David Lammy says it is ‘unacceptable’ that the parliamentary delegation had been detained and deported The UK’s foreign secretary has criticised Israeli authorities for denying two Labour MPs entry into the country and deporting them. Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed were rejected because they were suspected of plans to “document […]
Congress members Jamie Raskin, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar among speakers as demonstrators denounce ‘fascism’ Demonstrators estimated to be in the tens of thousands gathered in Washington on Saturday in a display of mass dissent against Donald Trump’s policies that organizers hoped would snowball into a rolling cycle of protests […]
Party suspends North East Somerset MP after he is taken into custody following police raid on his constituency home Labour have suspended Dan Norris, the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham, after he was arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences. Norris, a former Labour minister who […]
Nine children among the dead in strike on Kryvyi Rih residential area as Kyiv says Moscow’s claim it targeted military gathering is false. What we know on day 1,137 See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage A Russian missile strike killed at least 18 people, including nine children, in a residential […]
Bafta endorsement could have escalated actor’s allegedly abusive behaviour towards women, Katharine Viner said The editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Katharine Viner, has told the high court there was a “very high public interest” in reporting allegations made against Noel Clarke after he received a special Bafta award. In a witness […]
Beijing imposes punitive 34% extra tariffs on all goods imported from US, exacerbating stock market sell-off US politics live – latest updates China has hit back hard against Donald Trump’s “bullying” tariffs, raising fears that the escalating trade war could trigger a global recession and prompting fresh turmoil in financial […]
Actor and comedian charged with rape, indecent assault, oral rape and two counts of sexual assault, say police The comedian and actor Russell Brand has been charged with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape as well as two counts of sexual assault. Brand will appear in […]
Released court statement says alleged Chinese spy helped draft private letters to Chinese president The Duke of York sent letters directly to China’s president, the prince’s former senior adviser told a special immigration tribunal, with an alleged Chinese spy advising him on how to write them. Dominic Hampshire, who worked […]
Trade Review Act would require greater checks on tariffs in further sign of congressional disquiet over president’s plans Senior senators introduced new bipartisan legislation on Thursday seeking to claw back some of Congress’s power over tariffs after Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new import taxes and rattled the global economy with […]
All three major US index funds close down as Apple and Nvidia, two of US’s largest companies, lose combined $470bn US stock markets tumbled on Thursday as investors parsed the sweeping change in global trading following Donald Trump’s announcement of a barrage of tariffs on the country’s trading partners. All […]