57 m. ago Federal workers might get email requiring response after Trump and Musk praise efforts to investigate workforce – live

Employees may again be asked to explain recent accomplishments, AP reports, days after Musk argued the aim was to ‘pulse check’ US governmentUS aid cuts have forced the UN children’s agency Unicef to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, a Unicef official said on Friday.“We have been forced to suspend or cut back or drastically reduce many of our programmes and that includes nutrition programmes,” Unicef’s deputy representative in Lebanon, Ettie Higgins, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut, Reuters reports. Continue reading...

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74 m. ago Trump cuts short Zelenskyy meeting after fiery White House clash

US president says Ukrainian leader is ‘gambling with world war three’

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82 m. ago Fresh delay hits CalMac ferries being built in Turkey for Scottish waters as labour shortages blamed

The four ferries being built in Turkey for Scottish service will be further delayed, with global geopolitical events cited

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82 m. ago Baroness Chapman replaces Anneliese Dodds as development minister

The Labour peer, a former MP for Darlington, served as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s political secretary between 2020 and 2021.

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1 hour ago Ukraine ‘gambling with world war three’, Trump tells Zelenskyy in fiery meeting

Meeting between US president and Ukrainian leader degenerated into shouting match before being cut shortTrump-Zelenskyy meeting – latest updatesDonald Trump has warned Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the US could cut off military aid and said that Ukraine was “gambling with world war three” in a disastrous White House summit that led to the US president cutting short talks and excoriating his Ukrainian counterpart as not being ready for peace.The US president received the Ukrainian president on Friday to discuss a controversial mineral resources deal that Trump has said is the first step toward a ceasefire agreement that he is seeking to broker between Russia and Ukraine. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer failed on his most important mission with Trump. What happened in the White House was divorced from reality

The Prime Minister went to Washington to woo President Trump this week and we can chalk it up as a success for Keir Starmer - perhaps the biggest of his largely miserable eight months in power so far.

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2 h. ago How UK’s cut to international aid has handed a victory to Russia and China

Both Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy have spoken out against making cuts to international aid for very good reasons. Yet Labour has just done exactly that

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2 h. ago Emergency services swarm major road with man cut free after crash

Police, paramedics and fire crews all attended

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2 h. ago Museums defend BP sponsorship despite backlash against cuts to climate change funding

The British Museum’s relationship with BP was decried as ‘untenable’ and ‘indefensible’

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2 h. ago Israel proposes Gaza plan that gives it tighter military control than before war

Plan for IDF-protected ‘humanitarian hubs’ to selectively issue aid casts doubt on Israeli intent to withdrawThe Israeli military has presented the UN and aid organisations with a plan for running Gaza that involves Israel having tighter control than it did before the war, according to humanitarian officials, casting doubt on whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has any intention of carrying out a military withdrawal.At meetings with UN representatives on Wednesday and with officials from other agencies on Thursday, Cogat, the army unit given the task of delivering aid to the occupied territories, outlined a scheme of distributing supplies through tightly managed logistics hubs to vetted Palestinian recipients. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Gordon Ramsay breaks silence on Gino D’Acampo allegations as he dismisses claims he 'cut off' star

It was previously reported that Ramsay was ‘no longer on speaking terms’ with his former Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Road Trip co-star

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3 h. ago Dumbarton FC's plight raised at Parliament as MP calls for Scots Football Governance Bill

Labour MP Douglas McAllister says the community has continued to rally behind Dumbarton as he quizzed the UK Government on what can be done to better protect clubs across the UK.

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3 h. ago Europe should hijack Trump’s revolutionary plans for the world

Liberal nationalists must respond with imagination to US policies rather than gripe at being cut out of Ukraine talks

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3 h. ago Sadiq Khan backs Trump state visit and says protests will show freedom of speech

The King has invited the US president to make a second state visit to the UK.

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3 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: We must learn from Trump and take the pruning shears to the vast undergrowth of State spending. And do it with all the zealotry of Elon Musk

A momentous week began with Keir Starmer going to the House of Commons and announcing a big boost to defence spending - and the yippees could be heard in every officers' mess in the country.

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3 h. ago Donald Trump's most awkward handshakes with other world leaders

President Trump is well known for his long, steel-gripped, push-and-pull handshakes

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3 h. ago Teenagers warn 'life saving' Falkirk education service under threat from budget cuts

The Interrupted Learning Service has given pupils hope for their future but it is now facing the axe.

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3 h. ago Starmer provokes diplomatic row by refusing to back Canada against Trump’s 51st state plan

Row erupts after The Independent’s White House correspondent challenges Trump and Starmer over the plan to turn Canada into the 51st state

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4 h. ago Garden expert reveals 'exact' weather temperature to cut grass and avoid damage

Keep your eye on the thermometer before venturing out with the lawnmower

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4 h. ago Special episode: Inside the room when Starmer met Trump – Politics Weekly Westminster

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey have a behind-the-scenes look at Keir Starmer’s trip to meet Donald Trump at the White House, after Pippa travelled with the prime minister to Washington DC. So, how was Starmer’s charm offensive received by the president? And has the trip moved the dial on Ukraine and tariffs?Send your questions and feedback to politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Continue reading...

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