US small businesses sound alarm over Trump’s tariffs amid crucial holiday season

29/11/2025 10:00 The Guardian

Some small business owners doubt that even strong holiday sales will ease impact of tough year plagued by uncertaintyDonald Trump’s tariffs have increased prices on an array of popular holiday goods and driven a “massive” number of small firms out of business, industry leaders have warned.On Small Business Saturday, firms have their fingers crossed that strong holiday sales will ease the impact of a tough year. But many aren’t holding their breath. Continue reading...

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Cuts to insulation scheme will leave homes cold over winter, experts say

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29/11/2025 10:00 The Guardian

The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism

Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protectionKaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – inv...

29/11/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Former Ukip MEP denies taking money to promote Russian interests

David Coburn, who was leader of Ukip in Scotland, denies involvement after Nathan Gill jailed for taking bribesA former leading member of the group of MEPs headed by Nigel Farage has denied taking money as part of a campaign to promote Russian interests.David Coburn, who was leader of Ukip in Scotla...

28/11/2025 19:56 The Guardian

Britain’s wealthy must shoulder burden of rebuilding ‘creaky’ public services, Rachel Reeves says

Exclusive: Chancellor says she made ‘fair and necessary choices’ in budget, and was unwilling to make cutsBritain’s wealthy must shoulder the burden of paying to rebuild the UK’s “creaky” public services, Rachel Reeves has said, as she warned Labour MPs that leadership speculation was ba...

28/11/2025 19:01 The Guardian

Zelenskyy’s top aide quits after anti-corruption searches of his home

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28/11/2025 17:47 The Guardian

Zelenskyy chief of staff resigns after property raid by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies – Europe live

‘I want there to be no rumours and speculation,’ Zelenskyy says as Andriy Yermak resignsThe Commission also totally rejected dismissed Russia’s criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “illegitimate” leader of Ukraine, after Vladimir Putin suggested yesterday that was a technical reason he coul...

28/11/2025 17:21 The Guardian

Talks for UK to join EU defence fund collapse in blow to Starmer’s bid to reset relations

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28/11/2025 15:42 The Guardian

Jacob Zuma’s daughter resigns amid claims South Africans tricked to fight for Russia

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla quits as MP after being accused of recruiting 17 men who are trapped in war-torn UkraineA daughter of the former South African president Jacob Zuma has resigned as an MP, after being accused of tricking 17 South African men into fighting for Russia in Ukraine by telling them t...

28/11/2025 15:28 The Guardian

German president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit

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28/11/2025 15:26 The Guardian

First Thing: Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting

President’s remarks followed the death of Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two guard members shot. Plus, Palestinian-American 16-year-old released after nine months in Israeli jailDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause...

28/11/2025 12:30 The Guardian

Belgium hits back at EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine

Prime minister says proposal violates international law and would destabilise financial marketsEurope live – latest updatesBelgium has hit back against an EU plan to use Russia’s frozen assets to aid Ukraine, describing the scheme as “fundamentally wrong” and throwing into doubt how Europe w...

28/11/2025 12:17 The Guardian

‘The new Hamilton’? Show with Mary Todd Lincoln as drunken first lady comes to London

The one-act play Oh, Mary! – ‘the stupidest, funniest thing possible’ – to open after blockbuster run in New YorkWhat if, in the final weeks before Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the first lady could not care less about the American civil war and was instead hell-bent on becoming a cabar...

28/11/2025 11:29 The Guardian

Pub chain Mitchells & Butlers faces £130m hit from rising wage and food costs

Group, which also owns restaurant brands including Toby Carvery, feels impact of increase in employer NICsBusiness live – latest updatesThe All Bar One owner, Mitchells & Butlers, has warned that it is facing about £130m in extra costs over the next year because of a soaring wage bill and ris...

28/11/2025 11:16 The Guardian

Ukraine corruption scandal threatens Zelenskyy’s special relationship with top aide

Police raid at the home of Kyiv’s main peace negotiator is causing shock waves across Ukraine’s political sceneThe revelation that anti-corruption police are searching the property of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, could have huge repercussions for the Ukrainian political...

28/11/2025 11:02 The Guardian

US regulators ‘taking seriously’ allegations of bankers’ support for Epstein

Exclusive: It follows calls from US senator Elizabeth Warren to investigate bank executives including ex-Barclays boss Jes StaleyUS regulators say they are taking allegations that top banks may have facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal activity “very seriously”, as they faced calls to invest...

28/11/2025 10:00 The Guardian

Friday briefing: How will Ukraine fare this winter as Trump pushes for a controversial peace deal?

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28/11/2025 06:50 The Guardian

Bondi Junction stabbings: ‘10 seconds warning’ from security could have saved lives, inquest hears

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28/11/2025 06:25 The Guardian

One in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, NSPCC finds

Harms include threats to release intimate pictures as charity warns against parents sharing photos or details of children onlineNearly one in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, with harms ranging from threatening to release intimate pictures to revealing details about someone...

28/11/2025 06:00 The Guardian

‘We had six MPs and four factions’: inside Your Party’s toxic power struggles

Some say Jeremy Corbyn is too non-committal for project to work, while others blame Zarah Sultana’s combative natureAt an early meeting to set the path for what would become Your Party, participants quickly agreed on one thing: given the cliches about leftwingers forever falling out, at all costs...

28/11/2025 05:00 The Guardian

Suspect in Washington DC national guard shooting had ties to CIA, agency confirms

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27/11/2025 23:23 The Guardian

Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre to be witness in trial brought by Prince Harry and others

Judge warns he will not permit case ‘to descend into a wide-ranging public inquiry’The former editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, is to be called as a witness in the legal action brought by the Duke of Sussex and six other household names against the newspaper’s publishers over allegations o...

27/11/2025 19:51 The Guardian

Budget tax rises may be ‘fiscal fiction’ as pain delayed for election year, IFS warns

Labour MPs welcome scrapping of two-child benefit cap but worry about hefty future tax increases on constituentsRachel Reeves has been warned that her plans for tax rises and spending restraint in the run-up to the next general election resemble a work of “fiscal fiction”, as MPs expressed conce...

27/11/2025 19:22 The Guardian

Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says

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27/11/2025 18:51 The Guardian

Venezuela bans six international airlines as tensions with US escalate

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27/11/2025 18:38 The Guardian

Europol seizes 8m fake and harmful toys in pre-Christmas crackdown

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Putin says US peace plan could form basis for end to Ukraine war – as it happened

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27/11/2025 18:16 The Guardian

Putin insists Ukraine has to surrender territory for any deal to be possible

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27/11/2025 18:12 The Guardian

Energy minister says UK must ‘do whatever it takes’ to avoid gas supply crisis

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27/11/2025 17:30 The Guardian

Pope Leo warns of risk from ‘piecemeal’ world war in first overseas trip

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27/11/2025 17:25 The Guardian

Daily Mail’s parent company on ‘credit watch’ over Telegraph takeover

S&P Global Ratings warns Lord Rothermere’s RCHL could face credit downgrade as it seeks funding for £500m dealThe Daily Mail’s parent company has been warned it could face a credit downgrade if it loads up with debt to fund its £500m takeover of the Telegraph titles.The US credit ratings a...

27/11/2025 16:08 The Guardian

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