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Scheme in England to identify signs of oesophageal cancer forms part of government’s 10-year health planHundreds of people in England are to be offered a “sponge on a string” test to identify a precursor to one of the deadliest cancers in high-street pharmacies for the first time.Patients with persistent heartburn or acid reflux can take the “game-changer” tablet-sized capsule that when washed down with a glass of water expands in the stomach. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/09/nhs-pharmacies-to-pilot-sponge-on-a-string-test-to-spot-cancer-precursor Author : Andrew Gregory Health editor Publish date : 2025-07-09 04:01:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

For more than two months, the Australian mushroom triple-murder trial has gripped the world – here’s how it finished up on the front pageErin Patterson mushroom murder verdict – what happens next?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe murder trial has spawned podcasts, documentaries, thousands of column inches, viral social media posts – and a rapt global audience.After a week of deliberation, a supreme court jury found Victorian woman Erin Patterson guilty of three counts of murder and one of attempted murder after three guests died and one almost died after eating her homemade beef wellington

Watchdog releases nine new rulings setting clear precedents for online sellingOnline pharmacies are no longer allowed to run adverts for weight loss injections, the advertising watchdog has ruled, as part of a crackdown on what has been described as a “wild west” culture of online selling.In the UK, advertising prescription-only medications (POMs) – which includes all weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro – to the public is illegal. However, a Guardian investigation previously found some online pharmacies either breaking these rules outright, or exploiting grey areas to peddle the medications to the public. Continue reading... Source link :

The Australian cook Nagi Maehashi’s beef wellington recipe was used by Erin Patterson to lace a meal with death cap mushrooms. Follow the latest news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUS president Donald Trump has threatened a 200% tariff on foreign pharmaceuticals – which Australia exports about $2bn worth of to the US each year.Speaking yesterday, Trump laid out plans to step up his controversial trade strategy – imported copper will face a US tariff of 50% in a bid to bolster US production of the metal, the administration announced. US copper prices rose 12%

French president also spoke of empowered ‘wider Europe’ on first day of state visit to UKEuropean countries need to reduce their “dual dependencies” on the US and China, Emmanuel Macron has warned, as he sketched out his vision of an empowered “wider Europe” on the first day of a historic state visit.The French president addressed several hundred MPs and guests at the start of a three-day state trip – the first state visit of a European leader since Brexit. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/europe-should-reduce-us-and-china-dual-dependencies-macron-warns Author : Kiran Stacey Political correspondent Publish date : 2025-07-08 18:37:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Exclusive: Jamie Raskin and 15 others accuse justice department of withholding Epstein files to protect TrumpUS politics live – latest updatesHouse Democrats on Tuesday demanded that the justice department release documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case that mentions or references Donald Trump, citing a comment by Elon Musk after he fell out with the president this year.The House judiciary committee’s ranking member, Jamie Raskin, together with 15 other Democrats sent a six-page letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, accusing her of withholding some Epstein files to protect the president from any damaging disclosures. Continue

State visit will involve events with pageantry but is also scheduled to include an Anglo-French summit and other meetings with Keir StarmerDanish prime minister Mette Frederiksen is now giving a major speech in the European parliament, outlining Denmark’s priorities for the EU as it takes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.Opening, she warns that “Europe is facing the greatest challenges since the 1940s,” as she lists a growing lists of urgent issues, with Russia’s aggression on Ukraine, migration, the Middle East, trade, and terrorism.“The threats may be many, and they are indeed serious, but I have

Trump and Netanyahu met on Monday for first time since joint strikes against IranThe US is reeling after catastrophic floods killed more than 100 people in Texas, including 27 children and counsellors from an all-girls Christian camp. On Monday, Democrats asked a government watchdog to investigate whether cuts at the National Weather Service (NWS) affected the forecasting agency’s performance.But Republicans’ default response has been to express fealty to Donald Trump. They lavished praise on the president for providing federal assistance while studiously avoiding questions around the effect of his “department of government efficiency” (Doge) or threats to dismantle the Federal

A former employment secretary and Conservative party chair, Tebbit was injured in the 1984 Brighton bombingKemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, has issued this tribute to Norman Tebbit.Our Conservative family mourns the loss of Lord Tebbit today and I send my sincerest condolences to his loved ones.Norman Tebbit was an icon in British politics and his death will cause sadness across the political spectrum. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jul/08/norman-tebbit-emmanuel-macron-horizon-post-office-scandal-uk-politics-live Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2025-07-08 08:26:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Sam Edmunds hopes to help young people with his play The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt ReturnGrowing up in Luton in the late 90s and early 00s, the playwright Sam Edmunds witnessed an abundance of knife violence that has stayed with him to this day.“Me and my friends had knives pulled on us on numerous occasions. We once saw someone being chased with a machete at the back of the field by our school. In drama class, I remember a boy went into his bag to get his notebook out and a massive knife fell out. A

Woman in her 50s remains in hospital after incident on Sunday on the Darling DownsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Queensland zoo under investigation after a lion attack has reopened its doors, two days after the owner’s sister-in-law lost her arm.The woman, in her 50s, remains in hospital in a stable condition after the incident, which occurred on Sunday morning at Darling Downs zoo south of Toowoomba, in Queensland.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/08/lion-attack-woman-loses-arm-darling-downs-zoo-reopens-queensland-ntwnfb Author : Andrew Messenger Publish

Albanese was asked if he will convene national cabinet after the Melbourne synagogue fire. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland zoo to reopen two days after woman loses arm to lionessA woman has lost her arm after being attacked on Sunday at a Queensland zoo by a lioness, which the zoo insists “was not hungry” or maltreated.We can confirm that she was attacked by a lioness. She was not in its enclosure.As a result the Darling Downs zoo will reopen at 9am tomorrow morning. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jul/08/anthony-albanese-tariffs-trump-east-melbourne-synagogue-bobdi-junction-nine-ntwnfb Author :

US president posts letters setting out tariffs of between 25% and 40% on number of countries including South Korea, Japan, Cambodia and ThailandThe president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she had a “good exchange” with Donald Trump on Sunday, a Commission spokesperson told reporters during a daily press briefing this morning.The spokesperson said:We want to reach a deal with the US (by 9 July). We want to avoid tariffs. We believe they cause pain. We want to achieve win-win outcomes, not lose-lose outcomes. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/07/donald-trump-elon-musk-new-party-us-politics-live-latest-news Author : Abené Clayton (now); Cecilia Nowell,

Defence minister orders IDF to ready ‘emigration plan’ for all Palestinians in Gaza in what legal expert calls blueprint for a crime against humanityIsrael’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme which legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.Israel Katz said he has ordered Israel’s military to prepare for establishing a camp, which he called a “humanitarian city”, on the ruins of the city of Rafah, Haaretz newspaper reported. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/israeli-minister-reveals-plan-to-force-population-of-gaza-into-camp-on-ruins-of-rafah Author : Emma Graham-Harrison

Texas senator Ted Cruz defends response to flooding as risk of new deluge remains high with more rain forecastCamp Mystic confirms 27 children and counsellors died in floodsTexas flood survivors question planning and responseResidents of Kerr County began clearing mud and salvaging what they could from their demolished properties as they recounted harrowing escapes from rapidly rising floodwaters late Friday.Reagan Brown said his parents, in their 80s, managed to escape uphill as water inundated their home in the town of Hunt. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/07/texas-floods-rescue-teams-search-missing-more-heavy-rains-forecast-latest-news-updates Author : Lucy Campbell (now); Anna Betts, Yohannes Lowe and Tom Ambrose (earlier)

Ukrainian president says he and UK prime minister also discussed additional funding for drone productionThe commission also addressed the reintroduction of Polish border controls with Germany and Lithuania, confirming at its midday media briefing that it had received a formal notification from Poland on Friday.EU spokesperson Markus Lammert confirmed that “reintroducing temporary internal border controls is possible subject to certain conditions, as set out in EU legislation, and in particular in the Schengen borders code.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/07/ukraine-russian-strikes-heatwave-greece-strasbourg-ursula-von-der-leyen-europe-live-news Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-07-07 15:03:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Stephen Morgan, the early education minister, would not confirm every child who has an EHCP would continue to keep the same provisionsThe Conservatives will try to change the government’s welfare Bill to tighten up access to personal independence payments (Pip) and universal credit, PA Media reports. PA says:Kemi Badenoch will pledge that the Tories are “now the only party committed to serious welfare reform” after Keir Starmer shelved plans to restrict eligibility for Pip in the face of a backbench revolt this week.The Tories will look to lay amendments to the legislation – set to be renamed the universal credit

Prosecutors claim Chávez treated gang rivals ‘like a punchbag’ before Ice arrested Mexican boxer in CaliforniaThe Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr was a henchman for the Sinaloa drugs cartel and used his skills to pummel rival gang members “like a punchbag” before his recent arrest in the US, prosecutors in Mexico have alleged.Chávez, 39, son of legendary world boxing champion Julio César Chávez Sr and himself a former middleweight titleholder, was arrested in California on Tuesday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents, who cited cartel affiliations, multiple criminal convictions and an active arrest warrant in Mexico for

US president will host Israeli prime minister following joint strikes against IranIsrael’s military launched airstrikes early Monday targeting ports and facilities held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, with the rebels responding with missile fire targeting Israel.The attacks came after an attack Sunday targeting a Liberian-flagged ship in the Red Sea that caught fire and took on water, later forcing its crew to abandon the vessel. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/07/middle-east-crisis-live-trump-gaza-hostages-release-netanyahu-meeting-israel-latest-news Author : Charlie Moloney Publish date : 2025-07-07 07:20:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Campaigners are challenging planning approval granted last year for scheme to develop 39 more courts“I love this tournament, I love what they’ve done with it, but I do not love what they’re developing it into,” said Jonathan Pinkess on day five of Wimbledon. Standing in the morning sun, handing out flyers against the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s expansion plans, he is one of many local residents who fear the championship will usurp local green space.To ensure Wimbledon maintains its pre-eminence on the tennis circuit, the AELTC has plans to develop a further 39 courts, including an 8,000-seat show court,

US exports account for third of Vietnam’s GDP and 40% tariff on so-called transshipments – products with Chinese input – means uncertainty for manufacturersAs news spread that Vietnam would become just the second nation to reach an initial tariff agreement with Washington, shares in the clothing companies and manufacturers that have a large footprint in the country rose with optimism.Just hours later though, they declined sharply, as it became clear that the devil would be in the detail, and the most striking part of the deal might in fact be aimed at Vietnam’s powerful neighbour China. Continue reading... Source link

Mothers and partners will gain the legal right if they lose a baby before 24 weeks, in Labour workers’ rights reformParents in Britain will be granted the right to bereavement leave after suffering a miscarriage as part of Labour’s changes to workers’ rights, it has been confirmed.In a change to the law made via amendments to the employment rights bill, mothers and their partners will be given the legal right to at least one week’s bereavement leave if they have suffered a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks’ gestation. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/06/parents-in-britain-to-be-granted-bereavement-leave-after-miscarriage Author : Sarah Butler Publish date

Climate change minister says joint bid to host summit is about ensuring ‘the region’s voice shapes global climate action’. Follow the latest updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition frontbencher Melissa McIntosh has called for the prime minister to convene an urgent meeting of national cabinet after several alleged antisemitic attacks in Melbourne at the weekend.But Victoria’s opposition police spokesman David Southwick, who is Jewish, said there was no need for another “talkfest”.People on low and modest incomes have borne the brunt of interest rate rises and desperately need relief. The economic conditions clearly

Scott Bessent suggests Musk focus on business a day after tech billionaire announced his new political partyElon Musk should focus on running his companies and keep himself out of politics, Donald Trump’s treasury secretary said on Sunday, a day after the world’s richest person – and a former White House adviser – announced the formation of a new political party.“The principles of Doge were very popular – I think if you looked at the polling Elon was not,” Scott Bessent said on CNN’s State of the Union, referring to the so-called “department of government efficiency” that Musk temporarily headed after

Residents observe day of prayer after 69 people killed and 11 girls and one camp counsellor still unaccounted forResidents in central Texas were observing a day of prayer on Sunday for at least 69 people killed and others missing in Friday’s devastating flash flooding, as a search and rescue operation for survivors began to morph into a grim exercise of recovering bodies.Relatives continued an anxious wait for news of 11 girls and one camp counsellor still unaccounted for from a riverside summer camp that was overwhelmed by flash flooding from the Guadalupe River, which rose 26ft (8 meters) in 45