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Putin’s comments appeared aimed at driving a wedge between Washington and European capitalsIn parallel to Witkoff’s meeting in Moscow, we will also follow Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first visit to Ireland.He has arrived in Dublin last night, and has a busy schedule today, paying a brief visit to the country’s new president Catherine Connolly, before meeting with key government figures including the taisoeach, Micheál Martin, and addressing both chambers of the Irish parliament in the afternoon. Continue reading...

Justice secretary expected to pull back from plans to reserve jury trials from only the most serious casesThe former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner will lay an amendment on Wednesday to speed up the workers rights’ bill, after “considerable anger” that unelected Lords forced the watering down of day-one rights, Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar report.Twelve more prisoners have been mistakenly freed in the past month and two are still at large, David Lammy has said.I’m not going to give details of those cases, because these are operational decisions made by the police, and you’ll understand if they’re about to arrest somebody they don’t want me to blow the cover. Continue reading...

Condemnation of system that ‘allows officers to simply walk away, retiring without consequence’Full report: 12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct casesTimeline: decades seeking justice and changeMargaret Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son James was one of the 97 people unlawfully killed, has criticised the lack of accountability.I cannot accept or understand how 97 people can be unlawfully killed, the police can lie, and nobody is held accountable,” she says.“I recognise that the IOPC and Operation Resolve have worked hard and some of these findings are strong. But it’s absolutely ridiculous that so few people have been accused of gross misconduct for the lies and cover-up we’ve had to fight for 36 years.” Continue reading...

Shahmina Amal urges ministers to engage with demands after Kamran Ahmed, who is awaiting trial, taken to hospitalThe sister of one of six Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers has said she fears every conversation with him will be her last and that ministers are waiting for them all to be hospitalised or “even worse” before engaging with them.Two of those refusing food were taken to hospital last week, and with the rolling hunger strike entering its second month on Tuesday there is mounting concern for their safety. Continue reading...

Belgian police raid EU foreign service HQ and College of Europe and arrest Federica Mogherini and two othersBelgian police have arrested three people including the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and raided the headquarters of the EU foreign service and the elite College of Europe as part of an investigation into suspected fraud.The three were detained “as part of a probe into suspected fraud related to EU-funded training for junior diplomats”, the European public prosecutor’s office said in a statement, without naming individuals. Continue reading...

White House names Adm Frank M Bradley as officer who ‘directed the engagement’, distancing Hegseth from accountabilityUS politics live – latest updatesOfficials in Congress and the Pentagon say the Trump administration is attempting to shield Pete Hegseth from responsibility for a “second strike” to kill survivors on an alleged drug boat by scapegoating a US navy admiral instead.Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, on Monday explicitly named Adm Frank M Bradley as the officer who “directed the engagement”, distancing Hegseth, the Pentagon secretary, from accountability despite a Washington Post report that he ordered the deaths of everyone on the boat. Continue reading...

New high-resolution satellite imagery with NDTV indicates that Pakistan has cleared out debris of a hangar at its airbase in Sukkur, struck by the Indian Air Force during Operation Sindoor on May 10 this year.

For a city of around 15 million people, the idea of taps running dry has created deep anxiety.