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Poland scrambles aircraft as Russia attacks Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles – Europe live | Europe
Poland scrambles aircraft as Russia fires hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine Polish and allied aircraft were deployed early on Saturday to ensure the safety of Polish airspace after Russia launched airstrikes targeting western Ukraine near the border with Poland, armed forces of the Nato-member country said. “Polish and allied aircraft are operating in […]
Ted Cruz compares threats to ABC by FCC chair to those of mob boss | Ted Cruz
Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, compared Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr’s threats to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC stations over late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s commentary to “mafioso” tactics similar to those in Goodfellas, the 1990 mobster movie. “Look, Jimmy Kimmel has been canned. He has been suspended indefinitely. I think that it […]
Trump again asks supreme court to end protections for Venezuelans in US | US immigration
The Trump administration asked the US supreme court on Friday to intervene for the second time in a case involving its bid to end deportation protections the former president, Joe Biden, granted to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States. The justice department filed an emergency application asking the justices to lift a […]
Deal to transfer TikTok to US control unresolved despite Trump-Xi call | TikTok
Donald Trump’s attempts to broker a deal that would transfer TikTok from Chinese to US control remained unresolved on Friday despite a call between the US president and Xi Jinping. China and the US have been at loggerheads over trade negotiations and the future of TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media platform that faces a ban […]
Civilians made up 15 of every 16 people Israel killed in Gaza since March, data suggests | Gaza
About 15 of every 16 Palestinians the Israeli military has killed since its renewed offensive in Gaza began in March have been civilians, data collected by the independent violence-tracking organisation Acled indicates. The civilian death rate implied by a report from Acled, which stands for Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, is one of the […]
Judge quashes Home Office decision to extradite vulnerable man to US | Extradition
A high court judge has quashed a Home Office decision that paved the way for a vulnerable autistic man to be extradited to the US on cybercrime charges carrying a possible 52-year sentence. The UK government has accepted that Diogo Santos Coelho, 25, a Portuguese national, was groomed and exploited online by adults from the […]
Donald Trump suggests broadcasters could be punished over critical coverage amid Kimmel suspension – US politics live | Trump administration
Opening summary Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours. We start with news that Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that TV networks which cover him “negatively” could be punished by the government […]
Israel army says it will use ‘unprecedented force’ in Gaza City and urges residents to leave – Middle East crisis live | Gaza
Israel army says will use ‘unprecedented force’ in Gaza City and urges residents to leave The Israeli military warned on Friday it will operate with “unprecedented force” in Gaza City, urging residents to flee southwards while announcing the closure of a temporary evacuation route opened 48 hours earlier. In a post on X addressing residents […]
Russia has shown ‘full extent of contempt for international law’, says von der Leyen, as EU proposes new Russian sanctions – Europe live | Europe
Russia ‘has shown full extent of contempt for diplomacy and law,’ EU’s von der Leyen says The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said in her statement that Russia “has shown the full extent of its contempt for diplomacy and international law” over the last month, as she criticised the largest-scale drone and missile […]
Outgoing MI6 chief says Putin has ‘bitten off more than he can chew’ in Ukraine | Espionage
The outgoing head of MI6 has issued a damning indictment of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying that Vladimir Putin has “bitten off more than he can chew”. Richard Moore, known within MI6 as C, used his farewell speech in Istanbul to say that while Russia was unlikely to win on the battlefield, his agency was […]