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Middle East crisis live: Germany to resume working with Unrwa after UN report finds Israel yet to supply evidence to back terror claims World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 12:04 Government to resume cooperation with UN agency for Palestinians in Gaza after report finds Israel had yet to back up accusations on employees having terror tiesAn Israeli government minister has said if he were American he would rather vote for the Republicans than Joe Biden in the forthcoming US presidential election.Speaking to Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, Amichai Chikli, who is the diaspora affairs minister and a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, said Biden is “subject to very heavy pressure that influences him, and causes real damage to relations” between the US and Israel. Continue reading... Read more... |
Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 12:02 The African country accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5m people needing urgent help as displacement drove food insecurity globallySudan had the world’s largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023 as conflict and displacement drove food insecurity globally, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).The war between rival generals meant Sudan accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5 million people needing urgent help last year, while conflict also plunged Gaza into the world’s most severe food crisis with its entire population facing high levels of food insecurity. Continue reading... Read more... |
Russia-Ukraine war live: overnight drone attack on Russian oil depots causes ‘major fires’ World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 12:00 Ukraine’s SBU security service drones struck two oil depots in Russia’s Smolensk overnight, according to a Ukrainian intelligence source. It came as the US Senate approved wartime foreign aid for UkraineHere are some of the latest images on the newswires:Ukraine’s SBU security service drones struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia’s Smolensk region in an overnight attack, according to a source in Ukrainian intelligence reports Reuters. Continue reading... Read more... |
US seeing surge of climate-related power outages, report says World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 12:00 High winds, rains, winter storms and tropical cyclones accounted for 80% of power interruptions over the last 20 yearsPower outages in the US are surging, as climate-related extreme weather strain an already burdened energy grid.Over the last decade, severe storm outages increased by 74% compared with the previous 10 years. Continue reading... Read more... |
Tony Blair leads tributes to Frank Field, ‘an independent thinker always pushing at the frontier of new ideas’ – UK politics live World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 11:58 Tributes paid to former Labour minister and welfare campaigner Frank Field, who has died at the age of 81Frank Field was director of the Child Poverty Action Group from 1969 to 1979. During that period the CPAG was instrumental in persuading the Labour government to introduce child benefit, which Field described in his memoir, Politics, Poverty and Belief, as “the largest direct redistrubition of income to poorer families since the introduction of the welfare state”.In a tribute Alison Garnham, the current head of the CPAG, said:Frank was a steadfast, highly successful and diligent campaigner against child poverty. It is largely... Read more... |
Lloyds profits fall as competition for mortgages heats up World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 11:43 Pre-tax profits drop to £1.6bn between January and March, down from £2.3bn last yearBusiness live – latest updatesLloyds Banking Group has suffered a 28% drop in first-quarter profits amid tough competition for mortgages and savings, but bosses said they expected those pressures to soon ease, helped by an improving UK economy.The country’s largest mortgage lender, which also owns the Halifax brand, said pre-tax profits dropped to £1.6bn between January and March, having fallen from £2.3bn last year when rising interest rates boosted the lender’s profits by almost 50%. Continue reading... Read more... |
Two horses running loose in central London caught by police World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 11:30 Pictures and videos of riderless horses in centre of English capital shared on social mediaTwo escaped horses have been contained after they were seen running around central London, the City of London police have said.The force said officers were waiting for an army horse box to collect the animals and take them to a vet. Continue reading... Read more... |
Russian minister detained after taking bribe, law enforcement agency says World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 11:30 Arrest of deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov comes weeks after Vladimir Putin urged FSB to step up efforts to root out corruptionA well-connected Russian deputy defence minister has been charged with bribe-taking, in the highest-profile corruption scandal in the country in years, triggering speculation about a possible purge within Moscow’s elites.Timur Ivanov, 47, who was responsible for Russia’s military infrastructure projects, was detained by the FSB services late on Tuesday evening at his work. Continue reading... Read more... |
London Underground customer service managers to strike over conditions World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 11:28 Action could cause tube stations to close at short notice on Friday and into Saturday, says TSSA unionCustomer service managers on London Underground are to stage a fresh strike in a dispute over terms and conditions.Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) will walk out on Friday and ban overtime until 5 May. Continue reading... Read more... |
All Nato nations should match UK’s defence spending target, says Shapps World news | The Guardian 24 Avr 2024 11:11 Defence secretary says PM will make case for spending boost at Nato’s 75th anniversary summit later this yearUK politics – latest updatesAll Nato countries should boost their defence spending to 2.5% of their GDP to meet the demands of a “more dangerous world”, the UK’s defence secretary has said.Grant Shapps said the prime minister would make the case at Nato’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington DC this summer, after accepting that while the UK was the biggest spender on defence in real terms in Europe, Poland, Greece, Estonia and Hungary all spent more as a proportion of GDP. Continue reading... Read more... |