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Airline’s board to recommend offer of £6.90 a share in deal analysts say shows UK firms are being bought on the cheapShares in easyJet surged nearly 10% after the airline agreed to a £5.5bn takeover at the fifth attempt, but analysts said that it showed UK firms were being bought on the cheap.The low-cost carrier’s board will recommend shareholders accept an offer price of £6.90 a share from Castlelake, a US private equity firm, after rejecting four previous bids of as little as £5.60 per share. EasyJet shares closed at 610p on Monday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/06/easyjet-shares-jump-takeover-bid Author

Friends of Yeshivat Shavei Hevron sent nearly £200,000 to school in Hebron – where Israel has been accused of imposing apartheid – between 2019 and 2024A British charity is funding a religious school at the heart of expansion plans for the illegal Israeli settlement in the Palestinian city of Hebron.Friends of Yeshivat Shavei Hevron sent nearly £200,000 to the school between 2019 and 2024, the last year for which accounts are publicly available on the website of the Charity Commission, the charity regulator for England and Wales. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/06/british-charity-friends-of-yeshivat-shavei-illegal-settlement-hebron Author : Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem and

Reform UK leader claims he is victim of ‘hit job’ as parliamentary standards commissioner investigates £5m donation On the subject of Andy Burnham, the Financial Times is running a story today saying the access talks his team is holding with senior civil servants, intended to help Whitehall departments get ready to implement the new PM’s policy agenda, are being hindered by the fact that Burnham has not decided who will do the top cabinet jobs.In the story, Lucy Fisher, George Parker and Anna Gross say:Talks have not yet formally started with the Treasury and Burnham’s refusal to nominate a chancellor

Growth in charge points falls markedly despite surge in number of rapid-charging unitsBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK’s rollout of electric vehicle chargers has slowed amid challenging cost pressures and uncertainty over government sales targets.Charger companies installed 5,100 public charge points in the first half of 2026, pushing the total to 121,171, according to Zapmap, a data company. That was a 10% increase on the same point a year before – well below growth rates above 40% in 2024. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/06/uk-rollout-ev-chargers-slows Author : Charlotte Smith and Jasper Jolly Publish date : 2026-07-06 09:00:00 Copyright for syndicated

Australian government confirms it was informed by China of its intent to conduct the test on Monday China has conducted a long-range missile test in the Pacific, in a move the Australian government has condemned as “destabilising to the region”.A ⁠test missile topped with ‌a ‌dummy warhead landed ‌in “designated waters” of the Pacific, China’s state news agency Xinhua ‌reported on Monday. The missile test was a “routine arrangement” of China’s annual ⁠military training, with prior notification to relevant countries, Xinhua said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/06/china-missile-test-south-pacific Author : Josh Butler and Dan Jervis-Bardy and agencies Publish date :

At least seven killed in the Ukraine capital in the second major assault on the city and its surrounds in less than a weekRussia struck Ukraine’s Kyiv region with ballistic missiles on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, authorities said, on the eve of a Nato summit in Turkey.Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said rescue crews were pulling residents from buildings ⁠shattered by the overnight barrage. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/06/russia-launches-deadly-missile-drone-attacks-kyiv-ukraine Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2026-07-06 03:13:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Meanwhile Queensland premier vows to imprison more youth offenders at party state conference. Follow today’s news liveMy colleague Josh Butler has a full report into today’s controversy surrounding Anthony Albanese’s podcast appearance. You can read the full debrief here:Meta executives to speak at royal commission on antisemitism today Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jul/06/australia-news-live-crisafulli-bail-laws-property-market-auction-clearance-tax-reform-prime-minister-albanese-fiji-treaty-royal-commission-meta-antisemitism-ntwnfb Author : Nick Visser Publish date : 2026-07-05 23:20:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

‘Haiti is a failed state’, says Carlos Giménez, congressman and Miami Cuban exile, after controversial court rulingCarlos Giménez, a Republican congressman from Florida, broke with the Trump administration on Sunday, calling on the White House to reconsider its push to eliminate temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian migrants.Returning some 350,000 Haitians to their chaotic, dangerous homeland following the US supreme court’s ruling that the Trump administration can cut off temporary legal protections, would be a grave error, Giménez said. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/05/haitians-tps-republican-carlos-gimenez Author : Edward Helmore Publish date : 2026-07-05 19:54:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Magazine invites readers to judge Vance’s ‘assessment’ of Trump, whom he called ‘cultural heroin’ during first termThe Atlantic on Saturday republished a JD Vance essay that dismissed Donald Trump as “cultural heroin” exactly 10 years earlier, bringing back to the fore his evolving from a critic of the president to his vice-president.In an editor’s note, the magazine said it was republishing the essay on the occasion of its 10th anniversary – and the US’s semiquincentennial – “so that our readers can judge for themselves how well his assessment … has stood the test of time”. Continue reading... Source link :

‘Nothing to see here,’ says the man who once overruled council planners in favour of Richard ‘Dirty’ DesmondHow unlucky can one man get? You have to feel for Nigel Farage. Why does it keep happening to him? There he is, just minding his own business, trying to make a decent living – those five houses won’t pay for themselves, which is why other people may have done – and yet there’s always someone trying to drag a good man down. Isn’t the “Man of the People (TM)” entitled to have a few multimillionaires as friends to bankroll his lifestyle? Who

Paul Pelosi could face misdemeanor charges over crash that left car with ‘major’ damage, authorities sayThe husband of former House speaker Nancy Pelosi was involved in a hit-and-run car crash in California that left a parked vehicle with “major” damage, authorities said on Saturday – and he could face misdemeanor charges.Paul Pelosi was driving his brown convertible on Friday in Yountville, a town in the heart of wine country, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, briefly stopped and then drove away, the Napa county sheriff’s office said in a statement. No injuries were

New supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei remained absent from public view as three of his brothers stood beside their father’s coffinCalls for the killing of Donald Trump were made beside the coffin of the assassinated former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei at a packed prayer hall in Tehran on Sunday.Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions ⁠for Khamenei, who was killed along with other members of his family on the first day of the US and Israeli war on 28 February. The funeral was delayed due to the war. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/05/iran-ali-khamenei-funeral-supreme-leader-mojtaba-absent Author : Patrick Wintour

A parish entry reveals an argument that proved pivotal to the abolitionist cause, at a time when an estimated 20,000 Black people were living in the countryWhen the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson gave a sermon in 1787 at Manchester Cathedral – during the city’s first mass meeting against the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans – he saw a “great crowd of black people standing round the pulpit”.However, little is known about Black Mancunians in the Georgian era, which makes one recently rediscovered entry in parish records at Manchester Cathedral particularly significant. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/05/baptism-record-at-manchester-cathedral-offers-insight-into-black-mancunian-life-in-georgian-era-england Author : Chris Osuh

State Labor conference passes motion which would commit to 50% of machines being removed from operation in next 10 yearsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, will take a tougher stance on poker machines to the next election after being pushed to adopt the approach by the party’s left.A motion which passed the NSW Labor conference with unanimous support on Sunday afternoon has added a plan to take “decisive action” on problem gambling and the growing use of poker machines to its policy platform, amid surging profits for operators and

Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Space Agency has confirmed that “suspected space debris” thought to contain hazardous chemicals has been located north of Townsville.Queensland police said four objects were located on Friday and Saturday in the Forrest beach area and 50-metre exclusion zones had been enforced around each object. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jul/05/australia-news-live-albanese-labor-nsw-h5-bird-flu-angus-taylor-liberal-coalition-pauline-hanson-ntwnfb Author : Graham Readfearn Publish date : 2026-07-05 02:51:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Match at Burnopfield near Newcastle called off after 800kg young bull escaped from farm and stormed playing fieldA cricket match had to be abandoned after a runaway bull stormed the playing field and charged at players.The North East Premier League fixture at Burnopfield Cricket Club near Newcastle was called off on Saturday evening despite efforts to remove the animal from the ground. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/04/cricket-match-abandoned-after-charging-bull-stops-play Author : Nadeem Badshah Publish date : 2026-07-04 22:25:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Exclusive: Most of the island’s corals are likely to be species that have not been formally described by science, researcher saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastScientists fear unique corals that fringe Australia’s remote Norfolk Island could disappear because of a triple threat of disease, El Niño and a federal government plan to dredge a neighbouring shipping channel.A failure to manage sediment and pollution washing into bays from cattle farming, cleared land along with wastewater has been blamed for widespread disease and outbreaks of algae over the corals. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/05/norfolk-islands-unique-corals-under-triple-threat-from-disease-el-nino-and-now-government-approved-dredging Author :

More than 35,000 people from about 600 groups made their way from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall via PiccadillyTens of thousands of people marched through central London for the annual LGBT+ Pride parade.Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, joined the crowd as they proceeded through the capital on Saturday afternoon. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/04/tens-of-thousands-march-in-london-for-annual-pride-parade Author : Geraldine McKelvie Publish date : 2026-07-04 17:36:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Guardian analysis of X feed shows how keen world’s richest person was to air his views and ‘interfere’ in British politics Elon Musk posted about race and immigration in the UK on his social media network X twice as often as he did about SpaceX, which he also owns, in the run-up to the aerospace and AI company’s initial public offering.A Guardian analysis of Musk’s posts, replies and reposts between 31 May and 12 June has shown the extent to which the social media activity of the world’s richest person, who lives primarily in the US, has focused on UK

El Obeid becomes key battleground in war between Sudan’s armed forces and their paramilitary enemies, the RSFFatima is losing count of the number of drone attacks on the besieged city of El Obeid in Sudan, but says the attacks this past weekend were the most violent so far.The drones hit schools and fuel stations, killing more than 20 people, including students, she says. “Over the past few months, seeing 40 or 45 drones is the norm. You can literally count them,” said the aid volunteer, whose name has been changed for fear of retribution. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/04/el-obeid-aid-workers-sudan-war-drone-strikes

Prime minister holds no ‘personal animosity’ toward Burnham and emphasises success at improving NHS waiting lists and ‘stabilising economy’Labour “should go on to win the next election” under his likely successor, Andy Burnham, Keir Starmer has said, based on what he has achieved while in power.In his first interview since he announced he will quit as prime minister, Starmer also said he held no “personal animosity” toward Burnham, who is expected to succeed him. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/04/labour-win-next-election-under-burnham-keir-starmer Author : Morgan Ofori Publish date : 2026-07-04 10:09:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Annie’s lawyers argue that prosecution was so badly executed it breached her human rightsAt her kitchen table, in a village in southern England, Annie* sits with a blue folder stuffed with court documents, witness statements and correspondence relating to the trial of her stepfather, whom she had reported to police for alleged childhood abuse.As she prepared to tell her story for the first time, she was flooded with emotion when a photograph fell from the folder. The square Polaroid showed a young girl standing in a field beside a pony, dressed in jodhpurs and a riding hat. Continue reading... Source

The gap between America and Britain has grown economically as Trump asserts ‘the UK is dying’. Culturally, however, it’s a different storyOn 1 June 1785 John Adams travelled to London to become the first US ambassador to Britain, in which capacity he was to meet George III. By his own admission, Adams trembled at the encounter. After all, it had been less than a decade since he helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence denouncing the king as an absolute “tyrant” who had “plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people”.A

Darweish Mohamed was found critically wounded outside Craigieburn community hospital on Wednesday eveningGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA third teenager has been charged over the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy found outside a Melbourne hospital.A 14-year-old from Victoria’s Hume area was arrested on Friday evening and was charged with murder, police said.He has been scheduled to appear before a children’s court. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/04/third-teenager-charged-after-15-year-old-melbourne-boy-allegedly-left-to-die-from-stab-wounds-ntwnfb Author : Australian Associated Press Publish date : 2026-07-04 01:42:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The couple had an array of celebrity guests, including Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper, and Adam Sandler officiated their nuptialsTaylor Swift and Travis Kelce are officially wed. The couple hosted their wedding celebration on Friday in New York City, nearly three years after first meeting.The ceremony was officiated by Adam Sandler, a Swift spokesperson said in a Friday statement confirming the nuptials. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/03/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-msg-new-york Author : Brittany Spanos Publish date : 2026-07-04 00:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.