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Belgium to recognise Palestinian state at UN and sanction Israel – Middle East crisis live
Foreign minister says move is not aimed at Israeli people but ‘ensuring their government respects international and humanitarian law’At least 63,633 Palestinian people have been killed and 160,914 others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.At least 76 Palestinian people, including 12 aid seekers, were killed in the last 24 hours alone, the ministry said. Continue reading...
Congress returns after recess as threat of government shutdown looms – US politics live
Republicans and Democrats are at loggerheads over funding, while Donald Trump is to make a mystery announcement from the Oval Office later today Hello and welcome to the US politics liveblog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.We start with the news that Congress returns from a month-long summer break on Tuesday with less than a month left for lawmakers to agree on a deal to keep the government funded past 30 September.President Donald Trump is scheduled to make an announcement from the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon at 2pm ET, according to the White House, which has yet to release further information.Some speculation suggests the announcement could be to do with plans to send national guard troops to Chicago. The Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, and the border tsar, Tom Homan, have both said Ice raids will intensify nationwide starting this week, possibly including staging operations from the Great Lakes naval station near north Chicago. The city’s mayor said his office is preparing for the deployment of federal officers by the end of the week.Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna plan to hold a news conference tomorrow with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse as the political fallout from the saga continues to engage Congress on several fronts. The two lawmakers hope to receive the necessary signatures on their discharge petition to force a floor vote on a measure compelling the release of the Epstein files, ABC News reports.Missouri Republicans are poised to redraw their state’s congressional lines to help maintain the Republican majority in the House. Governor Mike Kehoe announced a special legislative session to draw a new voting map would start on Wednesday.Trump’s attempt to influence the US Federal Reserve could pose a “very serious danger” for the world economy, the head of the European Central Bank has warned. Christine Lagarde, the president of the ECB, said Trump undermining the independence of the world’s most powerful central bank would have an impact for the US and other countries.Nine former officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that Robert F Kennedy Jr’s leadership of the US health and human services department is “unlike anything our country has ever experienced” and “unacceptable”. They also warned that Kennedy’s leadership “should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings”.Guatemala is ready and willing to receive about 150 unaccompanied children of all ages each week from the US, the country’s president has said, a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 Guatemalan children. Those children had already boarded a plane when a court responded to an emergency appeal on Sunday. They were later returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.The president said on Monday he would award Rudy Giuliani the nation’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, two days after his longtime political ally was seriously injured in a car crash. The decision places the award on a man once lauded for leading New York after the 11 September 2001 attacks and later sanctioned by courts and disbarred for amplifying false claims about the 2020 US presidential election. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, was also criminally charged in two states; he has denied wrongdoing.Hundreds of protests organised as part of the national “workers over billionaires” effort – a mass action calling for the protection of social safety – were held in cities large and small across the country, including New York, Houston, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Monday. As the Labor Day rallies took place, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson sharply denounced the Trump administration’s threat to deploy federal troops to the city as part of an immigration crackdown.Woody Allen wants Donald Trump to star in another of his films, apparently. Trump shared the Variety story on Truth Social. “I’m one of the few people who can say he directed Trump. I directed Trump in [‘Celebrity’],” Allen said. “He was a pleasure to work with and a very good actor.” Continue reading...
Europe live: Putin claims he never opposed EU membership for Ukraine but draws line at Nato
Russian leader, continuing China visit, is joined by Slovakia’s Robert FicoUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with European leaders in Paris in the format of the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, a senior aide confirmed.Writing on X, Mykhailo Podolyak confirmed Zelenskyy will meet German chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK prime minister Keir Starmer, the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen, and Nato’s Mark Rutte.“There are two parallel processes under way.The first is a situational attempt to stop the war, with the United States and personally Donald Trump playing the main role. The second is the construction of Europe’s postwar architecture. Continue reading...
Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’Lamb says the Greens are “the antidote to Reform”.That gets a big round of applause.We’re a home for all those people across the country holding their heads in their hands as the Labour government lets them down again and again and again, whether it is switching from the aid budget or from people with disabilities and not bringing in taxes … we need.And that is why, in reaction, a new Green wave is sweeping the country as people turn to us.It’s already become a bit of a cliche, but we are really moving into a multi-party system, with the Greens poised to help create the next government.And, like all the best cliches, it has the distinct advantage of also being for true. Continue reading...
Cue the Sun: This Lab Recreates Hot, Sweaty Days to Test Humans
Our reporter hits the treadmill to understand how scientists study extreme heat.
Afghanistan earthquake death toll passes 1,400 as Taliban appeal for aid
Rescuers search into the night for people trapped under debris of mud and stone homes in steep valleysThe Taliban have called for international aid as Afghanistan reels from an earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people and left thousands more injured.Rescuers searched into the night on Monday for survivors after the 6.0-magnitude quake struck on Sunday destroying entire villages across the country’s eastern Kunar province, which borders Pakistan. Continue reading...
Greens take step into unknown with election of Zack Polanski as leader
Polanski ruffled feathers during at-times grumpy contest and now has to bring the party with himOK, now they’ve got your attention. In electing Zack Polanski, a media-friendly former actor with an eye-catching vision for a mass movement of “eco-populism”, the Greens have taken a step into the unknown. And the first task for Polanski is to bring the party with him.Green leadership contests are generally quite polite. This time it has been different, in part due to the personalities but mainly because of the very different visions on offer. Continue reading...
Zack Polanski wins Green party leadership election
Candidate defeats Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns to lead Greens in England and Wales with vision for ‘eco-populism’ movementZack Polanski has won the election to lead the Greens in England and Wales in a result that will mean the party adopts his vision to become a mass membership “eco-populism” movement, directly taking on Reform UK.Polanski, who was deputy leader and is a Green member of the London Assembly, defeated Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns by 20,411 to 3,705 votes in a ballot of party members. Ramsay and Chowns, who were standing as a co-leadership team, are two of the Greens’ four MPs. Continue reading...
Adding insult to ‘injuries’
Saying that the Lebanon pager bombings blamed on Israel caused only 'injuries' fails to do justice to the actual horrors
Kim Jong-un Heads to Beijing by Train
The North Korean leader’s favorite mode of transportation provides him — like his father and grandfather before him — with tight security. But it’s no express train.
