UK minister warns of impact of Trump’s Iran war on next month’s budget
World news | The Guardianby Peter Walker Senior political correspondent·20d ago
Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous...
The gunzels’ grand final: Melbourne Tramaroos’ campaign derails at European TramDriver Championship
World news | The Guardianby Petra Stock·20d ago
It’s the grand final for gunzels. But despite having one of the largest tram networks in the world, Melbourne’s Tramaroos finished second last at this year’s European TramDriver Championship, just...
Hundreds of drones target Moscow on last day of voting in Russia’s parliamentary election
World news | The Guardianby Guardian staff and agencies·20d ago
Hundreds of drones targeting Moscow and its surrounding region killed at least two people and damaged a major refinery on the final day of the country’s parliamentary elections, authorities said on...
Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope
World news | The Guardianby Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent·20d ago
About 20,000 disclosures of domestic abuse are estimated to be made to maternity services in England every year, analysis has found.
Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development
World news | The Guardianby Rebecca Bailey China correspondent·20d ago
About two years ago, education entrepreneur Boris But had what he calls a “penny-drop moment” – that, like countless others in China, his company needed to embrace AI before it was made obsolete by...
Chiltern Railways enters public ownership in Labour nationalisation push
World news | The Guardianby Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent·20d ago
Chiltern Railways has become the latest train operator to enter public ownership as the government closes in on its ambition to renationalise all major passenger rail services.
Farage says he wants to ‘hijack’ Trump’s ICE czar to help secure UK border
World news | The Guardianby Rowena Mason Whitehall editor·20d ago
Nigel Farage has said he wants to “hijack” Donald Trump’s hardline ICE adviser and bring him to the UK “to secure our borders”.
‘Flip the table and rise up’: Lib Dems’ president in combative mood as party gathers in Brighton
World news | The Guardianby Alexandra Topping and Peter Walker·20d ago
Standing outside Toynbee Hall in the East End of London, Josh Babarinde doesn’t exactly look like a rabble-rouser.
More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
World news | The Guardianby Australian Associated Press·20d ago
Australian households will shrink but more people can expect to live well into their 90s, according to the latest update to forecasts of the country’s long-term future.
Future of German chancellor hangs in the balance as two states go to polls
World news | The Guardianby Deborah Cole in Berlin·20d ago
Voters in two German states are going to the polls with the political future of the embattled chancellor, Friedrich Merz, hanging in the balance and an emboldened far right targeting further gains.
Man charged with stabbing murder of 90-year-old woman in Bondi Beach amid spate of alleged domestic violence killings
World news | The Guardianby Australian Associated Press and Guardian staff·20d ago
Three women have died just hours apart in separate incidents in one state, including an elderly woman who was fatally stabbed in an alleged domestic violence attack.
Gavin Newsom signs election security bills to thwart federal interference by Trump
World news | The Guardianby Uwa Ede-Osifo·20d ago
California governor Gavin Newsom has signed off on a package of bills aimed at bolstering election security, including measures to thwart federal political interference, his office announced on...
News live: Taylor pledges ‘one of the biggest immigration cuts in Australian history’; tributes for Victorian Greens MP Tim Read
World news | The Guardianby Penry Buckley·20d ago
Angus Taylor vows ‘one of the biggest cuts to immigration in Australian history’ Kat Wong The federal opposition leader, Angus Taylor, has vowed to deliver one of the biggest immigration cuts in...
Baby born via surrogate can leave Texas for treatment in California, court rules
World news | The Guardianby Uwa Ede-Osifo·20d ago
The Texas supreme court has decided that the month-old infant that surrogate McKenna West gave birth to can be relocated to Los Angeles, a Thursday ruling that came weeks after a California court...
As tobacconist firebombings intensify in Melbourne, nearby stores are being denied insurance
World news | The Guardianby Jonathan Barrett Business editor·20d ago
Small businesses located near tobacconists are being denied insurance or priced out of coverage as rising arson attacks turn neighbouring shops into collateral damage.
Victorian Labor promises new offences to close domestic and family violence ‘loopholes’
World news | The Guardianby Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent·20d ago
A re-elected Victorian Labor government will create two new Australian-first offences aimed at closing “loopholes” it says have allowed perpetrators of family violence to escape punishment.
California warns of measles exposure in six counties from unvaccinated train passenger
World news | The Guardianby Marina Dunbar·20d ago
California public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure spanning multiple counties after an infected and unvaccinated passenger traveled through the state via Amtrak trains...
Elderly man allegedly beaten to death in Virginia Walmart by parents of employee
World news | The Guardianby Marina Dunbar·20d ago
A 77-year-old Walmart shopper died after he was allegedly attacked inside a Virginia store by the parents of a teenage employee he had confronted over a shopping cart incident involving his wife...
MS Now says reporters denied access to White House after Trump media ban
World news | The Guardianby Edward Helmore·20d ago
News outlet MS Now said its journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning, a day after Donald Trump said he would ban the news channel and two other news outlets...
Trump’s battle to rename the Kennedy Center has put its future at risk
World news | The Guardianby David Smith in Washington·20d ago
It was born with the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass. “Young people will come here and they will see this cultural centre,” Rose Kennedy, the mother of slain US president John F Kennedy...
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