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Safeguarding minister says she wants to use momentum to invest in prevention and get more than quick-fix policies Read Jess Phillips’ article: We owe it to every Epstein victim to better protect British women and girls Institutions can be persuaded to take action on violence against women and girls only when some sort of “calamity” or “political scandal” hits the headlines, Jess Phillips has said…

MP who fell out with Nigel Farage and has backing of Elon Musk launches anti-immigration party in Great Yarmouth On a cold night in a dilapidated theatre tucked away at the end of Great Yarmouth’s Britannia Pier, Rupert Lowe was launching a far-right revolution. “Millions will have to go,” the MP said, pledging a policy of mass deportations, to rapturous applause and foot stamping from hundreds g…

Project in Ceredigion aims to help country catch up with large-scale nature recovery projects elsewhere in UK A Welsh charity has bought more than 405 hectares (1,000 acres) in Ceredigion to establish Cymru’s “flagship” rewilding project, helping the country catch up with large-scale nature recovery projects under way elsewhere in the UK. Tir Natur (Nature’s Land), founded in 2022, announced it h…

Elation as anti-extremists fight back against influence of billionaire megadonors through grassroots organizing Chris Tackett started tracking extremism in Texas politics about a decade ago, whenever his schedule as a Little League coach and school board member would allow. At the time, he lived in Granbury, 40 minutes west of Fort Worth. He’d noticed that a local member of the state legislature,…

Real estate agent brothers Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander – known as ‘closers’ – are on trial in New York for sex trafficking In their time as real estate brokers, the Israeli-American Alexander brothers – twins Alon and Oren and older brother Tal – were known as “closers”, the salesmen who could a get a sale over finish line, often to wealthy hedge funders who were then making hay in aftermath of …

Our food environment has been built to put profit over health — Australians can’t overcome that without stronger regulation and accountability Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Almost 13 years ago – and after a decade-long battle between health experts and the food industry – state and federal ministers voted to introduce a health star rating system to help consumers ma…

The tax has climbed by 60% since 2020 and accounts for three-quarters of the legal cost of a packet of cigarettes Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Experts say a freeze on the federal government’s contentious tobacco excise should be considered, after the Treasury revealed it was modelling the impacts of cigarette prices on demand amid a booming black market. Lachlan Va…

Consular officials told son of unconscious, critically ill man they could not discuss the situation for ‘privacy’ reasons Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast An Australian man died in a Balinese hospital just days after the Australian consulate failed to issue an emergency passport that his son says could have saved his life. Wayne Harvey, an expat who had been living on …

Exclusive: Delay at Glascoed is latest setback for armed forces and for UK’s capacity to supply shells to Ukraine A new factory in Wales seen as crucial to boosting UK munitions production remains unopened more than six months after its planned launch, adding to a string of delays dogging the armed forces. The explosives facility at Glascoed, south Wales, was expected to bring a 16-fold increase …

Military official says Israel’s attack came in response to violations by Hamas of US-brokered ceasefire agreement At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several more injured across the Gaza Strip on Sunday in Israeli airstrikes that the military said were carried out in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas. The Gaza civil defence agency said five people were killed and several others hurt …

Critics accuse administration of ‘cooking the books’ by claiming US would save $1.3bn from climate finding reversal The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money. But its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely to out…

Experts question convicted sex trafficker’s motivations as she claims she can reveal ‘truth’ in exchange for freedom When Ghislaine Maxwell refused to testify before Congress last week, she nonetheless insisted on her willingness to help. Maxwell, who was convicted of helping Jeffrey Epstein draw teenage girls into a world of sexual abuse, dangled the prospect of revealing truth before Congress a…

As Gavin Newsom departs, ultra-wealthy flex wealth and influence to fight regulation and keep the boom going Tech billionaires are leveraging tens of millions of dollars to influence California politics in a marked uptick from their previous participation in affairs at the state capitol. Behemoths such as Google and Meta are getting involved in campaigns for November’s elections, as are venture c…

Mohan Karki – one of many people ICE has deported to countries with which they have little connection – leaves behind his wife and seven-month-old baby he has yet to hold Tika Basnet sat facing the glow of her iPhone, a red tika pressed into the center of her forehead. Seven-month-old Briana slept on her lap, her breathing soft and uneven. On the other side of the screen was Mohan Karki, Basnet’s…

EU’s foreign policy says many countries still ‘want to join our club’ Nato’s deputy secretary general Radmila Šekerinska picks up Haddad’s point. She says that the last Nato summit in The Hague agreed not just on increased defence spending, but also on ramping up own production. “This will be repeated in Ankara now: we need to produce more, and we need to produce more everywhere. We need more Eur…