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US president says he ‘may have to act’ before talks amid crackdown that rights group says has led to at least 538 deaths ‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down Iranian student killed during protests was shot in head ‘from close range’ Analysis: Unpredictable Trump weighs up Iranian pleas for help against calls for restraint Donald Trump said he is …

Ructions within festival board over Palestinian-Australian academic’s inclusion began in October, email reveals Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has become the latest international headline act to pull out of the 2026 Adelaide writers’ week in protest over the Adelaide festival board’s decision to rescind its invitation to Palestinian-Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah. Ardern…

Backed by actor Sally Phillips and MPs across parties, group raises concerns about overhaul of provision in England Keir Starmer is being urged not to diminish the legal rights of children with special educational needs by a new national campaign backed by the actor Sally Phillips and a cross-party group of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative MPs. The group Save Our Children’s Rights claims…

Foreign Office and MoD among only four departments with declining morale in annual Whitehall monitor report Civil service morale rose slightly after Labour took power in 2024, with the biggest jumps in satisfaction in the energy and health departments, an annual Whitehall monitor report will show. The survey from the Institute for Government (IfG) thinktank, due to be published this week, found t…

Appeal, now in its final few days, raising funds for organisations trying to stop rise of hatred across UK Donate to our charity appeal here Generous Guardian readers have so far raised more than £950,000 as our Hope appeal supporting charities tackling social division, racism and hatred enters its final few days. The 2025 appeal, which closes at midnight on Wednesday evening, is aiming to raise …

Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah accused British intelligence services of providing questions to his CIA interrogators The UK has settled out of court by paying a “substantial sum” to a Guantánamo Bay detainee who was suing the government for its alleged complicity in his rendition and torture, according to the inmate’s legal team. Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah have accused the British intelligence services o…

Volunteers found thousands of dead bats at Melbourne’s Brimbank park, wildlife expert says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Thousands of flying foxes have perished in the heatwave that scorched south-east Australia last week, the largest mass mortality event for flying foxes since black summer. Extreme temperatures resulted in deaths in camps across South Australia, Vi…

Complaint against Cécile Desprairies over Nazi collusion novel alleges that ‘resentment permeates the entire work’ The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz is famously credited with the line: “When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” In contemporary European literature, a book these days is often the beginning of a familial feud. With thinly disguised autobiographical accounts of famil…

Senior politicians have tabled bill that would force UK banks to make affordable finance more accessible Senior Labour backbenchers are urging the government to introduce legislation forcing UK banks to expand affordable lending to small businesses and low-income neighbourhoods. The former minister Gareth Thomas has tabled a 10-minute rule bill – a type of private member’s bill – echoing the US C…

Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world London’s murder rate has dropped to its lowest in more than a decade with police in the capital and the mayor saying it is now one of the safest cities in the western world. The figures come as those on the radical right criticise the city for having a crime problem , hoping to gain politic…

The territory and the European bloc are trying to see off the US president, who has said control of Greenland is essential to national security The Trump administration has said repeatedly that the US needs to gain control of Greenland, justifying its claim from “the standpoint of national security” and warning that it will “do something” about the territory “whether they like it or not” . This p…

MPs to return next week to debate new racial vilification offence, ‘hate preachers’ crackdown and gun buyback Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese will push the Coalition and the Greens to support urgent legislation proposing tougher hate speech laws and gun reform, bringing MPs back to Canberra next M…

US president says company is ‘playing too cute’ after CEO responds sceptically to his push for oil investment after deposing Nicolás Maduro Donald Trump has said he might block ExxonMobil from investing in Venezuela after the oil company’s chief executive called the country “uninvestable” during a White House meeting last week. Darren Woods told the US president that Venezuela would need to chang…

US president claims ‘Iran wants to negotiate’ as rights groups report that regime’s crackdown on protest has killed hundreds Donald Trump has claimed Iran has reached out and proposed negotiations, as he considers “very strong” military action against the regime over a deadly crackdown on protesters that has reportedly killed hundreds. Asked on Sunday by reporters aboard Air Force One if Iran had…

More than $80,000 already raised to support treatment of Scott, who confronted Joel Cauchi alone during the April 2024 Westfield attack Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Amy Scott, the New South Wales police officer who pursued and shot the perpetrator of the Bondi Junction stabbing attack, has been diagnosed with a…