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Remains of second US soldier who went missing in Morocco recovered
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Remains of second US soldier who went missing in Morocco recovered

Mariyah Symone Collington and Kendrick Lamont Key Jr, who also died, had fallen off a cliff during an off-duty hikeThe remains of the second US army soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered, the army said on Wednesday, ending a multinational search operation that deployed air, naval and artificial intelligence assets.The soldier was identified as Spc Mariya...

Remains of second US soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered
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Remains of second US soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered

Mariyah Symone Collington and Kendrick Lamont Key Jr, who also died, had fallen off a cliff during an off-duty hikeThe remains of the second US army soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered, the army said on Wednesday, ending a multinational search operation that deployed air, naval and artificial intelligence assets.The soldier was identified as Spc Mariya...

Housing market in England and Wales weakening due to Iran war, say estate agents
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Housing market in England and Wales weakening due to Iran war, say estate agents

Homebuyers more cautious due to possible mortgage rate rises and higher inflation as sellers sit on propertiesFears of higher mortgage rates and rising inflation as a result of the Middle East conflict are leading to a subdued and downbeat housing market, according to estate agents.Demand from potential homebuyers across England and Wales has shown a “noticeable softening” recently, according to a...

Typical English roast dinner potentially ‘drenched’ in 102 pesticides, says report
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Typical English roast dinner potentially ‘drenched’ in 102 pesticides, says report

Greenpeace finds cocktail of pesticides including seven banned in EU may have been used on seven categories of vegetables and soft fruitIt is a beautiful early summer Sunday afternoon and you have stopped for a pub lunch. A waiter sets down a roast served with carrots, peas, parsnips, potatoes and onion gravy, and then for pudding, strawberries and cream. It feels like the perfect rustic meal to a...

NHS drugs go-ahead offers lifeline to children with rare muscle-wasting disease

NHS drugs go-ahead offers lifeline to children with rare muscle-wasting disease

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Medicines watchdog approves two treatments for patients with spinal muscular atrophyHundreds of children with a rare muscle-wasting disease will be able to receive two drugs that can improve their survival in a move parents hailed as a “lifeline”.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has published final draft guidance recommending that any patient who would benefit can have ...

Australia politics live: Taylor reveals plan to block noncitizens from access to 17 benefits including paid parental leave

Australia politics live: Taylor reveals plan to block noncitizens from access to 17 benefits including paid parental leave

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Opposition leader to give budget reply speech tonight. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHolding Jewish people responsible for Israel a ‘building block’ of racism, inquiry hearsThere will always be “edge cases”, Dr Dave Rich has told the antisemitism royal commission, where there are good faith disagreements on whether something is antisemitic.Holdi...

Israel’s ruling coalition proposes early elections amid ultra-Orthodox anger at Netanyahu

Israel’s ruling coalition proposes early elections amid ultra-Orthodox anger at Netanyahu

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Prime minister under pressure over failure to grant military service exemptions as multi-party government looks at risk of collapseIsrael’s ruling coalition has submitted a proposal to dissolve parliament to pave the way for early elections as the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, came under mounting attack from ultra-Orthodox parties.The move, initiated by Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party, cam...

Howard Lutnick said he had three ‘inconsequential’ meetings with Epstein

Howard Lutnick said he had three ‘inconsequential’ meetings with Epstein

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In House committee transcript, commerce secretary denied any further contact with disgraced financierSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told lawmakers in a closed-door interview earlier this month that he met Jeffrey Epstein only three times and had no “personal or professional relationship” with the disgraced financier, according to a newly...

Howard Lutnick said he had three ‘meaningless and inconsequential’ meetings with Epstein

Howard Lutnick said he had three ‘meaningless and inconsequential’ meetings with Epstein

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In House committee transcript, commerce secretary denied any further contact with disgraced financierSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, told lawmakers in a closed-door interview earlier this month that he met Jeffrey Epstein only three times and had no “personal or professional relationship” with the disgraced financier, according to a newly...

Australia politics live: Taylor unveils policy to block noncitizens from access to 17 benefits including paid parental leave

Australia politics live: Taylor unveils policy to block noncitizens from access to 17 benefits including paid parental leave

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Opposition leader to give budget reply speech tonight. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHousing minister says first home buyers should be on better footing as soon as this weekend’s auctionsClare O’Neil, the housing minister, said the recent budget is a “housing budget” meant to help first home buyers.I’m not pretending anything is going to get fix...

Influencer detained in Tennessee over alleged confrontation involving gunfire

Influencer detained in Tennessee over alleged confrontation involving gunfire

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Dalton Eatherly, 28, known as Chud the Builder, accused of firing at another man outside courthouse in ClarksvilleAn influencer has been detained in Tennessee following his alleged involvement in a shooting, according to local police.On Wednesday afternoon, Dalton Eatherly, 28 – known online as Chud the Builder – was involved in a confrontation with another man outside the Montgomery county courth...

Cartel corruption claims push US-Mexico relations to breaking point

Cartel corruption claims push US-Mexico relations to breaking point

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With Mexico under pressure from Trump to tackle drug trafficking groups, analysts say ‘it’s the most tense situation since the 1980s’Relations between Mexico and the United States are being pushed to breaking point amid accusations by Washington that Mexican officials have been “in bed for years” with drug traffickers, and reports of CIA agents freely operating south of the border.“There are many ...

JD Vance threatens health funding to states that don’t comply with White House anti-fraud effort

JD Vance threatens health funding to states that don’t comply with White House anti-fraud effort

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Medicare has already paused hospice and home healthcare agency signups as potential fraud is investigatedUS politics live – latest updatesJD Vance has threatened to “turn off” federal funding for government health insurance programs in states that refuse to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on suspected fraud.States which fail to “get serious” about fraud would lose Medicaid and Med...

Republican redistricting effort is ‘evil incarnate’, Stacey Abrams tells new Guardian podcast

Republican redistricting effort is ‘evil incarnate’, Stacey Abrams tells new Guardian podcast

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In interview with Stateside with Kai and Carter, Abrams says Republicans have raised the stakes beyond party linesFormer Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has slammed Republican-led states’ efforts to redraw their congressional maps to favor their party as “evil incarnate”.In an interview with the Guardian’s new podcast, Stateside with Kai and Carter, Abrams argued that what she said a...

Utah woman who wrote book on grief gets life without parole for killing husband

Utah woman who wrote book on grief gets life without parole for killing husband

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Kouri Richins was convicted for lacing her husband’s cocktail with five times the lethal dose of fentanylSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA Utah mother who published a children’s book about grief after the death of her husband and was later found guilty of killing him has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Kouri Richins was convicted in March of aggr...

Australia politics live: Albanese denies tax reforms aimed at courting votes from growing gen Z cohort

Australia politics live: Albanese denies tax reforms aimed at courting votes from growing gen Z cohort

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Angus Taylor to give budget reply speech tonight. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Nick Visser will take the helm (with Krishani Dhanji ready to take over this afternoon in the lead-up to tonight’s budget reply speech from Angus Taylor).Ant...

Family of British couple jailed in Iran say they have lost contact

Family of British couple jailed in Iran say they have lost contact

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Lindsay and Craig Foreman were given 10-year sentences after entering the country on a motorcycling tripThe “terrified” family of a British couple jailed for 10 years in Iran on spying charges have said they have lost all contact with them.Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 53, were arrested in January 2025 while travelling through Iran during an around-the-world trip by motorcycle. Continue reading....

Senate fails to curb Trump’s war on Iran even as Republican opposition grows

Senate fails to curb Trump’s war on Iran even as Republican opposition grows

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Resolution fails by 49-50, with Lisa Murkowski and fellow GOP members Rand Paul and Susan Collins voting in favorThe Senate on Wednesday rejected the seventh attempt by Democrats to force an end to American involvement in the war on Iran, even as the ranks of Republicans opposed to Donald Trump’s strategy grew.The war powers resolution proposed by Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator of Oregon, fail...

Senate rejects latest Democratic effort to end Iran war by wafer-thin margin

Senate rejects latest Democratic effort to end Iran war by wafer-thin margin

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Resolution fails by 49-50, with Lisa Murkowski and fellow Republicans Rand Paul and Susan Collins voting in favorThe Senate on Wednesday rejected the seventh attempt by Democrats to force an end to American involvement in the war on Iran, even as the ranks of Republicans opposed to Donald Trump’s strategy grew.The war powers resolution proposed by Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator of Oregon, fail...

US Senate rejects seventh war powers measure as more Republicans break rank

US Senate rejects seventh war powers measure as more Republicans break rank

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Resolution failed in a 49-50 vote, with Lisa Murkowski and fellow GOP members Rand Paul and Susan Collins voting in favorThe Senate on Wednesday rejected the seventh attempt by Democrats to force an end to American involvement in the war on Iran, even as the ranks of Republicans opposed to Donald Trump’s strategy grew.The war powers resolution proposed by Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator of Oreg...

Missouri man charged for posting bomb-making tutorials that aided New Orleans attack

Missouri man charged for posting bomb-making tutorials that aided New Orleans attack

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Jordan Derrick charged in connection with deadly attack in the French Quarter on New Year’s Day 2025US politics live – latest updatesFederal authorities have filed charges against a Missouri man accused of publishing online tutorials on how to manufacture explosives that the terrorist who carried out the deadly attack in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter on New Year’s Day 2025 used as a bluepri...

Valdo Calocane brother tells inquiry he felt powerless over killer’s mental ill health

Valdo Calocane brother tells inquiry he felt powerless over killer’s mental ill health

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Elias Calocane says he thought violent messages sent by brother related to suicidal thoughts not harming othersThe younger brother of Valdo Calocane, who killed three people in an attack in Nottingham, said he felt “powerless” over his sibling’s mental ill health and believed violent messages his brother had sent concerned suicidal thoughts.Valdo Cacocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophr...

Georgia’s Republican governor calls for special session to redraw electoral maps

Georgia’s Republican governor calls for special session to redraw electoral maps

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Brian Kemp’s move makes Georgia latest southern state to initiate map-making after dismantling of Voting Rights ActThe Republican governor of Georgia called a special session for next month to redraw electoral maps, the latest southern state to initiate a new map-making after the US supreme court’s dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.Brian Kemp announced the special session, which will start on 1...

Wes Streeting prepares to launch leadership challenge against Keir Starmer

Wes Streeting prepares to launch leadership challenge against Keir Starmer

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Health secretary’s move to force race sparks scramble on left of Labour for candidate to oppose himUK politics live – latest updatesWes Streeting is preparing to launch a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer on Thursday if the health secretary can secure the support of enough MPs to trigger a contest.Streeting’s move to force a race has sparked a frantic scramble on the left of Labour to find...

Benjamin Netanyahu says he made secret trip to UAE at height of Iran war

Benjamin Netanyahu says he made secret trip to UAE at height of Iran war

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Emirates’ foreign ministry rejects claims that Netanyahu visited the country describing them as ‘baseless’Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed he made a secret trip to the United Arab Emirates at the height of the Iran war to meet the president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.“This visit has led to a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE,” the Israeli prime minister’s office...

Benjamin Netanyahu made secret trip to UAE at height of the Iran war

Benjamin Netanyahu made secret trip to UAE at height of the Iran war

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The covert meeting with the UAE’s president is the latest milestone in a rapidly developing Middle East allianceBenjamin Netanyahu has revealed he made a secret trip to the United Arab Emirates at the height of the Iran war to meet president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.“This visit has led to a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE,” the Israeli prime minister’s offic...

US Senate confirms Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, replacing Jerome Powell

US Senate confirms Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, replacing Jerome Powell

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Warsh will serve four-year term as chair, taking over amid rising inflation and pressure from Trump to lower ratesThe US Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as chair of the Federal Reserve, one of the most powerful roles in the federal government that holds enormous sway over the economy.The 54-45 Senate vote on Wednesday was split along party lines, with the exception of Democratic senator John Fetterma...

Wes Streeting: PM-in-waiting or ‘this generation’s David Miliband’?

Wes Streeting: PM-in-waiting or ‘this generation’s David Miliband’?

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Health secretary’s lack of challenge had reassured Starmer and his allies – but then briefings for a speculative Thursday launch emergedAs the unofficial political truce of the king’s speech approached, with still no sign of a leadership challenge from Wes Streeting, some of his Labour colleagues assumed the health secretary’s chance to go for the top job might have passed for ever.“There is a ris...