23 h. ago Pakistan and India on high alert amid airport shutdowns and security drills in major cities

Tensions mount as Pakistani PM vows retaliation for military strikes by India that killed dozens across the countryTensions were high across India and Pakistan on Thursday, with airports shut down and security drills under way in major border cities, amid warnings by Pakistan that it intended to retaliate for Wednesday’s strikes.In a speech late on Wednesday night, prime minister Shehbaz Sharif said he would “solemnly swear that we will avenge each and every drop of blood of our martyrs,” after India’s missile airstrikes on Pakistan in the early hours, which killed 31 people across the country. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Snooker’s ultimate rich list by prize money with Zhao Xintong to be ‘richest of the lot'

Zhao Xintong's World Snooker Championship victory saw him rake in half-a-million pounds - and the Chinese star is now being tipped to overtake Ronnie O'Sullivan in snooker's all-time prize money list

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39 h. ago Snooker’s rich list as £500,000 winner Zhao Xintong to become ‘richest of all time’

Zhao Xintong was crowned World Snooker Champion for the first time after defeating Mark Williams, and the Chinese star is now being tipped to overtake Ronnie O'Sullivan in snooker's prize money list

Economics

64 h. ago DWP issues final decision on future of Cost of Living payments

The decision will affect people on benefits across the country

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3 d. ago Forbes rich list UK: The 10 richest people in the country in May 2025

They are worth more than $117billion between them 🤯

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5 d. ago ‘The janjaweed are coming’: Sudanese recount atrocities in RSF attack on a Darfur camp

Sudan's notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allied militias have rampaged through the country's largest camp for displaced people in Darfur

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5 d. ago ‘No simple answers’ for Reform after local election success, senior Tory warns – UK politics live

Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?Labour MP Rachael Maskell has urged her party to scrap winter fuel and welfare policies that she said are pushing voters away, reports the PA news agency.The York Central MP told BBC Breakfast that Labour has “special responsibilities” to serve the needs of people.We’re not any other political party, we were created to serve the needs of people across working areas of our country so that people had a real voice of the kind of change that they wanted to see.I think it’s now time, if Labour are going to go further faster, to pick up that voice, to put our fingers on the pulse and to understand that that responsibility that the 1945 government set out putting that safety net in place at the welfare state is on our watch and is our responsibility.People went cold last winter and that’s not what a Labour government s...

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6 d. ago The case for American reindustrialisation | Dustin Guastella

Walking through the US’s deindustrialized zones is a bit like walking through Dresden after 1945. We can rebuild better than beforeA poll from the conservative Cato Institute recently went viral. It found that 80% of Americans think the country would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing. At the same time, only 25% of respondents said they themselves would be better off working in a factory. What should we make of the results?First, there’s nothing contradictory between these figures. It’s easy to see how it would be good for the country to reshore manufacturing jobs, even if it’s not good for you, personally, to work in a factory. Imagine a local pharmacist in an industrial town. He can see how his business would benefit from the expansion of a nearby plant. Yet he could also see that he would personally lose out on a lot of income if he gave up his trade and marched into the factory himself. The same can be said for any number of other workers. The reason so many pe...

Politics

7 d. ago The Underground Railroad went all the way to Canada – and a new photo exhibit preserves that legacy

For an estimated 30,000 Black people, the journey from enslavement in the US ended north of the borderBetween the late 18th century and the end of the American civil war, tens of thousands of Black Americans escaped the bondage of slavery by fleeing plantations to go north. The Underground Railroad had stops in states in which slavery was illegal, such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. But for an estimated 30,000 people, the journey continued beyond those states into Canada.Early Black American settlers in Canada – people who became Black Canadians before Canada was a country – made an indelible mark on their new home. They created thriving communities across Ontario and Nova Scotia and as far west as the Manitoba border; they founded abolitionist newspapers and paved the way for waves of migration that would follow. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Florida seeks to enforce a law making it a crime for people in the US illegally to enter the state

Florida officials are appealing an injunction that freezes a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people who came to the country illegally to enter Florida if they elude immigration authorities

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8 d. ago LGBTQ+ charity reports spike in transgender people trying to leave the UK

Netherland-based NGO Trans Rescue reported a '40-fold increase' in British transgender people trying to leave the country

Politics

8 d. ago After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism | Sidney Blumenthal

The president’s approach: tackle problems that don’t exist via policies that won’t workIn the 2024 election, Donald Trump eked out a narrow victory, by 1.5 percentage points nationally, the lowest popular vote margin in 56 years, since Richard Nixon’s wafer-thin win by 0.7 points in 1968. Trump claimed he had won an enormous historic mandate to impose a counterrevolution. “The American people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible,” Trump boasted on 6 March in his address to the Congress.His election rested on two principal issues, immigration and inflation. He demonized immigrants (“poisoning the blood” of the country), raised the bogeyman of transgender people, and racialized the Democratic candidate, Vice-President Kamala Harris, whom he claimed had decided herself she was Black. In the minds of the marginal voters who swung to him, however, immigration and inflation were conflated, factors impinging on their standard of living and economic security. ...

Politics

9 d. ago It’s time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all | Bernie Sanders

We spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. It’s time to change thatI have held public meetings all over Vermont and in many parts of the country. At these gatherings I almost always ask a very simple question: is our healthcare system broken? And the answer I always receive is: Yes! The American healthcare system is broken. It is outrageously expensive. It is horrifically cruel.Today, we spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. According to the most recent data, the United States spends $14,570 per person on healthcare compared with just $5,640 in Japan, $6,023 in the United Kingdom, $6,931 in Australia, $7,013 in Canada and $7,136 in France. And yet, despite our huge expenditures, we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right.Bernie Sanders is a US senator and a ranking member of the health, education, labor and pensions committee. He represent...

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9 d. ago EU's top court rules against Malta's 'golden passport' program

The European Court of Justice ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, the one of the last of its kind in Europe that allows wealthy people to buy EU citizenship, even after the small island country suspended the program for citizens of Russia and Belarus

Events

1 week ago Canada election 2025 live: first polls have closed as Trump told to ‘stay out of our election’

Canadians go to the polls after US president’s tariffs and talk of country becoming 51st US state upended electionA record number of people – 7.3 million – have already voted during an early voting period that was held last weekend. That topped the 5.8 million Canadians who voted early at the last federal election in 2021.All ballots in a Canadian federal election are counted by hand in front of witnesses, and the final results are validated over a period of time then made available online. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Brits to eat 15millon sausages this week as UK takes advantage of 29C barbecue weather

Brits are getting ready to sizzle their sausages as we enjoy the hottest forecast of the year so far as people up and down the country dust off the barbecue for some outdoor cooked grub

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1 week ago Canada election 2025 live: voting under way as Trump told to ‘stay out of our election’

Canadians go to the polls after US president’s tariffs and talk of country becoming 51st US state upended electionA record number of people – 7.3 million – have already voted during an early voting period that was held last weekend. That topped the 5.8 million Canadians who voted early at the last federal election in 2021.All ballots in a Canadian federal election are counted by hand in front of witnesses, and the final results are validated over a period of time then made available online. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trans people 'considering fleeing Britain and claiming asylum abroad' after Supreme Court gender ruling, ex

Lord Cashman made the claim in a debate in the House of Lords on Thursday saying people were looking to leave the country after the Supreme Court's ruling last week.

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1 week ago Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland

This presidency places authoritarian ambition above all – and now the people of Ukraine are paying the priceTo see the true face of Donald Trump, look no further than Ukraine. Laid bare in his handling of that issue are not only his myriad weaknesses, but also the danger he poses to his own country and the wider world – to say nothing of the battered people of Ukraine itself.Don’t be fooled by the mild, vaguely theatrical rebuke Trump issued to Vladimir Putin on Thursday after Moscow unleashed a deadly wave of drone strikes on Kyiv, killing 12 and injuring dozens: “Vladimir, STOP!” Pay attention instead to the fact that, in the nearly 100 days since Trump took office, the US has essentially switched sides in the battle between Putin’s Russia and democratic Ukraine, backing the invaders against the invaded.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and the host of the Politics Weekly America podcast100 days of Trump’s presidency, with Jonathan Freedland and guests. On 30 April, join ...

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1 week ago Trans people 'considering fleeing Britain and claiming asylum abroad' after Supreme Court gender ruling, Labour peer claims

Lord Cashman made the claim in a debate in the House of Lords on Thursday saying people were looking to leave the country after the Supreme Court's ruling last week.

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