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Officials in France and Belgium have hit back at American efforts to impose Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity measures on Europe, which in the US has seen Disney put under investigation. Several companies across the EU have in recent days reportedly received letters informing them that the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion … Read more

UK savers would have up to £110,000 of their deposits protected if their bank or building society goes bust under proposals put forward by the Bank of England. The plan, put forward by the central bank on Monday, represents a near-30% hike from the current limit of £85,000, and would mark the first substantial change … Read more

Donald Trump’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US in recent decades: the clean-up of the Hudson River. Once a byword for environmental degradation, the Hudson … Read more

A Polish woman is facing enforced separation from her son in the UK and has been threatened with deportation by the Home Office because her application form to stay was accidentally filled in online instead of on paper. Elzbieta Olszewska, 80, has been living alone in her flat in Warsaw. Her only child, Michal Olszewski, … Read more

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for president in 2027 after a court found her guilty of a vast system of embezzlement of European parliament funds and banned her from running for public office with immediate effect. The decision was a political earthquake for Le Pen, who had hoped … Read more

Good morning, and welcome to our US politics blog amid news that Donald Trump is “not joking” about a possible third term. The comments on Sunday are the clearest indication yet he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of … Read more

Videos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in recent days show the extent of looting of the country’s antiquities. Fears of looting in the museum were first raised in June … Read more

Intimidating behaviour from drivers, poor infrastructure and fears over safety are deterring more women in the UK from cycling compared with men, research has found, while bike sales continue to fall after the “Covid boom”. The barriers to cycling have widened between men and women “across every measure in the past seven years”, according to … Read more

Good morning. Keir Starmer is opening a big international summit in London this morning which shows, according to Downing Street, that Britian is “spearheading the toughest ever international crackdown on organised immigration crime”. Here is the news release from No 10 and here is Kiran Stacey’s overnight preview story. To coincide with the event, Starmer … Read more

(From left) Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Rajat Patidar, CEO of Tesla Inc. Elon Musk, Rescuer search for survivors amid the rubble, Yashwant Varma, Inspector General of Police, Jammu Zone, Bhim Sen Tuti pays tribute to the mortal remains of Head Constable Jagbir Singh.  | Photo Credit: AP/PTI/Reuters (1) Myanmar earthquake: Death toll rises to over 1,700 The … Read more