Category: Politics

Labour has pledged to halt the decline of British species and protect at least 30% of the land and sea by 2030 if it is elected. Steve Reed, the shadow environment secretary, also vowed to set a new land use framework that would prioritise the protection of nature, and to deliver on targets to improve […]

For more than 160 years, visitors have been arriving at Venezia Santa Lucia train station and disembarking straight into the heart of one of the world’s most historic and beautiful cities. Until Thursday, however, they had never been met by a group of stewards in white and yellow bibs demanding to know if they had […]

Pecker testifies Cohen said ‘the boss will take care’ of McDougal story payment Sam Levine David Pecker says that he advised Trump to buy the Karen McDougal story because: I believed the story was true. It would have been very embarrassing to himself and also to his campaign. After he spoke with Trump, Pecker said […]

The disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on sex crimes was overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday. The state of New York court of appeals ruled that the judge who oversaw Weinstein’s 2020 conviction was mistaken in allowing other women whose accusations were not a part of the 2020 case to […]

Time Traveler is the title of the indefatigable Ute Lemper’s current short UK tour and also that of the new album of songs she herself has written. Lemper is mostly labelled a chanteuse, but she has always been multifaceted: singer, actor, dancer – for whom Maurice Béjart choreographed a ballet – an exhibited painter in […]

‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter Angela Giuffrida Authorities in Venice have been accused of transforming the famous lagoon city into a “theme park” as a long-mooted entrance fee for day trippers comes into force. Venice is the first major city in the world to enact such a […]

Welcome and opening summary Welcome to our latest live blog on the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis. I’m Martin Belam in London and I’ll be with you for the next while. The White House says it wants “answers” from Israeli authorities after the discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals destroyed […]

Yousaf says deal with Greens ‘has served its purpose’ and in future the two party will cooperate, but less formally Yousaf says as leader of the government he has to decide how best it can make changes. For almost three years the SNP had done that throught its agreement with the Scottish Greens. That deal […]

Zelenskiy meets UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt in Kyiv Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he met the UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt in Kyiv and called for sanctions against Russia to be tightened to stop Moscow bypassing them. According to the Reuters news agency, Zelenskiy said in a statement on the Telegram app […]

Spain’s socialist prime minister has cancelled his public duties for the rest of the week and said he is considering resigning, blaming a “harassment and bullying operation” by his political and media opponents for a court’s decision to launch an investigation into his wife for alleged influence-peddling and corruption. Pedro Sánchez, who has led Spain […]