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The congresswoman said that the U.S. president is looking to command the western world ‘as his personal sandbox’
Trump has given both sides until June to reach deal, but future of Donbas industrial heartland remains a sticking point.
Huda Ammori celebrates 'victory for Palestine' as top court rules proscription as a 'terror' organisation was unlawful.
At a moment of stagnation and political drift, Andy Burnham’s push for a new plan suggests the centre-left debate has moved beyond Downing StreetOnce a political leader’s net favourability sinks deep into negative territory, recovery is the exception, not the rule. It usually takes an economic rebound, a dramatic political reset or an opposition implosion to reverse the slide. personal ratings are in a danger zone from which few escape.Yet the prime minister, like the Bourbons, has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. He made a speech this week after coming close to being ousted suggesting he would “” on. He in parliament despite glaring errors in judgment. He his cabinet secretary while his own remain unaddressed. He seemed to blame everyone but himself. When support slips and a leader answers with defiance, voters don’t see strength – they see denial.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our section, please .
EU’s head of foreign policy claims ‘Board of Peace’ is personal vehicle for Donald Trump that removes accountability to Palestinians or UNA bitter dispute between Europe and the US over the future of Gaza has broken out into the open, with the EU’s head of foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, warning that Donald Trump’s “” was a personal vehicle for the US president that removed any accountability to Palestinians or the United Nations.Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, also accused Trump of trying to bypass , and said Europe, one of the chief funders of the Palestinian Authority, had been excluded from the process.
Kristi Noem announced end of TPS for Yemenis, saying protections were against US ‘national interest’US homeland security secretary, , announced the end of temporary protected status (TPS) for on Friday, the latest move by Donald Trump’s administration targeting immigrants.The decision to end humanitarian protections that grant deportation relief and work permits to more than a thousand Yemenis in the US was taken after determining that it was against the US “national interest”, Noem claimed.
Maro Itoje believes Jim Ratcliffe’s comments on immigration were ‘ridiculous’ and ‘wrong’
The United States is deploying the world's largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East to bolster American forces already stationed in the region, a source familiar with the plans confirmed on Friday.
An obscure section of a 2009 piece of legislation states ‘compensation is not payable’ when NSW officers are granted additional powers for ‘major events’Get our , or A 69-year-old woman who after a police officer allegedly pushed her down “violently” at a Sydney protest against Isaac Herzog is planning to sue the state of New South Wales for personal injury, her lawyer says.Lawyer Peter O’Brien says Jann Alhafny – who remains in hospital – is one of at least seven protesters from Monday’s demonstration against the Israeli president who have sought advice over alleged police brutality.
Party led by Tarique Rahman says it will form government by Sunday.
But a High Court judge said service providers should be ‘guided by common sense and benevolence’ when providing toilet facilities to trans people
Aged somewhere between 12 and 14, Ju Ae has stepped from the shadows to stand beside her father at missile launches, military parades and high-level state events.
Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed the atrocities in el-Fasher, says a UN report.
Felony cases tied to Trump’s mass deportation efforts are falling apart in court
Editorial: While it was always absurd for the home secretary to categorise the direct action group as a terrorist organisation – placing it in the same bracket as Islamic State and the Provisional IRA – there are better ways for its activists to win the argument than by using violence
In the early hours of November 25, 2004, a Gulfstream IV executive jet touched down in Rotterdam. On board were a crew of three, and a solitary male passenger, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Leqaa Kordia was taken into custody last March, nearly a year after being arrested at a protest at ColumbiaCalls are mounting for the release of a Palestinian woman who has been held in immigration detention for nearly a year following her arrest at a last year, with several elected officials weighing in after a medical emergency renewed attention to her case.Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old originally from the West Bank, was arrested in April 2024 at a protest against Israel’s war in Gaza outside . (She was not a student there.) The charges against her were dismissed the following day, but last March, nearly a year after the protest, she was taken into custody when she checked into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in New Jersey. She had a pending asylum application at the time, her attorney said.
Paul Page, who served between 1998 and 2004, has claimed that officers working for Andrew were 'not allowed' to know the names of the girls who visited him.
A nexus between Bollywood and the Mafia, a one-sided toxic and deadly affair – with just one winner.
Palestinian Ali al-Samoudi was with Al Jazeera's Abu Akleh when she was shot dead by an Israeli sniper in 2022.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was handed £12million by the Royal Family to pay off Virginia Giuffre - but his brother Charles did not contribute, Palace sources have said.
The move overturns the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 'endangerment finding'.
Trump administration rescinds 'endangerment finding' that serves as the legal bases to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Police have defended their actions after Monday’s protest. Here’s how the night played outWARNING: this story includes sensitive video contentGet our , or A man in a white button-up shirt and suit trousers puts his hands in the air as a police officer grabs him. He appears to steady himself on the officer’s shoulders.He’s then punched multiple times by multiple officers. People watching on scream.
Rescinding the 2009 rule will leave Americans to pay a high price — up to nearly $4 trillion by 2055, and a health risk to tens of millions, writes Julia Musto
Soren Aldaco, 23,who filed a lawsuit against the medical professionals who aided her gender transition, claimed that her doctors spoon-fed her talking points to get insurance coverage.
Thousands of Americans are set to experience cell p[hone disruptions in Texas just as mysterious craft was reported in the skies.
Lawmakers left Washington for a long weekend without resolving an impasse over much-criticized agency’s fundingThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is on course for an official shutdown at midnight after lawmakers left Washington for a long weekend without resolving an impasse over the much-criticized agency’s funding.A range of services, including domestic flights and the US Coastguard, could be vulnerable to disruption after the Senate failed on Thursday to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to pass the DHS appropriations bill. Democrats blocked the funding in protest over violent tactics used in the Trump administration’s recent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
Two men who planned a so-called Islamic State-inspired gun attack on a mass gathering of Jews in the Manchester area were today jailed for a total of 63 years.
Flawed evidence by psychologist Melanie Gill was used to remove children from woman in 2019A mother who did not see her children for nearly six years after they were taken away by the family courts has been reunited with her son after the flawed evidence used in her case was overturned.An assessment by an unregulated psychologist led to “extraordinary” and “draconian” orders that effectively terminated her relationship with her children, lawyers told the high court.
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its datacenters with unpermitted gas turbines, an investigation by the newsroom shows. Thermal footage captured by Floodlight via drone shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, , despite a recent (EPA) ruling reiterating that doing so requires a state permit in advance.State regulators in Mississippi maintain that since the turbines are parked on tractor trailers, they don’t require permits. However, the EPA has long maintained that such pollution sources require permits under the Clean Air Act.
Annexe holding 6,000 women and children is now mostly empty, raising security and humanitarian concernsMost of the foreign families of suspected Islamic State fighters have left al-Hawl camp since the Syrian government took control of the facility, prompting security and humanitarian concerns over their whereabouts.About 6,000 women and children from 42 different countries were previously held in the foreigners’ annexe of al-Hawl camp in north-east Syria, which housed some of the most radical former members of the extremist group. The foreigners’ annexe was separate from the part of the camp that contained about 20,000 Syrians and Iraqis.
Voting was largely peaceful in an election seen as a test of Bangladesh’s democracy after years of political turmoil The Bangladesh Nationalist party, led by , has won a sweeping victory in the country’s first election since a gen Z uprising toppled the autocratic regime of .Results from the election commission confirmed the BNP alliance had won 212 seats, returning the party to power after 20 years, while the rival alliance, led by the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, won 77 seats.
Seven states must make deal for sharing basin that supplies 40 million people, before US government steps in. With negotiations at an impasse, what’s at stake?The future of the American west hangs in the balance this week, as seven states remained at a stalemate over who should bear the brunt of the enormous water cuts needed to pull the imperiled Colorado River back from the brink. Time is running short to reach a deal before a critical deadline, set for Saturday.In the region where water has long been the source of survival and conflict, the challenges hindering consensus are as steep as the stakes are high.
Dr Michael Baden, present at Jeffrey Epstein's post-mortem, has called for the cause of the paedophile's death to be reinvestigated.
The Munich Security Report 2026, entitled Under Destruction, says that ‘the world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics’
In a simulation where Russia breaches the Lithuanian border, Europe struggles to respond without U.S. help.
US official admits engineering dollar shortage to strangle rial, which culminated in the deadliest crackdown in Iran.
Analysis shows that the world is moving closer to China, as Trump’s isolationism rears its head at the United NationsDonald Trump’s return to the White House has accelerated a profound shift in the global order, according to new analysis.A , which analyses UN voting records, reveals how Washington’s “America First” agenda has started to redraw the geopolitical map in favour of China.
Palestinian education is being destroyed by Israel's policy of withholding Palestinian Authority customs revenues.
For years, people have obsessed over the 'Doomsday Clock' as a symbolic warning of nuclear apocalypse. But the real danger we should all be frightened of is a risk of our own making - AI.
Investigation will assess whether LA county fire department discriminated while responding to 2025 firesThe California department of justice has launched a civil rights investigation into whether Los Angeles county discriminated against the predominantly Black community of west Altadena when responding to last year’s Eaton fire.The investigation will assess whether the fire response resulted in a “disparate impact” on west Altadena based on race, age or disability.
Lord Peter Mandelson has been asked to testify to the US Congress over his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Walid Saadaoui, who used to arrange holiday dance shows and quizzes, plotted a mass killing spree.
The former CNN host and eight others have been charged for interrupting a church service to protest immigration raids in the state.
With their profile and vile words, these malign provocateurs are tearing down decency’s guardrailsIt lacks the elegance of “greed is good”, but as a distillation of the spirit of the age, it’s right up there. “I feel liberated,” a top banker told the Financial Times in the 2024 US presidential election. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled … it’s a new dawn.”So that’s what they meant by “vibe shift”. Though, as the Epstein files reveal daily, the top 0.01% were hardly primly biting their tongues before Trump’s win, at least not in private. Those with telephone-number fortunes and great power felt able to speak, and write, to each other about women , so filled with hate – women discussed as body parts, as “less than human”, in – that they didn’t need the encouragement of a “grab ’em by the pussy” president to cast off their inhibitions.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our section, please .
UN rights chief urges probe as new report details mass killings, sexual violence and targeted attacks against civilians.
Scribbled in black eyeliner on the white walls and doors inside a Hamptons mansion read a shocking message that finally wiped the smiles from the faces of the Alexander brothers' family in court.
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know whyLast week, we learned of the decision of the Texas A&M University board of regents to end women’s and gender studies programs as well as the teaching of “divisive concepts” such as race. A&M was not the first university to do this. ’s New College made the move in 2023. Other red state legislatures have passed similar requirements and their public universities (in , Ohio and ) have followed suit.The move to cancel gender studies is explicitly justified as a way to comply with ’s executive order of last year titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. That document makes “the biological reality of sex” a matter not of science but of law.