Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
In today’s newsletter: The prime minister is calling for closer ties with the EU, but what could this actually amount to?Good morning. After a holiday spent contracting nursery bugs from an 11-month-old, it’s good to return. Yesterday, Andy Burnham mar…
Read MoreZelenskyy had proposed a 60-day total ceasefire to allow Ukraine to hold presidential electionsTrump announces partial ceasefire in Ukraine war as Zelenskyy says deal is ‘news to me’Addressing the conference virtually, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zel…
Read MoreUkrainian president earlier rejected US call for Kyiv to stop bombing oil refineries, saying Moscow must first end attacks on energy infrastructureUS politics – live updatesDonald Trump has announced an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, appa…
Read MoreAnalysts say fuel will take weeks to ship and is too small to affect prices, with the full deal unlikely to be met given damage to Russian refineriesZelenskyy rejects Trump claim of Ukraine-Russia ‘energy ceasefire’Donald Trump’s deal with Vladimir Put…
Read MoreUS president suggests Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not done enough to end warDonald Trump has said Ukraine needs “a new leader”, a day after making a deal with Vladimir Putin to buy large quantities of Russian diesel.The US president s…
Read MoreBuilding in Pryluky destroyed, killing nine people including three children, officials say, night before Russian president’s 74th birthdayVolodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia’s military of deliberately killing civilians and bombing residential buildi…
Read MoreNearly 460 schools are affected by continuing protests today, just over a half of those that joined the ‘day of mobilisation’ yesterdayWe are getting reports of a knife attack at a vocational school in Ostrołęka, Poland, which left at least seven peopl…
Read MoreFormer Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiserThe former Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself defending Britain’s decision to fight against Adolf Hitler after inviting the US rightw…
Read MoreWarning comes hours after Poland says fire at Starlink satellite station was ‘act of sabotage’Russia could launch a limited military attack against a Nato country in the coming months, Danish intelligence said, in one of the starkest warnings yet by we…
Read MoreKremlin yet to respond publicly to US invitation that is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and EU countries The United States has invited Vladimir Putin to take part in the G20 scheduled in Miami in December in what would be the first major summit …
Read MoreRoman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, who were forced to move abroad in 2021, tell of president capable of ‘limitless cruelty’At 6am on 29 June 2021, the Russian journalist Roman Badanin was woken by a knock on the door of his family’s Moscow apartment. “Co…
Read MoreIn today’s newsletter: Intelligence chiefs warn that Russia’s appetite for risk is growing, as sabotage and other covert attacks target countries supporting UkraineGood morning. As the UN general assembly kicks off in New York later today, we anticipat…
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