Israel's security cabinet has approved measures to strengthen control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the powers of the Palestinian Authority
A Russian national, Lyubomir Korba, has been arrested in Dubai in connection with Friday’s attempted assassination of Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev. Alekseyev, deputy head of Russia’s GRU military intelligence, was seriously wounded after he was shot multiple times at an apartment building in northwestern Moscow. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Sunday confirmed that Korba was […]
Those pushing to oust the prime minister are unlikely to be deterred by his right-hand man’s departureFor some Labour MPs, the sight of Keir Starmer accepting the resignation of his long-term consigliere, Morgan McSweeney, encapsulated everything they think is going wrong with the prime minister’s leadership.After days of mounting criticism over McSweeney’s role in advocating for the appointment of Peter Mandelson as Washington ambassador, the prime minister’s chief of staff on Sunday.
Top House Democrat says president’s suggestion for Republicans to ‘take over’ elections really means ‘steal it’ will stop from trying to steal this year’s midterm elections, , the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives said on Sunday.Jeffries comments come amid after Trump said Republicans should . The US constitution gives states the power to set election rules and says Congress can pass laws to set requirements for federal elections. The constitution gives the president no authority over how elections are run.
Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.
Pakistani security forces raid multiple locations and arrest four suspects
The investigation into the apparent kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, continues
Isaac Herzog to commemorate Bondi Beach mass shooting victims, but activists say he shouldn't escape scrutiny over Gaza.
London Mayor believes it will happen in his lifetime and wants to rejoin single market in meantime
The financier and paedophile ran two networks: powerful men he courted, and women and girls he raped
Experts warn promise of reconstruction turns right to shelter into political extortion and alleged demographic change.
Ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the longest-ruling leader in the country's history.
Jack Lang is facing allegations of past financial ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Emails in the files show the former prince passing on secret details of investment opportunities to the paedophile following his visits to Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam in 2010 and 2011.
'Iran has paid a very heavy price for its peaceful nuclear programme and for uranium enrichment,' Abbas Araghchi told a forum in Tehran.
David Corker from Corker Binning was seen leaving the house of the disgraced peer near Regent's Park in London earlier today.
The inmate was segregated amid concerns housing a person with a penis in an all-female jail posed safety risks.
Several men appear in photos on the nearly 10,000-acre Zorro ranch, which included a 26,700 sq ft mansionFor years, took respite at a sprawling ranch in the desert scrub outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Epstein’s nearly (4,000-hectare) property – known as Zorro ranch – was dotted with cholla cactus and Angus cattle, and came to include a 26,700 sq ft mansion, as well as a private runway and hangar.For years, Epstein abused teenage girls and young women on this ranch with impunity, according to testimony from several women. In court proceedings, survivors detailed horror after horror they say unfolded on this isolated expanse of land.
The Prime Minister and Lord Mandelson, who at the time was Britain's ambassador to the US, visited Palantir's offices in Washington DCin February 2025.
US pressure pushes island nation's 11 million people to the brink as Cuba imposes emergency measures amid fuel crisis.
Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacksThe email landed in Lizzie Johnson’s in-tray in Ukraine just before 4pm local time. It came at a tough time for the reporter: Russia had been repeatedly striking the country’s power grid, and just days before she had been forced to work out of her car without heat, power or running water, writing in pencil because pen ink freezes too readily.“Difficult news,” was the subject line. The body text said: “Your position is eliminated as part of today’s organizational changes,” explaining that it was necessary to get rid of her to meet the “evolving needs of our business”.
The Director of National Intelligence was accused by an anonymous whistleblower last May of deliberately suppressing information about the phone call within US intelligence agencies.
The links between Peter Mandelson, Jeffrey Epstein and Putin-linked oligarch Oleg Deripaska are revealed by emails in which Epstein explored buying a luxury apartment close to the Kremlin.
Outrage has erupted after a brutal collision sport linked to a teen's death launched a new commercial league, with furious viewers from around the world demanding it be shut down
Holly Valance has undergone quite the metamorphosis in the years since she was propelled to fame as Felicity 'Flick' Scully in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
Many small changes since 2024 have ‘added up to one big cut’, advocates say, and the two biggest changes are due to roll out this yearGet our , or A little over a year ago, Bonnie’s hair started falling out. The then 30-year-old went to see a dermatologist, who asked if something stressful had happened in her life recently. Bonnie knew instantly what it was.The Australian government had passed new legislation related to the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS) and she was terrified it would strip her sister Claire* of the essential supports that enabled her to live a beautiful and rich life.
Since a presidential post on Truth Social the Washington DC arts hub has lost its leadership, had its name changed and will now be closed for yearsThe Brentano String Quartet had finished their performance when a special guest dropped in backstage: the US supreme court justice . “We thanked her for everything she had done for our country,” recalls violinist Mark Steinberg. “It was a nice moment.”The year was 2016 and the place was the in Washington. Fast forward a decade and old certainties have been shaken: Ginsburg is dead, Donald Trump is president and the Kennedy Center has become a case study in how a seemingly solid American institution can quickly unravel.
The firing follows a Fox News Digital investigation that, just days earlier, revealed an underground communications network allegedly used by anti-ICE activists to track agents and obstruct operations.
As criminals feed a growing appetite for cheap pork and beef, can you trust the food on your plate?
A mining disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo underscores the human cost of extraction. Intensified competition for resources isn’t helpingWhen Donald Trump boasted recently that he had stopped the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – though fighting persists in the DRC, at – he made clear that his goals went beyond a long-sought Nobel Peace prize.“They said to me, ‘Please, please, we would love you to come and take our minerals.’ Which we’ll do,” the US president added. Now he is following through. Last Monday he launched plan, “Project Vault”, worth almost $12bn. Two days later, JD Vance hosted a summit seeking to for critical minerals.
With the end of the New Start treaty, we face a potentially catastrophic arms race. It can still be preventedThe risk of nuclear war is greater now than in decades – and . The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists recently set its famous , indicating a level of risk equivalent to the 1980s, when US and Soviet nuclear stockpiles were increasing rapidly. In those years, massive waves of disarmament protest arose in Europe and the United States. Political leaders responded, the cold war , and many people stopped worrying about the bomb.Today, the bomb is back. Political tensions are rising, and nuclear weapons have spread to other countries, including Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea. China is rapidly increasing its nuclear arsenal. The US-Russia arms competition may accelerate soon with the expiration on 5 February of the last remaining arms control agreement, the New Start treaty. To prevent the growing nuclear threat, we need a new global peace movement.David Cortright, a visiting scholar at Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, was the executive director of Sane, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, during the 1980s
Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring ratesAs climate disasters drive up the price of home insurance, three US states are considering empowering their state prosecutors to sue major polluters for their role in those rising costs.Lawmakers in , and have introduced measures which would authorize their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies on behalf of residents whose insurance premiums have soared amid climate disasters.
Puerto Rican superstar promises ‘the world will dance’ in all-Spanish half-time gig that comes as Trump agents wage deadly crackdownFor 13 minutes on Sunday night, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara will pulse with reggaeton, Latin trap and Caribbean rhythms as Bad Bunny headlines a historic Super Bowl halftime performance, primarily – or perhaps entirely – in Spanish. The Puerto Rican megastar, whose songs fuse the raw energy of música urbana, and resistance politics, has promised a “huge party”.At a moment when masked federal agents are sweeping through American cities, rounding up long-settled immigrants, legal residents and even US citizens, Bad Bunny’s presence on the grandest stage in US sports offers a striking contrast – a joyful celebration of pride and solidarity for millions of Latinos.
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, known as TANF, was created nearly three decades ago to provide direct financial support and services to struggling families.
It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemnedJanine di Giovanni is a war correspondent and the executive director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine, Sudan and GazaIn Syria, where I worked during the years of Bashar al-Assad’s terror, people were often taken away to torture cells before dawn by masked men. The timing was deliberate. It disoriented them at their most vulnerable, ensuring the torture to come would be even more agonising. The testimonies I recorded from survivors almost always contained the same phrase: “The morning they came for me.” One young woman, shattered by rape and violence, later told me that her life had split in two – before and after the masked men came for her.In Iraq, those who spoke against Saddam Hussein – even abroad, even casually – in cruel ways by a vengeful leader determined to crush any hint of dissent.Janine di Giovanni is a war correspondent and the executive director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza. She is the author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria.
A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states
Exclusive: Pro-democracy media tycoon’s son warns ‘this is not justice, it is political persecution... for speaking truth to power’ as his father waits to learn his fate
Springwatch presenter joins saboteurs following Devon hunt for livestream broadcast on social media
Editorial: Western states have individually called for the campaigner to be freed, but China needs to see that these countries can stand together as one
Women’s and human rights activist, arrested at a demonstration in December, is said to be on hunger strikeIran has sentenced Narges Mohammadi to more than seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, her supporters said Sunday, as Tehran cracks down on all dissent following nationwide protests and the deaths of thousands at the hands of security forces.The new convictions against Mohammadi come as Iran over its nuclear programme to avert a military strike threatened by Donald Trump. Iran’s top diplomat said on Sunday that Tehran’s strength came from its ability to “say no to the great powers”, striking a maximalist position just after negotiations in Oman with the US.
By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at allThe personal finance expert upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. He was right, and Ms Reeves’s defence last weekend made his case for him. She argued that her decision would help to fund a . But money used to repay student loans cannot simultaneously fund public services. In economic terms, such charges are taxes in all but name.Mr Lewis’s reasoning was nuanced. He that freezing the repayment threshold is either a retrospective rewriting of the terms of a private contract or a targeted tax rise on a cohort of young people. Neither, he said, fits Ms Reeves’s claim that the policy is “fair and reasonable”. There are in operation covering most postgraduate courses, and three largely English student cohorts: entrants pre-2012, those between 2012 and 2023, and those post-2023.
New evidence about Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has recently come to light.
Eni Aluko has called for women's football to be 'gatekept' as she reiterated her view that male pundits, such as Ian Wright, are blocking opportunities in the game.
The Plough pub in The Plough pub in Cadsden in Buckinghamshire shot to brief global fame in 2015.
I received an unexpected phone call from a former colleague this week. 'You're in the Epstein files,' he said excitedly. 'You're in them a lot.'
Labour spends more than £1.2m on ‘woke’ virtual reality 3D interactive world for teenagers
Labour must protect democracy and learn lessons from Jeffrey Epstein’s efforts to influence government policy Peter Mandelson’s personal disgrace is deep and unique, and may yet bring down a prime minister – but by laying bare the dark allure of the “filthy rich”, it also underlines the need for tougher constraints on money in politics.It is hard to know what system or process could have shielded sensitive government decisions from the risk that a senior cabinet minister might nonchalantly pass on the details to a friend, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Downing Street says PM will be ‘out and about’ in the coming week ‘making the case for why [his] government is delivering for working people’