How far must UK go to fend off threat of foreign interference in its elections?

16/12/2025 16:54 The Guardian

Closing funding loopholes and re-empowering the watchdog would go some way to tackling an urgent issueUK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politicsRussia has been attempting to meddle with western democracy for years, but successive governments led by Boris Johnson and others have insisted that the UK’s electoral system can withstand its influence.That argument was recently blown apart by the conviction of former Reform politician Nathan Gill, jailed for 10 years for accepting bribes to advance Russian arguments. Continue reading...

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UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics

Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribesAn independent review into the impact of foreign financial influence and interference in domestic politics from Russia and other hostile states has been announced a...

16/12/2025 19:02 The Guardian

Pentagon won’t release full video of Caribbean strike that killed two people, Hegseth says

Legal experts have raised concerns US forces may have committed a war crime by killing survivors of initial strikeUS politics live – latest updatesThe Pentagon will not make public the full video of a September attack in the Caribbean that killed two individuals as they were clinging to the wrecka...

16/12/2025 18:51 The Guardian

Peace plans ready to be presented to Russia in days, says Zelenskyy

US says talks with Ukraine in Berlin have resolved 90% of difficult issues – but no sign Putin willing to compromiseVolodymyr Zelenskyy has said proposals negotiated with US officials on a peace deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine could be soon finalised, after which American envoys will present...

16/12/2025 18:13 The Guardian

European leaders sign treaty establishing Ukraine war damages body – as it happened

Zelenskyy and European leaders call for Russia to be held accountable for aggression: ‘There must be no impunity’Meanwhile, the Kremlin said that a Christmas truce that Ukraine has proposed would depend on whether a peace deal is reached or not.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Mon...

16/12/2025 16:16 The Guardian

Green groups decry EU ‘betrayal’ after vote to reduce oversight of firms

Social and environmental reporting to be required of fewer companies after EPP aligns with far right to achieve goalsEurope live – latest updatesFewer companies operating in Europe will be made to carry out due diligence on the societal harms they cause, in what green groups have called a “betra...

16/12/2025 16:10 The Guardian

Minister says review into foreign interference will ensure Nathan Gill case ‘can never happen again’ – UK politics live

Steve Reed announces review in response to conviction of former Reform politician who accepted Russian bribesLisa Nandy, the culture secretary, has published a green paper on BBC charter renewal. It includes a consultation on options for the future.On funding, the document says the government has an...

16/12/2025 15:41 The Guardian

Fuel retailers urged to pass on savings as oil prices fall below $60 a barrel

Pump prices ‘stuck’ despite cost of oil falling amid prospect of peace in Ukraine, say expertsFuel retailers are under pressure to cut their pump prices after oil prices fell below $60 a barrel for the first time in more than seven months on hopes of a Russia-Ukraine peace deal.The price of a ba...

16/12/2025 14:14 The Guardian

First Thing: Donald Trump sues BBC for up to $10bn over January 6 speech edit

President accuses broadcaster of ‘deceptive’ editing. Plus, music labels embrace AI despite artists’ concernsDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10bn over its editing of a speech he made to supporters before the storming of...

16/12/2025 13:14 The Guardian

Estonia ferry disaster in 1994 caused by bow failure not explosion, report confirms

Investigators say latest studies of wreckage reveal no sign to back up alternative theories of a collision or a blastEurope live – latest updatesThe sinking of the Estonia ferry more than 30 years ago was caused by the failure of its bow section, not an explosion or collision as claimed by some, a...

16/12/2025 13:10 The Guardian

Ilhan Omar says Trump’s repeated attacks fuel climate of political violence

The US House member says president’s rhetoric about her and Somali Americans could have dangerous consequencesUS congresswoman Ilhan Omar has warned that Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks and dehumanising rhetoric are fuelling a climate of political violence that could have dangerous cons...

16/12/2025 13:00 The Guardian

UK spying laws could result in overreach and real harm, says review

Jonathan Hall KC warns of people being wrongly investigated and of impact on journalists and thinktanksEspionage offences in the UK’s new National Security Act are so broadly defined that they “will result in cases of real harm” with people wrongly investigated, according to the first review o...

16/12/2025 12:03 The Guardian

Liverpool parade attack: man who drove into crowd due to be sentenced – live

Paul Doyle pleaded guilty to 31 offences after more than 134 people including children injuredJosh Halliday, the Guardian’s North of England editor, was at Liverpool crown court yesterday and will be covering the sentencing today. Here is some of his report from Monday:Paul Greaney KC, prosecuting...

16/12/2025 10:39 The Guardian

South Africa in talks with Russia over men ‘tricked’ into fighting in Ukraine

Government says it received distress calls, as daughter of ex-president Jacob Zuma accused of luring men to frontlineSouth Africa’s government is in talks with Russia to bring home 17 South African men fighting for Russia in Ukraine, after the men were allegedly tricked on to the frontlines of the...

16/12/2025 09:08 The Guardian

What is ‘home’ now? A woman’s two-year search for safety in the ruins of Gaza

Nour AbuShammala has returned to her partly destroyed apartment in Gaza City. This is her story of multiple displacements, injury and devastation over the last two yearsWhen 26-year-old Nour AbuShammala stepped back into her family’s apartment in Gaza City in October the rooms were gutted, the wal...

16/12/2025 07:00 The Guardian

Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for someIt was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in the heart of Tripoli, for once it was not Lib...

16/12/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Trump brands fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ in drug war escalation

Order classifies opioid as potential chemical weapon amid administration’s attempts to combat drug smugglingDonald Trump signed an executive order on Monday designating fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” – classifying the synthetic opioid not only a lethal drug, but as a potential ch...

16/12/2025 01:19 The Guardian

Washington state orders immediate evacuations in three Seattle suburbs

Orders come after a levee is breached following a week of heavy rain amid a flash-flood warningOfficials in Washington state ordered immediate evacuations in three south Seattle suburbs on Monday after a levee failed following a week of heavy rains.The evacuation order from King county covered homes...

16/12/2025 01:08 The Guardian

India’s electoral roll revision threatens democracy and Muslims, say critics

Opposition claims SIR process being used to disenfranchise minority groups to benefit Narendra Modi’s governmentIndia’s political opposition has warned that democracy is under threat amid a controversial exercise to revise the voter register across the country, which critics say will disenfranch...

16/12/2025 01:00 The Guardian

European leaders propose ‘multinational force’ and hail ‘significant progress’ on Ukraine talks – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. For more on Ukraine, read our full report:Europe ready to lead ‘multinational force’ in UkraineSeparately, the commission’s deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill has just confirmed that commission president Ursula von der Leyen will attend the Berlin talks this even...

15/12/2025 21:29 The Guardian

Europe ready to lead ‘multinational force’ in Ukraine as part of US peace plan

Proposal is part of new package of security guarantees, backed by the White House, that could mark breakthrough in reaching agreementEurope is ready to lead a “multinational force” in Ukraine as part of a US proposal for a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, European leaders have said.In...

15/12/2025 21:26 The Guardian

Police face super-complaint in England and Wales over lengthy delays in sexual offence investigations

Campaign groups warn prolonged inquiries are retraumatising survivorsA super-complaint has been filed against police forces in England and Wales over years-long delays in investigating sexual offences.More than 37,000 sexual offence investigations have taken longer than three years to conclude over...

15/12/2025 20:00 The Guardian

Labour rumour mill will rumble on but Starmer has shown he is up for the fight

Efforts to get PM to spend more time with his MPs appear to be bearing fruit – more so than any macho briefing warIn the corner of one of Westminster’s endless Christmas receptions, a Conservative veteran of the Brexit years admits they are somewhat baffled by the frenzied leadership speculation...

15/12/2025 18:26 The Guardian

UK politics: Polanski claims Green support surging in London as five Labour councillors defect in Brent – as it happened

Party leader says Labour ‘has abandoned any sense of progressive politics’In his Q&A, Danny Kruger was also asked whether he was concerned whether the Guardian reports about people at school with Nigel Farage saying they recall him being racist as a pupil, which have been widely followed up,...

15/12/2025 18:07 The Guardian

Any Russia-Ukraine deal is doomed without security guarantees, says Starmer

Prime minister reiterates support for Kyiv as it comes under mounting US pressure to sign up to Trump-backed planA peace deal between Russia and Ukraine will fail unless it is backed up by “robust” security guarantees from western powers, the UK prime minister has said.Keir Starmer, speaking ahe...

15/12/2025 17:58 The Guardian

Britain caught in ‘space between peace and war’, says new head of MI6

Blaise Metreweli says world ‘more dangerous and contested now than for decades’ as AI and new technologies emergeBritain is caught in “a space between peace and war” complicated by the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies dominated by powerful individuals and corporations,...

15/12/2025 17:08 The Guardian

Glaciers to reach peak rate of extinction in the Alps in eight years

Climate crisis forecast to wipe out thousands of glaciers a year globally, threatening water supplies and cultural heritageEurope live – latest updatesGlaciers in the European Alps are likely to reach their peak rate of extinction in only eight years, according to a study, with more than 100 due t...

15/12/2025 16:00 The Guardian

Business groups urge Tory peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights bill

Six of Britain’s biggest employer groups fear compromise deal brokered with bosses and union leaders is at riskBritain’s biggest business groups have urged Conservative peers to stop blocking Labour’s workers’ rights bill in the House of Lords to avoid throwing away a compromise deal reached...

15/12/2025 15:35 The Guardian

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says ICE agents pulled over her son – US politics live

Somalia-born Minnesota representative says her son was let go once he produced his IDUkraine’s top negotiator has said that talks with the US have been constructive and productive, my colleague Frances Mao reports.Rustem Umerov, secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, said in a pos...

15/12/2025 15:23 The Guardian

Chances of EU trucking industry hitting zero emissions targets are dire, says industry body

Only 10,000 out of economic bloc’s 6m trucks are electric and are more likely to be operating on short routesBusiness live – latest updatesThe chances of the European trucking industry hitting zero emissions targets are “dire”, an industry body has warned, as it emerged that only a tiny amou...

15/12/2025 14:02 The Guardian

AA on road to £5bn sale or flotation, while RAC aims for London listing

AA sounds out buyers, and owners of fellow roadside assistance provider prefer IPO of similar valueThe private equity owners of the AA, Britain’s biggest roadside recovery business, are looking for a potential £5bn sale or stock market flotation, while the owners of the rival RAC are targeting a...

15/12/2025 13:55 The Guardian

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