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Israel is appearing at the international court of justice (ICJ) after South Africa asked it to urgently order an end the assault on RafahYemen’s Houthis said they downed a US MQ9 drone on Thursday evening over the south-eastern province of Maareb, the group’s military spokesperson said on Friday.According to Reuters, the Iran-aligned group said they would release images and videos to support their claim...

The attacker was carrying a knife and iron bar, according to local authoritiesChmouel Lubecki, a rabbi in Rouen, said today’s incident was “shocking.”“It is important to light the candles of Shabbat to exactly show that we are not afraid,” he said. Continue reading...

Russian forces have advanced further into Kharkiv but the situation in the region has “stabilised” as of Friday, according Volodymyr ZelenskiyRussian forces expanded the area of active combat by almost 70 km by launching their offensive in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine’s army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Friday.Syrskyi said Russia launched the offensive to force Ukraine to throw additional reserve brigades into fighting. Continue...

The chancellor claimed his government will bring down taxes while Labour policies would be ‘damaging for every family in the country’ The Daily Express and Daily Mail have both asked questions about the taxing of pensions. Jeremy Hunt is on combative grounds here. He is asked when calling Labour’s plans a “myth” is he accusing them of lying. He says:Well, calling them a myth...

UK chancellor attempts to paint Tories as tax-cutters in speech drawing battle lines for next electionUK politics live – latest updatesJeremy Hunt has said further tax cuts are on the way in the autumn after the economy has “turned a corner”, as he criticised Keir Starmer for promising “motherhood and apple pie”.The UK chancellor attempted to draw the battle lines for the next election...

Dean of law school orders first amendment clinic to curtail core work, including on Atlanta Police Foundation caseThe dean at the University of Georgia’s law school has ordered its first amendment law clinic to cease all work related to public records law – including a lawsuit against the Atlanta Police Foundation, the non-profit organization behind a planned $109m training center colloquially known as Cop...

Interior ministry says armed suspect ‘neutralised’ after attempting to set fire to synagogue in Normandy cityFrench police shoot dead armed man who set fire to Rouen synagogue – latest updatesFrench police have shot dead a man armed with a knife and iron bar who tried to set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen, officials said.The interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, posted...

Opposition leader promised in speech on Thursday to restrict property investment by non-residents Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has criticised the opposition leader Peter Dutton’s budget reply speech as “unhinged” and lacking in economic credibility, as he set out around Australia to explain the government’s...

Swimming Queensland chief Kevin Hasemann says ‘I’ve never been to a gallery’ and furore has ‘evolved into something I could never have imagined’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Swimming Queensland has defended a campaign that saw Olympic champions lobby the National Gallery of Australia to take down...

This blog is now closedJim Chalmers labels Peter Dutton’s budget reply an ‘unhinged’ and ‘nasty’ rantGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastShorten and Dutton clash over reduced migrationEarlier this morning the NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, and the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, clashed over Dutton’s promise to reduce Australia’s migration intake in his budget reply speech last night.Well, Bill,...

Encampment at Arts West building continues as tensions simmer at other university campusesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPro-Palestine protesters and University of Melbourne administrators remain in a deadlock despite a warning that police could be called to enter the campus at any time.As tensions simmer between university administrations and student activists across the nation, those camped inside...

As much as 40cm fell in less than a day in part of Seoraksan national park. Plus, a powerful tornado in AustraliaThere was unusually heavy snowfall this week in the highlands of the mountainous region of eastern Gangwon province in South Korea. Between 5.30pm local time on Wednesday and 9am on Thursday, as much as 40cm fell at the Socheong shelter of Seoraksan national...

Graham King, whose firm is paid £3.5m a day to accommodate arrivals in the UK, listed among country’s 350 richest peopleAn Essex businessman who won government contracts paying his firm £3.5m a day for transporting and accommodating asylum seekers has been named among the 350 richest people in the UK.Graham King, the founder and majority owner of a business empire that includes Clearsprings Ready...

Trio of plays co-created by Roy Williams explores British identity in the era of Brexit, Covid and Black Lives MatterThe co-creator of the Death of England series of plays has said the decade-long project has endured because, alongside difficult conversations about race and immigration, the plays have a sense of pride in being English.Three of the plays are to be performed together at Soho...

Sunday Times rich list shows couple’s fortune soared while millions of Britons struggled with cost of livingThe personal fortune of Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, has increased by £120m in the run-up to the next general election, figures reveal.The latest annual Sunday Times rich list shows the couple’s fortune grew substantially at a time when millions of Britons struggled with the cost...

Woman told to buy MacBooks after being threatened with knife at the Stud Park shopping centre on 10 May, police sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA mother and her baby were allegedly abducted from a Melbourne shopping centre by a knife-wielding man who then forced the woman to drive...

Exclusive: Royal College of GPs says constitution guarantee would just pile on pressure given loss of 1,000 practices in past 10 yearsSeven in 10 people want to be able to see a GP urgently within 24 hours, research by the NHS’s patient watchdog has found.Almost three-quarters (71%) of voters in England support automatic access to a family doctor within one day of requesting an...

The mean Australian temperature was 0.51C below the 1961–1990 average but should be above-average for April to JuneFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWhile Australia had its coldest April in nearly a decade, the rest of the world experienced monthly average temperatures that were the hottest on record, marking eleven...

In today’s newsletter: The shooting of the Slovak prime minister, Robert Fico, was the first attempt on the life of a European head of state since 2003 – and reflects a growing polarisation across the continent• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.After a government meeting in the small town of Handlová on Wednesday, the Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, went...

Days of unrest in the French Pacific territory – sparked by a plan to change voting rules – have left five deadTensions remained high in Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, on Friday after days of riots as the French government’s representative said areas of the Pacific territory have “escaped” state control.Louis Le Franc, high commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia, announced new...

Greg Abbott on Thursday pardoned Daniel Perry, who has been serving a 25-year sentence since 2023 murder convictionGovernor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a full pardon on Thursday to a former US army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice.Abbott announced the pardon just minutes after the Texas board of...

Vote to confer was a 50-38 decision as students and alumni protest at Biden being commencement speaker over handling of Gaza warMorehouse College faculty voted on Thursday to confer an honorary doctorate on Joe Biden during its upcoming graduation ceremony on Sunday, for which he plans to deliver the commencement address.The vote to confer the honorary doctorate was a 50-38 decision, with about a...

House Republicans seek recordings of classified documents case interviews, in what Democrats call a ‘purely political’ moveJoe Biden asserted executive privilege to stop House Republicans obtaining recordings of his interviews with Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated Biden’s retention of classified information after his time as a senator and as vice-president to Barack Obama.In a letter reported by the New York Times and...

American Museum of Natural History says Dr Lorenzo Prendini was working on research project and ‘has arrived safely home’A curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York who was detained in Istanbul on Monday while allegedly attempting to smuggle spider and scorpion samples out of Turkey has been released.In statement on Thursday, a spokesperson for the museum said Dr Lorenzo Prendini,...