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Bolivian interior ministry says Sebastián Marset is being extradited to US, where he’s wanted for money laundering Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Sebastián Marset, an alleged Uruguayan drug trafficker and one of South America’s most wanted criminals, has been arrested in Bolivia. Marset, 34, is accused of trafficking tonnes of cocaine from South Amer…

Exclusive: Chancellor plans help for vulnerable and low-income customers due to conflict in Middle East Rachel Reeves will set out extra support next week for households across the UK facing a surge in the cost of heating oil due to the conflict in the Middle East. The chancellor is expected to set out plans to assist those on low incomes or with other vulnerabilities, particularly in rural areas…

White House contends with reality of shoddy preparations for war and unclear conditions for victory Middle East crisis – live updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email As US and Israeli jets descended to deliver the opening salvos of the war in Iran, Donald Trump ’s back-of-the-envelope plan for regime change in Tehran was about to run into the reality of the largest US interventi…

Trio captured relaxing around a wooden table in photo believed to have been taken on Martha’s Vineyard Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson have been pictured in bathrobes alongside Jeffrey Epstein, in the first known photograph of them together. The trio were captured relaxing outside at a wooden table with mugs decorated with the American flag in the newly unearthed photograph believe…

The move, which lowers fees to 25%, is a breakthrough for Chinese developers Tencent and ByteDance Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Apple announced late on Thursday it would lower the commission fees collected in its App Store in mainland China . The move follows pressure from regulators in the tech company’s second-largest market, as well as global sc…

Tehran residents report relentless bombing with US and Israeli planes launching wave of attacks Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has said Iran will be hit “very hard” in the coming days, describing leaders of the regime as “deranged scumbags” who it was a “great honour” to kill, as Tehran residents reported relentless bombing and violence continued to spiral across the Middle East. …

US defense head is eager to frame operation as a success – and slam journalists for not portraying it in a positive light Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Pete Hegseth on Friday again claimed the US military campaign against Iran has been an unprecedented success, using a Pentagon press conference to accuse journalists of downplaying Washington’s suppo…

Mayor says he will encourage Met to scale down his official vehicle alongside plans for new charges for big cars The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said he would be encouraging the Met to abandon his armoured car in favour of a smaller vehicle as he signalled a clampdown on driving SUVs in London. Khan and Transport for London are considering options including additional charges on outsize vehicles to…

Alireza Askari, 42, sentenced for killing Paria Veisi after she left him, and aunt Maryam Delavary jailed for helping bury her A man has been jailed for at least 26 years for the “cold-blooded murder” of his ex-wife and the burying of her body in his garden. Alireza Askari, 42, admitted killing Paria Veisi, 37, at the property they previously shared in Penylan, Cardiff, in April last year. Contin…

Campaigners rejoice after Keir Starmer backs ‘Philomena’s Law’ to protect payments for up to 13,000 survivors living in Britain Survivors of Ireland ’s mother and baby homes can continue to receive benefits in the UK after Downing Street dropped a plan to cut payments. Keir Starmer bowed to pressure from campaigners to back a bill known as Philomena’s law, which would ringfence survivors’ benefit…

Joey Pete of Sunchild First Nation said king seemed ‘committed to learning’ after meeting Indigenous leaders King Charles has expressed concern over a simmering separatist movement in western Canada , according to Indigenous leaders who met the head of state at Buckingham Palace. Members of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations travelled to London from their territories in the province of A…

UN experts disturbed by the president and US political leaders’ growing use of dehumanising language to target migrants The “racist hate speech” being used by Donald Trump and other US political leaders, along with the country’s intensified crackdowns on migration, has led to “grave human rights violations,” a UN watchdog warned. In a non-binding decision issued this week, the UN‘s committee on t…

Accusations were false and primary cause of major meat supplier ‘panicking’ and cancelling contract, Victorian judge finds on balance of probabilities Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A halal certifier wrongly accused a rival of being connected to Islamic extremism to secure the business of a major meat supplier, a Victorian court has found. The Victorian county court …

Djidji Ayôkwé was handed to Ivorian officials in Paris earlier this month A sacred artefact looted by French colonial authorities more than a century ago has been returned to Côte d’Ivoire in one of the most significant cultural restitutions to a former French colony in years. The Djidji Ayôkwé , a talking drum confiscated in 1916 by French administrators, landed at 8.45am on Friday at the airpor…

The first proper show since Valentino’s death is about the late designer, about beauty – and about Michele’s mother Valentino Garavani wanted to make beautiful clothes for the women who could afford them. The perpetually tanned designer, whose vision of jet set glamour was matched only by his own yacht-and-pug lifestyle, died in January . So there was an obvious logic in taking the first proper c…