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Makerfield MP on course to be PM will argue for more decision-making in regions and communities as he sets out platform for government Andy Burnham will pledge to deliver “good growth in every postcode” by overseeing a significant transfer of power out of Whitehall to local communities as he sets out his case to become the UK’s next prime minister. In his first major speech since winning the Make…

Jotham Napat’s visit renews expectations that the two countries can sign the Nakamal pact after long negotiations. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Plibersek says ‘any improvement is welcome’ in polls After a very tumultuous six weeks following Labor’s budget, things might be looking a little better for the government now that the contentious c…

Forecasters expect days of high temperatures in central and eastern US before Fourth of July and World Cup festivities A long and dangerous heatwave will blast a large swath of the central and eastern United States for the upcoming week, the National Weather Service (NWS) said on Sunday – with temperatures rising ahead of the Fourth of July holiday and feeling even hotter because of high humidity…

Princess of Wales becomes first royal to climb Scotland, England and Wales’s highest mountains, 18 months after cancer remission The Princess of Wales has completed the Three Peaks challenge to raise money for a cancer charity, becoming the first member of the royal family to achieve the feat. Catherine Middleton, 44, revealed in a message on social media she had successfully taken on the trek no…

About 31 in every 1,000 facing haemorrhage or severe tears, NHS figures show, in trend described as ‘national crisis’ How a Romford maternity ward was able to turn the tide after a ‘requires improvement’ rating Women in England are at their highest risk of suffering a serious injury while giving birth since records began in 2020, NHS figures show. The rate of women sustaining the most serious typ…

Markwayne Mullin’s remarks come after controversial supreme court ruling to strip TPS from over 350,000 people Migrants in the US on temporary protected status should seek permanent residence or leave, Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security secretary, said in the wake of last week’s supreme court decision that stripped humanitarian protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants. The remarks to…

Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservations Zohran Mamdani , the New York City mayor, said on Sunday that he and a slew of democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections are carrying a “national message” to struggling working Americans hungry for a new kind of politics “coast to coast”. Mamdani made tha…

Matthew Ashley Foster-Smith, from Dorset, is accused of killing Natalia Villalba in an apartment in Bogotá A British man has been arrested in Ecuador after the body of a woman was found inside a suitcase in Colombia. Matthew Ashley Foster-Smith is alleged to have caused the death of 36-year-old Natalia Villalba in an apartment in the Chicó neighbourhood of Bogotá on 18 June, local authorities sai…

Deal could be announced in July and vow will safeguard future of shows such as Coronation Street and Love Island Sky has committed to spending £2bn on ITV’s studios business over the next five years as it hammers out a takeover of its broadcasting arm, a move that will safeguard the future of popular programmes such as Coronation Street and Love Island. Sky, owned by the US telecoms company Comca…

Firefighters were involved in joint response to Knowles and Gore blazes as wildfires ravage western US, fire agency says Three firefighters were killed and two others were hurt while responding to wildfires along the Colorado - Utah border, the US Wildland Fire Service announced on Sunday. The agency, which was established in January to coordinate wildfire suppression and prevention efforts acros…

The Australian Electoral Commission is examining if party breached laws in its $6m public funding claim after the last election, documents show Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian Electoral Commission questioned Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party over more than $800,000 of claimed electoral expenditure for the last election, Guardian Australia can reveal. Do…

As Labor pushes on with reforms, the Coalition must decide whether to join in the parliamentary deal-making Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast It’s the last week of parliament before the winter break, and not a minute too soon; tensions have been running a little high lately. The lower house speaker, Milton Dick, has been yeeting MPs mere moments into question time and a…

Document appears to have been subject to conflicting interpretations on key issues of Lebanon ceasefire and strait of Hormuz Middle East crisis live – latest updates The sudden eruption of fresh hostilities in the Gulf – just 10 days after Iran and the US signed a memorandum of understanding to end the conflict – threatens to put the two countries back on the path to war . It appears the delibera…

Out-going Louisiana senator’s rebuke over Iran war is rare instance of a Republican politician standing up to Trump Bill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who is being ousted from his position after Donald Trump successfully backed a challenger in May’s primary, has accused the US president of treating Congress as “merely an appendage” in his handling of the Iran war. In an interview…

Tehran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait amid efforts to open strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversight Middle East crisis live – latest updates A new round of escalating strikes between Iran and the US has continued, further undermining the fragile interim peace agreement between the two countries, and prompting Donald Trump to threaten violence that would ensure Iran “will no longer exist”. On …