Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he is ready to match any tariffs imposed on Brazil by the United States. Lula was responding to Wednesday’s threat by his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to impose a 50% import tax on Brazilian goods from 1 August. In a letter, Trump cited Brazil’s treatment of...
JAMES ROSS/EPA/Shutterstock Inside the synagogue, some 20 people had sat down for dinner when the attack occurred Australia’s prime minister has promised to take strong action following an apparent arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne. Police are looking for a man who poured liquid on the synagogue’s front door before setting it on fire...
FlashBack Photography Trasi Coghlan brought forward plans for a wedding vows renewal by a year after getting a terminal cancer diagnosis A terminally ill woman was left “overwhelmed” after businesses donated a venue, wedding dress and flowers for her to renew her vows. Trasi Coghlan, 62, who has had cancer three times, was planning a...
Laura Gozzi & Paul Kirby BBC News Reuters Security is tight at the Nato summit – President Trump’s first since 2019 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that Russia’s president understands only the language of force and that Tuesday’s “historic” Nato summit in The Hague will aim to ensure peace in Europe for generations to...
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “press ahead” with the government’s planned welfare changes, despite a growing rebellion from Labour backbench MPs. More than 120 Labour MPs have signed up to an effort to block plans to cut disability and sickness-related benefits payments to save £5bn a year by 2030. The threatened rebellion is enough...
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to meet a new Nato target to spend 5% of the UK’s GDP on national security by 2035. At a Nato summit in the Netherlands, 32 member countries including the UK are expected to agree the 5% goal, with 3.5% to go on core defence and the remaining...
The Financial Times sums up the story dominating Monday’s front pages: “Trump declares victory with massive air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.” The paper carries the US administration’s position that it is “not at war with Iran” but “with its nuclear programme” after bombing three nuclear sites overnight – but describes Saturday’s attack as a...
Nick Thorpe BBC Budapest correspondent Getty Images The government has had Budapest’s Pride march in its sights for some time Police have banned Hungary’s annual Budapest Pride march later this month, prompting a defiant response from liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony. “Budapest city hall will organise the Budapest Pride march as a local event on 28...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says the government will do “everything in [its] power” to protect people in the UK from the knock-on economic effects of the conflict between Iran and Israel. She would not “take anything off the table” in response to the threat of rising energy costs, she told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg...
Carl Nasman, Ana Faguy and Gary O’Donoghue BBC News, Los Angeles, Washington DC and New York Watch: “It’s important for me” – LA protesters on why they’re taking the streets Los Angeles police say they have made “mass arrests” after a fifth day of protests over US President Donald Trump’s immigration raids. Mayor Karen Bass...
Head coach Craig Bellamy vowed Wales would go on the attack in Belgium on Monday after beating Liechtenstein to top their World Cup qualifying group. Friday night’s 3-0 triumph in Cardiff extended Wales’ unbeaten start under Bellamy to nine games and took them two points clear at the summit of Group J. They face their...
Caroline Hawley Diplomatic correspondent Free Alaa Laila Soueif’s daughter, Sanaa, described the situation as “very scary” Laila Soueif’s body is becoming weaker and weaker. Doctors have warned her that – after eight months on hunger strike – she’s now at risk of sudden death. But the strength of her resolve has not diminished at all....
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will travel to Turkey’s capital Ankara to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and will be available for direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Istanbul on Thursday. “We will do everything to ensure that this meeting takes place,” he told reporters in a hastily-arranged briefing. Russia...
The Daily Express is one of several newspapers to lead on the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. The paper speaks to a woman who is pictured on the front page as a small child standing in rubble and waving Union Jacks as part of the celebrations in 1945. It dedicates multiple pages to...
Dozens killed as Pakistan and India exchange fire Read full article at source...