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UK signed deals with US firms that were clients of Mandelson lobbying company

Clients of Global Counsel, co-founded by Mandelson, included OpenAI and Palantir, which have both signed deals with governmentA lobbying firm co-owned by Peter Mandelson worked for OpenAI before the US tech company signed a wide-ranging agreement with the UK government to explore deploying AI in Britain’s justice, security and education systems.In 2024, the $500bn-valued maker of ChatGPT was a client of Global Counsel, which Mandelson co-founded and part-owned. Keir Starmer subsequently appointed Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.

Nancy Guthrie latest: New photos and video show ‘armed’ masked man at front door of Savannah mother’s home

Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her Arizona home January 31

Democratic lawmakers, Giuffre family and Epstein survivors introduce Virginia’s Law

The Department of Justice has since released nearly 3.5 million pages of documents, though some files are heavily redacted

King Charles III seeks 'moral high ground' with pledge to help police as Epstein scandal deepens

In an earlier era, Britain’s royal family might have tried to bury the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Hong Kong’s once-vibrant press stays silent or celebrates Jimmy Lai’s 20-year jail sentence

Lack of response shows security law and harassment by authorities have muzzled ‘critical voices’, say expertsHong Kong’s once-vibrant media outlets have responded with silence or celebration to the 20-year jail sentence handed down to Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon and critic of the Chinese Communist party.Lai, 78, was after being convicted of sedition and colluding with foreign forces under Hong Kong’s national security law. The charges were widely seen as being politically motivated and designed to silence one of Hong Kong’s most influential pro-democracy campaigners.

Labor group voices ‘distress and disgust’ at police response to anti-Herzog protests

Exclusive: Friends of Palestine calls for independent investigation of actions of NSW police amid ‘terrible erosion of civil liberties’ at Sydney rallyGet our , or A group of pro-Palestine Labor members have voiced their “distress and disgust” at the police response to protests over Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit to Sydney, accusing the NSW government of overseeing a “terrible erosion of civil liberties” in its crackdown on public demonstrations.In a letter to NSW police minister, Yasmin Catley, the Labor Friends of Palestine group – an internal assembly of rank-and-file ALP members – has demanded an independent investigation of the actions of NSW police at Monday’s rally. Eyewitness accounts and mobile phone footage captured officers , with his hands up, and forcibly dragging a group of .

Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help

Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump An Irish man who has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five months says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.Seamus Culleton said conditions at his detention centre in Texas were akin to “torture” and that the atmosphere was volatile. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Democratic congressman Ro Khanna names six men appearing in unredacted Epstein files – live

Khanna, who co-sponsored the Epstein transparency act, named six people including Victoria’s Secret tycoon Leslie Wexner on the House floorJamie Raskin, a top House Democrat, accused the justice department of making “puzzling, inexplicable redactions” to documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that obscured the names of abusers, while allowing the identities of the disgraced financier’s victims to become public.Raskin told reporters that he wanted to view the complete files to better understand how the justice department handled the redaction process.

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces first showdown with NYPD after it's revealed cops used fake social media accounts to spy on New Yorkers

Controversy erupted when the NYPD quietly published long-mandated disclosures, revealing for the first time that it has for years used sophisticated software to track down criminals.

Look who’s in the Epstein files

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

Inside 'the most unBritish place in Britain': A convicted terrorist standing for election. Riven with sectarian division and piled high with filth. Half not working and a massive migrant influx. And it gets worse in ROBERT HARDMAN's shocking dispatch...

Sharon Osbourne could be about to run in the upcoming elections for Birmingham City Council against a convicted terrorist - and in an area where eight out of ten voters are Muslims.

Female lawmaker was romanced by attentive Chinese man... who she did not realize was a SPY

Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang was previously engaged to Yaoning 'Mike' Sun, 65, of Chino Hills, who was jailed on Monday for acting as a political operative for China.

Female lawmaker was romanced by attentive Chinese man... who she did not realize was a SPY

Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang was previously engaged to Yaoning 'Mike' Sun, 65, of Chino Hills, who was jailed on Monday for acting as a political operative for China.

Who were the 'two playmates' Ghislaine offered to Naomi Campbell - and why did the supermodel stay so close to Epstein after he was jailed? ALISON BOSHOFF

Naomi Campbell has long been drawn to powerful mentor figures. A psychologist might look to her childhood for explanations - she never knew her father and left London for Paris at 16

Death penalty bill mandates execution for Palestinians and imprisonment for Israelis for identical offenses

Legal and security experts who took part in a Knesset panel on the legislation – including representatives of the Justice Ministry and the Defense Ministry – opposed the bill's wording. They warned that several of its provisions are unlawful and carry 'grave international implications'

Village in southern Lebanon buries a child and father killed in Israeli drone strike

Mourners in southern Lebanon have buried a father and his young son killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting a Hezbollah member

The Guardian view on Jimmy Lai: what Britain’s caution says about its relationship to Beijing’s power | Editorial

Australia defended a detained journalist despite the risks. Britain’s muted response to a media mogul’s harsh sentence suggests a narrowing view of what confrontation is worthIf the handed to the media mogul Jimmy Lai was meant to surprise, it would have been shorter. Twenty years behind bars is not a burst of rage. It is a sentence designed to make repression routine in Hong Kong. The 78-year-old founder of the shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily is now likely to die in prison after being convicted of sedition. The court was telling Hongkongers what kind of place they now live in, and signalling to foreign governments what kind of relationship Beijing expects them to accept.China’s national security law, imposed on Hong Kong in 2020, was designed to dismantle the former British colony’s pro-democracy movement and to place freedom of expression under permanent political constraint by the Chinese Communist party. From 2020 to 2026, at least have been arrested and 175 convicted under national security-related offences.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 .

What happens when Netanyahu visits Trump? A look at his past six US visits

Netanyahu embarks on his sixth US trip amid escalating tensions in the region and ongoing US-Iran negotiations.

UK falls to new low in global corruption scale over party donations and Epstein scandals

The United States has dropped to 29th place while Denmark and Finland take the lead

Iran’s shadow fleet of old tankers a ticking bomb for sea life, say experts

Exclusive: Analysts say there will be oil spill catastrophe that could be far bigger than Exxon Valdez disasterDecrepit oil tankers in Iran’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet are a “ticking time bomb”, and it is only a matter of time before there is a catastrophic environmental disaster, maritime intelligence analysts have warned.Such an oil spill could be far bigger than the 1989 that released 37,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea, they said.

Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown

Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data showPolice departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by the 74 reveals.Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database of automated license plate reader data, including from school cameras, for immigration-related investigations.

Palestinian citizens of Israel demand government do more to stop crime

Palestinians in Israel are reaching breaking point in the face of endemic crime and government neglect.

Judicial corruption: Concrete actions must be taken now – Amnesty Director Sanusi backs Osigwe

President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, has ignited a nationwide debate after describing members of the judiciary and legal profession as the worst perpetrators of bribery in Nigeria, warning that judicial corruption now poses a serious threat to democracy and social justice. Osigwe sparked nationwide debate on Friday while delivering […]

Buckingham Palace says it is ready to support the police in any Andrew probe as King expresses his 'profound concern'

The King issued a statement expressing his 'profound concern' at mounting allegations against Andrew last night as the royal household stated it would, if asked, 'support' a police inquiry.

Kurt Cobain's death was 'homicide': Shocking new forensic investigation questions suicide ruling

WARNING- GRAPHIC CONTENT: Forensic scientists have put fresh eyes on Kurt Cobain's autopsy and crime scene photos, suggesting the case should be reopened.

What were Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Israel?

Ties between disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein and Israel are becoming clearer after the release of more documents.

What Beatrice REALLY knew about her parents' dealings with Epstein: Files reveal she advised Fergie on PR around her friendship with the paedophile - who claimed to a friend: 'Princess likes me'

Fergie claimed her eldest daughter, then 22, agreed with her that it was 'important' to brief the press that Epstein had 'done his penance' in prison for soliciting sex from girls as young as 14.

'Ashamed' Princess Eugenie is spotted in Qatar after latest Epstein files revealed crude email Fergie sent to the paedophile about her teen daughter's sex life

The 35-year-old mother of two is a director of art dealer Hauser & Wirth and was working at a high-end contemporary art fair in Doha this week.

Grace Tame breaks her silence after widely condemned speech at pro-Palestine rally

Tame told the rally to 'globalise the intifada' which has been interpreted by some as a call for violent uprising.

Alberta Knew Measles Was Harming Pregnant Patients—But Stayed Silent

Internal documents reveal health officials withheld data about the people most at risk The post first appeared on .

How Britain became a dumping ground for illegal meat

Trump EPA to take its biggest swing yet against climate change rules

With its plans to revoke the endangerment finding, the administration is gambling that the Supreme Court will allow it to completely avoid regulating the nation’s top greenhouse gas sources.

Netanyahu rushes explosive Iran intel to Trump as 'Desert-storm' level US air armada floods Middle East

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in route to Washington D.C. today -- planning to meet with President Donald Trump tomorrow.

Victoria Beckham shares birthday tribute to her longstanding best pal Charlotte Tilbury as she invites makeup mogul to join the Spice Girls

The fashion designer, 51, took to her Instagram to share a clip of the pair gifting each other Christmas presents back in 2022, as she wished her pal a happy birthday.

Greek air force officer arrested on suspicion of spying for China

Christos Flessas being detained in case seen as exposing Beijing’s strategy of infiltrating western military and security servicesA Greek air force officer arrested on suspicion of spying for China has been detained pending trial after appearing before a military judge in a case that is seen as exposing Beijing’s determination to infiltrate Europe’s security and intelligence services.Surrounded by armed escorts, a squadron leader identified as Col Christos Flessas emerged late on Tuesday from the court after giving testimony for over eight hours.

US restaurants targeted for opposing ICE: ‘I refuse to cook for fascists’

Restaurants face one-star reviews and less business in an already precarious industry. Some restaurateurs fear speaking out as immigrants themselvesAmid calls for a national shutdown on 30 January, Anton Kinloch displayed a sign on the sidewalk outside Lone Wolf, his craft cocktail bar and restaurant in Kingston, New York. In large block letters he wrote: “WE LOVE ICE IN DRINKS. WE DON’T LOVE ICE IN REAL LIFE. SOLIDARITY ALWAYS.”Along with his wife and business partner Lisa Dy, he’d made the difficult decision to stay open, electing instead to donate a portion of the night’s proceeds to a local immigrant advocacy group. With frigid temperatures and inclement weather stymying business in the region this winter, he simply could not afford the lost revenue. But he refused to stay silent in the aftermath of the brutal killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents in Minneapolis.

Rightwing US news outlet hails Trump as ‘liberator’ after being allowed into Venezuela

Newsmax was first foreign outlet let into country after US strike, a marriage of convenience for leadership trying to appease TrumpIn the days after was abducted by US special forces, hundreds of journalists from as far away as Japan flocked to ’s border with hoping to witness the fallout from one of the most dramatic moments in South America’s recent history. None were granted visas to enter. Those who tried to do so anyway were detained and thrown out.But last weekend a team of reporters was finally allowed to visit Caracas.

Congressmen name six wealthy men ‘likely incriminated’ in Epstein files

Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie reveal names they say DoJ redacted ‘for no apparent reason’The Democratic congressman Ro Khanna said on Tuesday that he and his Republican colleague Thomas Massie had forced the justice department to disclose the “hidden” names of six wealthy men they say are “likely incriminated” by their inclusion in the so-called files.In a at lunchtime, Khanna, of California, named the six as Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Leslie Wexner.

EU votes to allow deportation of migrants to ‘safe’ third countries

New rule could be used to send asylum seekers to countries they have no ties to if they're 'deemed' safe.

Mandelson planned secret meetings with Chinese officials

Peer deliberately wanted to shake off embassy handlers to meet high-level Communist Party officials

Chinese fighter jet fires flares at Taiwanese planes

China ramps up military aggression in region as Xi Jinping dismisses chain of top-ranking deputies in purge of high command

ICE hearing: Democrat asks Trump official ‘do you think you’re going to hell’ over fatal shootings

President Trump’s immigration crackdown is facing growing scrutiny from lawmakers and the broader public

'He's an animal who played the system. The public deserves better.' As a Pakistani immigrant is jailed for raping a teen after court covered asylum status up, how one in ten of all claimants now come from the country - and often stay for decades

Sheraz Malik had barely been in Britain for a year when he raped a vulnerable 18-year-old. Reform MP Lee Anderson (pictured) had attempted to expose Malik's immigration status.

Ohio city stands up to Trump’s ‘attitude of hate’ toward local Haitian community

Churches in Springfield provide networks of support as Haitians face uncertainty over the future of TPS legal protectionsAt morning services at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday, congregants greeted one another with hugs and expressed gratitude for a rare piece of good news. Nearly a week before, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end legal protections for 350,000 Haitians in the US.The church is one of several in Springfield that provide services in Haitian Creole and has opened its doors to thousands of Haitians living in the small city in south-western Ohio. Addressing the ruling, pastor Carl Ruby explained in his sermon that during times of suffering, the silence of God doesn’t mean the absence of God.

Explosive investigation linking Zodiac killer to Black Dahlia sparks dramatic LAPD revelations

The LAPD is reviewing the findings of a new investigation into Elizabeth Short's murder, after the Daily Mail exclusively revealed the identity of a new suspect - and a shock link to the Zodiac killings.

EU moves closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers

MEPs vote to allow people to be deported to places they have never been to, as NGOs express fears over new ‘safe third countries’ listThe EU has moved closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers, after centre-right and far-right MEPs united for tougher migration policies.MEPs voted for legal changes that will give authorities more options to deport asylum seekers, including sending people to countries they have never been to.

Record bid to get 1,752 doing the Locomotion

Organisers need hundreds of people to swing their hips at the Locomotion Museum for five minutes.

EU lawmakers agree on migration policies easing deportations, drawing criticism

European lawmakers have approved a new immigration policy allowing nations to deny asylum and deport migrants from countries deemed safe

‘A step in the wrong direction’: Israel’s West Bank plans prompt global backlash

US, Britain, EU and Arab nations condemn plans that Israeli ministers say will ‘kill the idea of a Palestinian state’Israeli measures to tighten its control of the West Bank have prompted a global backlash, including a signal from Washington restating the Trump administration’s opposition to annexation of the occupied territory.Announcing the measures, which involve extending Israeli control in areas that are currently under Palestinian administration, Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, made clear they were aimed at strengthening Israeli settlements in the West Bank and pre-empting the emergence of an independent sovereign Palestine.