How will recognition of Palestinian statehood be greeted in the UK?

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As well as being deeply symbolic, the move is also a major foreign policy shift for the Labour government

The UK’s formal recognition of Palestinian statehood is deeply symbolic on the world stage, but the major foreign policy shift is also a significant political step for the Labour government at home. The announcement followed mounting pressure on Keir Starmer from within the Labour party and beyond.

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Disruption continues at Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin airports after cyber-attack

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Zaventem asks airlines to cancel half of Monday departures, while most of Heathrow flights expected to operate

Hundreds of thousands of passengers at Heathrow and Berlin airports faced flight delays on Sunday after a cyber-attack hit check-in desk software, while cancellations at Brussels airport suggested that disruption of Europe’s air travel would continue into Monday.

Airlines were forced to revert to slower manual check-ins from Friday night after the attack hit Collins Aerospace, which provides check-in desk technology to various airlines.

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Venice police fine parents of children who played football in public square

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Murano resident reported children, aged between 12 and 13, to the police

Italy might be a football-loving country but that did not stop police in Venice from pursuing a group of unlikely targets: 14 children who fell foul for playing the game in a public square, leading to fines presented to their parents, in a move that has sparked a debate about the rights of young people to play outdoors.

The children, aged between 12 and 13, were playing football earlier this month in Pino Signoretto square in Murano, an island of about 4,500 inhabitants in the Venetian lagoon, when a resident, annoyed by the noise they were making, reported them to the police.

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How the growing push for a 2-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could backfire – AP News

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  1. How the growing push for a 2-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could backfire  AP News
  2. Western recognition won’t change the reality on the ground: A Palestinian state has never seemed further away  CNN
  3. How to burst the Israeli bubble | Noam Sheizaf  The Guardian
  4. As Israel bombs Gaza, recognition of Palestine is a last-gasp effort  Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  5. 9,000 Israelis sign petition to recognize Palestinian state ahead of UN summit  The Times of Israel
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Broadcaster John Stapleton dies aged 79

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Tributes paid to ‘consummate pro’ and ‘rock solid’ presenter of Newsnight, Watchdog and GMTV’s News Hour

Tributes have been made across the world of television to the “rock solid broadcaster and ultimate gentleman” John Stapleton, who has died at the age of 79 after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2024.

Stapleton’s agent, Jackie Gill, said on Sunday: “John had Parkinson’s disease, which was complicated by pneumonia. His son Nick and daughter-in-law Lise have been constantly at his side and John died peacefully in hospital this morning.”

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Netherlands: Violence erupts at anti-immigration protest – DW

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  1. Netherlands: Violence erupts at anti-immigration protest  DW
  2. Dutch police clash with anti-immigration protesters  BBC
  3. Violence erupts at right-wing demonstration in the Netherlands ahead of election  CNN
  4. Anti-immigration demonstration in The Hague turns violent, weeks before general election  Euronews.com
  5. Dutch police use water cannon to disperse anti-immigration protesters  Al Jazeera
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Sussan Ley fights for conservative airtime as she struggles to hold together a fractured opposition | Josh Butler

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Strip away the pinball machines and photo booth props at Cpac, and the scale of Ley’s challenge in simply keeping the Coalition alive, let alone making it competitive again, becomes clear

Aside from one crude caricature distributed in the crowd, Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s name was almost entirely absent from the rightwing Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane.

But stripping away the sideshow attractions – Pauline Hanson’s pinball machine, George Christensen’s photo booth props – the thread running through the two-day event was the challenge Ley has to simply hold her party together amid a volatile fracturing of the conservative landscape, let alone for the Coalition to be competitive again.

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Transcript: French President Emmanuel Macron on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 21, 2025 – CBS News

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  1. Transcript: French President Emmanuel Macron on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Sept. 21, 2025  CBS News
  2. Can France’s Palestinian Proposal Change 75 Years of Failed Diplomacy?  The New York Times
  3. France's Macron defends decision to recognize Palestinian statehood  Politico
  4. French towns fly Palestinian flag despite government orders ahead of state recognition  AP News
  5. Naftali Bennett condemns rewarding Hamas, Gaza for Oct. 7  The Jerusalem Post
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Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man

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LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’

Europe’s richest man, the luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault, has said that a wealth tax that could cost him more than €1bn (£817m) would be deadly for France’s economy.

The French founder of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton said in a statement to the Sunday Times that calls for a 2% wealth tax on all assets “aims to destroy the liberal economy, the only one that works for the good of all”.

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