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UK government urged to apply pressure on France to fix system or suspend checks by next week Cross-Channel ferry passengers and the port of Dover face “utter chaos and miles of tailbacks” under the EU’s entry/exit system (EES) unless the technology is fixed or checks suspended by next week, MPs have warned. The home affairs select committee chair, Karen Bradley, urged the government to “apply max…

Kristy McBain criticises shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson for ‘testing’ Triple-zero system during major network blackout The communications minister, Anika Wells, has accused Barnaby Joyce and Angus Taylor of “going off half-cocked” by raising without evidence the prospect of China having been behind the major Telstra outage affecting millions of Australians nationwide. The federal …

Labour party chair says Reform UK leader must cooperate with authorities instead of trying to distract public with byelection • UK politics live – latest updates The revelation that a £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers concerned it may have been laundered money, has been described as “astonishing and deeply serious”. Respo…

The fearless 23-year-old is determined to keep a level head as he prepares to face Flavio Cobolli on Wednesday A week ago, very few people knew who Arthur Fery was. But he has been propelled into the limelight as the last man standing after a disastrous start to Wimbledon for British players. Fery, who is ranked No 114 in the world, defied expectations on Monday night when he triumphed on Centre …

Meeting begins this morning after president threatens to pull American troops out of Europe as he arrived in Ankara yesterday Trump renews call for US to take over Greenland as he arrives for Nato summit Nato leaders are meeting in Ankara, Turkey today for what was meant to be a “Trump-proof” summit: short and sweet, with little space for any drama or outbursts from the notoriously unpredictable …

Rubbish dumps can expose birds to contaminants, raising questions over whether landfill foraging helps or harms Storks are gaining weight from a diet of literal junk, according to research that suggests the previously disappearing birds face potential health risks as a result of increasingly eating from rubbish dumps. Landfill offers what appear to be quick and convenient meals for white stork po…

The man, who cannot be named, faces two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in Victoria’s county court. He has pleaded not guilty Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A high-profile Melbourne man was called a rapist and punched in the face by his former personal assistant shortly after he raped her at his ho…

The network disruption – which brought trains, traffic lights and Eftpos payments to a halt – raises questions about the resilience of services Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Wednesday’s national Telstra mobile outage serves as another stark reminder of how reliant on connectivity Australia now is, and how single…

Ofcom levies largest-ever consumer protection fine after finding firm deliberately mishandled millions of phone calls Virgin Media has been fined £28m by the UK telecoms watchdog for repeatedly preventing customers from cancelling their contracts over a near-three-year period. Ofcom discovered that Virgin Media “likely mishandled” millions of phone calls between the start of 2022 and autumn 2024,…

Lib Dems tell Reform UK leader ‘the game is up’ as political rivals vow to boycott ‘stunt’ Clacton byelection Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns Ed Davey , the Lib Dem leader, has restated his call for the government to stop Nigel Farage resigning as an MP. In an interview on the Today programme, Davey said: I don’t think there should be a byele…

Shoppers urged to seek quality products or alternatives as data shows demand surpassing least year’s total Britons are expected to buy nearly 8m mini fans this year as they are “surging on to the market” in the hot weather – but almost half of those are expected to be low-quality products that end up in landfill within a year. Waste managers and recycling campaigners have raised concerns as the n…

Early flight data showed the K2 Airways plane with five crew on board possibly crashed into the sea ⁠southwest of Karachi A Pakistan-registered Boeing 737 cargo plane with five crew members on board lost contact with air traffic control on ⁠Tuesday night after reporting a navigational ⁠system problem on ​its way to Karachi, Pakistan aviation authorities said. Early flight data indicated the 27-ye…

Man flown from France as part of legal entry programme decries effect on others ‘who may have a similar case’ An asylum seeker brought to the UK by the Home Office has said it feels unjust that he was allowed into the country only because someone else was deported. The individual benefited from the “one in” part of the controversial “one in, one out” scheme , where one asylum seeker who reached t…

Lawrence Bishnoi, who is in prison in India, is accused of orchestrating the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023 US authorities have announced charges against the leader of an Indian criminal group in connection with the political assassination of a prominent Sikh activist in Canada – a high-profile killing that strained diplomatic relations between Canada and India at the time. Lawrenc…

National Anti-Corruption Commission inspector, Gail Furness, says systemic issues behind two complaints have been addressed Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Two investigations into complaints made against the former National Anti-Corruption Commissioner, Paul Brereton, will discontinue after its watchdog said it co…