Is Australia exporting weapons to Israel? That's what the Greens' defence spokesperson David Shoebridge was alleging in the Senate in late March. But the government insists Australia hasn't supplied weapons to Israel for at least the past five years. Who's correct here? As Guardian Australia's Daniel Hurst found out, like many political debates, this is one that's clouded by technicalities.
“Shipping – it’s one damned thing after another,” the editor of Lloyds’ List wrote last week.
The US shared “gobsmacking” evidence with Britain at the height of the Covid pandemic suggesting a “high likelihood” that the virus had leaked from a Chinese lab, The Telegraph can reveal.
Fighting has intensified in the Donetsk region in recent months as Russia pushes to take more ground around Avdiivka.
At best, Britain’s asylum system is inefficient and ineffectual. At worst – and I fear this is probably closer to the truth – it is incredibly dangerous, studiously working against the country’s best interests from economic flourishing to public safety.
Mayor Khan fails to thank or pay tribute to Susan Hall in his victory speech
Moscow vowed to respond to what it called confrontational actions by Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with asymmetric measures.
During the 2024/25 financial year, the Department for Work and Pensions will measure a sample of claims from five specific benefits and the State Pension
An SNP activist is planning to ruin John Swinney’s coronation as first minister by running against him to become party leader.
In 2017, when Britain began its disengagement talks with the EU, Ireland laid down two inviolable principles. First, no border: not so much as a matchstick to mark where the EU’s customs territory began. Second, no direct talks between the London and Dublin. If the Brits had anything to say, they should talk to Michel Barnier.
Single-sex lavatories will become a legal requirement for all new restaurants, bars, offices and shopping centres, the Government has announced.
The Conservatives won council by-elections in Hillingdon, Sutton and Wandsworth
Conflict rages in Gaza and Ukraine, and tensions heighten over Taiwan. In Beijing, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has just held difficult talks with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. Despite Xi Jinping’s statement at a joint press conference that the US and China should “seek common ground … rather than engage in vicious competition”, efforts at detente seem to have been fruitless.
The Conservative defeat this week could have been worse, but that’s not saying much. The re-election of Tory mayor Ben Houchen in Tees Valley, winning the smallest majority in the hotly contested Harlow council election – these are the saving graces for a party that lost hundreds of councillors and another MP this week. There were many signs that the 2019 coalition that propelled the Tories to victory has come fully undone.
Counting is well underway as the results of the London mayoral elections 2024 are set to be revealed
The Republican National Committee’s chief counsel Charlie Spies has resigned two months after accepting the position.
Being elected president shortly after surviving the publication of the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape in 2016 is the moment in which Donald Trump defied political gravity.
Clever, principled, and relatable, Dr Lisa Cameron is exactly the kind of person our political system needs. Which is why her horrific tale of the bullying and abuse she suffered inside the Scottish National Party – which culminated in her defection to the Conservatives last October – is such a tragedy.
Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will put his hand on a copy of the constitution and begin another six-year term as president wielding extraordinary power. Since becoming acting president on the last day of 1999, Putin has shaped Russia into a monolith — crushing political opposition, running independent-minded journalists out of the country and promoting an increasing devotion to prudish “traditional values” that pushes many in society into the margins. With that level of power, what Putin will do with his next term is a daunting question at home and abroad.
A vast subsea nuclear graveyard planned to hold Britain’s burgeoning piles of radioactive waste is set to become the biggest, longest-lasting and most expensive infrastructure project ever undertaken in the UK.
The star witness in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is hosting nightly TikTok broadcasts in which he has ranted that the former president “belongs in a f---ing cage like an animal”.
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