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Tech company submits to controversial Trump order to rename body of water amid US trade spat with Canada Apple has renamed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for US users of its Maps app, after an executive order from Donald Trump to change the name of the Great Lake amid his trade spat with Canada. The Apple Maps app now displays the controversial new name for the lake, which sits between the border…

British tourists reportedly discovered Luger pistol that is latest in long line of potential leads in mystery of al-Hilli deaths Experts are examining a gun found by tourists to determine whether it might have been used to kill a British family in the French Alps 14 years ago. In what remains an unsolved murder case, Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife, Ikbal, 47, and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, we…

Guardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declined Reform UK has banned at least three journalists from its annual conference who have reported critically on the party and Nigel Farage. The Guardian’s City editor, Anna Isaac, the investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and the broadcaster and biographer Michael Crick were told this week that their credentials t…

Harold Vanderford made national news earlier this year after he shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old Black baby, while responding to a shoplifting call at Walmart Late Tuesday, the city of Senatobia, Mississippi fired its police chief, Harold Vanderford, after it was reported that Vanderford regularly used racist slurs against Black people in his text messages. The town, which is about 40%…

Defence minister says he believes US backing could tip regional balance in favour of forced resettlement Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime. Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration” durin…

Monarch tells Emmanuel Macron at the British Museum in London that the two nations will share a future ‘woven together’ by history and shared values The loan of the Bayeux tapestry was the “the best possible symbol” of the “entente amicale” between France and the UK, King Charles said as he visited the famous embroidered masterpiece at the British Museum in London. Though the tapestry recounts a …

Party leader in England and Wales seen as favourite to contest Holborn and St Pancras after Starmer’s resignation Zack Polanski moved a step closer in his quest to become an MP on Wednesday, with local Green party members supporting him to become the party’s candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection. The party leader in England and Wales started campaigning alongside his fellow Green, Ha…

Over 40% of films in LFF programme are female-made, but only two of 21 gala films are directed by women Female film-makers are still being squeezed out of the industry as they progress beyond their debut films, the director of the London film festival has said, adding that “the dial does not seem to be moving”. Kristy Matheson’s comments came as LFF announced its full programme for this year’s ev…

Experts have expressed deep concerns that the practice runs afoul of the fourth amendment’s right to privacy Federal prosecutors have declined to say whether they secretly obtained phone records for the journalist Don Lemon using an unusual administrative summons, his lawyers said in a Monday court filing , highlighting concern about a controversial legal authority the government has claimed to g…

Paul Miller, an openly racist fighter, derided Ben Azoulay, and a spectator was ejected for waving a swastika flag Democrats in Florida have condemned a professional mixed martial arts event in Orlando at which an openly racist fighter derided his beaten opponent as “a short little fucking Jew prick”, and a spectator was ejected for waving a giant swastika flag . Anna Eskamani, a Democratic state…

Yorgen Fenech cleared on both charges he faced over 2017 killing of journalist that prompted global outrage One of Malta’s richest men has been found not guilty of involvement in the murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The verdict, which is expected to be appealed against by the prosecution, will come as a blow not only to the victim’s family, but to the politicians a…

Jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have resumed for a fifth day Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial resumed for a fifth day on Wednesday after the judge questioned jurors one by one following the arrest of a woman accused of filming them as they left the courthouse the previous day. A former labor and delivery …

The government’s increasingly hostile stance towards the Kremlin has drawn criticism from the far right – and the far left Even before the German government laid the blame this week on Russia for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport , the topic of German ties to Moscow was high on the political agenda. But the timing of the unsurprising yet explosive Leipzig announcement – days before a k…

Fair to say the current sell-off is international, but the PM has said little yet to make investors rethink the UK’s status It’s too soon to say the bond markets have turned on Andy Burnham. Tuesday’s spike in gilt yields, taking the UK’s 30-year borrowing costs to their highest level since 1998 , was part of an international sell-off of government debt . The main contributors are well-known. The…

London mayor’s office says he is ‘victim of a scam’ after conviction under fast-track system where magistrates can decide outcomes in seconds UK politics live – latest updates Sadiq Khan’s office has revealed he was the victim of a scam that led to him being fined for failing to tax a car that did not belong to him. The London mayor was found guilty last month under a system of “conveyor-belt jus…