Assisted dying to remain illegal in England and Wales
MPs have rejected a fresh move to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. Also: The US has been marking the 25th anniversary of the Se...
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'Be ready for far right protesters', Home Secretary tells police
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has urged police leaders to be ready to move "quickly and effectively" in dealing with far-right groups...
A warning that AI could kill all humans in the next decade
A senior safety researcher at the artificial intelligence giant, Anthropic, has warned that there is a greater than 10% chance AI could kill...
UK sanctions Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank
Israel says it will shut down the UK consulate in East Jerusalem in response to sanctions on West Bank settlements. Also: A failure at Brita...
The policing minister condemns elements of anti-migrant protests as 'intimating and thuggish'
Portsmouth City Council says the Home Office has "questions to answer", after the landing of 1-hundred and 20 migrants in the area last nigh...
Germany's far right AfD party projected to win regional election
Exit polls in Germany indicate that the far-right AfD party has won 44.5% of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, its strongest r...
Disruption at Port of Dover
The government has condemned hundreds of masked demonstrators who blockaded the Port of Dover, chanting 'stop the boats'. The Reform UK lead...
Nigel Farage dismisses allegations in an undercover report
Nigel Farage has dismissed as 'a little local difficulty' questions about the provenance of Reform UK party money posed by an undercover rep...
The French President visits Downing Street
The Prime Minister and the French President have held talks in Downing Street, discussing migrant boat crossings and the wars in Ukraine and...
Andy Burnham completes his first Prime Minister's Questions
Andy Burnham has been pressed about his management of the public finances in his first session of Prime Minister's Questions. Also: Nigel Fa...
Andy Burnham makes his Commons debut as PM
Andy Burnham has given his first address to MPs as Prime Minister, pledging 'stronger public control' of services and a 'rewiring' of the Br...
The government defends its prisoner early release scheme
A government minister has said prison capacity in England and Wales will continue to be "very tight", despite planned changes to the early r...
Burnham Announces Changes To Prisoner Release Scheme
Andy Burnham has pledged to keep hundreds more criminals behind bars as part of changes to the government's early release scheme. Anyone con...
Anger In Ukraine Over Munitions Site Strike
Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has ordered an investigation after a Russian airstrike detonated munitions kept in warehouse close...
Nearly two thousand people are missing in flooding in Nepal
Officials in Nepal say more than 550 people are now known to have died more than 48 hours after flash flooding hit the Himalayan border regi...
Hundreds are dead after flash floods in Nepal
Hundreds of people are now known to have died in Nepal after flash floods in the north of the country. Also: The number of asylum seekers be...
Meta settles in landmark US case
Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, has agreed to pay billions of dollars to US states in a settlement over claims its platforms harm...
Canada responds to new Trump tariffs
Canada has announced a slew of tit-for-tat tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of imports from the United States, in an escalation of the...
Andy Burnham promises to maintain support for Ukraine
On his first overseas visit as Prime Minister, Andy Burnham has promised to maintain Britain's support for Ukraine and keep up the pressure...
Five young men who died in A66 crash are named
Police name five young men - among them teenagers -- who died in a head-on collision that also killed two officers near Middlesbrough. The p...