43 h. ago US tells embassy staff to evacuate in Iraq over fears Israel is ready to attack Iran, as trump warns 'it could be dangerous'

Fears of an Israeli attack on Iran have escalated dramatically in recent days, with delicate nuclear talks between Iran and the United States appearing to stall.

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57 h. ago Trump tells administrative judges to speed up dismissing arrest cases so they can deport faster

Justice Department memo instructs justices to move quicker but ICE lacks capacity to hold more detainees

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69 h. ago Gender row Scotland: Public 'none the wiser' about Police Scotland's gender ruling stance

Concern raised over public confidence in Police Scotland and its stance on the gender ruling from the Supreme Court.

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3 d. ago Trump tells France 'you would be speaking German right now' if not for America as he touts Army parade

Donald Trump needled France Tuesday saying 'you would be speaking German right now' had it not been for the U.S.'s involvement in World War II, as he again touted Saturday's Army parade.

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3 d. ago Veterans slam Trump’s ‘political’ deployment of Marines and National Guard to LA: ‘Citizens are not enemy combatants’

Sending troops to American streets crosses a ‘dangerous line’ that tests how far Trump will go to crush dissent, veterans and legal experts tell The Independent

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7 d. ago Elon Musk's estranged dad tells his 'gorilla' son to make friends again with the president: Trump will prevail

Elon Musk's estranged father Errol told his 'gorilla' son to get back on President Donald Trump 's good side.

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7 d. ago Trump says ‘I’m not even thinking about Elon’ as Musk loses $33bn in net worth amid feud – live

Trump tells CNN Musk ‘has a problem’ and that he does not plan to speak to the Tesla CEO for a whileTrump says Musk has ‘lost his mind’ and dismisses peace offeringTesla shares rose on Friday as investors took some comfort from White House aides scheduling a call with CEO Elon Musk to broker peace after a public feud with President Donald Trump, reports Reuters. The electric carmaker’s shares were up about 5% in Frankfurt on Friday, having closed down 14.3% on Thursday in New York, losing about $150bn in market value.“It’s unlikely that Trump will end subsidies and contracts with Tesla. Those are obviously threats that are unlikely to come into fruition,” Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index told Reuters. “I don’t expect this to blow out into anything more serious than a war of words for a couple of days.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago US jobs market slows down as businesses cope with Trump trade war uncertainty

May’s jobs report was dragged down by loss of 22,000 federal workers’ jobs as Doge cut positionsThe US economy added 139,000 jobs in May, a slowdown compared with recent months as American businesses cope with uncertainty around Donald Trump’s continuing trade war.After signs of a strong labor market in April – which was largely seen as resiliency against teetering trade policy from the White House – May saw a drop in new jobs added to the labor market, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.2%, unchanged from last month. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump tells Putin: ‘It might be better to let Russia and Ukraine fight for a while’

Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine should be left to “fight for a while,” with other nations leaving them to it.

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8 d. ago Canada: premature baby with measles dies amid outbreak in Ontario

Infant had ‘contracted the virus before birth from their mother’, while the country has recorded 2,755 measles casesA Canadian infant who was born prematurely and had measles has died, officials said on Thursday without confirming a cause of death, raising heightened concern about the virus’s resurgence.Canada has recorded 2,755 measles cases – including 2,429 confirmed and 326 probable – according to federal health data updated on 2 June. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Putin tells Trump Russia ‘will have to respond’ to Ukraine drone attack

US president says phone call with Russian leader won’t lead to ‘immediate peace’ as Moscow rules out ceasefireDonald Trump has spoken for more than an hour with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, but he conceded the talks would not lead “to immediate peace” in Ukraine, and warned that Russia would respond to Ukraine’s successful attacks this week on its airfields.The US president, who repeatedly claimed he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours during his election campaign, did not attempt to discourage the Russian leader from retaliation, according to his description of the discussion on his Truth Social platform. He noted instead that Putin had offered to participate in US talks with Iran about its nuclear programme, which Trump claimed Tehran had been “slowwalking”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Putin tells Trump he will avenge Ukraine attacks on Russian airfields in surprise phone call

American president says call ‘was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace’

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9 d. ago Japan's annual births fall to record low as country's 'silent emergency' deepens

The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899, according to government data, as younger people are reluctant to marry and raise children due to economic concern and a society that still adds extra burden only on women

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9 d. ago Trump tells Powell to cut rates as data raises concern for US economy

US president says Federal Reserve has been too slow to lower borrowing costs in contrast to ECB

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1 week ago Arnold Schwarzenegger tells world ‘stop whining’ over Donald Trump

Arnold Schwarzenegger told environmentalists critical of Donald Trump’s administration: “Stop whining and get to work.”

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1 week ago UK cancer survival rate doubles since 1970s amid ‘golden age’, report says

Half of those diagnosed will now survive for 10 years or more after advances in diagnosis and treatmentThe proportion of people surviving cancer in the UK has doubled since the 1970s amid a “golden age” of progress in diagnosis and treatment, a report says.Half of those diagnosed will now survive for 10 years or more, up from 24%, according to the first study of 50 years of data on cancer mortality and cases. The rate of people dying from cancer has fallen by 23% since the 1970s, from 328 in every 100,000 people to 252. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump’s new FEMA head stuns staff by telling them he didn’t know US had a hurricane season, report says

Trump administration wants to shutter emergency agency and shift disaster response to the states

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1 week ago White House reveals brand new official Trump portrait with very telling detail

The White House released video of a new official President Trump portrait being hung on a wall, after a first version drew strong comparisons to his mugshot. Experts say there are signs of touchup.

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1 week ago Ten year West Lothian plan raises concern as council given just weeks to agree

Councillors may have just over a month before they are asked to agree to a 1,000-plus pages draft of evidence to submit to the Scottish Government for a new Local Development Plan.

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1 week ago Matheus Cunha to Man United transfer delay explained as concern raised amid £62.5m move

Latest Manchester United transfer news with an update on Matheus Cunha's future

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