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Two leaders will have dinner meeting at Chequers on eve of European Political Community gatheringKeir Starmer will move to reverse almost a decade of strained relations with Ireland over dinner with the taoiseach, Simon Harris, at Chequers on Wednesday on the eve of the biggest ever summit of European leaders in the UK.Thames Valley police have restricted airspace for aircraft and drones around Blenheim Palace as preparations continue for 45 European leaders and their 400-strong delegations to descend on the Oxfordshire estate, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, on Thursday. Continue reading…



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On the second night of the party’s annual jamboree, former rivals of Donald Trump gave him their full support in a call for unity that demonstrated the former president’s control of the Republican partyGood morning.Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, once Donald Trump’s biggest rivals in the Republican party, threw their backing behind the former president on the second night of the national convention. Neither Haley nor DeSantis initially had speaking slots at the convention, but they were added after the assassination attempt on Trump’s life on Saturday.What’s next? JD Vance will give his first major address as Trump’s running mate on Wednesday, as Republicans turn their focus to foreign policy.How are people reacting to the convention? European diplomats are worrying for the future of Ukraine after Trump’s choice of Vance as his running mate reignited fears in Europe that he would pursue a transactional “America first” foreign policy that could culminate in the US pushing for Ukraine to acquiesce.Who supports a supreme court term limit? The supreme court’s approval rating in polls of the American public has dropped sharply in recent years. Recently, eight Democratic senators co-sponsored a bill that would establish 18-year terms for supreme court justices, with a new justice appointed every two years.How have Republicans responded? Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “the Democrats are attempting to interfere in the presidential election, and destroy our justice system, by attacking their political opponent, me, and our honorable supreme court.” Continue reading…



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Author : Vivian Ho

Publish date : 2024-07-17 12:42:28

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There will be more than 35 bills introduced in the Labour leader’s speech, from workers’ rights to housing targetsGood morning. The last time we had a king’s/queen’s speech after an election which saw one party voted out of office, and another take over, it was in 2010, when David Cameron was PM. You can read our live blog of how it went here. The last time we had one under a Labour government was in 2009, when Gordon Brown was PM, and you can read about it here. The last time it was a Labour government presenting one for the first time was in 1997, which was so long ago that no one even knew what a live blog was in those days.There will be more than 35 bills in the speech today but Keir Starmer wants to focus on planning and growth, and this is what he said in a statement released overnight.Now is the time to take the brakes off Britain. For too long people have been held back, their paths determined by where they came from – not their talents and hard work.I am determined to create wealth for people up and down the country. It is the only way our country can progress, and my government is focussed on supporting that aspiration.Getting Britain to build more housing and infrastructure, including through planning reform, will also be central to the government’s plans to strengthen economic growth.The bill will speed up and streamline the planning process to build more homes of all tenures and accelerate the delivery of major infrastructure projects. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2024-07-17 08:14:38

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Musk calls California bill banning school transgender notification policies ‘last straw’Elon Musk announced on Tuesday he will move the headquarters of his companies X and SpaceX from California to Texas.In a post on Twitter/X, Musk cited California’s new law banning school transgender notification requirements as one of the reasons for the move, calling it the “last straw” and saying such bills “[attack] both families and companies”. Continue reading…



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Author : Kari Paul

Publish date : 2024-07-17 02:51:31

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NSW premier Chris Minns and treasurer Daniel Mookhey have written to the NSW Labor party in the wake of new corruption allegationsIn his speech to the National Press Club, Chris Bowen will say areas earmarked for nuclear plants – like Port Augusta, Lithgow and central Queensland – require major investment and revitalisation as soon as possible, not a decade from now under the Coalition’s nuclear announcement.Bowen said those areas “need jobs and investment now”, claiming the Coalition’s nuclear plan would lead to uncertainty in energy markets and threaten investment in renewable energy. He will claim:The biggest problem of all is that in Australia, nuclear and renewables are simply incompatible. While the opposition purports to support an “all of the above” energy mix, their ideological pursuit of nuclear reactors in two decades’ time would wreck the renewables rollout now.Baseload nuclear plants simply don’t stack up economically in a grid with significant renewable generation.Far and away the biggest threat to reliability in our grid is over reliance on aging coal fired power stations. Over the last year, not a single day has passed without an unplanned outage at a coal power generator in eastern Australia. Continue reading…



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Author : Emily Wind

Publish date : 2024-07-16 21:38:26

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Kimberely Cheatle tells ABC News assassination attempt on her watch was ‘unacceptable’The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday was “unacceptable”, the director of the US Secret Service said, adding that though “the buck stops with me”, she would not resign.“It was unacceptable,” Kimberly Cheatle told ABC News on Monday. “And it’s something that shouldn’t happen again.” Continue reading…



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Author : Martin Pengelly in Washington

Publish date : 2024-07-16 15:50:36

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Special rapporteurs say proceedings against Charlotte Proudman may send a ‘disconcerting message’Four UN special rapporteurs have warned that disciplinary proceedings against a female barrister for saying a judge had shown a “boys’ club attitude” may send “a disconcerting message” to lawyers challenging gender bias in custody and domestic abuse cases.Charlotte Proudman is accused by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) of tweeting misleading information for comments she made about Jonathan Cohen – a member of the Garrick Club, which recently ended its ban on female members after 193 years – over remarks he made in a family case ruling two years ago. Continue reading…



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Author : Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Publish date : 2024-07-16 11:39:30

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In today’s newsletter: The new foreign secretary has met with officials from Israel, Palestine and relief agencies – but what do his actions and words mean for the conflict?• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. A few months before the election, David Lammy outlined his vision for Britain’s role on the international stage under a Labour government: “progressive realism”, or “the pursuit of ideals without delusions about what is achievable”. Just over a week into his tenure as foreign secretary, we have our first concrete indications of how he intends to operate those principles in practice.On a visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories over the last couple of days, his first international trip as foreign secretary, Lammy says he is sending a clear message: “We need an immediate ceasefire, the immediate release of all hostages, the protection of civilians, unfettered access to aid in Gaza and a pathway towards a two-state solution”.Republican national convention | Donald Trump named JD Vance, the Ohio senator who was once one of his fiercest critics and called him “America’s Hitler”, as his running mate at the Republican national convention on Monday. Trump, wearing a bandage over his wounded ear, shook hands with Vance in his first public appearance since the assassination attempt against him.US politics | A Florida judge appointed by Donald Trump has dismissed the case against him for illegally retaining classified documents, ruling that the special counsel who brought the prosecution had been improperly appointed. The stunning decision, in defiance of precedent going back to the Watergate era, is likely to be appealed.UK news | Rescue teams on the Spanish island of Tenerife have discovered the body of a young man in the area where the British teenager Jay Slater disappeared four weeks ago. Police said it appeared that the person could have died after an accidental fall from a cliff.UK-EU relations | Britain is taking its first steps towards forging closer trading links with the EU in meetings between the new business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, and international counterparts in Italy. Reynolds will say that the new UK government wants to foster a “closer, more mature relationship with our friends in the EU”.Defence | Britain and its allies are facing a “deadly quartet” of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea who are acting together against the west, the newly appointed head of Labour’s defence review said. The comments from former Nato secretary general George Robertson reflect concerns that the grouping are increasingly sharing arms, components and military intelligence. Continue reading…



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Author : Archie Bland

Publish date : 2024-07-16 05:54:27

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Ex-president emerges to cheers and chants of ‘USA! USA! USA!’ as he appears amid supportersTrump names fierce former critic JD Vance as running mate‘Braveheart of our time’: Trump inspires more awe than ever at RNCKey takeaways from Trump choosing Vance as running matePresident Joe Biden has postponed a planned trip to Texas today, where he was to speak on the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library.An NBC News interview between Biden and anchor Lester Holt will now occur at the White House, instead of in Texas, as initially planned, Associated Press reports.There is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence for that matter.An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation. Everything. It’s not who we are as a nation. It’s not America, and we cannot allow this to happen. Continue reading…



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Author : Chris Stein in Milwaukee (now); Léonie Chao-Fong and Martin Belam (earlier)

Publish date : 2024-07-16 02:24:42

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A Salvation Army chief in Victoria says the government should mandate that all homeless deaths are reported. Follow today’s news headlines liveA New Zealand super trawler has returned to Australia to target a threatened fish amid fears previous trips may be linked to a population crash, AAP reports.Conservationists are disturbed by Australia’s decision to authorise the return of the Amaltal Explorer, a factory ship that will net orange roughy – which can live for more than 140 years and don’t start breeding until they’re about 30, which leaves them vulnerable to overfishing. Continue reading…



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Author : Emily Wind

Publish date : 2024-07-15 21:37:32

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Director Kimberly Cheatle says she is ‘confident’ in plans as Alejandro Mayorkas slams agency over security ‘failure’US politics – live updatesThe director of the US Secret Service said she had “reviewed and strengthened” security plans for the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, as the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday put her agency under immense political pressure.Amid demands for answers over how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to carry an AR-15-style rifle to a rooftop close to Trump at the Butler Farm Show Grounds, and to fire multiple shots, the secretary of homeland security slammed “a failure” of security. Continue reading…



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Author : Martin Pengelly in Washington

Publish date : 2024-07-15 16:06:56

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Party says it will table an amendment to the king’s speechDavid Lammy met families of hostages murdered or held in Gaza by Hamas on his visit to the Middle East, PA Media reports. PA says:The foreign secretary used his trip to call for an immediate ceasefire, including the release of all hostages and a rapid increase of aid into Gaza.In Israel, he “spoke with families whose loved ones were murdered and taken hostage by Hamas”, the Foreign Office said today.Our government is committed to resetting the relationship with the European Union, to strengthen ties, reinforce our security and tackle barriers to trade.The EU and Member States are among the UK’s closest friends and allies. With war in Europe, and shared global challenges, in areas such as climate change and illegal migration, a strong UK-EU alliance is vital. Continue reading…



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Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2024-07-15 11:03:34

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Yostin Andres Mosquera charged with murder over deaths of two men whose remains were found in suitcases last weekA man has been charged with two counts of murder over the deaths of two men whose remains were found in suitcases in Bristol last week, the Metropolitan police said.Yostin Andres Mosquera, 34, was charged on Monday morning, the Met said. Continue reading…



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Treasurer warns against ‘normalisation of extremism’ following assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Follow today’s news headlines liveTreasurer Jim Chalmers has warned about what he calls the “normalisation of extremism” in politics in the wake of the attempted assassination of former United States president Donald Trump at the weekend.In a round of television and radio interviews this morning to spruik the tax cuts now being delivered in Australians’ tax returns, Chalmers also spoke about the Trump rally in Pennsylvania that injured the former president and left one attendee dead and two others critically injured before the alleged shooter was shot and killed.We need to be able to disagree in a peaceful way.We can’t let extremism and polarisation and violence be the norm in our politics. Democracies are supposed to help mend and moderate our differences, not magnify and horrify them. And unfortunately, what we’re seeing with what feels like increasing regularity, is the ugliness and the polarisation and extremism in politics.There is a role obviously for peaceful protests and looking for consensus in our country doesn’t always mean looking for unanimity – there will always be a range of views. But I think if you look around the world and you look around the democratic world, then you can see that politics is getting uglier, more violent, more polarised in extreme ways, and these are very troubling developments.We’ve got a big choice to make as democratic societies, we’ve got an opportunity here to step back from the normalisation of that violence, to make sure that we disagree in civil ways and not in violent ways, and that we settle our difference with votes not violence. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2024-07-15 00:33:09

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US president decries assassination attempt and urges Americans to unite during White House press conferenceJoe Biden said that that there was “no place in America” for the sort of political violence that saw a gunman open fire on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania and plunge America’s already fractious election campaign into new levels of fears over political unrest.“There is no place in America for this kind of violence or any violence for that matter. An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation,” Biden said. “Unity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is more important than that right now. Unity. We’ll debate and disagree, that’s not going to change, but we’re not going to lose sight of who we are as Americans.” Continue reading…



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Author : Michael Sainato

Publish date : 2024-07-14 18:44:56

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