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Arrest made by anti-corruption body set up to investigate alleged graft during former PM’s 16-year rule Hungarian authorities have detained the brother of Viktor Orbán as part of a people-smuggling ⁠investigation, the prime minister, Péter Magyar, has said. The Hungarian anti-graft body, the national asset protection and recovery office (NVVH), said in ⁠a statement it and ⁠police had ​detained fo…

Talks in Abu Dhabi are first substantive negotiations in months focusing on ending the conflict which has raged for more than four years Donald Trump has said that Ukraine would like be expected to give up territory in a final deal, and would end with a “little bit different shape“. After meeting with Kremlin advisor Kirill Dmitriev last week, Trump said he would seek a “big, beautiful agreement”…

Hasina fled to India in 2024 after mass uprising. She faces death penalty upon return Sheikh Hasina is “confident” she will return to Bangladesh in December, according to exiled members of her party, after the disgraced former prime minister of Bangladesh applied for a fresh passport this week. Hasina has been living in self-imposed exile since August 2024 when she was toppled from power by a mas…

Conservative leader insists ‘double amputees run marathons’ as she launches Welfare That Works policy document Good morning. It is quite easy for politicians to declare that they will cut the welfare bill by X amount – but much harder when they have to explain exactly who will lose out. This is summed up by a good anecdote about a former chancellor (Ken Clarke, according to some versions, but it …

Shoppers appear to have taken government’s Be Ready campaign seriously, retail analysts say Business live – latest updates British shoppers have been stocking up on essentials such as bottled water, tinned goods and hand sanitiser, but did not panic buy after the government advised people to prepare for emergencies, shopping data has shown. Sales of essentials jumped in the 10 days after the gove…

UN climate summit prepares to host world leaders from more than 90 countries tomorrow In an attempt to get to the venue a bit early, I decided to ditch the tram and try the special Cop31 buses. This was a bad decision. We have just reached the two-and-a-half-hour mark on the bus and are still crawling through Antalya traffic. New friendships are being spawned in here. We are starting to eat each …

Errors in entry and exit records leave some Britons wrongly flagged as having overstayed post-Brexit 90-day limit EU sues IBM and two European firms over entry/exit border system The writer Jojo Moyes is facing a two-year EU travel ban and €10,000 (£8,300) fine because of glitches with the bloc’s digital security controls. She is one of a number of UK travellers who say their trips to the EU have…

From the assassinations of her husband and mother-in-law to press stonewalling under Modi, Belonging offers an insider’s account of India’s political evolution Few love stories have been as closely entwined with a nation’s history as that of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi. The former’s much-awaited political memoir, Belonging, offers a strikingly candid account of her journey from a small town in Italy t…

Legal action comes as Donald Trump says FBI is investigating tech company CEO’s links with Alice Huang Business live – latest updates Nvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpish Nvidia and its chief executive, Jensen Huang, have been accused of defrauding shareholders in a lawsuit over the Chinese spying scandal engulfing the $4.3tn (£3.2tn) company. The legal action came as Do…

The reported evacuation comes weeks after the US withdrew bombers from RAF Fairford over a suspected Iran-linked security incident The US military evacuated aircraft from a second airbase in ⁠Britain on Monday after a threat from Iran, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, citing people familiar with the matter, weeks after Washington withdrew its bombers from ⁠RAF Fairford airbase over ⁠a susp…

Government flags criminal law changes to ensure companies can’t argue in future ‘that someone didn’t know the computer was loaded’ Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over the Medicare data breach , but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence co…

Jens Eskelund says Europe may need to allow its companies to become part of Chinese firms’ supply chains Europe’s manufacturers could give up on attempting to compete with their Chinese counterparts by the end of the decade if current trends continue amid fears over mass job losses, the head of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China has warned. In a case of “if you can’t beat them, join …

Opposition politicians get first chance to take control of levers of power, even as they struggle to form government Israel’s new Knesset will be sworn in on Tuesday, giving opposition politicians their first chance to take control of some levers of power, even as they struggle to form a new government to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu. High on the agenda will be replacing the speaker, who wields imme…

Exclusive: Iran war has fuelled energy price rise and clouded outlook, driving up unemployment, says Clare Lombardelli Young people in Britain are bearing the brunt of a “low-gear economy” as employers hold back from hiring amid the fallout from the war in the Middle East, a deputy governor of the Bank of England has warned. Clare Lombardelli, the Bank’s deputy governor for monetary policy, said …

Westpac survey results signal growing sense of ‘helplessness’ as Jim Chalmers faces growing pressure to rein in government spending Confidence among mortgaged households has crashed to its lowest level in more than three decades amid a growing sense of “helplessness” about the economy, even as a dramatic shift in financial markets suggests there is now a strong chance of a Reserve Bank rate cut b…