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Israeli military drops leaflets ordering around hundreds of thousands of people to leave the cityIsrael orders central Rafah residents to evacuate In case you missed it yesterday, the UN general assembly voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership.Israeli tanks have reached the Salahuddin Road which crosses Rafah, dividing its centre from the eastern neighbourhoods evacuated before Israel’s seizure of the...

Hundreds of thousands more people face displacement as military instructions suggest likely attack on centre of cityMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Israeli military has told residents of central Rafah to evacuate, signalling a major expansion of its military operations in the city and threatening the displacement of hundreds of thousands more people.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) seized the Rafah border crossing with Egypt...

High-profile parties including London’s biggest viewing event called off amid ongoing offensive in GazaEurovision is one of the biggest nights of the year for many LGBTQ+ venues across the UK, offering an opportunity for a joyful party celebrating music and high camp.Celebrations will be mixed this year, however, after a number of high-profile events were cancelled in protest at Israel’s participation. Continue reading...

Speeches by Cameron, Lammy and Miliband all depicted a darkening world but differed on where to find alliesIn a TikTok world it’s rare that three big foreign policy speeches come along all at once, all trying to chart a new course for the UK in a more perilous world, and all written by someone christened David.But it says something for how foreign affairs dominates...

Club secretaries at some institutions are understood to be consulting lawyers after vote at GarrickDiscussions are under way over whether to admit women at several of London’s remaining gentlemen’s clubs after this week’s vote by Garrick club members to allow women to join after 193 years.The Travellers Club, the Savile Club, the Beefsteak Club, Boodle’s, Buck’s, Brooks’s, the East India Club and White’s are...

Charities and campaign groups are calling on bodies to say they may stop funding country if legislation comes into effectThe World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are coming under pressure to use their financial might to persuade Ghana to reconsider a proposed law that could lead to anyone who identifies as LGBTQ+ being jailed for three years.Charities and campaign groups are calling on...

Officer taken to hospital and later released while suspect, 54, hospitalised under supervision after being shot by police in High WycombeA man was shot by police and arrested after an officer was shot in the leg with a crossbow in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley police said.Police attended School Lane, Downley, around 6pm on Friday after a man in his 60s suffered a stab...

Fears Climate Change Committee’s advice not to allow carryover from last carbon budget will be ignoredMinisters are considering plans to weaken the UK’s carbon-cutting plans by allowing the unused portion of the last carbon budget to be carried over to the next period.This would go against the strong recommendation of the government’s statutory climate advisers, the Climate Change Committee. Continue reading...

A huge increase in fees means many vulnerable people have to leave the Derwentwater site they call homeRetired and vulnerable holiday homeowners claim they are being priced out of a “breathtaking” waterside campsite in the Lake District after the Camping and Caravanning Club raised one of the main charges by more than 60%.The row at the static caravan park on the edge of Derwentwater,...

Government promises $107m package for industry to transition, after years of campaigning against tradeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s live sheep export trade will end on 1 May 2028, the federal government has announced, after years of campaigning by animal welfare advocates.Labor’s long-held policy to end the sea exports has been opposed by many in the agricultural...

Bureau of Meteorology says aurora australis could be visible near Sydney and Perth between Saturday 10pm and Sunday 2am, while warning of storm’s impactsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAurora australis could be visible from Sydney, Perth and even parts of Queensland this weekend, after an “extreme” geomagnetic solar storm.The Bureau of Meteorology has warned the storm that...

Warragamba dam in NSW nearing capacity after two West Australians were hospitalised on FridayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWarragamba dam could spill over the Mother’s Day weekend amid severe weather warnings on the east coast, and after a tornado tore through the West Australian city of Bunbury, injuring two people.WaterNSW issued a warning on Friday that the...

Group will protest against government’s treatment of freelance workers at festivals across FranceThe Cannes film festival is facing strike action as it opens next week and could see protests by projectionists, floor managers and press agents who are demanding changes to the French government’s treatment of seasonal film festival staff.The festival on France’s Côte d’Azur has faced major strike action only once before, during...

Noaa issues warning for extreme G5 geomagnetic storm, with effects due to last through weekend and possibly into next weekA ferocious solar storm powerful enough to knock out or disrupt satellite and communications systems, the power grid and radio signals was raging on Friday, space weather researchers warned.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) issued a rare warning for extreme G5 geomagnetic storm conditions...

Chris Minns says he hopes move will bring ‘some semblance of closure’ to those convictedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales government will formally apologise to people convicted under laws criminalising homosexuality in a move the premier hopes will bring closure to those who have been affected.Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of...

Loss of habitat and food sources driving fruit bats closer to urban centres, leading to bat deaths, power outagesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt’s an increasingly frequent occurrence on Australia’s east coast – a fruit bat foraging for food lands on a power line to rest.The flying fox (as it’s also known), spreading its wings before taking...

WABC owner says Trump ally received warnings not to discuss ‘election fallacies’ and that refusal to do so ‘left me no option’The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani’s troubles deepened on Friday when he was suspended by WABC radio, for trying to use his show to discuss the lie that the 2020 presidential election was lost by Donald Trump because of electoral fraud.John Catsimatidis,...

Competing rallies are on the streets, Netherlands’ entrant is under investigation and others complain music is being overshadowedThe official motto of the 68th edition of Eurovision is “united by music”, but as the continent’s beglittered and sequined masses descended on the Swedish city of Malmö for Saturday’s grand final, music’s ability to heal and bridge divides was looking in serious doubt.In the run-up to...

State department also says not enough concrete evidence to link specific US-supplied weapons to violations The US says it is “reasonable to assess” that the weapons it has provided to Israel have been used in ways that are “inconsistent” with international human rights law, but that there is not enough concrete evidence to link specific US-supplied weapons to violations or warrant cutting the supply...

This live blog is now closed. For the latest on Bannon’s case, you can read our full report:Court upholds Steve Bannon’s January 6 contempt of Congress convictionJoe Biden and Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaigns are a study in contrasts.While Biden spends his Friday fundraising on the west coast, making campaign stops in California and Washington, Trump sits through another day of his New York...

Death toll may rise as search continues for victims under mud and rubble and as more rain approachesAt least 50 people, mainly women and children, have been killed in flash flooding in the northern Afghanistan province of Baghlan.The number was confirmed by Hedayatullah Hamdard, the head of the provincial natural disaster management department, who said it could increase in the coming days. Continue reading...

Demonstrators opposed to expansion of factory near Berlin claim it would damage environmentHundreds of protesters opposed to the expansion of a Tesla plant in Grünheide, near Berlin, clashed with police on Friday as some of them attempted to storm the electric vehicle manufacturing facility.About 800 people took part in the protest, according to the organizing group Disrupt Tesla, which claims the expansion would damage...

Move comes after counter-protesters’ attack on pro-Palestinian student demonstrators and violent police raid on encampmentMore than 800 faculty and staff at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have called for the chancellor’s resignation following attacks by counter-protesters on pro-Palestinian student demonstrators and a violent police raid of the Gaza solidarity encampment on campus last week.More than a hundred professors and other teaching staff...

Dina Boluarte, caught up in ‘Rolexgate scandal’, denies accepting watches in exchange for favours amid police raids on key alliesPolice in Peru have detained the brother and the lawyer of the country’s embattled president, Dina Boluarte, as part of a widening corruption inquiry, weeks after a similar raid on the Peruvian leader’s home.Boluarte’s brother Nicanor and her lawyer Mateo Castañeda were placed under preliminary...