US puts pressure on Palestinian leaders to withdraw bid for UN vice-presidency role
In state department cable, Jerusalem embassy told to issue protest to Palestinian Authority leaders, warning ‘consequences will follow’ if they failed...
Labour must be bolder or it will lose, says Wes Streeting
In first speech since quitting cabinet, Streeting says party must deliver change or it will hand keys of No 10 to ReformUK politics live – latest upda...
Brexit may be back, but Britain needs to know what it wants
A decade after the referendum, EU leaders would welcome closer ties – once the UK has understood the ‘European deal’• Don’t get This Is Europe deliver...
‘He sacrificed his life’: security guard killed in San Diego mosque attack hailed as hero
Amin Abdullah, 51, was one of the three victims of deadly shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego on MondayA security guard who was killed during ...
Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over AI use by US and Israel
Exclusive: Workers sign petitions over applications of AI by governments for defence and intelligence, and vote to unioniseGoogle DeepMind has agreed ...
Former US representative Barney Frank dies aged 86
Family says Massachusetts Democrat entered hospice care last month, dealing with congestive heart failureUS politics live – latest updatesBarney Frank...
Texas storms prompt canceled flights as north-east heatwave comes to a close
Flash flood warnings and school closures in Texas as the US north-east breaks heat records before a dramatic cooldownHundreds of flight cancellations ...
Same but different: how Xi and China welcomed Trump and Putin
Choreography of back-to-back visits appeared deliberately mirrored but China made sure the differences were noticedDays after Donald Trump was greeted...
Lithuanian leaders rushed to bunkers as drone violates country’s airspace
Vilnius residents urged to take shelter during alert, after Nato and EU warn that Russia is diverting Ukraine’s dronesEurope live – latest updatesLith...
DWP pursued woman’s employer for nonexistent ‘benefit debt’
Exclusive: Employer of woman who cares for disabled mother was asked to deduct ‘debt’ from salary despite court ruling she had nothing to payA woman p...
Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry
Young Americans are suing the president for violating rights with executive orders that fuel the climate crisisEva Lighthiser was at a dorm party on h...
More than £52m reserved for social housing at risk after collapse of investment firms
Exclusive: 3,500 social homes could switch to private sector after companies run by Heylo Housing group go into administrationMore than £52m in public...
Channel 4 boss apologises after Married At First Sight sexual misconduct allegations
Priya Dogra says broadcaster acted appropriately over sexual misconduct and rape accusationsChannel 4’s chief executive has stood by the broadcaster’s...
US doctor who contracted Ebola in the DRC flown to Germany for treatment
Dr Peter Stafford’s wife and four children are also being monitored for symptoms amid Ebola outbreak in the DRCAn American doctor who contracted Ebola...
George Soros group pledges $300m to US economic security and civil liberties
Billionaire philanthropist’s Open Society Foundations has worked to advance justice and human rights around worldFor decades, the Open Society Foundat...
Totó la Momposina, vocalist and Colombian music legend, dies aged 85
The singer was one of her country’s most’s popular musical exports, and travelled the world with an evangelistic vision for spreading cumbia musicTotó...
Planned fuel duty rise to be scrapped, says Keir Starmer
PM tells Commons extending the temporary 5p cut is a necessary response to cost-of-living pressuresUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has a...
Trump’s allies in danger of scraping false hope from Maga victory in Kentucky primary
US president, like a cult leader whose commune keeps getting smaller, commands fierce loyalty from a shrinking base“Thomas Massie caught in a throuple...
First Thing: Trump critic Thomas Massie defeated in Kentucky Republican House primary
Seven-term incumbent had spoken out against Iran war, government spending and Jeffrey Epstein files. Plus, Trump’s ‘board of peace’ receives just $23m...
Blinded and broken, Sunny the owl becomes another casualty of Russia’s war
Ukrainians lament appalling toll of fighting on their country’s bird populationRussia sent kamikaze drones to attack the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzh...
At least 80% responsibility for ill health in old age down to individual, says study
UK report argues people have greater control over longevity than widely understood, but others say claim is simplisticIndividuals bear at least 80% of...
Trump tightens grip on GOP after Massie’s defeat in Kentucky primary – US politics live
Republican Congressman defeated by Trump-backed challenger in most expensive House primary in historySign up for the Breaking News US emailGood mornin...
Call for food price caps ‘completely preposterous’, says M&S boss
Stuart Machin argues government should reduce tax and regulatory burden on supermarkets insteadThe boss of Marks & Spencer has called a government pro...
There could be 1,000 or more victims of black-cab rapist John Worboys, says Carrie Johnson
Wife of former PM, who encountered Worboys in 2007, says parole refusal last week was ‘huge relief’Carrie Johnson, the wife of the former prime minist...
Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to ‘China Shock 2.0’
‘China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner,’ thinktank saysBusiness live – latest updatesGermany mus...
Georgia mayor who fired town’s entire police force resigns, citing family ‘health concerns’
Ron Shinnick did not mention the firing of the Cohutta police force, which was later rehired, in resignation letterThe mayor of a small town in the US...
Rachel Reeves to protect ‘critical’ clean energy projects from legal challenges
Chancellor’s planning shake-up would ‘reduce exposure from judicial review on all but human rights grounds’Rachel Reeves is preparing to announce a p...
‘Vein of racism’: Race discrimination commissioner accuses One Nation and Coalition of scapegoating immigrants
Exclusive: Australia faces a ‘pronounced political fault line’, Giridharan Sivaraman tells Brisbane seminar on human rights Get our breaking news emai...
EU agrees to implement US trade deal struck last summer
MEPs had twice frozen ratification process in protest at Trump’s threat of higher tariffs and Greenland threatsThe EU has finally agreed to implement ...
Lithuania lifts air alert after suspected drones approaching from Belarus diverted - Europe live
Incident comes just a day after Nato had to shoot down a suspected stray Ukrainian drone over EstoniaThe drone alert in Lithuania has just been lifted...
