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29/10/2025 11:56 The Guardian

Progressive groups and opposition politicians hold anti-US protest as Donald Trump sounds optimistic note about China summitThe US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in a rare bipartisan show of opposition to the president’s trade war.The legislation passed in a 52-48 vote, with five Republicans – senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and the former Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky – joining all Democrats in favor. The vote took place on day 28 of the federal government shutdown with both sides at loggerheads over spending legislation. Continue reading...

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New planning bill could jeopardise UK’s trade deal with EU, ambassador warns

Exclusive: Proposed legislation removes EU-derived nature protections as government hopes to boost economic growthRipping up environmental protections will put at risk the UK’s free trade agreement with the EU, Europe’s ambassador has warned.The Guardian understands Pedro Serrano visited the env...

29/10/2025 14:12 The Guardian

Israeli weapons companies should be removed from Sydney defence expo, MPs and human rights experts say

Exclusive: Australian member of UN commission criticises Elbit and Rafael for being ‘key enablers’ of Israel’s war on GazaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo government MPs alongside human rights experts have called for Israel’s largest weapons companies to be remo...

29/10/2025 14:01 The Guardian

NFL’s No 1 draft pick Cam Ward victim of identity theft in $250,000 scheme

Two people with false identities allegedly managed to fraudulently obtain loans, leading to liens on a fully paid homeTwo people armed with a number of false identities managed to fraudulently obtain a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of loans in the name of Cam Ward, the quarterback of the Nat...

29/10/2025 12:15 The Guardian

Councils in England face clampdown on four-day working weeks

Steve Reed writes to South Cambridgeshire council raising concerns over performance and value for moneyThe local government secretary, Steve Reed, is seeking to clamp down on councils introducing four-day working weeks after writing to South Cambridgeshire warning that the policy had damaged perform...

29/10/2025 11:36 The Guardian

Profit upgrade at Next raises hopes UK shoppers still keen to spend

Sales benefited from warm summer, M&S online shutdown after cyber-attack and supply improvementsNext has raised hopes that UK consumers are still willing to spend despite pressures on household budgets, as it revealed sales and profit growth “materially above” expectations.The clothing and h...

29/10/2025 11:15 The Guardian

‘A colony of the US’: Argentinians contemplate future after Trump-backed Milei coasts to victory

Big win leaves many wondering if result reflects genuine support for president or corrosive US influenceOpposition posters scattered across Buenos Aires before Sunday’s midterms showed president Javier Milei’s name plastered over a US flag, in a bid to tap into anti-American sentiment over Donal...

29/10/2025 10:51 The Guardian

Kremlin-linked operatives scramble to stop extradition of mercenary accused of plotting coup

Exclusive: Inside a Russian bid to free Horațiu Potra, a mercenary held in Dubai accused of conspiring to ‘overthrow constitutional order’ in RomaniaRussian figures close to the Kremlin are mounting a last-minute attempt to halt the extradition from Dubai of a Romanian-French mercenary wanted i...

29/10/2025 10:00 The Guardian

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militantsIsraeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 104 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire a...

29/10/2025 09:41 The Guardian

Wednesday briefing: ‘Catastrophic’ reports as Jamaica reels from worst storm since records began

In today’s newsletter: Meteorologists have called it ‘a dire situation unfolding in slow motion’ – what will it leave behind?Good morning. Hurricane Melissa, the strongest storm to hit Jamaica since records began in 1851, made landfall at about midday local time on Tuesday. With winds reachi...

29/10/2025 06:57 The Guardian

Australia news live: sentencing of convicted rapist Gareth Ward delayed after 11th-hour bid

Follow updates liveInflation jumps to 3.2%, dashing hopes of a Melbourne Cup day rate cut for homeownersGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition is still in the middle of a fight over the future of its energy policy, with big fractures between members over whether the...

29/10/2025 06:31 The Guardian

Hurricane Melissa live updates: storm strengthens again to category 4 as it nears Cuba; ‘extensive’ damage in parts of Jamaica

Reports of families trapped by floodwaters in Jamaica, as hurricane moves on to threaten Cuba’s second-largest cityHurricane Melissa makes landfall in JamaicaVisual guide to Hurricane MelissaTell us if you’ve been affectedThe National Hurricane Center has, once again, downgraded Melissa to “a...

29/10/2025 06:18 The Guardian

‘Storm of the century’: record-breaking Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica and heads for Cuba

Minister says parish of St Elizabeth is ‘under water’ and that families are trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western JamaicaHurricane Melissa – latest updatesA visual guide to Jamaica’s strongest storm since 1851Tell us if you’ve been affectedHurricane Melissa is h...

29/10/2025 05:27 The Guardian

Trump and Xi talks could end months of global economic chaos

High on agenda for the leaders of the US and China will be rare earths and tariffs, with a chance of a relationship resetAhead of Thursday’s long-awaited first meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping since the US president’s return to office, officials from both sides have been hammering out...

29/10/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Israel strikes Gaza after Netanyahu accuses Hamas of breaching ceasefire

Prime minister accuses Hamas of ‘clear violation’ of truce as far-right ministers clamour to resume warIsraeli warplanes struck Gaza on Tuesday night, shortly after Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered the military to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, in the most seriou...

29/10/2025 02:38 The Guardian

AFP developing AI tool to decode gen Z slang amid warning about ‘crimefluencers’ hunting girls

AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett says online crime networks of young boys and men are targeting vulnerable teen and preteen girlsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian federal police will develop an AI tool to decode...

29/10/2025 00:28 The Guardian

US Senate passes bill with Republican support to rescind Trump’s tariffs on Brazil

Republicans break ranks as vote passes 52-48 in rare bipartisan rebuke of US president’s trade policiesThe US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure that would terminate Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Brazilian imports, including coffee, beef and other products, in a rare bipartisan show of op...

29/10/2025 00:25 The Guardian

Air traffic controllers receive $0 paychecks as government shutdown stretches

Nearly 11,000 air traffic controllers, deemed essential workers, did not receive wages for two weeks of workAir traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration employees have missed their first paycheck as the federal government shutdown rolls through its fourth week. They remain requ...

28/10/2025 21:58 The Guardian

Brazil: at least 64 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids

Governor says city ‘at war’ after gunfights between troops and Red Command drug traffickers who reportedly used weaponised dronesAt least 64 people have reportedly been killed in Rio’s worst-ever day of violence as more than 2,500 officers and special forces stormed an area of favelas near Rio...

28/10/2025 19:55 The Guardian

Gavin Newsom tells Prop 50 supporters to ‘stop donating’ after war chest swells

California governor launched redistricting effort to counter Texas’s gerrymander and has out-raised oppositionWith just one week before California voters are set to head to the polls to decide on the state’s redistricting proposal, Gavin Newsom sent an unexpected message to would-be donors: keep...

28/10/2025 18:19 The Guardian

Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs

Head of UK’s Betting and Gaming Council was asked to repeat claim as she spoke against increasing taxes on sector in November budgetUK politics live – latest updatesThe boss of the UK’s main betting and gaming lobby group has told MPs that there is no “social ill with gambling” as she warn...

28/10/2025 17:01 The Guardian

Zelenskyy says Ukrainian and European officials will meet to discuss details of ceasefire plan – as it happened

The Ukrainian president stressed that this would ‘not a plan to end the war’ but one to ‘begin diplomacy’EU’s von der Leyen also gets asked about the balloons disrupting the Lithuanian airspace.She says she wants to “express my full solidarity” with Lithuania, and calls it “a provoca...

28/10/2025 16:03 The Guardian

Teenager from Gaza ‘stuck in hell’ after being prevented from joining mother in UK

Dania Alafranji, 16, still waiting on visa from Home Office despite being offered school place in Berkshire 18 months agoA teenager from Gaza who has been denied an opportunity to attend school in Britain and be reunited with her mother has said she is “stuck in hell”, despite other European cou...

28/10/2025 16:00 The Guardian

Plans to house UK asylum seekers in barracks are costly and complicated, experts say

Exclusive: Organisations warn using the barracks in Sussex and Inverness may be more expensive than hotelsUK politics live – latest updatesRefugee organisations have described plans to house thousands of asylum seekers in two disused military sites as fanciful and too expensive as local discontent...

28/10/2025 15:19 The Guardian

Pakistani farmers to sue German polluters over climate-linked flood damage

Claimants seek compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials after extreme flooding destroyed harvestsA group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has fired the starting shot in legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies.Lawyers acti...

28/10/2025 13:00 The Guardian

Russian drone attacks on civilians in Ukraine are war crimes, UN report concludes

Rights commission inquiry focused on south-east of country found drones targeted gathering points and critical infrastructureEurope live – latest updatesA UN rights commission has concluded that Russia’s drone attacks on civilians in south-eastern Ukraine constitute crimes against humanity and w...

28/10/2025 12:42 The Guardian

Trump and new Japanese prime minister share praise and vow to strengthen ‘remarkable’ relationship – US politics live

The president also suggested he could deploy the National Guard in more US cities at an address aboard the US naval baseIn a new letter, House Democrats are warning three top Justice Department officials—including two who previously defended Donald Trump in criminal proceedings—that they could f...

28/10/2025 12:24 The Guardian

HSBC warns it could take years to settle Madoff case as bank takes $1.1bn hit

Lawsuit over Ponzi scheme drags on London-headquartered lender, whose profits plunge by 14%Business live – latest updatesHSBC has warned it could take years to finally settle a lawsuit over the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, as the bank’s profits fell 14% after it took a $1.1bn (£830m) hit on the...

28/10/2025 11:37 The Guardian

Is London’s next superclub this warehouse by a sewage works in Barking?

The 4,000-capacity Eutopia is independently owned and run by clubland veterans – and despite being on the city’s eastern fringe, clubbers say they’re prepared to trekBetween redevelopment, inflation, licensing and noise complaints, keeping a nightclub afloat in London can be tricky: earlier th...

28/10/2025 10:54 The Guardian

Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by Trump officials

Emmy award-winner Mario Guevara warns administration ‘has the power’ after he was arrested and sent to El SalvadorMario Guevara has said he may have been “the first” immigrant journalist whom Donald Trump’s administration deported from the US while working – but the Emmy award-winner add...

28/10/2025 10:00 The Guardian

Tuesday briefing: What the mistaken release of Hadush Kebatu reveals about a Prison Service in crisis

In today’s newsletter: Rising numbers of prisoners released by accident are laying bare systemic failings in England and Wales, from overworked staff to issues with probationGood morning. Maybe the most gobsmacking detail about the accidental release of Hadush Kebatu from HMP Chelmsford was this,...

28/10/2025 06:27 The Guardian

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