Philippe Lazzarini says summary dismissal of nine employees was ‘reverse due process’ after Israel’s claims they aided Hamas attack Middle East crisis – live updates The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said he followed “reverse due process” in sacking nine staff members accused by Israel of […]
Kamala Harris slams claims of Biden’s failing mental acuity in classified documents report as ‘inaccurate and inappropriate’ Democrats and their allies were shaping a damage control response on Friday to a hastily organized White House press call the night before that appeared to fall short in its mission to reassure […]
Entrepreneur Stuart Marks reportedly featured on – but was removed from – Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list A major donor to the Conservative party who reportedly featured on Boris Johnson’s original resignation honours list is among 13 new peers announced by the government on Friday evening, eight of them Conservatives. […]
President says ‘my memory is fine’ after report on classified documents case calls him ‘elderly man with poor memory’ Read the special counsel report in full Joe Biden made a short last-minute speech on Thursday after a report from the justice department questioned his ability to remember key events and […]
Valerii Zaluzhnyi to be replaced by land forces commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in ‘renewal’ of armed forces Volodymyr Zelenskiy has fired his top army commander, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, in Ukraine’s biggest military shake-up since Russia’s full-scale invasion began nearly two years ago. The two men met on Thursday, after which Zelenskiy posted […]
Keir Starmer announces party will now spend less than £15bn on green projects a year if it wins election UK politics live – latest updates Labour has cut its green investment plans by half, ending weeks of speculation and confirming the biggest and most controversial U-turn of Keir Starmer’s leadership. […]
Russian president’s rambling, two-hour talk with commentator is his first interview with western media since the Ukraine invasion Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin were in the spotlight on Thursday night, as the divisive, Trump-supporting rightwing commentator interviewed the reclusive Russian autocrat. The rambling, two-hour interview, filmed in Moscow, was Putin’s […]
Other failures listed in damning official report include blaming children for ‘making poor choices’ Metropolitan police officers tried to put off children from making complaints about alleged sexual abuse and privately blamed young people for crimes suffered, a damning official report has revealed. Most investigations into child exploitation were rated […]
Labour leader to say move is down to economic uncertainty caused by Tory government, sources reveal Keir Starmer will announce on Thursday that he is scaling back Labour’s £28bn green investment programme, in his biggest policy U-turn since becoming party leader. Senior Labour sources have told the Guardian that Starmer […]
Peter Spooner describes comment made in an exchange at prime minister’s questions as ‘absolutely dehumanising’ The father of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has demanded Rishi Sunak apologise after the prime minister made a jibe at the expense of transgender people just after being told Brianna’s mother was watching him […]