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As Israel attacks on Lebanon continue, Abbas Araghchi points to announcement that says ceasefire includes Lebanon while JD Vance says US never promised thatMiddle East ceasefire in serious doubt as Israel assaults Lebanon and Iran blocks oil tankersWill shipping in the strait of Hormuz – and oil prices – return to normal?Israeli strikes on Wednesday killed an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera and health officials there, as well as two Lebanese journalists in that country, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.Citing Al Jazeera, the Associated Press reported that Mohammed Wishah was targeted in a drone

Mark Rutte praises ‘very frank’ talks but declines to say if president discussed potential withdrawal from allianceMark Rutte, the secretary general of Nato, has said Donald Trump was “clearly disappointed” that the US’s allies had refused to join its war against Iran, following a closed-door meeting in Washington on Wednesday.Speaking to CNN after his private meeting with the US president, Rutte declined to say directly whether Trump raised his threat to withdraw from the military alliance over the Iran war, but described the exchange as a “very frank, very open” discussion between “two good friends”. Continue reading... Source link :

Foreign affairs minister releases a joint statement with other countries, urging an end to hostilities in Lebanon. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastShadow defence minister ‘reluctant’ to listen to Iran over Lebanon’s inclusion in ceasefire dealJames Paterson, the shadow minister for defence, said he is “reluctant” to listen to Iran on whether or not Lebanon was included in a ceasefire deal announced yesterday as Israel continues to bombard the country.On the one hand, the United States and Israel say that the ceasefire did not include Lebanon, and on the other hand, the Islamic

Delo, pardoned by Trump after violating US banking law, describes himself as champion of free speechA British billionaire convicted in the US for failing to implement adequate anti-money-laundering controls in his cryptocurrency business has given £4m to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.Ben Delo, 42, who is now based in Hong Kong, wrote in the Telegraph that he had made the donation since the start of the year, before the government’s cap on donations to political parties by British citizens living abroad. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/08/british-crypto-billionaire-ben-delo-says-he-has-given-4m-to-reform-uk Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor Publish date : 2026-04-08 19:32:00 Copyright for syndicated

High of 26.5C recorded in Kew Gardens in south-west London, but rain and cooler conditions are on the wayMany across the UK witnessed soaring temperatures as the country recorded its warmest day of the year so far – and one of the hottest April days in the last 80 years.Temperatures reached a high of 26.5C (79.7F) in Kew Gardens, south-west London, on Wednesday, the Met Office said. It was the hottest day recorded in the first half of April since 1946, according to the forecaster. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/08/uk-weather-one-of-hottest-april-days-past-80-years Author : Adela Suliman Publish date : 2026-04-08 17:33:00

Australian federal police say they are working with tiny nation to respond to threat of online scam centresTimor-Leste is vulnerable to “infiltration by foreign organized crime”, the country’s president, José Ramos-Horta, has warned.His comments come as Australian federal police confirmed to the Guardian the force is providing support to local law enforcement in Timor-Leste, including a December 2025 visit from the agency’s digital forensic and cyber experts. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/timor-leste-vulnerable-to-online-scam-centres-president-jose-ramos-horta Author : Ariel Bogle and Kate Lamb Publish date : 2026-04-08 15:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Democratic-backed candidate’s win to Wisconsin supreme court gives liberals 5-2 edge on courtSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxAs the defense secretary continued to extol that the two-week ceasefire signals a decisive victory, he listed several Iranian officials who have been killed since the war began at the end of February.“The new Iranian regime was out of options and out of time, so they cut a deal,” Hegseth said. “We control their fate, not the other way around. That’s why they came to the table. Iran’s defeat is America’s retribution for every

Maine family was on vacation when Ryan Jennings died saving his son and daughter from rip current off Juno BeachA Maine family is grieving after a father died recently saving his son and one of his daughters from drowning off the coast of Florida, where they were on vacation.The selfless nature of Ryan Jennings’ actions has gained widespread attention online – and inspired his widow, Emily, to write a heartbreaking social media post which read: “His last gift to me was returning my children alive.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/08/father-dies-saves-drowning-children-florida-beach Author : Ramon Antonio Vargas Publish date : 2026-04-08

Pakistan’s PM had said the ceasefire would cover Lebanon; Iran says passage through the strait of Hormuz will be allowed for the next two weeksUS and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire with Tehran saying it will reopen strait of HormuzIran war ceasefire announcement – what we know so farA genocidal threat, and then the US president, Donald Trump, blinked – without any apparently meaningful concessions from Iran. As in so much concerning the second Trump administration, the two week ceasefire “deal” that will see the strait of Hormuz reopened – if it can be described as such – is maddeningly

Senior climate figures warn North Sea drilling would encourage fossil fuel exploitation by developing countriesOpening new oil and gas fields in the North Sea would “send a shock wave around the world”, imperilling international climate targets, undermining the UK’s climate leadership and encouraging developing countries to exploit their own fossil fuel reserves, experts have warned.The UK government is under stiff pressure from the oil industry, the Conservatives, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, some trade unions and parts of the Treasury to give the green light to new oil and gas fields, despite clear evidence that doing so would not cut

Taylor defeated conservative rival Maria Lazar, providing another gauge of Democrats’ durability in midtermsWisconsin voters sent another liberal justice to the state supreme court, with Chris Taylor beating conservative Maria Lazar and giving liberals a 5-2 edge on the high court.The retirement of Justice Rebecca Bradley, a conservative, gave liberals a chance to further consolidate their hold on the high court ahead of the next presidential election, when the swing state is sure to see challenges to election results. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/wisconsin-supreme-court-election Author : Rachel Leingang Publish date : 2026-04-08 02:04:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

US senator Chris Murphy says Iran’s claim that agreement gives it the right to control the strait of Hormuz would be ‘cataclysmic for the world’Sign up for Breaking News US email alertsDuring a press conference in Budapest with Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, vice-president JD Vance is asked how the military goals in Iran can be achieved if the US continues its attacks on the country.Vance was also asked about reports about US attacks on Kharg Island. The vice-president said the plan was to hit “some military targets” there and “I believe we have done so.” Continue reading... Source link

Prime minister brings forward trip to Singapore in scramble for petrol supplies; former soldier charged with five war crime murders. Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning, Nick Visser here to take over the blog. Let’s get to it.The new Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, is speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra today. He will outline what he calls “a Patriot Agenda for an Australian Economic Revival”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/apr/08/ben-roberts-smith-court-anthony-albanese-labor-angus-taylor-matt-canavan-liberal-national-coalition-fuel-prices-oil-crisis-iran-war-ntwnfb Author : Nick Visser Publish date : 2026-04-07 21:12:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Parents face child endangerment charge after their kid suffered a minor injury at ZooAmerica in HersheyparkThe parents of a toddler who suffered a minor injury at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after squeezing through a fence near a wolf enclosure and making contact with one of the animals have been charged with endangering the welfare of children, with police accusing them of paying attention to their cellphones at the time.In a news release, police said that the parents both walked about 25ft to 30ft (7.5 meters to 9 meters) away from the child to a seating area with benches and

Pheap Rom was one of 15 people sent to prison in African kingdom last year despite completing US sentencesA Cambodian man deported by the US said he would have accepted being sent to Cambodia, but instead ended up imprisoned in Eswatini, a country he knew so little about that when he first read the name he thought it was another immigration detention centre in Louisiana.Pheap Rom, who had been convicted of attempted murder, was one of 10 deportees sent to Eswatini by the US in October 2025. They joined a group of five men, from Cambodia, Cuba, Jamaica, Vietnam and

Astronauts had a call with the US president from space after setting record for the farthest-traveled humans from EarthThe crew of Artemis II phoned home from the moon on Monday night after their record-breaking day, to find Donald Trump musing about how he had saved the US space agency Nasa from closing down and telling the astronauts how much they deserved the honor of the president seeking their autographs.The intermittently uncomfortable 12-minute Earth to space call, facilitated by Nasa administrator and Trump acolyte Jared Isaacman, featured a lengthy period of silence, several references by the president about his friendship with

Hungary’s opposition leader Péter Magyar responds to JD Vance’s visit by saying ‘no foreign country may interfere in Hungarian elections’ … and here they are!JD Vance and Usha Vance off the Air Force Two, welcomed by Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó as they begin their two-day trip to the Hungarian capital. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/07/jd-vance-budapest-viktor-orban-hungary-election-france-nicolas-sarkozy-denmark-coalition-russia-ukraine-europe-latest-updates-news Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2026-04-07 11:14:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The health secretary and the BMA trade accusations over who bears responsibility for the collapse of talksIn his interviews this morning Wes Streeting, the health secretary, accused the BMA of hypocrisy over pay because the organisation is offering its own staff far less than the resident doctors are demanding.He told BBC Breakfast:And here’s the real kicker; having rejected this deal because the pay offer apparently wasn’t good enough at 4.9%, the BMA are offering their own staff 2.75% on affordability grounds.Why does the BMA think they can get away with telling their own staff they only get 2.75% because that’s

UN assists in emergency vaccination drive as country battles worst surge in cases in years amid fall in vaccination ratesBangladesh is battling its worse measles outbreak in years, with more than 100 children dead amid a rise in unvaccinated infants.The government, in partnership with the United Nations, has begun conducting an emergency measles-rubella vaccination drive for children across the country, after more than 900 cases were confirmed since March. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/bangladesh-measles-vaccination-drive-child-death-toll Author : Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent Publish date : 2026-04-07 06:08:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

US demands Iran reopen the strait of Hormuz while Tehran rejects 45-day ceasefire proposal and insists it wants permanent end to conflictTalks to end Iran war appear to falter a day before Trump deadlineOil prices rose on Tuesday while equities were mixed as investors assessed Donald Trump’s latest deadline for Iran to reopen the strategic strait of Hormuz or be “decimated”.The US president warned Tehran that its civilian infrastructure would be destroyed if it did not let ships through the waterway, through which a fifth of global crude and gas passes.Tentative ceasefire optics offering brief relief but never fully offsetting

Ukrainian president says Russia unlikely to accept – ‘for them, nothing is sacred’; Australian police arrest army reservist for joining war. What we know on day 1,504Ukraine’s president has renewed his offer to Russia of a mutual ceasefire on strikes against energy infrastructure. “If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy infrastructure, we will respond in kind,” he said. “This proposal has been conveyed to the Russian side through the Americans.” Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered last week to observe a ceasefire for Easter, which Orthodox adherents mark on Sunday (13 April) in Russia and Ukraine.In his remarks on Monday,

US president criticises Australia, Japan and South Korea; chance of Cyclone Maila hitting Queensland at the weekend is rising, BoM says. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRoad safety must be better embedded in school curriculums, advocates say, as Australia reels from another tragic Easter period, Australian Associated Press reports.By 12pm AEST yesterday, at least 14 people had been killed in road incidents, with data from Western Australia not yet processed.Death at any time is horrific, but just the swiftness – one minute everything seems normal then suddenly, sometimes through no fault of

Trump targets media to find ‘leaker’ who revealed that a US airman was missing after being shot down by Iranian forcesDonald Trump threatened to jail a journalist – or journalists – who reported that a second US airman was missing after being shot down by Iran on Friday in an effort to identify their source.The badly injured airman hid in a mountain crevice to avoid capture before being rescued by a US recovery team that received heavy fire. The US president announced on Sunday that the service member had been recovered. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/trump-threats-journalist-missing-airman-iran Author : Jeremy

Four astronauts are set to become Earth’s farthest travelled and exceed a 1970 record on the sixth day of the missionArtemis II astronauts dimmed the lights in their capsule, positioned themselves by the windows, and were on course to set a new distance record on Monday as they undertook flying by the moon without stopping – with plans to ultimately swing around for planet Earth.The four astronauts – Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch of the US space agency Nasa; and the Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen – will become Earth’s farthest travelled, going 5,000 miles (8,047km) beyond

Exclusive: Seven of England’s 24 stroke centres still not providing mechanical thrombectomy 24/7 despite ministers’ pledgesThe NHS has not made a “life-changing” treatment for stroke available around the clock across England despite ministers repeatedly promising that it would.The health service was expected to improve stroke care by making a clot removal technique called mechanical thrombectomy available everywhere in the country 24/7 from 1 April. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/06/key-stroke-treatment-england-mechanical-thrombectomy-nhs Author : Denis Campbell Health policy editor Publish date : 2026-04-06 15:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.