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Sudan rejects US request to discuss taking in Palestinians under Trump’s Gaza plan
US and Israel contacted officials in Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland, according to APSudanese officials say they have rejected a request from the US to discuss taking in Palestinians displaced from...
US talks with Putin about Ukraine ‘very good and productive’, Trump says
US president also repeats refuted Putin claim that Ukrainian troops in Kursk are surrounded by Russian armyRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesDonald Trump has said the US had “very good...
Zelenskyy urges Trump to use ‘strength of America’ to force Moscow into ceasefire after US-Russia talks – Europe live
Ukraine president says pressure must be put on Russia after US president says talks between Witkoff and Putin were ‘productive’Germany is close to unlocking the way to a massive increase...
Schumer warns of Doge’s ‘maximum destruction’ if government shuts down amid Democratic divide on spending bill – live
At least eight Senate Democrats need to vote with Republicans to advance bill ahead of midnight deadline to fund governmentChuck Schumer to vote for Republican funding bill to avert shutdownDanish...
Rodrigo Duterte appears at ICC hearing in The Hague by video link
Allegations of crimes against humanity laid out against former Philippines president over his deadly ‘war on drugs’Rodrigo Duterte has become the first Asian former leader to appear before the international...
Mahmoud Khalil ‘felt as though he was being kidnapped’, lawyers say
Lawyers demand in updated lawsuit that Columbia University graduate be released from custodyMahmoud Khalil felt as though he was being kidnapped when he was handcuffed and shackled and rushed from...
Reform UK set to beat Labour in Runcorn and Helsby byelection, poll suggests, with Tories in distant third – UK politics live
Poll suggests Reform are ahead of Labour by 40% to 35%Downing Street has declined to comment on claims that half the cabinet would like Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, to rethink...
AOC condemns Chuck Schumer for caving to Republicans on funding bill
Congresswoman says she’s mobilizing Democrats to push senator to oppose an ‘acquiesce’ to the GOP billUS politics live – latest updatesAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez is condemning Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader,...
‘Germany is back’: Merz secures Greens support for defence spend boost
Chancellor-in-waiting put forward proposal to relax debt brake and backing of Greens is tantamount to getting deal throughGermany’s conservative chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has said he has secured the support of...
Gavin Newsom draws Democratic ire for hosting Steve Bannon on his podcast
‘I don’t think we should give him oxygen on any platform, ever, anywhere,’ Kentucky governor Andy Beshear saysOne potential future Democratic presidential candidate hit out at another on Thursday, as...
Pro-Israel group says it has ‘deportation list’ and has sent ‘thousands’ of names to Trump officials
Betar US is among far-right groups supporting Trump effort to deport students involved in pro-Palestinian protestsA far-right group that claimed credit for the arrest of a Palestinian activist and permanent...
Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit
Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say expertsCuts to food assistance by the US, Britain and others are already...