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Mel Stride, work and pensions secretary, says possibility of prosecution will need to be ‘carefully looked at’ as Commons statement due on compensationMichael Gove, the levelling up secretary, is about to give his speech on antisemitism.There is a live feed here. Continue reading...

Yoav Gallant, named alongside Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, criticises decisionCrowds have gathered in Tabriz in Iran to pay respects to those killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday, including the late president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.Associated Press reports that a procession led by a vehicle carrying the caskets of the dead slowly moved through the...

Euro 2024 men’s football tournament and Olympic Games could drive summer sales, says analystBusiness live – latest updatesGrocery price inflation in Great Britain has slowed to the lowest level since 2021, while households are still trading down to cheaper products after two and a half years of rapidly rising prices, research has shown.While pressures remain on household budgets, sales of burgers, beer and wine...

Proportion in Ireland rose from 27% in 2017 to 40% in 2022, as pandemic and cost of living crisis hit EU countries‘I’m screwed’: young adults forced to live with parentsThe proportion of employed young people living with their parents in the EU have risen significantly in recent years, data from an EU agency shows, with Ireland outstripping other nations amid an acute housing crisis.An...

Survivors of shipwreck that killed 600 people not ‘real smugglers’, say defenders, with inquiry into coastguard’s role also incompleteNine men accused of causing one of the deadliest shipwrecks to have taken place in the Mediterranean are “scapegoats” who should never have been prosecuted, defence lawyers have said, as their long-awaited trial opens in Greece.The Egyptian suspects, who have been held in pre-trial detention since...

Minister to set out £10bn scheme after pledge from Rishi Sunak to pay ‘whatever it costs’UK politics live: latest updatesThousands of victims of the infected blood scandal and their families are to learn how ministers plan to compensate them for their suffering and loss of earnings after Rishi Sunak pledged to pay “whatever it costs”.The details of the long-delayed scheme, which is expected to...

Government rejects suggestions it should criticise the court, which has sought arrest warrants for the Israeli PM and Hamas officials for war crimesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government says it respects the international criminal court’s “important” and “independent” role in upholding the law after its chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli officials...

This blog is now closedAustralia respects ICC’s independence following Netanyahu arrest warrant request, government saysCentrepay scandal: Labor to reform debit scheme to combat ‘predatory behaviour’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA High Court decision in Britain to allow Julian Assange to appeal his extradition to the US is a “small win” for the WikiLeaks founder but he should...

South West Water hands out £127m to investors despite anger over contaminated supplyBusiness live – latest updatesThe owner of South West Water has said normal service has been restored for 85% of its customers after unsafe drinking water led to more than 100 cases of a waterborne disease in Devon, as it raised its dividend payout to shareholders.After cryptosporidium, a disease that can cause...

Authorities cut short school term as weather bureau warns of severe heatwave conditions this weekAuthorities in the Indian capital, have ordered schools to shut early for the summer holiday, after temperatures in Delhi hit 47.4C (117F).City officials told schools to shut with “immediate effect” due to the blistering heat, according to a government order quoted by the Hindustan Times on Tuesday, cutting the term...

Review follows Guardian Australia investigation identifying deep and ongoing failures with voluntary bill-paying service for Centrelink recipientsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government has pledged to reform the Centrepay debit system and has referred three energy companies to the regulator for using the system to wrongly take money...

Judge Juan Merchan asks Robert Costello, called by defense to try to discredit Michael Cohen, ‘Are you staring me down right now?’Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial is to enter its 20th day on Tuesday with continued cross-examination of Robert Costello, whom the defense has used to try to discredit the ex-president’s one-time consigliere, Michael Cohen.The former president, who is all but guaranteed to be...

Former Jetstar pilot has pleaded not guilty to murdering Hill and Clay, who court hears were having an affairGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRussell Hill told his family he was no longer seeing Carol Clay after being given an ultimatum in 2006 by a neighbour to tell his wife about the affair he was having, a murder...

Authorities investigating after reports a child was put in makeshift enclosure at work siteFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA child has reportedly been found locked in a cage at a Northern Territory industrial site.Authorities are investigating the incident, which is understood to have occurred at a work site on...

Defamation case now likely to head to trial, with the former defence minister saying it’s time for ‘us all to find a way to move on’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA pair of high-profile defamation cases pitting the Liberal senator Linda Reynolds against her former political staffer Brittany Higgins...

Oil Change International says plans do not stand up to scrutiny and describes US fossil-fuel corporations as ‘the worst of the worst’ Major oil companies have in recent years made splashy climate pledges to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and take on the climate crisis, but a new report suggests those plans do not stand up to scrutiny.The research and advocacy group Oil Change...

England’s chief medical officer says 19th-century wastewater system ended cholera outbreaks and calls for similar focus nowPublic health must be central to future investment in a new wastewater system to protect people from waterborne diseases, the chief medical officer for England, Prof Chris Whitty, has said.Reducing people’s risk of coming into contact with human faecal pathogens in untreated and treated sewage discharged into rivers...

In today’s newsletter: Uncertainty surrounds the country’s succession and foreign policy after a shocking crash which killed the president and six others• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. The death of a president is always an enormously consequential moment – but in Iran, where five days of mourning are under way after Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash...

France gives clearance for several planes to bring home travellers stuck in French Pacific territory in wake of violent protestsPeople in New Caledonia: how have you been affected by the riots?Why is there unrest in New Caledonia? Everything you need to know Australia and New Zealand said they will send government planes to New Caledonia on Tuesday to evacuate nationals from the French territory...

Former chief executive is to give evidence at inquiry into Horizon IT scandal this weekIt is a moment wrongly convicted post office operators have waited years for. From Wednesday the former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells will appear before the long-running inquiry into how hundreds were pursued in the courts, fined and jailed over accounting shortfalls that were actually the fault of the...

Song about North Korean leader titled Friendly Father includes lines like ‘let’s brag about Kim Jong-un’South Korea’s media regulator has banned access to a North Korean propaganda music video that it said idolised and glorified leader Kim Jong-un as a “great leader”.The catchy tune titled Friendly Father has become an unlikely social media hit around the world, going viral on short-form video app TikTok...

Self-styled Prince Heinrich XIII among alleged ringleaders of plan for violent overthrow of stateThe most spectacular of a trio of trials of a sprawling group of far-right conspiracists who plotted to violently overthrow the German state is taking place in Frankfurt amid high security and huge media interest.On trial are the group’s alleged ringleader, a self-styled aristocrat estate agent known as Prince Heinrich XIII,...

Known as ‘Ivan The Terrible’, the risk arbitrage maven fell from glory in one of the biggest insider trading scandals of the 1980sIvan Boesky, the financier who gave birth to the “greed is good” mantra before going to prison in one of the biggest Wall Street insider trading scandals of the 1980s, has died at the age of 87, the New York Times reported...

Campaign spokesperson called Ali Abbasi’s film, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, ‘pure fiction which sensationalises lies that have been long debunked’The Trump campaign has come out swinging against The Apprentice after the film, which depicts the former president raping his first wife, shocked audiences at Cannes, with a spokesperson saying that they will be “filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions...