France PM promises more curfews as authorities seek to regain control
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu says local authorities will coordinate with mayors to decide whether to impose curfews.
Is Russia stalking satellites which help Ukraine from space?
Analysts say a Russian craft’s close pass by a commercial radar satellite is a first and a warning to Kyiv’s backers.
Yemen: Maps show 10 years of changing control
A decade of war has shifted Yemen’s front lines, but the Houthis still hold Sanaa, and no side controls the country.
Yemen’s critically ill are trapped as war closes the country’s airports
A re-ignition of Yemen's war has left the chronically sick who need treatment trapped in the country.
Suspect arrested after historic town hall set alight – French media
The spire of the clock tower at Limoges city hall dramatically collapsed as it was engulfed in flames on Saturday.
UK to deploy Typhoon jets to help defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
Ministry of Defence says warplanes will operate in 'defensive role' and not be used to attack Yemeni group.
Zelensky prepares for Oslo talks with US envoys as Rubio denies withholding intelligence
The US secretary of state rejects accusations Ukrainians were dying because the US was withholding intelligence.
Australian MP Helen Haines remains in critical condition after car attack
Australian MP Helen Haines lost a leg and remains in critical condition after a car attack outside her office.
Man charged with attack on Australian MP as suspect’s father says she is family friend
Brendan Nugent's family say they have known Helen Haines, who remains in a critical condition, for more than 20 years.
Residents warned not to drink tap water after hundreds fall sick near South Africa capital
More than 400 people, mostly children, become ill after drinking contaminated water, east of Pretoria.
Myanmar’s detained ex-leader Suu Kyi receives package from King Charles III
Military-backed government says it delivered two books and diplomatic correspondence to Aung San Suu Kyi.
Masoud Pezeshkian: Peace, Not Surrender
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on sanctions, regional conflict, US-Israel tensions and his call for Muslim unity.
France’s growing debt woes: How bond markets set countries’ borrowing costs
France's rising debt is unnerving investors, but countries such as the US and Japan owe even greater sums.
Thames Water creditors secure former Labour minister to drive rescue deal
Stricken UK water supplier lines up John Hutton as independent chair designate if takeover goes ahead
The group of Thames Water creditors pursuing a £10bn rescue deal for Britain’s largest water supplier has lined up a former senior Labour minister to chair the company, as it tries to win over the government.
The creditor consortium, called London & Valley Water, said on Tuesday that Lord John Hutton had been selected as independent chair designate of the Thames Water board, if the consortium’s takeover of the utility goes ahead.
Continue reading...US leaving oil-for-security approach, not Middle East: Envoy Tom Barrack
Barrack highlights limits of US interventions, admitting past regime changes in the Middle East were often mistakes.
Badenoch says Tories would prioritise cutting taxes for businesses over individuals – UK politics live
Conservative leader also called for benefit spending to be cut to fund rise in defence budget
Badenoch says Britain needs tax cuts.
We need to get out of the way of job creators who make our country richer. We need to encourage risk taking, wealth creation, enterprise.
Britain’s tax burden has never been higher. You are taxed on the heating in your home. You’re taxed at the petrol pump filling up your car. You’re taxed when you insure that car. You’re taxed if you take the family away on holiday. You’re taxed if you stay in the UK thanks to Andy Burnham’s tourist tax. You’re taxed to buy a home, taxed to live in a home, taxed to pass on your home. This is clearly not working. Britain does not feel better off.
Andy Burnham wrote in The Times yesterday about the moral outrage of the current benefit system. But as far as I could work out, his answer is to spend even more on benefits.
Continue reading...Zelenskyy to hold talks on Russia-Ukraine war with Witkoff, Europeans
The prime ministers of Norway and Finland will also attend the discussions in Oslo.
Federal efforts over alleged noncitizen voting escalate with California arrests | First Thing
The DoJ has charged 28 green card holders in California, accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote. Plus, is the world really ready for AI actors?
Good morning. The US Department of Justice has charged 28 green card holders in California, accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote and casting illegal ballots. The arrests – 11 people are in custody – mark the latest escalation in federal efforts against alleged noncitizen voting.
The crackdown comes days after the DOJ sued California to block the state from tabulating certain ballots in November’s midterms. California’s secretary of state, Shirley Weber, called the demands “outrageous”, pointing out that federal officials have spent months making “vague and unsubstantiated allegations”. Democrats and voting rights groups say the administration is laying the groundwork to sow doubt over November’s election results.
How are Congress members being targeted before the midterms? More than three dozen members of US Congress have had their offices targeted with envelopes containing white powder, less than three weeks before the election, as federal agents try to identify who is behind the campaign.
What has Donald Trump said about the French protests? At a rally in Kansas Trump described France as a once-great nation that had been “conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists”. Earlier in the day, Trump repeated his baseless claim that migrants had “taken over” France, and also claimed that “Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon”. Muslims make up 10-15% of the population of the capital.
Continue reading...Trump’s approval ratings plummet: what that means for the US midterms
Sitting presidents usually see a dip in approval ratings before midterms, but Trump's ratings are at a historic low.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani launches India’s biggest-ever IPO
Low-cost broadband provider Jio Platforms aims for £81bn valuation when it floats on the stock market on Wednesday
India’s second-richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is launching what could be the country’s biggest-ever initial public offering (IPO), despite a stock market downturn.
Mumbai-based Jio Platforms, a telecoms company backed by Meta Platforms and Google, is hoping to raise up to 302bn rupees (£2.4bn) and is targeting a 10.3tn rupeesvaluation when it floats on the stock market from Wednesday.
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