Minister said NHS could use Dyson ventilators to help firm’s marketing, Covid inquiry told

03/03/2025 19:04 The Guardian

Machines could be marketed as ‘used in UK hospitals’ after James Dyson spoke to PM, inquiry hearsA minister warned a senior official that ventilators might need to be bought from Sir James Dyson “so that he [could] then market [them] internationally” as “being used in UK hospitals” after the businessman spoke to Boris Johnson, the Covid inquiry has heard.The message from Lord Agnew, a Tory Treasury minister, to the government’s chief commercial officer, Gareth Rhys Williams, emerged as the public inquiry into the pandemic started a four-week examination of procurement. Continue reading...

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Australia news live: Tropical Cyclone Alfred updates; storm generating waves up to 10m on Brisbane and Gold Coast beaches

Follow today’s news liveTropical Cyclone Alfred intensifies as latest forecast predicts landfall just north of BrisbaneWhen and where is Cyclone Alfred likely to hit?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhy should Australia trust president Donald Trump, given how he’s treat...

04/03/2025 00:42 The Guardian

Donald Trump pauses all US military aid to Ukraine – live

Pause will last until US president deems Ukraine’s leaders to have a good-faith commitment to peace, report Bloomberg and Fox News Donald Trump will lay out his priorities tomorrow evening in a prime-time speech to Congress, his first since returning to the White House.He’s doing some expectatio...

04/03/2025 00:40 The Guardian

Most school leaders in England, Wales and NI say pupils’ parents have abused them

Parents banned from school sites after leaders spat at and trolled, poll findsFour in five school leaders in England, Wales and Northern Ireland say they have suffered abuse from pupils’ parents in the past year, according to a poll that found they had been spat at, trolled on social media and eve...

04/03/2025 00:01 The Guardian

The LA Times published an op-ed warning of AI’s dangers. It also published its AI tool’s reply

‘Insight’ labeled the argument ‘center-left’ and created a reply insisting AI will make storytelling more democraticBeneath a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece about the dangers of artificial intelligence, there is now an AI-generated response about how AI will make storytelling more de...

03/03/2025 23:58 The Guardian

More than half of adults worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050 – report

Analysis forecasts a third of young people will also be overweight or obese, in ‘unparalleled’ threat to healthMore than half of adults and a third of children and young people worldwide will be overweight or obese by 2050, posing an “unparalleled threat” of early death, disease and enormous...

03/03/2025 23:30 The Guardian

King Charles ‘determined to play part’ in diplomacy as he welcomes Trudeau

Monarch keen to put his soft power to use amid Trump’s incendiary rhetoric on Canada and tension over UkraineKing Charles is “very conscious” of his global responsibility and unique diplomatic role, and is determined to put that to use, a royal source said, after his meeting with the Canadian...

03/03/2025 22:32 The Guardian

Trump says ‘no room left’ for deal that avoids tariffs on Mexico and Canada

Announcement leads to sharp sell-off on Wall Street as Trump also vows tariffs on farm products starting in AprilThe US will press ahead with steep tariffs on Canada and Mexico from Tuesday, Donald Trump has said, setting the stage for a trade war with his country’s two largest economic partners.H...

03/03/2025 22:25 The Guardian

White House directs officials to draft proposal to lift US sanctions on Russia

Sources say work on so-called ‘options paper’ comes as Trump seeks to restore Moscow ties and end Ukraine warThe United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine, a US official and another...

03/03/2025 19:52 The Guardian

Britain is back: did Ukraine crisis talks create a post-Brexit turning point?

Keir Starmer won praise for taking the UK ‘back to the heart of Europe’ at the weekend, but will it be a long-term move?Britain is back. That was the concise verdict of Eléonore Caroit, the vice-chair of the French national assembly’s foreign affairs committee. And the optics of Sunday’s cr...

03/03/2025 19:30 The Guardian

Slim majority of Americans support Ukraine, poll finds

Poll conducted before meeting with Trump and Zelenskyy says 52% of respondents ‘personally support’ UkraineA US poll taken before the diplomatic meltdown in the Oval Office on Friday between Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, found that only 4% of surveyed Americans...

03/03/2025 19:19 The Guardian

German citizen, 40, identified as Mannheim suspect after two killed as car driven into crowd – as it happened

Police say no evidence that more suspects were involved in incident which left several people badly injured. This live blog is closedTwo dead after car driven into crowds in German city of Mannheimin DublinThe Irish government has drafted legislation to remove a de facto ban on any more than 12 troo...

03/03/2025 18:25 The Guardian

Trump criticises European leaders at Starmer’s Ukraine summit for saying they need US support – as it happened

US president claims admission that Europe needs US help to deter Russia ‘not great in terms of a show of strength’. This live blog is closedAs Jakub Krupa and Martin Belam report on our Europe live blog, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, is floating proposals for a month-long ceasefire in U...

03/03/2025 18:22 The Guardian

Trump outraged at Zelenskyy saying end of Russia-Ukraine war could be ‘very far away’

US president responds to Ukrainian president’s most recent interview, following blow-up in the Oval Office last weekUS politics live – latest updatesThe rift between Washington and Kyiv over a potential ceasefire in the war with Russia deepened on Monday as Donald Trump was said to be considerin...

03/03/2025 18:22 The Guardian

Western countries must keep military aid flowing to Ukraine, Starmer warns

PM tells MPs that Kyiv will need money and weapons even after a peace deal as US considers stopping supportWestern countries must keep military aid flowing to Ukraine, Keir Starmer has warned, amid reports that the US president, Donald Trump, is considering stopping US support to Kyiv altogether.The...

03/03/2025 18:21 The Guardian

UK-France tensions over plan to seize $350bn Russia assets for US arms

Macron fears approach would breach principle of immunity of sovereign assets and undermine efforts to strengthen European defence Tensions have surfaced between France and the UK over whether $350bn of frozen Russian assets can be seized and then offered to the US to buy defence equipment, binding A...

03/03/2025 18:11 The Guardian

Israel prepares Gaza ‘hell plan’ to pile pressure on Hamas – reports

Israel may cut off electricity to try to secure more hostage releases, as both sides prepare for war to restartThe Israeli government is reportedly planning to ratchet up its blockade on Gaza as part of what it has called a “hell plan” to pressure Hamas into further hostage releases without a tr...

03/03/2025 18:04 The Guardian

Jubilant Brazilians hail I’m Still Here’s Oscar as landmark in fight for justice

Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie turns focus on dark time in country’s history and more recent coup attemptAhead of the Oscars ceremony, Brazil’s Fernanda Torres – star of Walter Salles’s dictatorship-era movie I’m Still Here – had warned her compatriots not to get into a “Worl...

03/03/2025 17:11 The Guardian

France suggests partial one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine

Such a truce would determine whether Putin is ‘acting in good faith’, French foreign minister saysFrance is proposing a partial one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron and his foreign minister have said, as European efforts to bolster support for Kyiv accelerate in the face o...

03/03/2025 17:09 The Guardian

UN human rights chief ‘deeply worried by fundamental shift’ in US

Volker Türk alarmed at growing power of ‘unelected tech oligarchs’ and warns gender equality is being rolled backThe UN human rights chief has warned of a “fundamental shift” in the US and sounded the alarm over the growing power of “unelected tech oligarchs”, in a stinging rebuke of Wa...

03/03/2025 16:18 The Guardian

Tories compare Nigel Farage to Jeremy Corbyn over Ukraine war

Reform leader accused of ‘equivocating over Russia’s illegal war’ after criticising Volodymyr ZelenskyyThe Conservatives have compared Nigel Farage to Jeremy Corbyn after the Reform UK leader said Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been “rude” to Donald Trump, as well as criticising the Ukrainian pre...

03/03/2025 16:08 The Guardian

Two dead after car driven into crowds in German city of Mannheim

Several people injured and driver of SUV arrested by police, who had warned of terrorist threats at carnivalsA car has rammed into crowds in the centre of the German city of Mannheim, killing two people and injuring several others after police warned of terrorist threats at regional carnival festivi...

03/03/2025 15:56 The Guardian

Schumer says cyber operations pause against Russia gives Putin ‘free pass’

Top Democrat calls Trump’s move to retreat from fight against Russian cyber threats ‘a critical strategic mistake’A senior US Democrat has hit out at Donald Trump’s attempt to reset relations with Russia following revelations that the president’s administration is retreating from the fight...

03/03/2025 15:08 The Guardian

Russian state propagandists overjoyed at Anora’s Oscar triumph

The film’s five Academy Awards seen as act of normalisation by commentators in country still persecuting critics of its war on Ukraine• Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress• How Anora swept the OscarsIt was an unfamiliar sight for Russians watching state TV on Monday...

03/03/2025 15:02 The Guardian

Middle East crisis live: Israel accused of using ‘food as weapon of war’ in aid blockade on Gaza

Egypt and Qatar condemn Israel’s decision to block goods and supplies from entering Gaza, saying it violates the ceasefire dealMourners at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis have been attending the funeral of two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in Rafah earlier today.Just a couple of kilometres to...

03/03/2025 14:34 The Guardian

Asylum seekers being forcibly expelled at EU borders, says top rights lawyer

Council of Europe’s Michael O’Flaherty urged leaders not to give in to populist rhetoric over migrationEurope’s most senior human rights official has said there is evidence of asylum seekers being forcibly expelled at EU borders, as he urged mainstream politicians not to concede to populists o...

03/03/2025 13:42 The Guardian

Trump purge raises extinction threat for endangered species, fired workers warn

Scientist sounds alarm over ‘canary in the coalmine’ species including beetles and spidersDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.Donald Trump’s blitz on federal science agencies has increased the risk of endangered species...

03/03/2025 12:00 The Guardian

Weather tracker: Polar vortex collapse could chill North America and Eurasia

Sudden stratospheric warming event expected to develop in next two weeks and will probably weaken the jet streamA sudden stratospheric warming event is expected to develop over the next two weeks, leading to a rapid collapse of the polar vortex.This will be the second and probably final disruption o...

03/03/2025 11:35 The Guardian

Cyclone Alfred forecast: people urged to prepare for the worst as storm bears down on south-east Queensland

Residents warned to stock up on food and water and secure properties as BoM predicts Alfred will make landfall near BrisbaneTropical Cyclone Alfred could make landfall near Brisbane. Why is this a big deal and when could it hit?Queensland’s Bribie Island braces for AlfredGet our breaking news emai...

03/03/2025 11:10 The Guardian

Peter Mandelson’s Ukraine comments ‘not government policy’, minister says

Ambassador to US rebuffed for saying Zelenskyy should give ‘unequivocal backing’ to Trump’s peace effortsUK politics live – latest updatesPeter Mandelson has been rebuffed for saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be more supportive of US peace efforts and that Ukraine should unilaterally call a...

03/03/2025 10:38 The Guardian

European defence stocks soar as arms makers expect orders boom

Big rises for BAE, Rheinmetall, Thales and Leonardo amid European push to support possible Ukraine peace dealBusiness live – latest updatesShare prices in European weapons companies have soared as investors anticipated significantly higher spending after the UK and France led an effort to form a p...

03/03/2025 10:02 The Guardian

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