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Letter calls group's proscription under anti-terrorism laws major assault on our freedoms'The singer Charlotte Church and veteran peace campaigners are among hundreds who have signed a letter describing the move to ban the group Palestine Action as a major assault on our freedoms".Trade unionists, activists and politicians have also added their names to the letter opposing the group's proscription under anti-terrorism laws last week. Continue reading...

Relatives describe Daniel Drewitt, 16, as a handsome, funny and talented boy with a beautiful spiritThe family of a teenage boy who died after going missing in a lake in the West Midlands have said his death will forever leave an everlasting pain in all of our hearts".Daniel Drewitt, 16, died after getting into difficulty in Powell's Pool at Sutton Park nature reserve in Sutton Coldfield on Thursday evening. A body was found on Friday after a major search operation. Police are not treating the death as suspicious. Continue reading...

Child reportedly died at Alder Hey hospital amid surge of measles cases in cityHealth officials have urged people to come forward for the measles vaccine if they are not up to date with their shots after a child at Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool died from the disease.The city has experienced a surge in cases among young people, with the hospital warning parents last week that the spike in infections was due to falling rates of uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Continue reading...

Actor says she is latest in long list of artists, activists and celebrities to be threatened by US presidentRosie O'Donnell has shrugged off a threat from Donald Trump to revoke her US citizenship on the grounds that she is a threat to humanity".The New York-born actor and comedian said on Sunday that she was the latest in a long list of artists, activists and celebrities to be threatened by the US president. Continue reading...

Transport secretary promises to make buying electric cars easier and cheaper' as 700m subsidy package preparedThe transport secretary has promised to make it easier and cheaper" to buy electric cars, as the government announces 63m worth of funding to help build charging infrastructure.Heidi Alexander said on Sunday she wanted to make it more affordable to switch to electric vehicles as she announced new money for councils and other bodies to spend on facilities to charge cars. Continue reading...

Authorities say at least one person arrested after disorder broke out in Torre Pacheco over attack on pensionerSeveral people were hurt in a second night of anti-migrant unrest in the town of Torre Pacheco in south-east Spain after a pensioner was beaten up, authorities said.Despite a major police presence, groups armed with batons roamed the streets looking for people with foreign origins, the regional newspaper La Opinion de Murcia reported. Continue reading...

Relatives call for honesty, transparency and an unwavering commitment to uncovering the full truth'Families of the Air India crash victims have said they are hoping for more answers from investigators after a report found the plane's fuel switches were cut off, deepening the mystery of what happened.The preliminary report from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, published on Friday, said both of the plane's fuel switches moved to the cut-off position immediately after takeoff, stopping fuel supply to the engines. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Latest poll comes as Wes Streeting to meet BMA to avert unnecessary and unfair strikes'Wes Streeting will meet representatives from the British Medical Association this week as he looks to avert five days of strikes by resident doctors.The health secretary will meet the union amid a continuing pay dispute, despite having previously called the planned industrial action completely unreasonable". Continue reading...

As members vote to strike for a 29% pay rise, newly elected chair of UK's main doctors union says he is no party lackeyIf things had turned out differently, Tom Dolphin would now be a Labour MP, sitting on the government's backbenches and supporting Wes Streeting, the health secretary.Instead he is the newly elected chair of the British Medical Association, the UK's main doctors union. Its almost 55,000 members, who are resident doctors in England, gave the government a huge headache this week by voting to strike for up to six months in pursuit of a 29% pay rise, starting with a five-day walkout from 25-30 July. Continue reading...

Absence of French president makes it less likely there will be announcement of recognition of a Palestinian stateA UN summit on a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel - postponed by the Israel-Iran war - has been rescheduled for 28 and 29 July, but it is not expected French president Emmanuel Macron will attend, making it less likely that it will trigger a series of high-profile announcements on recognition of a Palestinian state.Macron, who last week told UK parliamentarians a two-state solution was the only way to build peace and stability for all in the whole region", has been trying to build momentum for recognition of a state of Palestine by a wide group of countries, but the a lack of movement in ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel is making such decisions more complex. Continue reading...

Young Americans are holding off on buying a home, with the average age in 2024 being a record high of 38A cornerstone of the American dream is drifting out of reach.The estimated number of first-time homebuyers in the US dropped to a little more than 1.1 million in 2024, according to data from the National Association of Realtors shared with the Guardian: the lowest level since the NAR started tracking new buyers, in 1989. Continue reading...

YouGov survey suggests majority support idea of Britain returning to bloc - but not on same terms it once enjoyedA decade after MPs voted to hold the referendum that led to Britain leaving the European Union, a poll has found majorities in the bloc's four largest member states would support the UK rejoining - but not on the same terms it had before.The YouGov survey of six western European countries, including the UK, also confirms that a clear majority of British voters now back the country rejoining the bloc - but only if it can keep the opt-outs it previously enjoyed. Continue reading...

Legal challenge argues commissioners breached Local Government Act by refusing to allow proper scrutiny of decisionLegal action is being taken after commissioners sent to oversee Birmingham council blocked scrutiny of a controversial decision to close adult day centres.An application for a judicial review has been brought in the names of Robert Mason, 63, and Jenny Gilbert, 50, who attend day centres for adults with physical and learning disabilities in the city. Continue reading...

Manchester City manager pictured backstage with children of Liam and Noel Gallagher at Heaton Park showThe homecoming of Oasis in their long-awaited Manchester gig turned into a family affair with the children of Noel and Liam Gallagher pictured together backstage for a gig many in the city thought would never happen.More than 70,000 people descended on Manchester for the concert in Heaton Park, with the Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, among the crowds. Continue reading...

Europe accused of trampling over Palestinian rights' with deal linked to imports from pipeline running parallel to Gaza coastThe EU is trampling over Palestinian rights" and risks breaching international law, over an energy deal signed with Israel to bring more gas to Europe, a campaign group has said.A report by Global Witness shared exclusively with the Guardian concludes that the EU could be complicit in breaches of international law" over a 2022 energy deal linked to gas imports from a pipeline said to traverse Palestinian waters. The NGO has called on the EU to cancel all gas imports linked to the East Mediterranean Gas (EMG) pipeline and terminate the 2022 deal, which was also signed with Egypt. Continue reading...

MP pushes on with plans after week of confusion after announcement she would co-lead party with Jeremy CorbynZarah Sultana has launched a fundraising drive and supporter sign-up page under her own name as she pushes on with plans for the formation of a new leftwing party.The Coventry South MP, who announced last Thursday that she would be co-leading the new party with Jeremy Corbyn, used the platform ActionNetwork to gather supporters. The landing page has so far recorded more than 64,000 actions taken". Continue reading...

Centre-right government rejects long-established national policies focused on rehabilitation and reintegrationSweden is moving away from criminal rehabilitation in favour of US-style mass incarceration, experts have said, as the country prepares to rent places in Estonian jails to help house its rapidly expanding prison population.The move to outsource prison places is one of a slew of policies aimed at transforming the Swedish criminal justice system as the centre-right government struggles to tackle gang violence and prisons warn of overcrowding. Continue reading...

The three Cambodian sites' inscription coincides with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of the brutal regimeThree locations used by Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by Unesco to its world heritage list.The three locations were inscribed to the list by the UN cultural agency on Friday during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris. Continue reading...

Preschool establishment asked for extra fee for consumables' without making clear it was optionalA nursery has refunded a father almost 1,200 after an investigation found he had been charged mandatory top-up" fees for hours of childcare that should have been free.Tiago Gomes's daughter was eligible for government-funded childcare at the Lake House day nursery and preschool in Bristol but he was told that he must pay an extra compulsory fee for consumables". Continue reading...

People in Ukrainian capital are exhausted and struggling for normality amid a dramatic rise in bombardmentAt 1am on Thursday, Dartsia Liuba went to the basement of her Kyiv apartment building with her two children and husband, Roma. The air-raid siren had gone off. A Russian attack was coming. Liuba scooped up her seven-month-old baby daughter, Halyna, and woke her bleary-eyed nine-year-old, Orysia, and they staggered down three floors to wait in sticky darkness.Soon explosions began. There was an ugly whine in the sky immediately above their district of Podil. It came from a Shahed kamikaze drone. The streets echoed with booms and rat-tat-tat machine-gun fire as Ukrainian air defence units tried to bring it down. The moped-like buzzing stopped - and then resumed as more drones appeared, in a swarm too big to count. Continue reading...

Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartelA son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo" pleaded guilty on Friday to US drug-trafficking charges, becoming the first of the drug lord's sons to enter a plea deal.Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartel. They became known locally as the Chapitos", or little Chapos", and federal authorities in 2023 described the operation as a major effort to send staggering" quantities of fentanyl into the US. Continue reading...

Author of Um defeito de cor wins seat in 128-year-old institution long dominated by white menBrazil has elected its first Black woman to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, founded in 1897 and modelled on the Academie Francaise.Ana Maria Goncalves, 54, is one of Brazil's most acclaimed contemporary authors, and her election on Thursday is being widely celebrated by writers, activists, literary scholars and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Continue reading...

Majority of those killed were in the vicinity of sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian FoundationThe number of people killed by strikes in Gaza on Friday has risen to seven, according to the region's civil defence agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.Nearly all of Gaza's population has been displaced at least once during the more than 21-month war, which has created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than 2 million people living there. Continue reading...

PM jets to Beijing to strengthen ties as multibillion-dollar US submarine deal spurred by China's military buildup hangs in doubt

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US singer pleads not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and denies having an offensive weaponThe singer Chris Brown has denied further charges over an alleged bottle attack at a London nightclub.The American musician pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm to Abraham Diaw at the Tape venue, a private members' club in Hanover Square, Mayfair, on 19 February 2023. He also denied having an offensive weapon, a bottle, in a public place. Continue reading...

Ad, which states vessel can hold about 185 slaves', comes to light as city dock is being turned into contemplation space'An advert for a 19th-century British slaver's ship has been discovered in Liverpool, where a site formerly at the centre of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people is being transformed into a contemplation space", highlighting a long-hidden history.Liverpool Black History Research Group (LBHRG) found the advert for the Metis, dated 25 July 1805, while looking into the history of the River Mersey's Canning Dock, in work commissioned by National Museums Liverpool. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Charity hit by increase in employer national insurance and minimum wage and aims to save 26mThe National Trust is to cut at least 550 jobs in a cost-cutting drive that aims to save 26m after changes made in the chancellor Rachel Reeves's debut budget pushed up labour costs.The conservation charity, which looks after 500 historic houses, castles, parks and gardens, said a more than 10m rise in costs in employer's national insurance and the minimum wage in April had outstripped an increase in income from welcoming more visitors. Continue reading...

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West Midlands police say child was reported missing in water in Sutton Park on Thursday eveningThe body of a teenage boy has been recovered from a lake after a large search operation.West Midlands police said the teenager was reported missing in the water at Powell's Pool in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, shortly after 6pm on Thursday. Continue reading...

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Exclusive: Speciality Steel UK, which employs 1,450 people in South Yorkshire, could be supported if it enters administrationMinisters are considering options to step in to save another major steel plant if its parent company collapses into administration after a key court case next week.The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, is understood to be looking at what the government can do to support Speciality Steel UK (SSUK) - part of the Liberty Steel Group owned by Sanjeev Gupta - should it be faced with possible closure after Wednesday's insolvency hearing. Continue reading...

Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, settled a lawsuit filed against it by Donald Trump for $16m last week. It came after Disney and Meta settled lawsuits with the president in similar ways. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan about why these companies are caving to Trump's demands, and whether critics are right to be worried about what this means for the future of a free pressArchive: CBS News, PBS, NBC News, WHAS11, CNN, Fox 5 New York Continue reading...

Police say car driven by 91-year-old came from behind' and struck a woman, man and toddler near a playground in Melbourne's east on Thursday

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Questions over US commitment to the region coupled with Trump's tariff polices could be a boon to ChinaEven as they face among the most punitive tariffs globally, US secretary of state Marco Rubio has sought to reassure southeast Asian nations of Washington's commitment to the region, saying countries there may get better" trade deals than the rest of the world.In his first official visit to Asia, Rubio met foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Malaysia on Thursday, telling his counterparts the US has no intention of abandoning" the region.

Choi Min-kyung is seeking damages from the state represented by its leader and has also submitted a criminal complaint alleging crimes against humanityA North Korean defector has filed a lawsuit against Kim Jong-un in a South Korean court, alleging torture and sexual violence in the regime's detention facilities.Choi Min-kyung, 53, is seeking 50m won (US$37,000) in damages from the North Korean state represented by its leader, Kim Jong-un, and six other officials. She also submitted a criminal complaint asking prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity charges against Kim and five other officials. Continue reading...

Committee due to make decision on inscription of the Murujuga Cultural Landscape overnightThe Australian government has secured the backing of at least eight members of the 21-country World Heritage committee as it lobbies to quell concerns about the impacts of industrial emissions on indigenous rock art at Murujuga and have the Western Australia site inscribed on the World Heritage list.The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, has been in Paris for the meeting since Wednesday, alongside a delegation from the WA state government and the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, which has led the nomination.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton's Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

United Nations' special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges let's stand tall, together'Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, has responded to news that she will be sanctioned by the Trump administration with a post on X saying the powerful punishing those who speak for the powerless, it is not a sign of strength, but of guilt".On Wednesday, as part of its effort to punish critics of Israel's 21-month war in Gaza, the state department sanctioned Albanese, an independent official tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. Continue reading...

Rubicon hip-hop gathering in Bratislava, due to be held on 20 July, says several performers and partners withdrewThe Slovakia festival due to welcome Kanye West next week has been called off after the uproar over the US rapper's May release of a song glorifying the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.Before the 20 July gig was cancelled, Bratislava's Rubicon hip-hop festival was set to be West's only confirmed live performance in Europe this year. Continue reading...

Committee finds firms' business models endangered public and two-year-old Online Safety Act not up to scratch'Social media business models endangered the public by incentivising the spread of dangerous misinformation after the 2024 Southport murders, MPs have concluded, adding that current online safety laws have major holes".The Commons science and technology select committee called for new multimillion-pound fines for platforms that do not set out how they will tackle the spread of harmful content through their recommendation systems. Continue reading...

Study shows such young people have higher risk of arriving at paediatric ICU severely ill and have worse outcomesMinority ethnic children and children from deprived backgrounds across the UK are more likely to die following admission to intensive care than their white and more affluent counterparts, a study has found.These children consistently had worse outcomes following their stay in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), the research by academics at Imperial College London discovered. Continue reading...

US president is set to officially open a new golf course at his resort on the North Sea coast at MenieKeir Starmer has accepted an invitation to visit US president Donald Trump during his expected trip to Scotland this month, according to a report.The details of the visit, including the date, are still being finalised, Reuters reported. The White House has not commented on the report. Continue reading...

Mario Guevara remains in detention in Georgia while his attorneys work to free the Spanish-language reporterThe last remaining charges have been dropped against Mario Guevara, a prominent Spanish-language journalist outside Atlanta who was arrested by local police while covering No Kings" day protests in June.The Gwinnett county solicitor, Lisamarie Bristol, announced on Thursday that her office would not prosecute the three traffic citations laid by the Gwinnett county sheriff's office following Guevara's arrest in DeKalb county. Guevara was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) shortly after his arrest, and has remained in federal custody despite being granted bond more than a week ago. Continue reading...

Around Gravelines and Dunkirk there is danger, profound squalor and a human spirit that overpowers the politicsIt is 5.45am, the dawn light strengthening. A large inflatable dinghy carrying 20 or more people has come discreetly to the east end of the beach at Gravelines. Though it looks packed from the shore, it is perhaps only two-thirds full, according to regular observers. Each person on it wears a fluorescent lifejacket, soon to embark on a risky crossing from France to the UK.For a few minutes the boat halts several metres from shore, probably waiting for others to run from the scrubland behind the beach, where some have been hiding all night to try to get on. But the only people waiting are a small group of journalists. Once it becomes clear there is nobody else to pick up, the boat's engine fires up, heading north-west to England, while one person onboard waves back with the sign of peace. Continue reading...

One in, one out' scheme will include a safe route for those who have not tried to cross Channel illegallyPeople arriving in the UK via small boats will be returned to France as part of what Keir Starmer called a groundbreaking agreement which the government hopes will make a major dent in the number of people crossing the Channel illegally.Starmer and Emmanuel Macron announced the plan on Thursday at the Northwood military base at the end of the French president's three-day state visit. Continue reading...

The star comic will follow up Curb Your Enthusiasm with a new show partnering with the former president and his wifeBarack Obama and Larry David are making comedy history for HBO.The programmer announced on Thursday that the 44th US president and the Curb Your Enthusiasm comic would team up for a sketch comedy series focused on American history, in honor of the country's 250th birthday. Continue reading...

Sinn Fein has said failing to tear down pyre would be victory for mob rule, but PSNI says intervention carries more riskPolice have refused a Belfast city council request to help dismantle a controversial loyalist bonfire that is believed to pose risks to public health and to energy supplies.The Police Service of Northern Ireland said on Thursday that letting the bonfire go ahead was less risky than trying to stop it - a decision that Sinn Fein said would be giving in to mob rule. Continue reading...

Public report into 2016 killing of imam Jalal Uddin points to two key opportunities missed by authoritiesA serious blunder" led to missed opportunities to disrupt a plot by Islamic State extremists to murder an imam in Greater Manchester, a public inquiry has found.Jalal Uddin, 71, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in a public park in Rochdale by Mohammed Kadir, then aged 24, because he practised a form of Islamic healing known as ruqyah that the terrorist group regarded as blasphemous and black magic". Continue reading...