
He paid for Don Jr’s wedding party. What does ‘The Kremlin’s man’ want?
Until March 2010, Umar Kremlev did not exist. Before then, the man who would go on to pay for Donald Trump Jr’s post-wedding party in the Bahamas was called Umar Lutfulloev.

Ceferin referenced Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ as he implored clubs to say “enough” and pull their support for Infantino
Infantino is trying to win favour after his botched World Cup sell-off scheme led to resignation calls

FIFA has accused European football chiefs of "harassment" against Gianni Infantino and trying to influence the presidential election by "spreading misinformation" against him over the World Cup venture.

Fifa president says: ‘The ambition is welcome’ Infantino mounts fresh defence of failed FFE scheme The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, is poised to bow to demands from Uefa and Concacaf to distribute more money from its $6bn cash reserves to member associations. In a letter sent on Monday to all six confederation presidents and copied to members of the Fifa council, Infantino indicated his willingness to “support the greatest level of additional funding”, without committing to the $10m-per-member that has been proposed.

Award-winning, Guardian-produced film focused on Israel’s mass killing of civilians extends run after sold-out screenings NAZA, the award-winning documentary about Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, has opened at No 1 at the Italian box office, beating rival titles including Avengers Endgame: Encore, which came in at No 2. The 80-minute film was booked for a three-day run in Italy, but after sold-out auditoriums and positive audience reaction, its release window will be extended. On its opening day on Monday, the documentary took a total of €451,872, with a per site average of €1,153.

Support for white Afrikaners, anti-communism and others reveals how US redefining what qualifies as human rights With hours left before the funding expires, the Trump administration is pushing to direct more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human rights fund to a slate of awards that includes a huge $40m grant for an anti-communism fund, support for a group advancing white Afrikaner rights in South Africa, a campaign against Brazil’s supreme court, and programs that would reward ideological allies in Europe who protect “western civilizational norms”. On Wednesday, the state department obligated the funds to the grantees hours before the deadline despite congressional concerns and requests to not do so, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The Guardian has reached out to the state department for comment on whether it had “blown” holds from Congress on releasing the funds due to concerns about their use.

This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.

Andy Burnham opened the door to overturning Brexit as he made the case for sweeping reforms beyond Labour’s manifesto. In his first conference speech as party leader, the Prime Minister said Brexit had harmed Britain, and promised to set out choices for the country’s future relationship with the bloc by the end of the year.

The Texas Senate candidate rose to power as a culture warrior. His record is a marriage of hypocrisy and cynicism Ken Paxton’s political career, more than that of any other Republican candidate campaigning in this cycle, charts the arc of the religious right. The most influential of its activists and donors engineered his rise as a culture warrior at each of its phases from his creation through every disgrace. His race for the Senate, the culmination of his ambition, has become not only his last stand, but also the Alamo for Christian nationalists in Texas. Paxton’s rap sheet explains his Christian identity politics as a shield to distract from the liability of his own record of financial and sexual scandals scrolling back decades. The 20 articles of impeachment against Paxton, adopted by the Republican-controlled Texas house of representatives in May 2023, were double the Ten Commandments that Paxton insists should be displayed in every Texas classroom.
The conversation came a week after the Dutch government's implementation of a new ban on the entry of all Jewish-made goods originating in the West Bank, east Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.
The change in Dutch policy has not eliminated domestic disagreements. Criticism has been voiced even within D66, with some arguing that the government is not putting sufficient pressure on Israel

City cooked the books and then set about discrediting those who challenged them. Now the damning verdict is in but their war against the Premier League goes on

Manchester City have been found guilty of cheating and, after the full extent of their £920m cheating scandal was laid bare, nothing is off the table when it comes to punishing them. Here, Telegraph Sport’s football writers and reporters have their say on what should happen to City next, if their appeal fails.

A domestic abuse victim is to flee to “the other side of the world” to escape her ex-husband because she has lost faith in the state to protect her and her two children when he is released early from prison. Karen Haynes, 54, her daughter, 26, and her son, 17, will assume new identities to prevent her ex-husband, Christopher Haynes, 59, tracking them down after he is released from jail a third of the way through his 21-month sentence for coercive and controlling behaviour that spanned three decades.

They might have gone shopping in Dubai, or enjoyed a beach holiday. But shortly after 9.20am local time, 174 passengers were praying for their lives after a fight broke out in the cockpit of Flydubai Flight FZ1073.

Israeli officials said the terrifying midair incident, which saw the plane plunge 17,000ft in a matter of minutes, was an attempted jihadi terrorist attack

Israeli officials investigating if incident, which forced plane to make emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, was attempted terror attack One of the pilots of a plane flying from the UAE to Israel stabbed his co-pilot and appeared to try to crash the plane, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said, as Israeli officials said they were investigating if the incident was an attempted terror attack on Israelis. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after the apparent attack, with the two pilots wounded but other passengers safe, according to a statement by Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz international airport, more commonly known as Tabuk airport.

Israel is investigating how an Omani pilot was cleared to operate the flight bound for Tel Aviv that is believed to have been hijacked this morning. Flydubai flight FZ1073 was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after a brawl in the cockpit left both pilots injured.

Concerns about a possible airplane hijacking briefly gripped Israel on Wednesday

Passengers have told Israeli media a pilot was ‘stabbed’ in the incident
Israeli official says “major disaster avoided” after pilot stabbed his co-pilot, attempted to hijack aircraft with over 100 Israeli passengers • Plane makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia
The additional pilots were added to the flight because possible regional rerouting could extend the journey and push the original crew beyond permitted duty hours.
The attacker was trying to push the other pilot out, apparently to take control alone. Israeli passengers sitting near the front rushed toward the struggle.

A routine flight turned terrifying when a violent altercation broke out inside the cockpit and the aircraft dropped 17,000 feet in two minutes. Passengers subdued a knife-wielding attacker.

The captain and first officer were injured, and one pilot has been arrested, officials say.

The trial, which began earlier this month, investigated the deaths of at least 30 people whose inflatable boat sank while crossing the English Channel in November 2021.

Thirty-one migrants died when their boat went down in November 2021. The trial found that the guilty men were part of two smuggling networks.

Thirteen people have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years in connection with the sinking of a boat in the English Channel nearly five years ago

Seven others found guilty of lesser charges in connection to incident in 2021 when inflatable dinghy sank killing at least 27 people with four more still missing A Paris court has jailed six men for manslaughter over the deaths of at least 27 people in the worst mass drowning on record from a small-boat crossing in the Channel. Seven other men were found guilty of lesser smuggling charges with varying degrees of seriousness, including facilitating illegal immigration as part of an organised gang and criminal conspiracy.

A 10-year-old child and two women have died after they were “likely crushed” in a dinghy while attempting to cross the Channel. French authorities said 105 people on board the “precarious” migrant dinghy were rescued after calling for assistance at sea.

Andy Burnham has said there are “strong indications” Iran played a part in a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford. The UK is working closely with US and the authorities have the situation under “the strongest grip”, Burnham insisted after Donald Trump criticised the decision to release the suspects.

PM also defends decision to release suspects on bail and expresses ‘complete confidence’ in security services There are “strong indications” that Iran played a role in events in which five men were arrested near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire as part of a terror investigation, Andy Burnham has said. Speaking to the media at the end of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Burnham said he could not give any more details amid an ongoing police investigation, but that Iran was believed to be involved.

Iran has rejected allegations that it was behind an alleged plot targeting the RAF Fairford airbase in the United Kingdom. The Iranian Embassy in London, in a statement issued on Monday, described claims linking Tehran to the incident as “fabricated speculations”, according to Al Jazeera. The denial came after British authorities arrested five nationals near the […] Iran denies link to alleged plot targeting UK airbase

In today’s newsletter: New details suggest there is a counter-narrative to how events unfolded at the airbase used by the US Good morning. Vehicles suspected of carrying explosives zipping across Britain, entirely unbeknownst to authorities, is a disconcerting prospect. Initially, it seemed precisely this had occurred in Gloucestershire early on Sunday. A major attack on RAF Fairford appeared to have been scuppered by “pure luck”, a local farmer said, after she noticed suspicious vans and masked men on an otherwise deserted country lane. Had she not tipped off police, the vigilant villager believes the five men arrested on terror offences would not have been apprehended. That account prompted questions about whether police and security services had been caught off guard. Energy | Andy Burnham will take his first major step to putting Britain’s utility companies into public control when, at the Labour conference, he announces a new government-backed body to invest in the electricity grid. Immigration | Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has signalled she is considering watering down her plans to make it harder for foreign workers to claim permanent residence in the UK, amid growing demands for a U-turn from cabinet colleagues and unions. AI | Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history. Petrol | The price of diesel on UK forecourts has hit an all-time high average of 199.18p a litre, as the conflict in the Middle East continues to drive the cost of fuel to record levels. Ebola | A senior member of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ruling party was beaten to death on Sunday after appearing on a radio programme to raise awareness about the Ebola outbreak, a party representative has said.

Tehran has been trying to step up attacks on targets in the west but its track record has been mixed Investigators may be some way from determining exactly what led five men with three vans to a village just outside RAF Fairford in the small hours of Sunday – but the fact they have all been released on bail without immediate charge suggests they are not deemed to pose a serious and violent threat. In a moment where wider geopolitical tensions mean external threats are perceived to be close, the question of whether Iran had a hand in the alleged plot remains open. Nonetheless, the bailing of the men is a mercifully lower-key development in an investigation that appeared of the utmost gravity.
Tehran's denial, issued via its embassy in London, followed widespread U.K. media reports that police were probing possible Iranian links to the security scare early Sunday at the Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford base

Manchester City faces an uncertain future after being found guilty of breaking the Premier League's financial rules for nearly a decade

Club have been found guilty of breaking financial rules City deny wrongdoing, saying it is a ‘conspiracy theory’ Manchester City are set to owe the Premier League tens of millions of pounds in compensation for legal costs after being found guilty of virtually all charges brought against them. The Premier League announced on Tuesday that an independent commission had determined the club had artificially inflated their income by £900m over a nine-year period. The panel concluded that Manchester City had arranged “sham” contracts to boost revenues to comply with spending rules.
Man City strongly maintain their innocence and claim to have ‘a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence’ to defend themselves, but an independent commission has found them guilty of ‘sham contracts’ and misleading accounts

The Premier League ruled that City were guilty of the majority of the charges brought against them

Manchester City say they are 'disappointed and surprised' by the verdict and will appeal.

Swingeing sanctions against City for breaching financial fair play rules would send shockwaves through English football.

It has taken more than two years, but a judgement finally appears to have been made on the 115 charges levelled against Manchester City. Here's what it means.

IAN HERBERT: Legal experts expect Manchester City to be free to lift this season's Premier League trophy, despite having been found guilty of all but one of the 115 charges brought against them.

In November 2006, a blurry 19-second video called “Britney Spears K-Fed Sex Tape” went viral. The clip was clearly fake – this was not the 24-year-old pop star in bed with her DJ husband – but that didn’t matter.

Oil is once again moving through the strait. Can the Trump administration turn a winning Iran strategy into lasting victory?
How far economic strain may push Iran towards diplomatic compromise is unclear, as it tightens its own stranglehold on Gulf energy exports through the Strait of Hormuz, driving up oil and gas prices.

Iran is using Hormuz to seek US concessions, relief for the Houthis and greater control over Gulf shipping.

Brent crude rises more than 3 percent to top $107 a barrel as Washington dismisses Tehran's proposal to end war.
No breakthrough in talks as Orange Order members and protesters remain at scene

The standoff that began in Portadown on Sunday continues for a third day as local nationalist residents refuse to allow the Orange Order to march down the Garvaghy Road after a ruling by Northern Ireland’s Parades Commission
The standoff that began in Portadown on Sunday continues for a third day as local nationalist residents refuse to allow the Orange Order to march down the Garvaghy Road after a ruling by Northern Ireland’s Parades Commission

Drumcree parade, which had previously sparked serious disorder, was due to go ahead for the first time in nearly 30 years
A standoff took place on Garvaghy Road, Portadown, on Sunday when protesters blocked the road where Orange Order planned to march

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused the U.S. owner of steelmaker Stelco of betraying Canadian workers after it announced layoffs it attributed in part to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs — tariffs Cleveland-Cliffs’ chief executive has publicly championed

Trump retaliated against Canada's counter-tariffs on $20bn worth of US imports by banning $1bn of Canadian goods.

U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles

It marks another ratcheting up of Trump’s trade war and affects nearly $1bn in imports of a $880bn trade relationship US-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early on Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1bn worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880bn worth of annual two-way trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks another ratcheting up of Donald Trump’s second-term trade war with the US’s longtime ally and trading partner.

It is the latest escalation in the Canada-US trade war after negotiations collapsed in late August, with no word on when talks may resume.

U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports

Javier Milei, the embattled president of Argentina, has torn a leaf out of the playbook of 1980s dictator General Leopoldo Galtieri. He has taken to sabre-rattling about the Falkland Islands. Although this time, consistently with the 2020s zeitgeist, he has declared lawfare rather than warfare. Threats of international litigation aren’t what they were About 130

President Javier Milei sets a two-week deadline for drilling to stop on the Sea Lion project, a joint venture between Israeli and British companies.

Argentina gives UK two weeks to cease operations or face maritime court action.

Mr. Milei wants to go all in on artificial intelligence even as other leaders struggle to get a handle on a technology many fear poses existential threats.

Argentina has threatened to take Britain to an international court if work on a major offshore oil project in the Falkland Islands is not halted within two weeks. Javier Milei, the Argentine president, warned that his government would request an emergency order from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to freeze development of the Sea Lion oilfield in the North Falkland Basin.

Javier Milei has said that his government would seek international arbitration against the United Kingdom over an oil project off the British-controlled Falkland Islands.

Zack Polanski is urging Ed Miliband to block development of the Rosebank oil field over the project’s alleged ties to Israel. The Green Party leader has written to the Foreign Secretary to raise concerns over Israeli-controlled Ithaca Energy, which holds a 20pc stake in Rosebank.

Man City are claiming ‘conspiracy’ but as Miguel Delaney explains, this may be the most sophisticated system of industrialised cheating football has ever seen and the geopolitical element adds another huge layer
No breakthrough in talks as Orange Order members and protesters remain at scene

I was the first executive director of NYC’s Office to Combat Antisemitism. The mayor’s new strategy has plenty to say about celebrating Jews—just nothing about the movement that has made them afraid.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dedicated a portion of an address at the United Nations last week to assailing Mamdani, accusing him of spreading lies about Israel and calling him ‘the antisemitic mayor of New York’

Strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues, and focus on folding Jewish history into public school education Zohran Mamdani debuted a sweeping plan Tuesday to combat antisemitism and hate crimes against Jewish people in New York City, moving to assuage concerns from critics who see his steadfast denunciations of Israel as antisemitic. The strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues, an increased focus on folding Jewish history into public school education, and a pledge to highlight important Jewish cultural and religious sites in the mayor’s day-to-day governance of the city.

A report issued by Mayor Zohran Mamdani describes ways that New York City is funding hate crime prevention and celebrating the contributions of Jewish New Yorkers.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has debuted a sweeping plan to combat antisemitism and hate crimes against Jewish people in New York City, moving to assuage lingering concerns from critics who view his steadfast denunciations of Israel as antisemitic

The deadly fighting has also spread to neighbouring regions, stranding tourists in Lalibela.

Ethiopia accuses Sudan and Egypt of backing armed groups, deepening tensions amid internal unrest.

Capture of key town could pave the way for federal forces to push towards Tigray's capital, Mekelle.

The Virgin Mary “wore a hijab”, staff at a council have been told. In a talk about Islamophobia, North Yorkshire council staff who handle anti-terror work were taught that Islam’s attitude to women did not conflict with Western values.

The cost of driving is reaching record high levels across the UK

Asda is raising fuel prices at the fastest pace out of all the major supermarkets as the diesel crisis hits drivers. Telegraph analysis of supermarket forecourts shows that Asda has increased diesel prices by 59.3p per litre since Feb 27, the day before the Iran war began.

Fallout from Iran conflict continues to drive up bill for motorists with record average cost now at 199.18p a litre Business live – latest updates The price of diesel on UK forecourts has hit an all-time high average of 199.18p a litre, as the conflict in the Middle East continues to drive the cost of fuel to record levels. The price, which previously peaked at 199.09p in June 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, could soon top the £2 mark after Donald Trump rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day peace deal to reopen the critical oil and gas shipping route through the strait of Hormuz.

Drivers across Britain already now pay an average of 197.75p for a litre of diesel - just over a penny away from the 199.09p record set in June 2022, according to the RAC.

In a social media post, Guardiola said he "always will be behind my club" after the Premier League confirmed Man City were found guilty of all alleged breaches of its financial rules.

The Protect College Sports Act, passed by the Senate this week, aims to safeguard Olympic sports in the U.S. The bill addresses issues like name-image-likeness payments and requires colleges to maintain scholarships and roster spots for Olympic sports

College sports have been upended by athlete payments Critics say legislation does not go far enough The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools. The overwhelming 77-22 vote to pass the Protect College Sports Act is the strongest effort yet by Congress to set national regulations governing payments to college athletes for their name, image and likeness and how often they can transfer. It would give the NCAA new authority over those rules and limited antitrust protections to enforce them.

The Protect College Sports Act deprives hardworking athletes of the money they deserve.

Pep Guardiola has defiantly backed Manchester City over the club’s £920m cheating scandal. Guardiola, 55, won six Premier League titles, three FA Cups, five League Cups and the Champions League during his decade at the Etihad Stadium.