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May 5, 2026 - World

No confidence vote today say PM ousted and puts the country’s access to EU funds at risk in BucharestPresident Dan is set to issue a statement at 6pm local time (4pm UK). Continue reading...

May 5, 2026 - World

Tory leader says the protests are ‘not the same’Kemi Badenoch has questioned whether the undisclosed £5m donation given to Nigel Farage by a crypto billionaire shows that he has been “bought”.In an interview with the Today programme this morning, the Conservative leader asked whether the donation was linked to Farage’s support for cryptocurrencies, and she said the donation showed why Farage could not be trusted as a political leader.Let’s see, I believe that people should look at the character of an individual.You look at Nigel Farage’s fishy £5m. I think that’s a very, very concerning story. No one gets £5m directly. This was not for his party. He kept it a secret. What was that money for? Who’s bought him?Well, I don’t understand why somebody who works in crypto gives this sort of personal gift, as Farage calls it, and then all of a sudden Farage is promoting crypto.He should have declared it. We’ve already made a report to the standards committee. He should have declared it because those are the rules in this country. Continue reading...

May 5, 2026 - World

Lawmakers consider plan to break up state’s lone Democratic-held district, a week after supreme court ruling on Louisiana and Voting Rights ActSign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump’s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Continue reading...

May 5, 2026 - World

Activists found guilty over break-in at Israeli defence firm’s UK site after jury deliberated for more than 14 hoursFour out of six Palestine Action activists who stood trial over a break-in at an Israeli defence firm’s UK site have been convicted of criminal damage.Charlotte Head, 29; Samuel Corner, 23; Leona Kamio, 30; and Fatema Rajwani, 21; were all found guilty on Tuesday of smashing up property, including drones, manufactured by Elbit Systems and computers at its factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024. Continue reading...

May 5, 2026 - World

US-Iran Ceasefire Live Updates: The attacks shattered a period of relative calm in the Middle East since the ceasefire took effect on April 8.