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The US president, Donald Trump, on Monday declared he would hold Iran directly responsible for any future attacks by Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthi rebels, who have targeted US and other foreign ships in the Red Sea. “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from … Read more
Yale Law School professors have sent a warning to international students about an imminent US travel ban, as the Trump administration appears poised to implement sweeping new restrictions on foreign nationals entering the country. In an email on Sunday night, Yale law professors Muneer Ahmad and Michael Wishnie warned students from potentially affected countries they … Read more
A former boarding school housemaster and scout leader has been convicted of nearly 100 offences, including dozens of child abuse charges, nearly 30 years after he fled to Thailand. Richard Burrows, 80, was found guilty of abusing boys between the late 1960s and mid-1990s while working at a school in Cheshire and later as a … Read more
A French European parliament member has quipped that the US should return the Statue of Liberty, which it received as a gift from France about 140 years ago, after Donald Trump’s decision “to side with the tyrants” against Ukraine. “Apparently you despise it,” said Raphaël Glucksmann of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, evidently … Read more
Edelman, the world’s largest public relations agency, is in talks to work with the Cop30 team organising the UN climate summit in the Amazon later this year despite its prior connections to a major trade group accused of lobbying to roll back measures to protect the area from deforestation, the Guardian and the Centre for … Read more
Israelis making a new home in Europe have become vital to previously declining Jewish communities on the continent, boosting numbers, bringing a range of cultural influences and marking a fundamental change in the relationship between the diaspora and the Jewish state, research has revealed. A report released on Wednesday by the London-based Institute for Jewish … Read more
The Saxons knew the West Sussex village of Storrington as Estorchestone, the “abode of the storks”. But the graceful white birds disappeared from its skies more than 600 years ago, when they became extinct in Britain. Now, after the white stork’s successful return, Storrington and the nearby Knepp estate have been designated a “European stork … Read more
Nigel Farage has presented 29 councillors who have joined Reform UK as he tries to move his party on from a damaging rift surrounding the suspension of one of its MPs, Rupert Lowe. However, the Reform UK leader also hit out at what he described as “online abuse” and “outright racism” directed recently at Reform’s … Read more
The Trump administration is withdrawing from an international body formed to investigate responsibility for the invasion of Ukraine in the latest sign that the White House is adopting a posture favouring Vladimir Putin. The Department of Justice said it was pulling out of the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against … Read more
Forever 21’s US operator on Sunday filed for bankruptcy for the second time in six years and said it would wind down operations in the country, hurt by mounting online competition in the fast-fashion sector and weak mall traffic. The company blamed the situation on higher costs and foreign companies taking advantage of duty-free treatment … Read more