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Young people bearing brunt of UK jobs downturn, thinktank warns

15/12/2025 06:00 The Guardian

Resolution Foundation report comes in week when data is expected to show October unemployment riseYoung people are bearing the brunt of Britain’s jobs downturn, according to a report, before official figures this week that are expected to show the UK unemployment rate rising to 5.1%.The Resolution Foundation thinktank said a “jobs deficit” was pushing a growing number of graduates and non-graduates into unemployment as employers reduced hiring. Continue reading...

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Monday briefing: The latest on the deadly attack on Bondi beach’s Jewish community

In today’s newsletter: On Sunday evening local time, two gunmen opened fire on a gathering at Sydney’s famous beach – here’s what we know so farGood morning. As you receive this email it is Monday evening in Sydney, where the Jewish community, the city and the country are grappling with grie...

15/12/2025 06:51 The Guardian
Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive householdIn 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in their school playground: “It’s your turn, Doctor.” The graffiti was a thinly veiled threat th...

15/12/2025 05:00 The Guardian
‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat

Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threatAssassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information by Russia and other hostile states mean that “the frontline is everywhere”, the new head of MI6 will...

15/12/2025 00:01 The Guardian
Benjamin Netanyahu blames Anthony Albanese for Bondi beach terror attack, as world leaders express horror

Israeli prime minister claims the Australian government ‘let the disease’ of antisemitism spread ‘and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today’Follow live updatesBondi beach terrorist attack: full reportWhat we know about the Bondi beach attackLeaders around the world expresse...

14/12/2025 21:44 The Guardian
Ukraine willing to drop ambitions to join Nato, Zelenskyy says

Move marks big shift for Ukraine, which has fought to join Nato as safeguard against Russian attacksVolodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to drop Ukraine’s aspirations to join the Nato military alliance, as he held five hours of talks with US envoys in Berlin on Sunday to end the war with Russia.Donald...

14/12/2025 21:36 The Guardian
‘The inevitable has happened’: Bondi beach attack follows rise in antisemitic incidents

Australia recorded 1,654 anti-Jewish incidents in year to September – three times higher than any annual total before Gaza warBondi beach shooting – live updatesWhat we know so far about the Bondi beach attackShortly after the mass shooting targeting Australia’s Jewish community on Sunday, Rab...

14/12/2025 18:18 The Guardian
Don’t use ‘boilerplate’ reasons to justify big executive pay rises, UK firms warned

Investment Association, influential group of shareholders, urges pay committees to avoid ‘benchmarking’The UK’s largest listed companies have been warned against using “boilerplate” arguments to justify big executive pay increases by an influential group of shareholders.The Investment Asso...

14/12/2025 15:00 The Guardian
Experts urge caution as Trump’s big bill incentivizes AI in healthcare

Analysts say benefits could be felt in under-resourced rural hospitals but warn against AI as a cost-cutting measureFor states to receive certain funding stipulated in the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful” bill, they must meet three of 10 criteria – including integrating more artificia...

14/12/2025 12:00 The Guardian
Festive food for less: Christmas dinner with all the cost trimmings

From choosing frozen turkey to shopping supermarket specials, the traditional meal need not break the household budgetFigures show that the total cost of the all-important Christmas dinner is up 5% on a year ago, with the price of important elements such as pigs in blankets and stuffing up by 7%.Wit...

14/12/2025 12:00 The Guardian
Victims of sexual offences face ‘postcode lottery’ with police, says home secretary – UK politics live

Shabana Mahmood responds to claims that up to 50% of police officers on sexual violence and rape squads are traineesLeading barristers have warned the justice secretary David Lammy that plans to cut a right of appeal from the magistrates court is “profoundly dangerous”.Lammy’s proposals, which...

14/12/2025 09:34 The Guardian
DWP needs overhaul to restore trust after carer’s allowance scandal, adviser says

Liz Sayce, who led inquiry into department’s failures, ‘distressed’ at carers being blamed for running up huge overpaymentsThe Department of Work and Pensions needs a management and cultural overhaul if it is to restore public trust after the benefits scandal which left hundreds of thousands o...

14/12/2025 07:00 The Guardian
Police search for suspects after shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island – latest updates

Suspect or suspects at large as Ivy League university tells students to take shelter during second day of final examsMultiple people shot at Brown University in Rhode Island, police sayProvidence Council member John Goncalves, whose ward includes the Brown campus, said: “We’re still getting info...

13/12/2025 23:26 The Guardian
Drone strike on UN facility in war-torn Sudan leaves six peacekeepers dead

UN secretary general António Guterres says ‘unjustifiable’ attack on base in city of Kadugli ‘could be war crime’A drone strike has hit a United Nations peacekeeping logistics base in war-torn Sudan, killing six peacekeepers, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.Eight other p...

13/12/2025 21:35 The Guardian
Starmer to pick new US ambassador as relations with Trump tested

Exclusive: A trio of candidates have been interviewed by the PM, but he could still decide to directly appoint someone elseKeir Starmer is poised to choose a new ambassador to Washington from a shortlist of three as relations with the US are tested over Ukraine and Donald Trump’s attacks on Europe...

13/12/2025 09:00 The Guardian
Beware airport parking thieves: police warn over spate of car thefts

Drivers also told to take caution after complaints rise about long-stay meet-and-greet servicesTerence Baxter* had booked a meet-and-greet service to park his Volkswagen at Heathrow airport while he and his wife went on holiday. The couple handed over the keys at the drop-off site and were driven to...

13/12/2025 07:00 The Guardian
Deal or no deal? The inside story of the battle for Warner Bros

As Paramount, with close ties to the Trump administration, entered the bidding, experts predict any merger will ‘raise red flags’ among regulatorsOver the first 10 months of his second presidency, Donald Trump has not hidden his desire to control the US media industry – from encouraging TV net...

13/12/2025 06:00 The Guardian
‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts

As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populistsThe battle had been brewing for months. But this week it came to a head in a flurry of meetings, calls and one heady statement. Twenty-seven European co...

13/12/2025 06:00 The Guardian
Kim Jong-un admits North Korean troops clearing landmines for Russia

Leader praises his soldiers for turning ‘danger zone into a safe one’ during ceremony in Pyongyang welcoming them back from Ukraine warNorth Korea sent troops to clear mines in Russia’s Kursk region earlier this year, leader Kim Jong-un said in a speech carried on Saturday by state media, a ra...

13/12/2025 05:17 The Guardian
US scolds Rwanda for breaking peace deal as M23 rebels seize key Congo city

Mike Waltz warns ‘spoilers’ will be held to account as rebel fighters escalate offensive in South Kivu provinceThe US has accused Rwanda of violating a US-brokered peace agreement by backing a deadly new rebel offensive in the mineral-rich eastern Congo, and warned action will be taken against ...

13/12/2025 02:58 The Guardian
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $40m to women who said talc to blame for cancer

California jury finds company knew its talc-based products were dangerous but failed to warn consumersA California jury on Friday awarded $40m to two women who said Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder was to blame for their ovarian cancer.The jury in Los Angeles superior court awarded $18m to Moni...

13/12/2025 02:58 The Guardian
Trump demands Fed listen to him as he lines up new leader: ‘I’m a smart voice’

Ex-Fed governor Kevin Warsh is at top of his list to succeed Powell as central bank’s chair, president says in interviewDonald Trump declared he “should be listened to” by the Federal Reserve, as he weighs candidates to lead the central bank amid an extraordinary campaign by the White House to...

12/12/2025 21:32 The Guardian
EU to freeze €210bn in Russian assets indefinitely

The decision is a significant step towards using the cash to aid Ukraine’s defence – but Moscow is threatening to retaliateThe EU has agreed to indefinitely freeze Russia’s sovereign assets in the bloc, as Moscow stepped up its threats to retaliate against Euroclear, the keeper of most of the...

12/12/2025 20:18 The Guardian
Colombian rebels warn civilians of military drills amid ‘imperialist’ Trump threats

Citizens told to stay at home while ELN guerrillas carry out exercises in response to US president’s cocaine warningColombia’s ELN guerrilla group has ordered civilians in areas under its control to stay home for three days starting on Sunday, while it carries out military exercises in response...

12/12/2025 19:34 The Guardian
Belgian PM meets Starmer in London as debate continues on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine – as it happened

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12/12/2025 17:33 The Guardian
Flooding remains threat in Pacific north-west as Washington declares emergency

Torrential rain has caused mudslides, washed out roads and submerged vehicles with more deluges expected on SundayThe Pacific north-west is reeling from catastrophic flooding that inundated communities across the region this week, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate and prompting a feder...

12/12/2025 17:01 The Guardian
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12/12/2025 17:00 The Guardian
Pro-Palestine activists daub MoJ building with red paint in protest over hunger strikers

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12/12/2025 16:23 The Guardian
‘What is going on here?’ Meloni celebrated at Italy’s far-right Atreju Christmas festival

Week-long event organised by Brothers of Italy looks like winter wonderland but is chance for PM to flaunt powerWhen, out of curiosity, Leila Cader and her friends entered the gardens surrounding Castel Sant’Angelo, a prominent Rome monument that once served as a refuge for popes during times of w...

12/12/2025 16:04 The Guardian
Machado escape planner feared US strike on her vessel as it fled Venezuela

Special forces veteran Bryan Stern says he told US defence officials some of his planned route to reduce airstrike riskThe most dangerous moments came when salvation seemed finally assured.Many miles from land, the small fishing skiff carrying the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel prize laureat...

12/12/2025 16:01 The Guardian
Christmas tree in Durham village chopped down hours after lights switched on

Police appeal for witnesses after tree put up in tribute to war dead cut down in act of ‘mindless vandalism’A Christmas tree that had stood in a village for more than a decade has been chopped down hours after having its lights switched on.The tree, in Shotton Colliery in County Durham, was fel...

12/12/2025 15:42 The Guardian
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