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UK faces ‘very difficult trade-offs’ in budget because of Iran war, say analysts

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Leading thinktank says higher oil prices and inflation will give Andy Burnham a ‘challenging inheritance’Andy Burnham has been warned by a leading thinktank of “very difficult trade-offs in the next autumn budget” if the Iran war keeps oil prices and inflation high.The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said the new prime minister faced a “challenging inheritance” and his p...

Trump pausing Iran attacks shows US military power is not enough on its own

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Tehran has not been bombed into submission, leaving America unable to enforce its demands without a ground war that it does not wantHas Iran won a war it didn’t start against the United States? It is not a victory in any conventional military sense: about 3,500 Iranians have been reported killed and the US-led bombing has caused anywhere between $150bn and $270bn of damage.Yet Donald Trump’s decis...

Australia news live: Dan Tehan sidesteps questions on Angus Taylor’s links to Icac inquiry; former Melbourne gangster sentenced to life in prison in Iraq

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Follow updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSpecially designed Airbus completes marathon 24-hour flight before joining Qantas fleetA specially modified Airbus A350 plane touched down in France Tuesday after a record 24-hour test flight from Australia, ahead of it joining Qantas’s fleet next year, Agency France-Presse reports. Continue reading...

Australia news live: Allan was subjected to ‘vile sexism’ as premier, Gillard says; former Melbourne gangster sentenced to life in prison in Iraq

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Former PM says ousted Victorian premier was ‘courageous in combating misogyny’ and was a trailblazer for other women. Follow updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA former Melbourne gangster believed to be a key player in the city’s tobacco wars has been sentenced to life in prison in Iraq.Kazem Hamad was given a life sentence for “drug trafficking” by Iraq’s Karkh crim...

Rescuers pick through wreckage after ‘devastating’ Wisconsin tornado

The Guardian • 1 month ago

No deaths reported after twister leveled homes and topples trees and power lines in north-east of stateFirst responders searched homes and buildings on Tuesday for possible victims of a powerful tornado that ravaged several north-eastern Wisconsin communities.The Fox Cities region, which is home to more than 100,000 people in the cities of Appleton, Menasha and Neenah, was left in shambles by Mond...

Japan earthquake injures at least 100 and kills two inside shopping mall

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Kumamoto shaken by 6.8-magnitude quake, knocking out power and damaging buildings, as people remain trapped inside shopping centreA 6.8-magnitude earthquake has shaken south Japan, killing at least two people and leaving at least 100 people injured. Some are trapped and presumed dead inside a shopping mall.The earthquake hit Kumamoto prefecture on the southern Kyushu island late on Tuesday afterno...

US diplomats stage UN walkout after France criticizes human rights record under Trump

The Guardian • 1 month ago

France had also intervened after Trump administration had opposed the reappointment of UN human rights chiefUS diplomats walked out of a United Nations meeting after France criticized the country’s human rights record under Donald Trump.The staged walkout, which occurred on Monday during a UN security council meeting on the Ukraine-Russia war, came days after the Trump administration cited “forced...

US diplomats staged UN walkout after France criticized human rights record under Trump

The Guardian • 1 month ago

France had also intervened after Trump administration had opposed the reappointment of UN human rights chiefUS diplomats walked out of a United Nations meeting after France criticized the country’s human rights record under Donald Trump.The staged walkout, which occurred on Monday during a UN security council meeting on the Ukraine-Russia war, came days after the Trump administration cited “forced...

Florida executes man in first of two lethal injections planned in single day

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Governor Ron DeSantis has made the state’s death chamber the nation’s busiest at the end of his final termA former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death on Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern US history.It has been...

Burnham to seek cross-party consensus over urgent reforms to social care

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Prime minister invites Badenoch and Davey – but not Farage – to discuss how to fix decades-old funding crisisAndy Burnham has promised “problem-solving, not point-scoring” before a speech on social care in which he will set out his strategy for resolving one of the most intractable issues in British politics.The prime minister has invited Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, and Ed Davey, the L...

Seattle police recover machine gun and ghost gun from scene of mass shooting

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Three people died, including one of the suspects, and at least five more were wounded, including two-year-old boySeattle police recovered a modified machine gun and an untraceable “ghost gun” from the scene of a mass shooting at a food festival this weekend that left three people dead – including one of the suspects – and at least five more wounded, police chief Shon Barnes said Tuesday.Sunday’s s...

Former Gavin Newsom aide shares fresh details of affair

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Ruby Rippey writes in Vanity Fair of relationship with then San Francisco mayor and appears to contradict his accountA former aide to Gavin Newsom has publicly shared for the first time her full account of their affair, which took place more than two decades ago when Newsom was mayor of San Francisco.In a new essay published in Vanity Fair on Tuesday, Ruby Rippey writes about her struggles with al...

New York offers college admission for residents unenrolled from Howard University

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Historically Black institution withdrew more than 500 first-year students for missed tuition paymentsNew York residents who were unenrolled from Washington DC’s Howard University have been offered a reprieve after the historically Black institution withdrew more than 500 first-year students for missed tuition payments in late July. On 27 July, Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, announced that affe...

Australia news live: Jacinta Allan was subjected to ‘vile sexism’ as premier, Julia Gillard says

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Former PM says ousted Victorian premier was ‘courageous in combating misogyny’ and was a trailblazer for other women. Follow updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer union boss and former leader of the Labor party Bill Shorten has leant his support behind newly crowned Victorian premier Ben Carroll’s announcement he will call a royal commission into the construction...

Georgia teen who killed four in school shooting sentenced to life in prison without parole

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Cole Gray pleaded guilty to 55 counts, including murder, for shooting at Apalachee high school in 2024Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA US judge on Tuesday sentenced a teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a shooting at Apalachee high school in Georgia to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.Colt Gray, 16, had pleaded guilty on Friday to 55 counts,...

Trump administration reportedly plans to end Medicare subsidy that tempers drug costs for seniors – live

The Guardian • 1 month ago

The change will stop $3.6bn in subsidies, making the cost of prescription drug plans more expensive for seniors next year, the Wall Street Journal reportsSign up for the Breaking News US emailTrump’s meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, set for 9:30am ET on Tuesday, will be closed to the media, the New York Times is reporting.The meeting is expected to be much more cordial than th...

Apple becomes second $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-offApple has become only the second company to pass the $5tn valuation mark, as it benefited from investors fleeing AI and semiconductor stocks amid a wider tech sell-off.The iPhone maker’s shares hit a session high ⁠of $342.89 on Tuesday, giving it a market ⁠capitalisation of $5...

Utah woman set fire to church a day before wedding, authorities say

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Lenita Moreno, 25, arrested over fire – which allegedly caused $108,000 in damage – at Mormon church in KaysvilleA Utah woman set fire to the church where she was scheduled to get married a day before the wedding, allege authorities investigating what may have been an extreme case of cold feet.Lenita Moreno, 25, was arrested on a count of aggravated arson in connection with the 10 July blaze, whic...

Trump touts ‘strong and steadfast’ Lindsey Graham in eulogy at Washington DC funeral service – live

The Guardian • 1 month ago

The Republican senator died earlier this month; his funeral was attended by members of Congress as well as Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr ZelenskyySign up for the Breaking News US emailTrump’s meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, set for 9:30am ET on Tuesday, will be closed to the media, the New York Times is reporting.The meeting is expected to be much more cordial than the one...

Trump reportedly pushing RFK Jr to cut vaccines more aggressively

The Guardian • 1 month ago

White House has halted changing vaccine schedule as it is unpopular, but anti-vaxx Trump set on ‘alleviating autism’Donald Trump is pushing longtime vaccine opponent and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be more aggressive on cutting vaccines in the US, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal.Trump has a long record of anti-vaccine statements, but the White House recentl...

Zelenskyy and Netanyahu brave the whims of Trump’s darkly confounding White House

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Ukrainian and Israeli leaders converge on Washington with criss-crossing fortunes, but knowing they can count on little from US counterpartThe converging visits of Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Washington offer an unusually eloquent snapshot of a world in turmoil, unmoored from decades-old certainties.Some things remain the same. The US is still an almighty military and economic po...

Deaths feared after ‘many people’ trapped inside Japanese shopping centre following earthquake – as it happened

The Guardian • 1 month ago

An ⁠earthquake ​with ⁠a ⁠preliminary magnitude ​of ‌6.8 ‌struck ‌the country’s Kumamoto prefectureKyushu Electric Power said ​48,000 homes had lost power as a result of the latest ​quake, while railway company JR Kyushu said that it had ​suspended services, including its high-speed bullet trains.Kumamoto airport also shut its runway, as airlines diverted and cancelled flights. Continue reading...

Trump praises Lindsey Graham as a ‘true American original’ in eulogy at Washington DC funeral service – latest updates

The Guardian • 1 month ago

The Republican senator died earlier this month; his funeral is attended by members of Congress as well as Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr ZelenskyySign up for the Breaking News US emailTrump’s meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, set for 9:30am ET on Tuesday, will be closed to the media, the New York Times is reporting.The meeting is expected to be much more cordial than the one ...

Trump hosts back-to-back meetings with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Ukraine seeks more firepower for air defenses and Israeli prime minister tries to repair relationship with US presidentDonald Trump hosted back-to-back White House meetings with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as Ukraine seeks more firepower for its air defenses and the Israeli prime minister tries to repair his strained relationship with the US president.It was Netanyahu’s ...

Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings

The Guardian • 1 month ago

Company supplying drones said Ukraine-war inspired effort, where technique was effective in face of Russian attackSeveral schools across the US are set to install pepper-spraying drones as part of a new effort to respond to school shooting attacks – a Ukraine war-inspired approach that is bound to put off those who would prefer leaders focus on preventing the violence in the first place.Campus Gua...