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Labour leader to outline vision for modernisation and announce targets for an election-winning administrationSir Keir Starmer is to warn that the NHS is “not sustainable” unless there are health reforms that “fix the fundamentals” and go beyond extra investment.The Labour leader is due to give a speech in the east of England on Monday in which he will outline his vision for modernising the NHS and announce health-related performance targets if his party forms the next Downing Street administration. Continue reading...

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Economic resurgence may not be enough to win Kyriakos Mitsotakis a new term in Sunday’s electionWith the Acropolis behind him, Kyriakos Mitsotakis ascends to the podium amid thunderous music and the cackle of whistles and horns. It is the last rally of the last day of his re-election campaign before polls open on Sunday, and the prime minister is in a combative mood.“Do we want stability or continuous uncertainty?” he asks. “That is the dilemma we are being called to answer.” It is a question that has dominated an election that Mitsotakis once thought he had in the bag. Continue reading...

Simon Birmingham says ‘clarity should be there before the prime minister entertains a formal state visit to Beijing’

Prime minister to visit worst-hit areas as red weather alert extended in Emilia Romagna regionMore than 36,000 people have now been forced from their homes by deadly floods in northeast Italy, regional officials have said, as rising waters swallowed more houses and fresh landslides isolated hamlets.Violent downpours earlier this week killed 14 people, transforming streets in the cities and towns of the Emilia Romagna region into rivers. Continue reading...

Sector already in crisis will lose workers to better paid aged care unless there is ‘significant uplift’ in wages, UWU says

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US and Saudi Arabia announce deal that comes after six weeks of fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support ForcesSudan’s warring factions signed an agreement late on Saturday for a seven-day ceasefire, the US and Saudi Arabia said in a joint statement, as fighting that has plunged the country into chaos and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week.The fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to a collapse in law. Stocks of food, cash and essentials are rapidly dwindling, and mass looting has hit banks, embassies, factories and aid warehouses. Continue reading...

Many are having to travel long distances to receive NHS help, despite a promise to end this ‘completely unacceptable’ practiceSome mental health patients in England are still having to travel more than 300 miles for hospital treatment two years after the government pledged to end the “completely unacceptable” practice.The number of patients in crisis forced to move potentially hundreds of miles for NHS help is rising again after falling during the pandemic, separating them from family and support networks and potentially delaying their recuperation. Continue reading...

The UK PM said the Ukrainian president attending the summit confirmed that world leaders are united in their support of his countryRishi Sunak said Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s appearance at the G7 summit in Japan sent an “incredibly powerful message” to Russia that western leaders are behind him, as the UK indicated it would start training Ukrainian fighter pilots to fly F-16s within the next couple of months.The Ukrainian president arrived in Hiroshima on a French government plane on Saturday to discuss greater military support from the US and other G7 countries as his forces prepare for a huge counteroffensive in the war with Russia. Continue reading...

Prime minister says he is ‘very comfortable’ with controversial rules despite former business secretary’s admission of gerrymanderingRishi Sunak has defended new laws requiring voters to bring ID as “entirely reasonable” after Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested the move was designed to gerrymander election results in favour of the Tories.Sunak said he was “very comfortable” with controversial rules following Rees-Mogg’s critical comments and reports that thousands of people were turned away from polling stations at the local elections in May. Continue reading...

The home secretary faces calls for inquiry into reports she asked for special treatment after being issued a speeding noticeThe Home Secretary is facing calls for an inquiry into reports she asked Home Office civil servants to help secure her special treatment after being caught speeding.Suella Braverman allegedly asked Home Office officials to organise a one-to-one driving awareness course after she was caught speeding last summer. Continue reading...

Exclusive: footage from body-worn camera shows police restraining confused dementia patient Rachel Grahame in 2020

Local musician Gregor Hunter Coleman was playing in Glasgow pub when star made ‘life-changing’ offerThe US rapper Post Malone helped a Scottish musician fund the downpayment for his first home, according to reports.The Sunflower crooner’s viral, widely reported act of kindness unfolded at a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, named Wunderbar last week. Post Malone walked into the bar while Gregor Hunter Coleman, an area musician, was playing, BBC Scotland reported. Continue reading...

Pilot and two passengers died at scene of accident in steep and forested area in west of countryA tourist plane crashed in a wooded, mountainous area of western Switzerland on Saturday, killing the three people onboard, police said.The small tourist plane crashed in a steep and forested area near Ponts-De-Martel in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel at about 10.20am (0820 GMT), regional police said. Continue reading...

British poet who wrote lyrics for Sunshine of Your Love, White Room and many more also had acclaimed solo careerPete Brown, a cult figure in British poetry, rock, psychedelia and rhythm and blues who wrote lyrics for many of Cream’s classic songs, has died aged 82. He had been living with what he recently described as “various forms of cancer” for a number of years.The family of his long-term late collaborator Jack Bruce wrote on social media: “We are extremely saddened to learn of the death of Jack’s long term friend and writing partner Pete Brown who passed away last night. We extend our sincere condolences to Pete’s wife Sheridan and Pete’s children as well as all his family and friends. Love from the Bruce family.” Continue reading...

Beijing clearly target of joint statement by Quad group calling for ‘stability in Indo-Pacific maritime domain’The leaders of the Quad group – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behaviour on Saturday at a summit in Hiroshima.The US president, Joe Biden, and his three partners in the group did not mention China by name but the communist superpower was clearly the target of language in a joint statement calling for “peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific maritime domain”. Continue reading...

Ukraine denies Wagner claim that city has fallen and says fighting ongoing in some partsVolodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in Hiroshima, Japan, to attend the G7 leaders’ summit in the city.Reuters reports that live footage broadcast by multiple media outlets showed Zelenskiy disembark from a French government aircraft.With Russia likely maintaining relatively few uncommitted combat units in Ukraine, the redeployment represents a notable commitment by the Russian command.Russia’s leadership likely continue to see capturing Bakhmut as the key immediate war aim which would allow them to claim some degree of success in the conflict. Continue reading...

Indian rice tycoon Karan Chanana, who gave the Conservatives more than £220,000, is under scrutiny by India’s finance ministryA leading Tory donor who has given more than £220,000 to the party is being investigated over allegations of fraud and money laundering.Karan Chanana, head of the global rice brand Amira, is being investigated in India over claims that tens of millions of pounds of bank loans were unlawfully diverted into shell entities. Chanana has not responded to the claims. Continue reading...

The party had 134 elected councillors by 5pm on Saturday, with gains achieved across the regionSinn Féin vice-president Michelle O’Neill has hailed a “momentous” result as the party remains on course to become the largest in councils in Northern Ireland.As the count stretched into Saturday evening, the republican party had 134 elected councillors by 5pm, with gains achieved across the region. Continue reading...

Warning comes after Joe Biden said US would back joint effort to train Ukrainian pilots to fly fighter jets

Criticism over latest development in long-running libel dispute between the leading Brexit backer and the journalistThe award-winning Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr has been ordered to pay significant legal costs to the prominent Brexit backer Arron Banks.Banks, who donated a record £8m to the pro-Brexit Leave.EU campaign group, originally lost his case against Cadwalladr in his libel action over her remarks in a speech and a tweet. Continue reading...

Headteachers say they will be forced to double class sizes and introduce four-day weeks to tackle underfundingSchools in England are preparing to move to class sizes of as many as 60 children from September to deal with a funding crisis that headteachers say will force them to cut staff.The government insists that there is still room in school budgets to cover the 4.5% pay offer that teachers overwhelmingly rejected last month, as well as rising costs. But angry headteachers have warned that next year they will reach the brink, with no option but to cut staff and increase class sizes. Continue reading...

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Report implicates Wagner group fighters in Moura atrocity, including the torture and rape of civiliansFirst came a single helicopter, flying low over the marshes around the river outside the village, then the rattle of automatic fire scattered the crowds gathered for the weekly market.Next came more helicopters, dropping troops off around the homes and cattle pens. The soldiers moved swiftly, ordering men into the centre of the village, gunning down those trying to escape. When some armed militants fired back, the shooting intensified. Soon at least 20 civilians and a dozen alleged members of an al-Qaida affiliated Islamist group, were dead. Continue reading...

Workers for subcontractor Serco have spoken about a culture of ‘institutional abuse’ by management at five hotels in and around LiverpoolAsylum seekers staying at Home Office hotels in and around Liverpool are alleged to have been harassed, humiliated and subjected to verbal and emotional abuse from senior hotel staff, according to an investigation for the Observer.Sources working for the Home Office subcontractor Serco have described what they believe is a culture of “institutional abuse” at five Merseyside hotels, including the Suites hotel in Knowsley, where violent far-right protests took place in February. Sources include current and former contractors recruited to work in Home Office hotels for Serco. Continue reading...

Evan Girdlestone, 47, was remanded in custody after appearing before magistrates charged with offences under the Firearms ActA man has been remanded in custody after a converted handgun and ammunition were seized from a car.Evan Girdlestone, 47, who lives in Colliers Wood, appeared before magistrates in Croydon on Saturday morning charged with offences under the Firearms Act. Continue reading...

Greater Manchester police arrest woman on suspicion of money laundering after Jonathan Hogg was mauled by a dogPolice investigating the death of a man mauled by a dog in Wigan have seized 15 canines and made a second arrest.Jonathan Hogg, 37, was attacked in Leigh, Wigan, on Thursday. He was found by police officers with serious injuries shortly after 9.10pm and taken to hospital, but died hours later. Continue reading...

Leading art museums are reassessing their works after a Belgian journalist traced how a fascist sympathiser acquired a Jewish dealer’s collectionIn August 1940, Samuel Hartveld and his wife, Clara Meiboom, boarded the SS Exeter ocean liner in Lisbon, bound for New York. Aged 62, Hartveld, a successful Jewish art dealer, left a world behind. The couple had fled their home city of Antwerp not long before the Nazi invasion of Belgium in May 1940, parting with their 23-year-old son, Adelin, who had decided to join the resistance.Hartveld also said goodbye to a flourishing gallery in a fine art deco building in the Flemish capital, a rich library and more than 60 paintings. The couple survived the war, but Adelin was killed in January 1942. Hartveld was never reunited with his paintings, which were snapped up at a bargain-basement price by a Nazi sympathiser and today are scattered throughout galleries in north-western Europe, including Tate Britain. Continue reading...

Police watchdog investigates after court records reveal suspect in killing of Hayley Burke faced multiple domestic abuse chargesThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched an investigation after it emerged that a man suspected of taking his ex-partner hostage and shooting her in the head was a known domestic abuse suspect who was on bail at the time of the attack.Mother-of-two Hayley Burke, 36, was fatally injured at her home in Dartford during the coronation weekend and later died in hospital. Jacob Cloke, 29, is believed to have held her at gunpoint and pulled the trigger during a stand-off with police. Continue reading...

Pharmacists can only dispense maximum of two months’ supply for every prescription as supplier struggles to meet demandMinisters are restricting an hormone replacement therapy medicine for menopause symptoms to two-month prescriptions as the supplier struggles to meet soaring demand.Utrogestan is expected to be in intermittent supply until late this year, according to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Officials said its manufacturer, Besins, was increasing supply but still unable to fill the gap. Continue reading...

School leaders announce launch of body to protect students from the risks of artificial intelligenceSchools are “bewildered” by the fast pace of development in artificial intelligence and do not trust tech firms to protect the interests of students and educational establishments, headteachers have written.A group of UK school leaders have announced the launch of a body to advise and protect schools from the risks of AI, with their fears not limited to the capacity of chatbots such as ChatGPT to aid cheating. There are also concerns about the impact on children’s mental and physical health as well as the teaching profession itself, according to the Times. Continue reading...

Man in Spider-Man mask scales London headquarters in apparent protest against paedophile sculptorA controversial statue by the paedophile sculptor Eric Gill on the front of the BBC’s headquarters has been struck with a hammer in an apparent protest, the broadcaster has announced.A man wearing a Spider-Man mask scaled Broadcasting House in central London and defaced the carving of Prospero and Ariel in the early hours of Saturday morning – the second time the 1931 work has been attacked. Continue reading...

Change should result in fewer animals being abandoned and make it easier for owners to find accommodationRenters, pet owners and animal shelters have praised a long-awaited law that will allow tenants to keep pets in rented accommodation, after the government unveiled legislative changes to the private rented sector earlier this week.Under the renters’ reform bill, tenants will have the legal right to request a pet in their home, which landlords cannot unreasonably refuse. The legal overhaul will also abolish section 21 no-fault evictions. Continue reading...

London mayor, who is running for third term, has round-the-clock security similar to PM and king

US president and Australian prime minister launch joint initiative to accelerate transition to clean energy

Find out which parties have won seats to Northern Ireland’s 11 local council areas after Thursday’s electionsOn Thursday 18 May people across Northern Ireland voted to elect new local councils, two weeks after many voters in England did the same. There are 11 local council areas in Northern Ireland, from Derry City and Strabane in the west to Belfast in the east.As in the rest of the UK, local councils in Northern Ireland have responsibility for local services including recycling and waste collection, planning, health and environmental enforcement, parks and leisure facilities. They are not responsible for some areas that fall to local councils elsewhere, notably, education, social services, libraries and housing. Continue reading...

Data suggests Sky News and the Australian mentioned the ABC’s coverage of Charles III’s coronation more than 150 times in the past two weeksThe pro-monarchy Liberal party MP Julian Leeser has said fellow ABC coronation panellist Stan Grant faced “unrelenting racism online” in response to the broadcast, as data suggests Sky News and the Australian mentioned the coverage more than 150 times in the past two weeks.On Friday, Grant announced he would walk away from hosting Q+A after this Monday’s episode following what he said was the media lying and distorting his words while criticising the ABC’s coverage of Charles III’s coronation.Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Continue reading...

Australian prime minister meets with US president Joe Biden and António Guterres, secretary general of UN – this blog is now closedIt’s been a big week for Australia’s relationship with China.The trade minister, Don Farrell, made his first visit to Beijing, where he met with China’s commerce minister. Continue reading...

Buzz around the trendy restaurant took a dark turn with domestic abuse claims, but the atmosphere remains buoyantOne of Los Angeles’s trendiest restaurants is entangled in a divorce case linked to a series of disturbing allegations.When Horses opened in Hollywood in October 2021, the Los Angeles Times described it as “a new modern LA institution”. The spot has become a celebrity magnet, drawing stars from Will Ferrell to Beyoncé with rich entrees, memorable cocktails and a cozy, pub-like atmosphere. Continue reading...

Andy and Lynette Smith spent 10 months seeking compensation after animals’ escape from nearby farmAn Essex couple have spent 10 months seeking compensation after 18 escaped water buffaloes stampeded through their garden, with eight of them taking a morning dip in their new swimming pool.Andy and Lynette Smith, who are retired, say that their garden and pool were ruined after the animals, which weigh about 600kg each, got out of a rare breeds farm and on to their property, causing more than £25,000 worth of damage. Continue reading...

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Karen Webb says it is not ‘necessary that I actually view it’ as Nowland remains in Cooma hospital

Billionaire former prime minister, 86, had been suffering from a lung infection linked to leukaemiaSilvio Berlusconi has been discharged from hospital in Milan, declaring “the nightmare” is over, more than six weeks after the former Italian prime minister was admitted with leukaemia and a lung infection.“Today, after 45 long days, I finally returned home,” the 86-year-old billionaire media mogul said in a statement after leaving the San Raffaele Hospital on Friday. Continue reading...

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Police name victim as Jonathan Hogg and say they have destroyed animal in Leigh that posed ‘significant risk’ to publicA Wigan man who died after being attacked by a dog has been named by police as Jonathan Hogg, 37.Officers shot dead the animal after the attack in Leigh, Wigan, on Thursday evening. Continue reading...

PM says Labour criticism of family tax arrangements doesn’t bother him, as rich list shows he and his wife have lost £200mRishi Sunak has said he is “not bothered” by Labour’s criticism of his wealthy family’s tax arrangements and thinks the UK has “moved beyond” judging people on their money, as a new estimate said the UK prime minister’s fortune had fallen to around £500m.Sunak, who is the wealthiest British prime minister ever on account of his wife’s shareholdings, said he did not pay attention to Labour’s personal attacks on his finances. Continue reading...

Marcelo Xavier accused of indirectly contributing on the grounds that he failed to take steps to protect workers in AmazonFederal police have brought criminal charges against the former head of Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency for alleged acts of omission they believe indirectly paved the way for the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips in the Amazon last year.Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro made Marcelo Xavier the head of the Indigenous agency Funai in July 2019, six months into his environmentally devastating four-year administration. Continue reading...

Lummi Nation in Washington state says it holds transboundary rights and that Canada has failed to ‘consult and accommodate’A tribal nation in the United States is seeking to block approval for a multibillion dollar port expansion in Canada, arguing that it holds transboundary rights and should have been included in consultation process.The effort to block approval of a controversial new container terminal project in Vancouver marks the first major attempt to use a recent landmark decision by the Canadian supreme court, which found that some Indigenous peoples living in the US have rights in Canada. Continue reading...

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