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Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Any official reprimand will come from regulator Ofcom, but not for at least two monthsUK politics live – latest updatesElon Musk’s X will face no action to remove a mass of posts inciting violence in Northern Ireland for at least two months, despite widespread condemnation of the platform and its billionaire owner.Concern over the role social media played in spreading disturbing images and fuellin...

Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape of 16-year-old boy

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Misty Roberts, 44, who faced up to 17 years in prison, convicted of two felonies including statutory rape Misty Roberts, a former mayor in Louisiana, has been sentenced to 90 days for raping a 16-year old boy.On Tuesday, 44-year old Roberts was sentenced following her conviction earlier this year of two felonies including carnal knowledge of a juvenile – or statutory rape – and indecent behavior w...

Farage suddenly returns to political stage – but dodges questions about £5m gift

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Reform UK leader has been unusually quiet in recent weeks – at great cost to the party during a crucial byelectionFake images of Nigel Farage have been ubiquitous online lately – but the real politician has proved far more elusive since it was revealed seven weeks ago that he took a £5m personal gift from a crypto billionaire.And while an AI-generated depiction of the Reform UK leader was falsely ...

FBI searches southern California facility where chemical incident spurred evacuation

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Chemical tank overheated in May and forced evacuation of 50,000 nearby residents due to danger of explosionThe FBI is searching a southern California aerospace facility where an overheated chemical tank forced 50,000 residents to evacuate last month, after federal authorities served a search warrant there on Wednesday.Signed by a federal judge last week, the warrant approved the seizure of records...

Second night of disorder after knife attack in Belfast – UK politics live

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Disturbances reported in Northern Ireland despite condemnation from politicians and community leadersMan charged with attempted murder after Belfast knife attackTell us: how have you been affected by the situation in Belfast?Hadi Alodid refused legal representation and made no reply to charges which were put put to him through an Arabic interpreter as he appeared in court charged with attempted mu...

Keir Starmer aides ‘war-gaming’ leadership contest with Andy Burnham

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Prime minister is ‘hellbent’ on fighting any contest, even if his future may be out of his hands, sources sayUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer’s closest aides are “war-gaming” how to win a leadership contest ahead of Andy Burnham’s much-anticipated return to Westminster if he wins the Makerfield byelection, the Guardian understands.Downing Street sources said the prime minister had tak...

Keir Starmer aides ‘war gaming’ leadership contest with Andy Burnham

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Prime minister is ‘hellbent’ on fighting any contest, even if his future may be out of his hands, sources sayUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer’s closest aides are “war-gaming” how to win a leadership contest ahead of Andy Burnham’s much-anticipated return to Westminster if he wins the Makerfield byelection, the Guardian understands.Downing Street sources said the prime minister had tak...

Keir Starmer aides ‘war gaming’ over leadership contest with Andy Burnham

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Prime minister is ‘hellbent’ on fighting any contest - including sacking ministers who support BurnhamUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer’s closest aides are “war-gaming” how to win a leadership contest ahead of Andy Burnham’s much-anticipated return to Westminster if he wins the Makerfield byelection, the Guardian understands.Downing Street sources said the prime minister had taken the ...

A&E patients with non-urgent ailments may be told to come back later under NHS plans

The Guardian • 3 months ago

NHS bosses urge all hospitals in England to use ‘digital triage’ process to combat overcrowding in emergency servicesPatients who turn up at A&E with non-urgent ailments could be told to come back another time under NHS plans to stop hospitals becoming overcrowded and avoid the service’s usual winter crisis.Eighteen hospitals in England are already using “digital triage assessment” to help A&a...

Patients in A&E with non-urgent ailments may be told to come back later under NHS plans

The Guardian • 3 months ago

NHS bosses urge all hospitals to use ‘digital triage’ process to combat overcrowding in emergency servicesPatients who turn up at A&E with non-urgent ailments could be told to come back another time under NHS plans to stop hospitals becoming overcrowded and avoid the service’s usual winter crisis.Eighteen hospitals in England are already using “digital triage assessment” to help A&E staff ...

Middle East crisis live: Trump teases another Iran attack and claims US ‘secret mission’ moved 100m oil barrels in Strait of Hormuz

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Trump claims US was close to a deal but Iran is ‘playing us for suckers’ and says that the ‘United States of America controls the Strait of Hormuz, not Iran’If the US genuinely wants a deal it will have to engage with Iranian demands on sanctions relief, says Danny Citrinowicz, the former head of the Iran branch of Israeli military intelligence.Today’s exchange of strikes shows how easily both Ira...

‘Pleasure and invigoration’: Diana Evans wins UK’s Jhalak prose prize

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Awards for prose, children’s writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000Diana Evans has won this year’s Jhalak prose prize for I Want to Talk to You, a nonfiction collection on subjects ranging from Jean Rhys and Toni Morrison to lockdowns and the British monarchy.The book, described as a “pleasure and an invigoration” by the Guardian’s reviewer Alex Clark, was an...

Mike Ashley’s Frasers makes €1.98bn takeover bid for Hugo Boss

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Fashion and sportswear group, which owns 26% of the German luxury brand, is now seeking full controlMike Ashley’s retail group, Frasers, has launched a near-€2bn takeover offer for the German luxury fashion brand Hugo Boss.The fashion and sportswear group, which owns 26% of Hugo Boss, said it is offering to pay about €1.98bn (£1.73bn) for the remainder of the business to take full control. Continu...

Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after AI facial recognition error

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away from where a crime was committedSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA Florida man is suing several law enforcement agencies for his arrest and prosecution for allegedly luring a child after he was wrongly identified using faulty AI facial recognition software.According to the Jacksonville Beach police departme...

Mike Ashley’s Frasers makes €1.98bn takeover offer for Hugo Boss

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Fashion and sportswear group, which owns 26% of the German luxury brand, is now seeking full controlMike Ashley’s retail group, Frasers, has launched a near €2bn takeover offer for the German luxury fashion brand Hugo Boss.The fashion and sportswear group, which owns 26% of Hugo Boss, said it is offering to pay about €1.98bn (£1.73bn) for the remainder of the business to take full control. Continu...

Laurence Olivier honoured with blue plaque unveiled by Ian McKellen

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Ceremony takes place at actor’s former home in Pimlico, central London, where he lived from the age of five to 12Laurence Olivier has joined David Garrick, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward in having an English Heritage blue plaque outside his former London home.Ian McKellen unveiled the plaque at 22 Lupus Street in Pimlico, where Olivier lived from the age of five to 12 and discovered a t...

Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars

The Guardian • 3 months ago

The actor and director who have long been snubbed will finally take home Oscars at November’s Governors awardsGlenn Close and Ridley Scott are among the names set to receive honorary Oscars at this year’s Governors awards.The two have long been snubbed at the Oscars, with Close receiving eight nominations and Scott receiving four. The pair will be awarded this November alongside animator Floyd Nor...

Crowds turn out in Barcelona for pope blessing Sagrada Família’s final tower

The Guardian • 3 months ago

As completion of 144-year construction nears, questions swirl over resemblance of church to architect’s original plansIt has been a long wait but 144 years after work began, Pope Leo XIV has blessed the recently completed central tower of Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família church in the presence of members of the Spanish royal family, the prime minister and hundreds of bishops.With the completion of t...

US strikes Iran for second day, as ceasefire appears close to collapse

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Donald Trump had vowed to ‘hit them hard again’ after accusing negotiators in Tehran of ‘playing us for suckers’Middle East crisis – live updatesThe US has launched new strikes against targets in Iran for the second consecutive day.Donald Trump had promised to “hit them hard again” as a two-month old ceasefire appears close to collapse. Continue reading...

Trump says Iran ‘playing us for suckers’ and says US will launch fresh strikes

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Two sides trade fire overnight and Trump promises more to come, a day after claiming they were close to agreeing a peace dealMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has said the US will attack Iran on Wednesday, and accused Tehran’s peace negotiators of “playing us for suckers”, just a day after claiming again that a peace deal was imminent.The threat came hours after the two sides had trade...

House panel to seek testimony from Alan Dershowitz about Jeffrey Epstein

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Republican who chairs House panel says he based decision on testimony from Epstein’s longtime assistant Lesley GroffRepresentative James Comer, the Republican who chairs the House committee on oversight and government reform, announced that he would be asking Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former attorney, to appear before the panel as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.“I am going to ask...

Trump says ‘I love the inflation’ as rate rises to 4.2% amid Iran war pressure

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Before the conflict began, inflation was at 2.4%, but the closure of the strait of Hormuz has affected energy pricesDonald Trump said “I love the inflation” after new data showed that inflation jumped to an annual rate of 4.2% in May, the third consecutive monthly increase since the start of the Iran war and a three-year high.Speaking from the White House on Wednesday, the US president said that h...

UK minister defends changes to student loans as criticism mounts

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Lucy Rigby says heavily subsidised system gives the government the right to alter terms of existing agreementsMinisters have rejected accusations that recent changes to student loans are unfair, arguing that they are so heavily subsidised that the government has the right to alter their terms.Pressure has been intensifying on the UK government to reform the student loans system but the chief secre...

UK minister defends changes to student loans as pressure grows for reforms

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Treasury minister Lucy Rigby says the government has the right to alter terms of existing agreementsMinisters have rejected accusations that recent changes to student loans were unfair, arguing they are so heavily subsidised that the government has the right to alter their terms.Pressure has been intensifying on the UK government to reform the student loans system but the chief secretary to the Tr...

US measles cases pass 2,000 as outbreak nears worst in decades

The Guardian • 3 months ago

Outbreak driven by falling vaccination and misinformation as federal public health cuts hamper state responseThe US has recorded more than 2,000 confirmed measles cases so far this year – near the total of 2,228 recorded in all of 2025, and on track to become the worst year for measles in decades as states struggle with the loss of federal funding for public health.The virus continues to spread in...