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Aircraft seen leaving at Gloucestershire base following arrest of dual British-Iranian national in central London The US Air Force has pulled its bombers from RAF Fairford following an investigation into an alleged planned terror attack at the base. The bombers were redeployed back to their home bases in the US, according to a Pentagon official who was not authorised to discuss sensitive military…

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth The Conservatives will announce a bonfire of regulations including abolishing affordable homes and community funding rules as well as scrapping Natural England and the Environment Agency. The shadow chancellor, Andrew Griffith, will say the party intends to “streamline regulations” t…

Staunchly pro-Russia politician has dominated campaign and inflamed divisions despite not appearing on ballot Bosnian Serb nationalist politician Milorad Dodik has declared victory for his party in an election in Bosnia shaped by economic pressures, the prospect of the Balkan nation joining the European Union and ethnic tensions that have divided the country since its brutal 1992-95 war. Dodik is…

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is standing against Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential race The incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is up against Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison for plotting a military coup. The president in Brazil is directly elected, and candidates need more than 50% of the vote to avoid a second round. Polls c…

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK Nearly all women who try to reach the UK in small boats from northern France have been raped on their journey, Shabana Mahmood has claimed. In an interview with The Rest Is Politics podcast, the home secretary said far-right, balaclava-wearing activists would “kill” or “kick me out of my ow…

Reform UK leader was interviewed for half an hour last month over money from crypto billionaire Nigel Farage has been interviewed by the standards commissioner for an investigation into whether he should have declared a £5m gift from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. The Reform UK leader spent about half an hour being questioned over the money, the Sunday Times reported. Farage maintai…

Calls for release of six Matsadaash staff after one is charged while whereabouts of other five remain unknown An Egyptian journalist has been charged with joining a terrorist group, days after an entire newsroom was detained in what rights groups have said is a crackdown on press freedoms. Last week, authorities arrested six journalists from the independent fact-checking and investigative platfor…

Education minister says 24 schools have been burnt or ransacked and 78 staff members injured since student unrest began last week Europe live – latest updates More than 400 schools in France will be closed or partially closed on Monday as authorities brace for a second week of student protests. Lessons will be totally or partly suspended in 400 to 500 schools because security conditions “have not…

At least 25 injured at block party shooting in Georgia and three wounded in Baltimore park shooting, officials say Two people were killed and at least 25 other injured when a shooting erupted at a homecoming block party in Vienna, Georgia, early on Sunday, according to authorities. In another high-profile mass shooting in the US over the weekend, a 12-year-old girl was shot and killed and three o…

Motion that has alarmed some Jewish members is passed by 1,022 votes to 813 at party’s annual conference in Brighton UK politics live – latest updates The Greens have formally adopted a policy which equates Zionism with racism, a move that will dismay the bulk of the party’s MPs and has alarmed some Jewish members. In a vote on Sunday at the party’s annual conference in Brighton about whether to …

Annual population growth for the North American nation has slowed to just 0.5% – and the economy is ‘adjusting’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Would slashing net overseas migration “trash the economy” or deliver the necessary population “reset” to restore Australia’s stagnant living standards? Labor and an ascendant One Nation have presented starkly different visions…

Suspect allegedly killed woman at hotel in Okinawa as prime minister calls crime ‘exceptionally brutal and vicious’ A US marine stationed on Japan ’s southern island of Okinawa is accused of murdering a Japanese woman and has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said on Sunday. The suspect allegedly “killed [a] 39-year-old woman at a hotel in Naha and stole her wallet” as well as her back…

Global campaign group 350.org urges Cop31 hosts to announce a coal phase-out date and national roadmaps to get off fossil fuels Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The hosts of the next major United Nation climate conference, Turkey and Australia, are facing criticism for being partners in a coal supply chain while remaining near silent on the n…

Considered Republican frontrunner for presidential election, Vance is cozying up to the movement – as it splits JD Vance, widely considered to be the Republican frontrunner for the presidential election in 2028, is aligning himself with the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement as some say it is shedding its grassroots supporters in favor of political and corporate interests. The US vice-pre…

Calyton said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but it also posed ‘a threat’ during his DNI Senate confirmation hearing Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence , to serve also as the new White House AI czar. Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies , previously served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and led the Securities and Exchange Commission …