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Tania Warner says she has documents showing she is in the US legally, but immigration agents were not swayed Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A Canadian woman who has been imprisoned with her seven-year-old daughter by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has cautioned other immigrants that they are at risk of detention, even if they follow the co…

Defence chiefs have been discussing how to unblock the conduit for about a fifth of the world’s oil supplies The UK has offered to host an international security summit to draw up a “viable, collective plan” to reopen the strait of Hormuz as economic fallout from the Iran conflict continues. Defence chiefs have been discussing how they could unblock the vital shipping lane, through which about 20…

Senate leader proposes compromise to fund homeland security shutdown amid chaotic scenes at airports US politics live – latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump on Tuesday swore in Markwayne Mullin as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), while Senate Republicans unveiled a compromise that would restart funding to most of the agency but appea…

Minister tells security conference many people could have been killed in Invasion Day incident; Treasury working ‘full tilt’ on budget measures. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Tony Burke says it would be “reckless” and “ignorance in the extreme” for Australia to pretend that immigration is the solution to preventing violent extremism on our shores…

PM’s party forecast to win most votes, but another centrist or centre-right coalition appears likely Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats and Denmark’s other left-leaning parties appear to have failed to win enough votes to gain a clear mandate to form a government in an election fought amid geopolitical tensions with the US over Greenland. According to two exit polls released shortly after votin…

PM’s most costly quarter for travel was in last quarter of 2025, with the most expensive trip to Cop30 in Brazil Keir Starmer’s government is spending an increasing amount on foreign trips, with almost 40 visits abroad adding up to more than £4m since he took office, the latest transparency figures have showed. The prime minister had his most costly quarter for foreign travel in the last three mo…

Suella Braverman presses the FA to scrap diversity and inclusion policies, which she claims are ‘racist’ Reform UK has been accused of seeking to insert “toxic politics” into football after the party pressed the Football Association in England to scrap diversity and inclusion policies. Suella Braverman wrote to the FA on Tuesday to ask for a meeting to discuss the governing body’s diversity polic…

Police understood to have record of Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff reporting phone stolen in October Police were “too busy” to investigate the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone despite the potential sensitivity of his messages and contacts, according to reports. Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff told the Metropolitan police that his phone was stolen in central London when he was returnin…

Diplomats say US president’s latest claimed plan probably based on now dated framework put forward in May 2025 Middle East crisis – live updates The 15-point framework plan for peace with Iran that Donald Trump has said is being discussed is based on a proposal put forward by his negotiating team during nuclear talks almost a year ago, diplomats knowledgable about the talks believe. That original…

The former president was in prison for a coup attempt after losing the country’s last election Brazil ’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been granted permission to serve his 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at home instead of in prison because of his failing health. The decision by supreme court justice Alexandre de Moraes followed Bolsonaro’s hospitalization since 13 March for pneumonia, …

British investigators are circumspect, but experts and security officials say incident has hallmarks of Iranian intelligence Middle East crisis – live updates From Golders Green, where four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set alight in the early hours of Monday, a tangled trail likely leads across two continents to Tehran. British investigators are circumspect. Speaking at an event …

Lawsuit argues XAI failed to disclose risks, limitations and exposure to harm that come with using chatbot The mayor and city council of Baltimore, Maryland, filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI company on Tuesday, alleging that its Grok chatbot violated consumer protections by generating nonconsensual sexualized images. Baltimore’s lawsuit argues that xAI deceptively marketed Grok as a genera…

Marco Rubio welcomes release of Dennis Coyle, who was detained in January last year for violating unspecified laws Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. A statement …

I Swear’s Kirk Jones set to direct film based on the 1970s cult animation about a ‘very ordinary man’ who accessed different worlds via a magical fancy dress shop A live-action film based on the cult British kids’ cartoon Mr Benn is to go into production with I Swear director Kirk Jones at the helm. Mr Benn first appeared on TV on the BBC in 1971, in a series created by David McKee, who died in 2…

White House says Maga influencer appointed to role for tourism, exceptionalism and American values Donald Trump’s appointment of Nick Adams, the “alpha male” Australian turned American internet provocateur as a new special presidential envoy on Tuesday, could give fuel to theories that the White House is deliberately trolling the world. The president nominated the Sydney-born Maga influencer, who…