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Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran is ‘ready to begin negotiations if they take place on an equal footing’ Killing Khamenei? Hitting military sites? It is unclear what a US attack on Iran would achieve Iran has said it is ready to negotiate with the US, but only if talks are not under duress and do not extend to Iran’s missile programme, as diplomats scrambled to head off the threat of a…

Nestlé has already recalled several batches due to concerns they may trigger nausea and vomiting The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has confirmed the presence of a toxin that can cause food poisoning in some Nestlé baby formula products. At the start of this month, the Swiss food and drink company recalled several batches of its SMA infant formula and follow-on formula due to concerns they contained…

Postcards showing Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan in character were printed as postcards and secreted around the performing arts school co-founded in the city by Paul McCartney Pictures of the stars of Sam Mendes’ forthcoming four-part Beatles film in character as the musicians have been published, offering a first look at the actors in costume. The pictures were rel…

Activists call for Friday ‘blackout’ in protest against administration’s violent immigration crackdown Activists have called for a nationwide shutdown on Friday, advocating “no work, no school, no shopping” in a protest against the Trump administration ’s sweeping immigration crackdowns. Organizers say Friday’s “blackout” – or general strike, as some are calling it – is part of a growing non-viol…

Arctic air moving into region will also freeze Tennessee, as 230,000 households still remain without power in area Freezing weather that will reach deep into Florida was moving across the south-eastern US on Friday as millions braced for another weekend blast of winter storms following last week’s deadly assault that killed at least 85 people . Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in sou…

Motorcycle-riding militants launch strikes using heavy weaponry and drones, damaging planes belonging to Ivorian carrier and Togolese airline The Islamic State in the Sahel has claimed responsibility for an audacious assault at the international airport and adjacent air force base in Niamey, the capital of Niger, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadist activity and communi…

Blaze hits Avanti West Coast, London Northwestern Railway, London Overground and Southern services A major UK railway line remains partially closed because of a large fire, disrupting thousands of journeys. National Rail said some lines of the west coast mainline are blocked between London Euston and Watford Junction because of the blaze in Camden, north London. Continue reading...

Weather service research finds less accurate probability-based predictions are still considered helpful The Met Office is to lean into one of Britain’s favourite pastimes – talking about the weather – by launching a new two-week forecast. At present, the publicly funded weather and climate service offers a seven-day forecast on its website and app with an hourly breakdown for the first five days …

Batch will include more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche says US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche announced on Friday that the justice department is releasing more than 3 million pages of documents related to its investigation into disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . In a news conference, Blanche said that the release will include m…

Capital punishment taken off table but Mangione will still face federal charges over killing of Brian Thompson The death penalty is off the table for Luigi Mangione after a New York federal judge dismissed the charges that were eligible for capital punishment in the case accusing him of killing the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York in December 2024. In a written court order on Frida…

Tehran’s nuclear ambitions date back to the shah and the 1970s and remains undimmed despite the damage caused by sanctions A desperate effort to avert war between the US and Iran is once again under way, but trying to locate common ground between the two countries over Tehran’s nuclear programme has been made more difficult by escalating US demands, and by Iran’s ideological, deeply nationalist a…

Milestone appears to resolve escalating tensions over the question of Kurdish autonomy in north-east Syria The Syrian government and Kurdish-led forces have reached an agreement to extend a fragile ceasefire into a permanent truce, laying a framework for integrating Kurdish forces into the state and ending nearly a month of fighting. The agreement on Friday appeared to resolve escalating tensions…

Ariel Seidman declared persona non grata and given 72 hours to leave country after remarks on social media South Africa has ordered Israel’s top diplomat to the country to leave within 72 hours, citing “insulting attacks” on South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa on social media and the “abuse of diplomatic privilege”. Ariel Seidman, the chargé d’affaires at Israel’s embassy in Pretoria, was de…

Panama’s president says strategic waterway will operate as normal after ruling that advances US policy aims Panama’s president said ports at each end of the Panama canal would operate as usual after the country’s supreme court ruled the concession held by a subsidiary of a Chinese company was unconstitutional. The court’s decision on Thursday, which helps US attempts to block any Chinese influenc…

Change comes after 100-day review that found domestic violence case management was not ‘core’ police business Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Queensland police service plans to disband a specialist unit that provided statewide support for domestic and family violence cases, prompting concern from frontline workers that the loss of an “important resource” would pla…