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Trump’s Russia sanctions refusal leaves Europe with few options but to wait

Frustration is growing amid increasing signs US could wash its hands of Ukraine, but some observers counsel patienceGen Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump’s somewhat estranged special envoy on Ukraine, is said by some US diplomats to like to joke that the president did indeed say he would solve the Ukrai...

24/05/2025 09:00 The Guardian
Israeli attacks kill at least 60 people in Gaza as aid agencies warn of famine

UN secretary general says Israel has allowed only a ‘teaspoon of aid’ into the territory after latest strikesMiddle East crisis – live updatesAt least 60 people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza in a 24-hour period, the territory’s civil defence agency has said, as Israel inten...

23/05/2025 15:29 The Guardian
Netanyahu accused of slander after criticising Macron, Carney and Starmer

Israeli leader’s antisemitism claim labelled defamatory as he is warned against pursuing a war without endMiddle East crisis – live updatesBenjamin Netanyahu was accused of slander and pursuing a war without end after he claimed the leaders of France, Canada and the UK were stoking antisemitism...

23/05/2025 15:15 The Guardian
Israeli airstrikes hit south Lebanon before region’s first elections in years

Several towns bombed, killing one person, before municipal elections that are seen as referendum on HezbollahMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael carried out a wave of airstrikes on south Lebanon, killing one person and wounding another, before the first municipal elections in south Lebanon in...

23/05/2025 12:46 The Guardian
Wildfire warning signs put up in Peak District as climate crisis increases threat

Signs more typically seen in Australia aim to raise awareness after more than 30 moorland fires since MarchWildfire warning signs normally seen in the parched Australian outback have been installed on English moorland for the first time.In a stark illustration of the worsening impact of the climate...

23/05/2025 10:46 The Guardian
NSW flooding: PM delivers climate crisis warning as flood-hit region braces for strong winds and fifth body found

Anthony Albanese acknowledges home insurance now a ‘real challenge’ as government announces disaster assistance for 19 local council areas in NSWNSW floods live updates: latest flooding newsNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news...

23/05/2025 08:40 The Guardian
Netanyahu accuses leaders of Britain, France and Canada of ‘emboldening Hamas’

Israeli PM criticises leaders after their call for halt to Gaza offensive and restrictions on humanitarian aidMiddle East crisis – live updatesBenjamin Netanyahu has accused Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney of “emboldening Hamas”, after they called for a halt to Israel’s militar...

23/05/2025 05:54 The Guardian
Middle East crisis: Starmer, Macron and Carney ‘on the wrong side of humanity,’ says Netanyahu – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. For the latest on the Israel-Gaza war, read our full report:Children and elderly are dying from starvation in Gaza, says health ministerIsraeli foreign minister Gideon Saar accused unnamed European officials on Thursday of “toxic antisemitic incitement” he blamed fo...

22/05/2025 19:26 The Guardian
Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn

Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say expertsA Republican push to dismantle clean energy incentives threatens to reverberate across the US by costing more than 830,000 jobs, raising energy bills for US households and threatening t...

22/05/2025 11:00 The Guardian
Tories must ‘get moving’ on new policies or face crisis, says Robert Jenrick

Former leadership hopeful says party now has ‘serious competition on the right’ and cannot afford to wait too longUK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservative party needs to “get moving” with new policies or risk being cut adrift in a social media-informed world where people make up t...

22/05/2025 08:17 The Guardian
Pope Leo XIV Calls for Aid to Enter Gaza

Calling the hunger crisis in the war-torn territory “heart-rending,” the pope used his first general audience to highlight the issue....

21/05/2025 17:58 New York Times
More adoptions likely to fail in England amid funding cuts, warn charities

Adoption UK says families at breaking point and cuts to support fund are ‘morally and economically nonsensical’A growing number of adopted children are at risk of returning to the care system as funding cuts and lack of support pushes England’s families into crisis, charities have warned.Adopt...

21/05/2025 15:11 The Guardian
Wednesday briefing: How Labour is handling the fallout from the equality act ruling

In today’s newsletter: ​T​he government has cancelled its women’s conference, citing legal uncertainty after the supreme court ruling. As the EHRC delays ​full guidance, frustration and confusion growGood morning.The Labour party is to cancel its national women’s conference while it wait...

21/05/2025 05:40 The Guardian
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn

Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilienceClimate breakdown and wildlife loss are deepening the EU’s “chocolate crisis”, a report has argued, with cocoa one of six key commodities to come mostly from countries vulner...

21/05/2025 05:00 The Guardian
‘Plenty of time’ to solve climate crisis, interior secretary tells representatives

Burgum defends Trump budget slashing green funds, saying AI and Iran pose bigger threats than warmingThe US has “plenty of time” to solve the climate crisis,” the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, told a House committee on Tuesday.The comment came on his first of two days of testimony to House...

20/05/2025 18:25 The Guardian
At least 50 Venezuelans sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report finds – as it happened

This blog has now closed. You can read more of our US politics coverage hereFull report: at least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report findsJD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flu...

20/05/2025 01:40 The Guardian
Energy bills in Great Britain could fall this summer but ‘crisis not over’

Ofgem price cap on gas and electricity likely to drop by £129 to £1,720 a year, says consultancy Cornwall InsightBusiness live – latest updatesHousehold energy bills could drop this summer but experts have warned that “the crisis is not over” for households and manufacturers struggling to af...

19/05/2025 12:19 The Guardian
Israel to resume entry of ‘basic’ humanitarian aid into Gaza, Netanyahu’s office says – Israel-Gaza war live

Prime minister’s office says Israel will allow some food into Gaza to prevent a ‘hunger crisis’In an earlier post, we reported on the dire situation at the Indonesian hospital, which is reportedly under siege by Israeli forces.Now Gaza’s health ministry has said that all public hospitals in...

18/05/2025 20:57 The Guardian
Gaza ceasefire talks continue as Israel carries out fresh wave of strikes

Netanyahu signals openness to deal but lays out conditions while territory’s hospitals ‘overwhelmed’ with casualtiesMiddle East crisis – latest updatesCeasefire talks between Israel and Hamas have been continuing in Qatar for a second day as Israeli warplanes and artillery launched a fresh w...

18/05/2025 11:48 The Guardian
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza overnight as UN human rights chief warns of ‘ethnic cleansing’ – Middle East crisis live

UN high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk says ‘we must stop the clock on this madness’Israel launches major offensive in GazaAn Iraqi political official, speaking to the Associated Press (AP) on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to comment, said that Iran’s al-Quds...

17/05/2025 09:51 The Guardian
Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’

Familia Torres has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but says it may have to move to higher altitudes in 30 years’ timeA leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing a...

17/05/2025 05:00 The Guardian
Middle East crisis live: More than 50 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza as Trump’s Gulf trip continues

Deaths reported on Thursday morning follow Wednesday’s toll of more than 70 killed in attacksPresident Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted the United States to “take” Gaza and turn it into a “freedom zone”, as the Israel-Hamas war rages on in the Palestinian territory, reports Agence F...

15/05/2025 08:14 The Guardian
In Private, Some Israeli Officers Admit That Gaza Is on the Brink of Starvation

Israel’s government has publicly dismissed warnings of extreme food shortages after it blocked aid deliveries, but an internal analysis concluded that a crisis looms if food supplies are not restored....

14/05/2025 03:00 New York Times
Food security experts warn Gaza at ‘critical risk of famine’ amid Israeli blockade

Report by UN-backed consortium of specialists tells of ‘major deterioration’ since its last assessment in OctoberMiddle East crisis – live updatesGaza is at “critical risk of famine”, food security experts have warned, 10 weeks after Israel imposed a blockade on the devastated Palestinian...

12/05/2025 16:51 The Guardian
Josh Hawley warns against Medicaid cuts and says Republicans are in ‘identity crisis’

US senator says Republicans must choose whether to back working Americans or rich corporate executivesUS politics live – latest updatesJosh Hawley, the influential US senator from Missouri, has warned that his Republican party is suffering from an “identity crisis” over whether it stands for w...

12/05/2025 13:20 The Guardian
Australia news live: Canavan says Nationals ‘need a shake-up’ as party prepares for leadership ballot; former Liberal MP pushes Tim Wilson to lead

Matt Canavan is not expected to have the numbers to tip David Littleproud out of the Nationals leadership. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMatt Canavan claimed he has “always” accepted the link between carbon dioxide emissions and temperature...

11/05/2025 22:10 The Guardian
If India and Pakistan’s ceasefire holds, the coming weeks will see a new battle: of narratives

As both countries step back from the brink, the animosity generated by decades of dispute still enduresKashmir crisis live – latest updatesJust over 26 years ago, thousands of Pakistani soldiers quietly made their way on to high, rocky ridges on the Indian side of the de facto border that divides...

10/05/2025 15:25 The Guardian
India and Pakistan ceasefire agreement in jeopardy after cross-border shelling

Trump announced breakthrough after talks apparently secured by secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and vice-president, JD VanceKashmir crisis live – latest updatesAnalysis: now the battle turns to India and Pakistan’s narratives of KashmirIndia and Pakistan have agreed to a US-mediated ceasefire wi...

10/05/2025 13:19 The Guardian
Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?

When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrestsWhen six young women gathered in central London to discuss the climate crisis and the war in Gaza, the setting could not have been more appropriate. The building in which the...

10/05/2025 07:31 The Guardian
Pakistan denies attack on India-administered Kashmir after explosions reported in Jammu city – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest reporting on the Kashmir crisis here:India claims to have thwarted Pakistan missile and drone strikes‘There will be war’: fear and defiance across border The Pakistan Aviation Authority has announced that operations at Karachi airport will b...

08/05/2025 20:55 The Guardian
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