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Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped The police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners say. The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England …

Statement by Trump administration confirms longstanding suspicions that Musk-led agency is on its way out The “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has apparently been dissolved with eight months still remaining on its contract, ending a drawn-out campaign of invading federal agencies and firing thousands of federal workers. “That doesn’t exist,” office of personnel management (OPM) direct…

People rightly want to get get paid for their work, says Liz Kendall, in apparent change of tack to predecessor The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, has indicated she is sympathetic to artists’ demands not to have their copyrighted works scraped by AI companies without payment and said she wanted to “reset” the debate. In remarks that suggest a change in approach from her predecessor, Peter Kyl…

TUC calls on chancellor to focus on child poverty and upping minimum wage, in face of business calls to change course Unions have urged the chancellor to keep focused on raising living standards, targeting child poverty and upping the national minimum wage, in the face of renewed calls from business to change course on employment rights. The TUC said that Rachel Reeves must deliver “a living stan…

In a city where football is more than a sport, the gun death of John Beam has provoked an outpouring of emotion Football in Oakland, California, is more than a sport. It’s a community. In many schools, coaches are like parental figures who get young people through vulnerable times, into universities and sometimes even drafted to the National Football League. So when gun violence came for longtime…

US president appears to roll back from demand Zelenskyy sign by Thursday amid claims Russia authored the text Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukraine had shown no gratitude for US efforts to end the war, as American, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland to discuss the “peace plan” that would involve significant concessions to Moscow from Kyiv. Poland’s president, Donald Tusk,…

South Africa rejects proposal from US, which hosts next summit, for president to hand over to embassy official South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year’s time. South Africa presented the two-day event as a t…

At least two killed and dozens injured after airstrike on southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Israel targeted the chief of staff of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah group in a strike in the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday. The strike is the first on the capital’s southern suburbs, known for housing Hezbollah officials, in …

The government has offered to make changes to the bill to both the Greens and the Liberals hoping to reach a deal on legislation that can pass the Senate Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Years of debate about environmental law reform have come down to a tense standoff in the final sitting week of federal parliament for the year, with Labor claiming it can do a deal tha…

Exclusive: ‘Man box’ stereotype of appearing tough and believing in rigid gender roles linked to likelihood of committing acts of abuse, new report finds Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast More than a quarter of young New South Wales men who participated in a recent survey agreed that “men should use violence to get respect if necessary”, and over one-third admitted to s…

Exclusive: Jason Clare says new powers will ensure information is ‘accurate, comprehensive and representative’ to help government deliver ‘evidence-based reforms’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Labor is quietly advancing plans for universal childcare in Australia , with new laws to require private operators to hand over sensitive commercial data needed to design a ne…

Unable to reunite with their families in Gaza due to the closed border, Palestinian workers have spent two years in a refugee camp at Nablus stadium Inside a dim locker room at the Nablus municipal stadium, in the occupied West Bank, the television rarely goes dark, streaming day and night the relentless news from Gaza. Gathered in front of it are a group of men from Khan Younis. For more than tw…

TV personality wants homeowners and businesses to shun ‘dishonest’ firms Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex Grenfell United and the TV architect George Clarke are calling on businesses and homeowners to take a “moral decision” and boycott the companies criticised in the Grenfell inquiry for “systematic dishonesty”. Clarke, best known for his series George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces, said he had made the …

Artworks to go on display in January at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, in the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital From images of empty community rooms and a colourful canvas crammed with caricatures to a baby linked by an umbilical-like cord to a seated stranger, artworks on the subject of mental health are to go on display in an exhibition that examines social bonds against the backdrop of today’s …

Vineyard owners say sales slump, Trump tariffs and worst harvest in 70 years have put producers in danger of closure French winemakers are often accused of viewing the glass as half empty. Dire warnings about the state of the sector – one of the three pillars of the country’s economy – are a hardy perennial blamed on everything from geopolitics to a drop in the number of drinkers. Before a crisis…