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Trump administration struck largely secretive deals with at least five African countries to accept migrants Eswatini has confirmed for the first time that it had received more than $5m from the United States to accept dozens of people expelled under Washington’s aggressive mass deportation drive. The tiny southern African kingdom has taken in 15 men since Donald Trump’s administration struck larg…

Archive director says ‘missing piece of the puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of research Two long-lost organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed in Germany, roughly 320 years after the composer wrote them as a teenage music teacher . Entitled Chaconne in D minor BWV 1178 and Chaconne in G minor BWV 1179, the pieces were added to the official catalogue of Bac…

Campana Gallery is temporarily shut due to weaknesses in beams supporting floor above The Louvre has temporarily closed one of its galleries as a precaution after an audit revealed structural weaknesses in some of the beams in the building. The Campana Gallery, which houses nine rooms dedicated to ancient Greek ceramics, will be shut while investigations are conducted into “certain beams supporti…

Touts – and ordinary consumers – will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they purchased ticket Reselling tickets for profit is to be outlawed under plans due to be announced this week, the Guardian has learned, as the government goes ahead with a long-awaited crackdown on touts and resale platforms such as Viagogo and StubHub. Ministers had been considering allowing tou…

Enrollment fell 17%, the largest drop in a decade aside from the pandemic, amid Trump’s immigration crackdown The number of international students enrolling in US colleges and universities plunged this year as the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown on higher education began to bite, data released on Monday reveals. New international student enrollment fell 17% in the current …

US president says he backs efforts to release documents related to late sex offender because ‘we have nothing to hide’ US politics live – latest updates How the Epstein row plunged Maga world into turmoil – a timeline Epstein emails: key takeaways from 20,000 pages of newly released files A top Democrat has accused Donald Trump of “panicking” after the US president told his fellow Republicans in …

Tryout of system, which switches between signals from 5G masts to low Earth-orbit satellites, could lead to wider rollout Train wifi in the UK, long a source of frustration for passengers, is about to get radically faster – for a lucky few at least. A two-month trial has begun on one Great Western Railway (GWR) train, fitted with technology from Formula One that switches between the signals from …

Home secretary will also consult on ending financial support for those with children if refused asylum, document shows UK politics live – latest updates The government has failed to show the “necessary toughness” to enforce the removal of families whose asylum claims have been refused, Shabana Mahmood has claimed. In a policy document published on Monday as the government sets out plans for the b…

President’s attempt to save face politically comes after pressuring Republicans to back off calls to release files US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump ’s call for Republicans to back the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, an abrupt reversal, is a rare instance of the president being unable to tame his Maga base and being instead forced to accede to it. Many Republicans are expected …

‘Longstanding intelligence and law enforcement frameworks’ are continuing, Yvette Cooper says UK politics live – latest updates US politics live – latest updates Britain’s foreign secretary has downplayed reports that the UK had stopped sharing intelligence with the US that could be used by the Americans to conduct deadly attacks against alleged narco-traffickers in the Caribbean. Yvette Cooper, …

Experts believe decision is designed to pressure Venezuela’s leader into stepping down with threat of military force Is US preparing to attack Venezuela and how has Maduro regime responded? The US has said it will designate a putative Venezuelan drug cartel allegedly led by Nicolás Maduro as a foreign terrorist organization, as the Trump administration sent more mixed messages over its crusade ag…

Johnson Wen, who jumped over a barricade at Universal Studios Singapore and rushed at the Wicked star, has been convicted of being a public nuisance The man who grabbed Ariana Grande at a red-carpet premiere for Wicked: For Good in Singapore has been jailed for nine days. According to BBC News , Australian national Johnson Wen was convicted of being a public nuisance. Wen, 26, has a history of di…

ACT education department closed schools for assessment and cleaning despite assessing the health risk as ‘low’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Twenty-five public schools in the Australian Capital Territory will remain closed on Tuesday and nine Tasmanian Catholic schools will fully or partially shut their doors to…

Mick Meaney made global headlines when he beat world record in 1968, but returned to Ireland penniless They were known as burial artists – people who had themselves buried alive in macabre feats of endurance – and Mick Meaney resolved to be the best there ever was. It was 1968 and the Irish labourer had barely a pound to his name but he believed that if he stayed underground in a coffin longer th…

Netanyahu faces pressure from far-right ministers after Saudi insistence on ‘credible pathway’ to statehood The UN security council is to vote on Monday on a US-drafted resolution to set up an international stabilisation force (ISF) in Gaza that includes a late and highly tentative addition on a future Palestinian state, added under pressure from Arab states. A rival motion has meanwhile been tab…