army’s government accused the RSF’s ceasefire claim of being a tactical distraction from recent violence.
A major star from Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things has addressed the wild theories about her next role in a highly-anticipated blockbuster
Stranger Things star Sadie Sink has issued a cryptic response to who she could be playing in an upcoming Marvel movie.
The actress is best known for portraying Maxine ‘Max’ Mayfield in Netflix’s smash-hit series, which is returning for its fifth and final season this week.
She has since been cast in the upcoming superhero sequel Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with Tom Holland returning as the web-slinger, though details of her role are currently a mystery.
With fan theories ranging from iconic comic book favourites such as Gwen Stacey and Jean Grey to more obscure characters, fans may be in the dark for some time as both Marvel Studios and Sony are keeping things under wraps.
Sink has recently addressed some of the most popular rumours, many of which point to the redheaded actress portraying someone with a similar look.
“A lot of people forget that hair colour can change, but, yeah, I understand all of the theories,” she teased to Entertainment Weekly.
Her four-word clarification that “hair colour can change” could point to her casting as Spider-Man’s blonde girlfriend Gwen after his love interest MJ, played by Holland’s real-life partner Zendaya, was left with her memory wiped in the last film.
However, Sink’s casting as X-Men team member Jean has also been a popular choice since before she joined the franchise, as she notes: “That was happening before I even knew that I would be working on this project.
“I was like, ‘Wait! What are people talking about?’”
The odds are also strong that the Stranger Things alum is playing a lesser-known character called Rachel Cole, the sidekick of vigilante the Punisher who will also be making an appearance in Brand New Day portrayed by Jon Bernthal.
“People will just have to wait and see,” Sink teased. “I’m excited for all of it to maybe be put to rest.”
The actress currently has multiple mysteries surrounding her upcoming on-screen appearances, as the fate of her Stranger Things character Max was also left up in the air at the end of season four.
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Following an intense confrontation with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), Max was left in a coma while her friends anxiously await her revival, which may never actually arrive.
“For the most part, I think people trust me to keep my mouth shut,” she said.
“Press is pretty boring if you can’t talk about the episodes — for me, at least. She’s in a coma. That’s all I can say.”
Stranger Things season 5 premieres Wednesday, 26th November.
Search ongoing for fourth suspect as prosecutor’s office says the accused hold positions in critical defence companies operating inside Turkiye.
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Three executives of defence companies have been arrested by Turkish authorities on suspicion of spying for foreign powers, prosecutors say.
“An operation was carried out on November 25, 2025, to apprehend four individuals identified in connection with the conspiracy,” the Istanbul public prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.
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“As a result of the operation, three individuals were apprehended, and an arrest warrant was issued for one individual due to being abroad.”
It said the suspects “hold executive positions within critical defence companies operating in our country”.
They are accused of trying to provide “biographical” information about employees to foreign countries.
According to the AFP news agency, the prosecutor’s office initially said the suspects worked for the intelligence services of the United Arab Emirates before deleting that statement and publishing a significantly revised version on X that did not mention the UAE.
Turkey’s defence exports swelled by 29 percent ($7.15bn) in 2024, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, driven notably by the success of its military drones.
A sluggish job market lowers consumer confidence but may also lead to another rate cut from the Federal Reserve by the end of the year.
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United States consumer confidence sagged in November as households worried about jobs and their financial situation, likely in part because of the recently ended government shutdown.
The Conference Board said on Tuesday its consumer confidence index dropped to 88.7 this month, from an upwardly revised 95.5 in October, hitting its lowest level since April.
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Economists polled by the Reuters news agency had forecast the index edging down to 93.4 from the previously reported 94.6 in October.
“Consumers’ write-in responses pertaining to factors affecting the economy continued to be led by references to prices and inflation, tariffs and trade, and politics with increased mentions of the federal government shutdown,” said Dana Peterson, chief economist at the Conference Board.
“Mentions of the labour market eased somewhat but still stood out among all other frequent themes not already cited. The overall tone from November write-ins was slightly more negative than in October.”
Consumer confidence remained low among all income brackets. While confidence among those who make less than $15,000 annually ticked up slightly, it still remained the group with the lowest consumer confidence.
The consumer confidence report was released amid a slowing labour market. The September jobs report, released late last week, showed 119,000 jobs were added to the US economy as the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 of a percentage point to 4.4 percent.
However, there is limited economic data available to fully gauge the sentiment of the US economy because the government shutdown, the longest in US history, hindered federal agencies’ ability to gather the data needed to assess current conditions.
“More worries about what lies ahead … hence, putting purchases for major items on hold,” Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO, wrote to Reuters.
The economic data followed dovish comments from policymakers in the past few days that helped cement rate cut expectations.
On Monday, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said the job market was weak enough to warrant another quarter-point rate cut in December although action beyond that depended on a flood of data that was delayed by the federal government shutdown.
Millie Mackintosh has posted about ‘lies and delusion’ after a mystery feud and fall out with her former friendCredit: Shutterstock EditorialMillie shared this quote on social media on TuesdayCredit: InstagramIt’s thought that Millie’s friend has been left “deeply upset” by what she allegedly feels is a “betrayal” from the starCredit: instagram/@donsrooney
And now, the 36-year-old has taken to social media to share a cryptic quote with her legion of fans.
It read: “Sometimes you just have to let people be…
“Be who they are, do what they do, act how they act, say what they say.
“Let them live their version of reality. Let them sit with their lies and delusion while you sit with the truth in peace.”
According to insiders, Millie is desperate to cut ties with Made In Chelsea – the show that made her famous – and move away from being known as a former reality star.
As a result Millie – who shares Sienna, five, and three-year-old Aurelia with husband Hugo Taylor – has decided to make a fresh start and sign with YMU, the home of stars including Ant and Dec and Claudia Winkleman.
It’s thought that Donna has been left “deeply upset” by what she allegedly feels is a “betrayal” from Millie.
A source told the Daily Mail: “Millie has become increasingly disenchanted with still being known as an ‘ex Made In Chelsea star.’
“Whatever venture she tips her toes into, the label seems to follow her everywhere – and she’s had enough.
“The show made her name, but she hasn’t appeared on it for over a decade and to her, it feels like another life.
“So, in order to finally make a clean break from it, she made the difficult decision to part with Donna.
“They have been friends for over a decade, Donna is the godmother to Millie’s children, they have holidayed together for years, and share countless memories.”
Sources also claim that Millie has added to the snub by unfollowing Donna on Instagram.
The Sun has reached out to Millie’s reps for comment.
Millie and her former manager DonnaCredit: instagram/@donsrooney
Nov. 25 (UPI) — The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday released September data from its producer price index, showing modest increases in core wholesale prices that came in lower than experts had predicted.
The PPI for final demand products — what producers and manufacturers get paid for their goods and services sold to consumer businesses — in September increased 0.3%. But when excluding food, energy and trade services, BLS reported that final demand wholesale prices increased just 0.1% — half the expected 0.2% increase.
September’s data release was delayed by “the lapse in federal appropriations” caused by the 43-day federal government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, which the agency noted in its data report.
“While BLS completed data collection prior to the lapse, BLS could not complete data processing and review until appropriations resumed,” the agency said. “Subsequent PPI data releases will also be delayed.”
Overall, BLS reported that final demand increased by a seasonally adjusted 0.3% in September, following a 0.1% decline in August and 0.8% increase in July. On an unadjusted basis, PPI final demand increased 2.7% for the 12-month period that ended in September.
Broken down, the index for final demand on goods increased by 0.9%, the largest increase since a 0.9% jump in February 2024. Two-thirds of this increase can be blamed on energy prices leaping by 3.5%, while food prices increased 1.1%.
Among individual products, the cost for gasoline increased 11.8%, with increases also seen among meats, residential electric service, cars and ethanol. Prices for fresh and dry vegetables, however, dropped by 1.8%, and decreases were also seen in prices for metal ores and residual fuels.
BLS reported that the index for final demand services in September was unchanged, following a 0.3% decrease in August. Price increases of 0.8% were seen among transportation and warehousing services.
Among services, airline passenger service prices increased by 4%, and food wholesaling, chemicals and related products and furniture, among others, also saw prices rise. The margins for machinery and equipment wholesaling dropped 3.5% percent, while apparel, jewelry, footwear and portfolio management also saw price decreases.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and her son, Niko, welcome Waddle, the alternate to the National Thanksgiving turkey, to the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Tuesday. Later, President Donald Trump will pardon Waddle and the national turkey, Gobble, who were both raised in North Carolina and will live out the rest of their lives under the care of North Carolina State University. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Bitter rivals India and Pakistan will face off in Group A at next year’s 20-team competition.
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Archrivals India and Pakistan will clash in a politically-charged Twenty20 World Cup match in Colombo on February 15, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said as it announced the draw on Tuesday.
The 20-team tournament will be played across eight venues – five in India and three in Sri Lanka – between February 7 and March 8, the ICC said in a statement.
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Pakistan will play all their games in Sri Lanka because of their soured political relations with India.
The March 8 final is scheduled for the western Indian city of Ahmedabad but would be moved to Colombo if Pakistan reach it.
A military conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours in May overshadowed the subsequent Asia Cup 2025 in which India refused to accept the winners’ trophy from Asian Cricket Council chief Mohsin Naqvi, who is Pakistan’s interior minister.
The teams in the tournament have been divided into five groups of four, with the top two advancing to the Super Eight phase. The top four in that will qualify for the semifinals.
Defending champions India will begin their Group A campaign against the United States in Mumbai on February 7.
Sri Lanka and Australia are in Group B, which also includes Ireland, Zimbabwe and Oman.
England and West Indies, both twice winners, will face first-timers Italy and Asian sides Bangladesh and Nepal in Group C.
New Zealand, South Africa, Afghanistan, Canada and the United Arab Emirates make up Group D.
Jasprit Bumrah, right, will spearhead the Indian bowling attack at the T20 World Cup 2026, to be staged in India and Sri Lanka [File: Francois Nel/Getty Images]
Disney’s latest animated film, “Zootopia 2,” a sequel to its 2016 box-office juggernaut, isn’t exactly an adult political drama, though the stakes certainly feel grimmer. Members of Zootopia’s elite plan to expand their territory by displacing certain indigenous animals from an area they want to claim for themselves. And they will do so without pushback by convincing the rest of the population that their uprooted neighbors are dangerous. Any attempt by the victims of this injustice to reclaim their homeland and their dignity will be deemed a violent attack. In turn, anyone who sides with their cause will be labeled a criminal enabler, a disloyal pariah.
Meanwhile, tensions flare in law enforcement as pawtners Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps (voiced by Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin) — who in the previous film saved Zootopia from a power-hungry wolf in sheep’s clothing — have to prove their compatibility after their recklessness lands them in hot water with Chief Bogo (Idris Elba). Could their personalities be too disparate for them to make a dream team? Judy values justice above all things, while Nick prioritizes survival and comfort. In truth, the tie-wearing fox only became a cop because of his fondness for Judy, not out of a sense of dutiful conviction.
That push-and-pull tests the strength of their bond as they visit previously unseen areas of Zootopia, including a visit to the Marsh Market, where exiles live. These adventures occur as they search for Gary De’Snake (Ke Huy Quan), a fanny-pack-strapped viper, and Pawbert Lynxley (Andy Samberg), the socially conscious son of a wealthy family. They’re on a quest to find evidence that would clear the reputations of reptiles in Zootopia, all of whom have been forced to exist on the outskirts for decades.
Writer Jared Bush, who also co-directs with Byron Howard (both return from the first “Zootopia”), leans into Quan’s personal history as an immigrant whose family had to escape Vietnam to render Gary a resilient survivor with a noble soul. Leave it to Disney to make a giant snake look disarmingly adorable and to Quan to match that energy with his warm vocal performance. On top of the new characters, Judy and Nick’s emotional arc is adorned with cameos from fan-favorite minor players from the original (Flash, the sloth; Mr. Big, the shrew). The loaded narrative robs the picture of more time with Gary and Pawbert, even if Bush finds plot-effective ways to feature the supporting mammals.
Like its predecessor, “Zootopia 2” impresses visually, especially given the breadth of characters and environments it immerses the audience in. In the faces of new characters like the anxious Pawbert and friendly Gary, one can best appreciate the level of nuanced expressiveness that Disney’s animators, working at the highest level of 3-D CG technique, can achieve.
After several haphazard attempts with the “Frozen” and “Moana” franchises, “Zootopia 2” can take the title as Disney’s most effective animated sequel yet. In most regards, the formula that propelled the first one to hit status remains unchanged: an encyclopedia of animal puns, an upbeat tune by Shakira and a twist villain (in this case, an Elon Musk type desperate for approval that all the money in the world can’t buy). And yet, “Zootopia 2” arrives as an expansion with a punchier, more focused approach to its mature ideas. This is a movie where the antagonists are willing to kill for their nefarious goals, and where the heroes are willing to die in order to uphold what’s right.
The more one reads into the movie’s timeliness, though, the more obvious it becomes that there’s a dissonance between the artists making an animated feature such as this one and the company’s leadership, which continues to push artificial intelligence and capitulate to those who bemoan “wokeness.” Those people might certainly find “Zootopia 2” rather woke indeed. (Who knows, maybe in the next installment Judy and Nick will question their role in perpetuating the police state.) In our bizarro world, the “Zootopia” franchise serves as a vehicle for thought-provoking subjects disseminated by way of colorful anthropomorphic animals.
Nov. 25 (UPI) — Private companies’ payrolls decreased by an average of 13,500 jobs for each of the four weeks ending Nov. 8, data from payroll processing company ADP indicates Tuesday.
The data was released as part of ADP’s weekly National Employment Report Pulse based on a four-week moving average of employment across the country. ADP releases this report three times a month, on the weeks when it doesn’t publish its monthly report, the last of which was Nov. 5.
The Nov. 5 report showed that private companies added 42,000 jobs in October.
Last week’s NER Pulse report showed a 2,500 average weekly job loss. The jump to 13,500 jobs lost per week is reflective of the growing pace of layoffs.
U.S. companies cut more than 150,000 jobs in October, the highest number of layoffs for that month since 2003.
Economists have had to rely more on ADP’s weekly and monthly reports as the release of federal data continues to be affected by the record 43-day shutdown, which ended Nov. 12, CNBC reported.
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said its October jobs report won’t be released as planned. Instead, some of the data will come out in the full report for November. BLS officials said the report won’t include the unemployment rate for October because those figures allegedly couldn’t be collected during the shutdown.
President Donald Trump meets with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on Friday. Photo by Yuri Gripas/UPI | License Photo
Four more people have been arrested as part of the investigation into last month’s theft of precious jewellery at the Louvre Museum, the Paris prosecutor’s office says.
Two men, aged 38 and 39, and two women, aged 31 and 40, were arrested on Tuesday. They are all from the Paris region.
Among them is thought to be the last member of a four-man gang that allegedly carried out the daylight heist, according to French media. The other three suspected thieves have already been arrested and charged, officials say.
Police now have up to 96 hours to question them. No trace has so far been found of the stolen jewels – worth €88m (£76m; $102m) – which were taken on 19 October.
Four people have already charged over the heist – three men and a woman, who also live in the Paris region.
A 38-year-old woman was charged earlier this month with complicity in organised theft and criminal conspiracy with a view to committing a crime.
Separately, a man, aged 37, was charged with theft and criminal conspiracy.
These two suspects, who have not been named publicly, have denied any involvement.
Ms Beccuau previously told French news agency Franceinfo said the two were in a relationship and had children together, without giving any further details.
Meanwhile, two men were charged with theft and criminal conspiracy in October after officials said they had “partially recognised” their involvement in the heist.
The heist happened when the group of four men used a stolen vehicle-mounted mechanical lift to gain access to the Galerie d’Apollon (Gallery of Apollo) via a balcony close to the River Seine, Beccuau has previously said.
The men used a disc cutter to crack open display cases housing the jewellery.
The thieves were inside for four minutes and made their escape on two scooters waiting outside at 09:38, before switching to cars.
One of the stolen items – a crown – was dropped during the escape but eight other items of jewellery – including an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his second wife, Empress Marie-Louise – were taken.
Beccuau has said the heist was carried out by petty criminals rather than organised crime professionals.
Shortly after the theft, it was revealed by the Louvre’s director that the only camera monitoring the Galerie d’Apollon was pointing away from a balcony the thieves climbed over to break in.
The president of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, has since admitted the museum had failed in its responsibilities, but denied that security had been overlooked – saying that from the time she took office in 2021 she had been warning constantly of the need for more investment.
Since the incident, security measures have been tightened around France’s cultural institutions.
The Louvre has transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France following the heist.
EXCLUSIVE: David Michôd is the director of the new film, Christy, which is coming to cinemas on November 28
Sydney Sweeney in Christy(Image: Black Bear Pictures)
David Michôd is the creative force behind the upcoming film, Christy, featuring Sydney Sweeney, which arrives in cinemas on November 28 following its domestic box office debut.
The acclaimed Animal Kingdom director has brought to life the extraordinary true story of Christy Martin, a West Virginia native played by Sweeney who emerged as one of boxing’s most pioneering and divisive personalities.
“More than anything I loved the idea of making a movie about a woman with a really ferocious personality,” he told Reach titles.
“I just immediately got a sense that there was something about her that is very charismatic that I really liked, then met her and liked her even more – how beautifully vulnerable and kind and funny she is.”
The director revealed some of his all-time favourite films, including an “unbelievably overlooked masterpiece”.
Apocalypse Now
The epic psychological war drama from 1979 draws loose inspiration from Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Heart of Darkness.
The picture charts the journey of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), tasked with a covert assignment to eliminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a rogue Special Forces commander suspected of murder.
David said: “My favourite movie is Apocalypse Now. That movie made me want to make movies.
“I already loved movies but it was Apocalypse Now that made me want to make them. There was something about the giant, crazy adventure of that film.
“I just think it’s amazing. I was talking to someone about it who was reminding me of the fact it wasn’t universally well-reviewed when it was released, which seems insane to me.”
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
David simply stated: “I just think, unbelievably overlooked masterpiece.”
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a grand Western film from 2007.
Based on Ron Hansen’s 1983 novel of the same name, it features Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck.
The film explores the relationship between Jesse James and Robert Ford, focusing on the events that led up to the notorious killing.
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological thriller set in New York City post the Vietnam War.
The film stars Robert De Niro as veteran Marine and taxi driver Travis Bickle, whose mental state deteriorates as he works nights in the city.
David commented: “Taxi Driver is right up there for me, just so raw and visceral.
“But again, a movie about a character who does monstrous things, but whose vulnerability and brokenness are so right there on the surface.
“I remember when I was writing Animal Kingdom, I showed the script to people, and some of those people would say ‘Your central character isn’t likeable enough’.
“And I’d go ‘Have you seen Taxi Driver? That guy is kind of grotesque but you can feel him and that’s all you need to be able to do.”
Christy will be hitting cinemas in the UK and Ireland on November 28.
The European Court of Justice, the continent’s highest court, ruled Tuesday that under EU law, Poland must recognize the marriage of two men who relocated from Germany. However, judges ruled Poland was not required to lift its ban on gay marriage. File photo by Julien Warnand/EPA-EFE
Nov. 25 (UPI) — The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that European Union member nations must recognize the same-sex marriages of couples relocating from another EU state, even if same-sex unions are not permitted under their domestic law.
Judges in the court in Luxembourg, ruling in the case of two men lawfully married in Germany who were denied recognition of their union by authorities in Poland on their return to their home country, said it violated their fundamental right to a “normal family life,” the ECJ said in a news release.
The case was referred to the ECJ by Poland’s Supreme Court where the men were appealing against authorities’ refusal to transcribe their German marriage certificate into the civil register so that their marriage would be recognized, on grounds same-sex marriage is not legal in Poland.
Poland is a largely Catholic, socially conservative nation where LGBT rights are highly controversial import from permissive societies and LGBT-free zones are common.
The landmark decision said that while rules governing marriage fell under individual member states’ domestic law, they must comply with EU law in exercising that power.
Given EU citizens’ right to move and reside in any of the 27 member nations, couples who have built a family life in a host country “must have the certainty to be able to pursue that family life upon returning to their member state of origin,” the ruling said.
The judge said that where couples had opted to move, bans may cause serious inconvenience at administrative, professional and private levels, forcing spouses to “live as unmarried persons” in their own country.
“Such a refusal is contrary to EU law. It infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life,” the ruling states.
However, while the decision sets a precedent for recognition of same-sex marriage across the bloc it only mandates equal treatment of marriages conducted abroad, regardless of the sex of the couples.
It does not override national laws prohibiting same-sex marriage or require member states to provide for marriage between persons of the same sex.
The matter now returns to the Polish court, which must instruct authorities to officially recognize the couple’s marriage, but it can decide how that is done.
The case is an extension of a historic 2018 ECJ ruling that said married same-sex couples who were EU citizens had the legal right to live in any EU country, including nations that did not recognize same-sex unions.
Of the bloc’s 27 member states. at least two — Slovakia and Hungary — have legal or constitutional bans on same-sex marriage.
However, both allow same-sex couples a mechanism for their relationship to be legally recognized.
