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‘We need a touch of humanity’: Swedish MP promises help for Britons facing deportation if party wins power
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‘We need a touch of humanity’: Swedish MP promises help for Britons facing deportation if party wins power

Niels Paarup-Petersen says a law change can end the plight of British citizens caught out by harsh post-Brexit policy as general election loomsA leading Swedish opposition party has promised an urgent reprieve for British nationals facing deportation from the country over Brexit administrative issues.Niels Paarup-Petersen, migration spokesperson of the Centre party says it will introduce laws to e...

Australian science prize awarded to researcher studying memory accuracy of domestic violence survivors
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Australian science prize awarded to researcher studying memory accuracy of domestic violence survivors

Helen Paterson’s work on advancing how police and courts understand memory is recognised in prestigious Eureka prizesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMemory is an imperfect thing: research shows that recollections of single events – a purse being snatched, say – differ to those about repeated or ongoing events, such as incidents of domestic and family violence.“What our r...

Reform UK gets another £4m from crypto billionaire pardoned by Donald Trump
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Reform UK gets another £4m from crypto billionaire pardoned by Donald Trump

Ben Delo, who was convicted in 2022 for failure to apply anti-money laundering controls, is party’s second biggest donorReform UK has been given a further £4m from the British crypto billionaire Ben Delo, with the party saying it is confident the formerly Hong Kong-based businessman will not be caught by the new overseas donor cap.Delo, who was convicted in the US in 2022 for failing to implement ...

Judge rules 2,000 Catalina Island deer can be killed to save native plant species
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Judge rules 2,000 Catalina Island deer can be killed to save native plant species

Cull of animals that eat native shrubs, causing spread of fast-igniting grasses, to go ahead despite fierce oppositionLocals and tourists have long fawned over Catalina Island’s mule deer population. For nearly a century, the ungulates have roamed the land’s waterfronts and woodlands, so comfortable around humans that it is not uncommon to spot deer roaming downtown Avalon.But that sight will soon...

Apocalypse prep or pure pragmatism: what is behind Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina?

Apocalypse prep or pure pragmatism: what is behind Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina?

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Relocation coincides with proposed laws that opponents say would entrench power of US tech billionaires in countryDozens of protesters converged on Peter Thiel’s mansion in Buenos Aires this week after a congressional session raised questions about the billionaire’s presence in the country.In white masks, they held signs saying “Peter Thief” and “No to the Peter Thiel law” in front of the wrought-...

Badenoch condemns Reform UK’s ‘authoritarian’ press bans – UK politics live

Badenoch condemns Reform UK’s ‘authoritarian’ press bans – UK politics live

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Conservative leader says: ‘If Nigel Farage can’t handle difficult questions about his dodgy £5m, then he shouldn’t be a politician’The Electoral Commission has released political donation figures for the second quarter of 2026. They show that Reform UK continues to rake in far more than other parties. Nigel Farage’’s party had declared donations worth £5.3m. Labour got £3.6m, and the Conservatives...

Yen soars as Bank of Japan tipped to raise interest rates

Yen soars as Bank of Japan tipped to raise interest rates

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Jump lifts currency to highest level against dollar in a month, while global markets remain jitteryBusiness live – latest updatesThe Japanese yen has soared by more than 1.7% against the dollar amid speculation the Bank of Japan is set to raise interest rates.The latest jump on Thursday lifted the yen to its highest level against the dollar in a month, at 155.85, and followed a 0.9% move the previ...

Dozens of trapped hydropower tunnel workers in Nepal could still be alive, official says

Dozens of trapped hydropower tunnel workers in Nepal could still be alive, official says

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About 46 people believed to be trapped in ‘room-like’ structure inside hydro plant tunnel on Nepal-Tibet borderAfter the flood: human suffering on an unfathomable scale in Nepal’s worst-hit districtsNepal authorities have said they are “confident” that dozens of workers in Nepal’s Rasuwagadhi hydropower plant are still alive, more than a week after deadly flash floods left them trapped in an under...

Care workers and others fleeing UK modern slavery win visa reprieve

Care workers and others fleeing UK modern slavery win visa reprieve

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Exclusive: Home Office concedes skilled workers abused by sponsors can change employer and complete visa termUK politics live – latest updatesCare workers, chefs and others in danger of losing their migration status under post-Brexit rules if they leave an exploitative employer will be helped by new visa changes, the Home Office says.Officials said if an employee was found to be a victim of modern...

Sadiq Khan cleared of car tax conviction caused by ‘scam’

Sadiq Khan cleared of car tax conviction caused by ‘scam’

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Magistrates in Hereford withdraw case against London mayor over untaxed Nissan Micra that is not hisUK politics live – latest updatesA car tax conviction against the mayor of London has been withdrawn after it transpired that he was targeted by a “scam” that led to him being fined for failing to tax a car that was not his.Sadiq Khan was found guilty last month under what has been described as a sy...

Kemi Badenoch say UK must prepare for war if it wants to ensure peace – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch say UK must prepare for war if it wants to ensure peace – UK politics live

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The Conservative party leader says she wants to cut welfare spending to boost investment in defenceThe Electoral Commission has released political donation figures for the second quarter of 2026. They show that Reform UK continues to rake in far more than other parties. Nigel Farage’’s party had declared donations worth £5.3m. Labour got £3.6m, and the Conservatives £2.8m.Most of Reform UK’s money...

Colorado’s Republican governor nominee linked to controversial anti-sex-trafficking ministry

Colorado’s Republican governor nominee linked to controversial anti-sex-trafficking ministry

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Marx’s All Things Possible Florida model uses private funds for cop pay and surveillance tools without public oversightThe All Things Possible ministry (ATP) is an unusual, and critics say potentially dangerous, operation. It has in the last year funded surveillance equipment and salaries for out-of-state law enforcement agencies, hired a range of private security and intelligence contractors, and...

Working-class ER nurse seeks to flip battleground Wisconsin House seat

Working-class ER nurse seeks to flip battleground Wisconsin House seat

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Mitchell Berman is among Democrats the party hopes can flip a Republican-leaning district in November’s midtermsDemocrats are targeting vulnerable seats this midterm election with working-class candidates they hope will resonate with voters exhausted by the economy.Some candidates are new to politics, and many have backgrounds as union members and leaders, which the party hopes will give them an e...

Off-grid UK-Australian couple describe ‘anguish’ at removal of children by Italian court

Off-grid UK-Australian couple describe ‘anguish’ at removal of children by Italian court

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After judge allows partial access rights, Catherine Birmingham and Nathan Trevallion say the enforced separation ‘broke each of our hearts’A couple have told of their heartache, trauma and stress after fighting for two years for their right to parent their children as they choose in the glare of the world’s attention.The three children of a Melbourne woman, Catherine Birmingham, and her British pa...

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

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Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discriminationGloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92.Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”, a statement...

‘We continue to suffer’: victims of apartheid-era Sharpeville massacre demand compensation

‘We continue to suffer’: victims of apartheid-era Sharpeville massacre demand compensation

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Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South AfricaThe day dawned brightly on 21 March 1960, as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against pass laws, which forced “Black, Indian and Coloured” South Africans to carry documents at all times specifying where they were allowed to be.Abraham Mof...

Victims sue South African government over 1961 Sharpeville massacre that left 91 dead

Victims sue South African government over 1961 Sharpeville massacre that left 91 dead

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Claim relating to infamous apartheid-era shooting of protesters part of wave of litigation for apartheid-era crimesThe day dawned brightly on 21 March 1960, as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against pass laws, which forced “Black, Indian and Coloured” South Africans to carry documents at all times specifying where they were allowed to be.Abraham Mofokeng...

Judge blocks new Trump bid against birthright citizenship – US politics live

Judge blocks new Trump bid against birthright citizenship – US politics live

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Maryland judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s executive order targeting what he termed ‘birth tourism’Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.A US federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order limiting who qualifies for birthright citizenship.House Democrats rejected a constitutional amendment proposed by Republicans to ensure the si...

Housebuilder Crest Nicholson warns of annual loss in ‘subdued’ property market

Housebuilder Crest Nicholson warns of annual loss in ‘subdued’ property market

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Firm will complete fewer homes than expected in year to 31 October – between 1,350 and 1,400The British housebuilder Crest Nicholson has warned of a surprise loss this year as it bemoaned difficult trading in a “subdued” property market.In an unscheduled trading update, the company said it would complete fewer homes than expected in the year to 31 October – between 1,350 and 1,400, down from its p...

Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ

Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ

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Donald Trump posted his own presidential rankings to Truth Social last week, separating past US presidents into six categories from ‘greatest’ to ‘failures’Donald Trump has declared himself to be the “greatest” US president ever, sharing a post on social media last week which graded him above the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D Roosevelt and George Washington. Experts take a different view.Fe...

The US and Venezuela: a century-old relationship drenched in oil

The US and Venezuela: a century-old relationship drenched in oil

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A visual look at how Washington’s relationship with Caracas has gone from cordial to ‘predatory’Written in the middle of the last century, the US Department of State memo conveys its message in a curt and undiplomatically honest tone: the glue that binds Washington to Caracas is, and is always likely to be, oil.“All US policies toward Venezuela are affected in greater or less degree by the objecti...

Kemi Badenoch pledges to raise defence spending by £10bn by cutting welfare bill – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch pledges to raise defence spending by £10bn by cutting welfare bill – UK politics live

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The Labour party says the Conservatives have used ‘dodgy’ costings, which are not credibleThe Electoral Commission has released political donation figures for the second quarter of 2026. They show that Reform UK continues to rake in far more than other parties. Nigel Farage’’s party had declared donations worth £5.3m. Labour got £3.6m, and the Conservatives £2.8m.Most of Reform UK’s money came fro...

Property developer claimed ‘the premier is my best friend’ in tapped phone call, Icac hears

Property developer claimed ‘the premier is my best friend’ in tapped phone call, Icac hears

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Charles Perrottet, the younger brother of the former premier, tells Icac that claims made by Jean Nassif in the call were ‘bravado’ and ‘far-fetched’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA property developer who allegedly made prohibited donations to support factional Liberal work claimed “the premier is my best friend” in ...

Green party leader Zack Polanski seeks to stand in byelection for Keir Starmer seat

Green party leader Zack Polanski seeks to stand in byelection for Keir Starmer seat

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Polanski says he will ‘stand up for people struggling to pay their bills’ if he becomes MP for Holborn and St PancrasUK politics live – latest updatesZack Polanski will seek to stand as a candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, he has announced.The leader of the Green party in England and Wales told the Camden New Journal on Thursday he would “stand up for people struggling to pay thei...

Labour party of ‘big money’, claims Greens’ Polanski as he says he will run for Starmer’s seat – UK politics live

Labour party of ‘big money’, claims Greens’ Polanski as he says he will run for Starmer’s seat – UK politics live

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Green party leader announces run in Holborn and St Pancras constituency in north London following the resignation of former PMFull report: Zack Polanski to stand in Keir Starmer seat as Green party candidateAnd this is from Pippa Crerar, the Guardian’s political editor, on Zack Polanski standing in Holborn and St Pancras.Polanski’s likely candidacy makes what was expected to be a Labour hold into ...

Green party leader Zack Polanski to stand in byelection for Keir Starmer seat

Green party leader Zack Polanski to stand in byelection for Keir Starmer seat

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Polanski says he will ‘stand up for people struggling to pay their bills’ if he becomes MP for Holborn and St PancrasUK politics live – latest updatesZack Polanski will stand as a candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection, he has announced.The leader of the Green party in England and Wales told the Camden New Journal on Thursday that he would “stand up for people struggling to pay their b...

UK mortgage borrowers brace for rate jump amid global bond sell-off

UK mortgage borrowers brace for rate jump amid global bond sell-off

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Swap rates rise to three-year high as increase in oil prices leads to fears of higher inflationBusiness live – latest updatesHomeowners in the UK are braced for a jump in mortgage rates, driven by higher inflation and interest rate increase expectations amid turmoil in the global bond markets.UK swap rates, which lenders use to price mortgages, have risen to a three-year high, as this week’s globa...

Greens’ Zack Polanski to stand in byelection for Keir Starmer’s seat – UK politics live

Greens’ Zack Polanski to stand in byelection for Keir Starmer’s seat – UK politics live

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Green party leader announces run in Holborn and St Pancras constituency in north London following the resignation of former PMHere is the Camden New Journal’s story.Zack Polanski has confirmed that he wants to be the Green party’s candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection in an interview with the Camden New Journal – the local paper where Keir Starmer also announced he was standing down a...

Zack Polanski to stand in Keir Starmer seat as Green party candidate

Zack Polanski to stand in Keir Starmer seat as Green party candidate

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Green leader will stand for election in Holborn and St Pancras in byelection triggered by former PM’s resignationThe Green party leader, Zack Polanski, has said he will stand in the byelection triggered by Keir Starmer’s resignation as MP for Holborn and St Pancras.More details soon … Continue reading...