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Seven-time F1 world champion tours border area and logistics warehouses operated by Egyptian Red Crescent Lewis Hamilton has visited Egypt’s Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to meet organisations sending humanitarian aid to the territory. The seven-time Formula 1 world champion has spoken out about conflict and humanitarian crises in the region, and has called for peace. He has frequentl…

New data comes after Republicans’ midterms losses – which were largely seen as a rebuke of the party over high prices US inflation rose 0.4% from September to October, slightly above expectations but still a cooldown in price increases as the cost of gas dipped during the month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics did not release the usual year-over-year inflation figure as part of the consumer price …

Multiple women allege David Walliams abused his power and position as a celebrity to prey on them for sexual purposes when they were young women, an investigation by the Guardian and ITV News has found. He denies the allegations. Maeve McClenaghan reports David Walliams, the comedian and former Britain’s Got Talent judge, is alleged to have groomed fans he met when they were as young as 15 . Wall…

Met says several people have been in contact since start of disgraced comedian’s rape and sexual assault trial Brand sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for rape and sexual assault Police have received further criminal allegations against Russell Brand since the start of his trial. The Metropolitan police said several people had been in contact during and since the conclusion of the 51-year…

New statue titled The Foot Soldier was installed on the National Mall just two days before Veterans Day A new statue mocking Donald Trump was installed on Washington’s National Mall on Monday, this time poking fun at bone spurs that the US president was diagnosed with, which allowed him to defer the Vietnam war draft. Just two days before Veterans Day, the gilded statue – titled The Foot Soldier …

Conservation group acquires former US president’s family farm with plans to transfer it to the state in 2028 Jimmy Carter ’s family farm has been acquired by a group dedicated to permanently protecting the south-west Georgia land where the late former president’s conservation ethic took hold, officials announced on Monday. A statement from the Conservation Fund said it plans to open Carter’s fami…

Earlier doses for children, a focus on unvaccinated adults, a risk strategy based on geography – here’s how a functioning ACIP would address the measles outbreak The US has announced three deaths associated with measles last week, among them a seven-month-old baby in New York and a postpartum woman in Pennsylvania , underscoring the need for a more aggressive vaccination approach – but US recomme…

Sea Lion project in the North Falkland basin threatens to deepen sovereignty dispute Argentina has told an international tribunal that Britain’s approval of oil drilling off the Falkland islands has dramatically deepened a sovereignty dispute that led to war four decades ago. At the start of an historic legal clash at the Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos), an Arg…

Exclusive: Ellen Sandell says Labor’s decision not to back progressives in key inner-seat could hand power to right-wing coalition in close election Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Victorian Greens say Labor’s “frankly unforgivable” decision not to preference the minor party in a key inner-city seat could hand the upcoming election to a Liberal-One Nation coalitio…

GLP-1 products such as Ozempic and Mounjaro spread but many in poorer countries struggle to get basic diabetes treatment The gold rush into GLP-1 weight-loss drugs risks diverting pharmaceutical firms’ attention away from diabetes treatments such as insulin, the head of the Access to Medicine Foundation has warned. GLP-1 blockbuster medications such as Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Eli Lilly’s Mounj…

Former US secretary of state says most nations are ‘stumbling along’ while Beijing has ‘hugely accelerated’ Cop31 live – latest updates China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels , and the rest of the globe – including the US – must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry has told the Guardian, as Cop watchers wonder exactly how China is going to approach this yea…

Anti-Trump Republican Thomas Massie pursuing measures against defense secretary as Iran war blamed for party’s sweeping midterm losses Republican Thomas Massie moves to force vote to impeach Hegseth Sign up for the US Breaking News email Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth is set to hold a rare news conference later today as he pushes back against congre…

Department store group kept buying new products and fell months behind in payments to some brands despite discussions with administrators Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast David Jones’s administrators have revealed they reviewed its finances six months ago and discussed restructuring the retailer three months before it fell into administration. The new timeline raises q…

Arrest made by anti-corruption body set up to investigate alleged graft during former PM’s 16-year rule Hungarian authorities have detained the brother of Viktor Orbán as part of a people-smuggling ⁠investigation, the prime minister, Péter Magyar, has said. The Hungarian anti-graft body, the national asset protection and recovery office (NVVH), said in ⁠a statement it and ⁠police had ​detained fo…

Talks in Abu Dhabi are first substantive negotiations in months focusing on ending the conflict which has raged for more than four years Donald Trump has said that Ukraine would like be expected to give up territory in a final deal, and would end with a “little bit different shape“. After meeting with Kremlin advisor Kirill Dmitriev last week, Trump said he would seek a “big, beautiful agreement”…