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Jul 27, 2026 - World

Washington and Tehran issue conflicting messages over the status of talks to end Middle East crisisDonald Trump once again warned the US will return to “strong military action” against Iran if diplomatic efforts do not bring a rapid resolution to the crisis in the Middle East.“We are in very deep talks with Iran. If they don’t work out, we will go back to very strong military action,” the US president told Axios on Monday. Asked how long he would allow the talks to proceed, he answered: “Not much time. Either it goes fast or not at all.” Continue reading...

Jul 27, 2026 - World

Two women severely wounded before bystanders intervened in incident near Porte de ClichyA man attacked three women with knives in Paris before bystanders pinned him to the ground and an off-duty police officer detained him, the French interior ⁠minister, Laurent Nuñez, has said.The man attacked the three women, aged 19, 24 and 36, with ⁠two kitchen knives, severely wounding two of them, near Porte de Clichy on Monday, Nuñez said. Continue reading...

Jul 27, 2026 - World

New PM says he ‘wouldn’t get carried away’ by latest polling but says he is pleased if he has ‘connected with people’I have already posted lines from Andy Burnham’s BBC interview on reforming social care (see 9.03am), making council tax fairer (see 10.03am), and ruling out an early election (see 11.56am). And yesterday Peter Walker wrote up the lines in the interview from Burnham saying he would disagree with Donald Trump if necessary.Here are some of the other comments worth flagging up.Burnham suggested care workers should be exempt from Shabana Mahmood’s plan to make foreign workers wait much longer until they can apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK. Currently workers normally have to wait five years until they qualify for settlement. Under Mahmood’s plans, the norm will become 10 years, and care workers could even have to wait 15 years (because working in a low-pay sector means they contribute less to the exchequer, the Home Office argues). Last week Kiran Stacey and Patrick Butler reported that Burnham may order a rethink. Continue reading...

Jul 27, 2026 - World

Coming days are ‘absolutely critical’ for firefighters before temperatures rise again this week, officials sayFirefighters in France and Spain are racing to bring huge wildfires under control before another heatwave this week that will complicate efforts to tame the flames.Spain’s interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, said Monday and Tuesday were “absolutely crucial days” before temperatures rise again from Wednesday. Continue reading...

Jul 27, 2026 - World

An attending physician says the Republican senator ‘has maintained a strenuous course of physical therapy and rehabilitation’ but ‘he is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office’Sign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump said ⁠today that ⁠he had paused US strikes on Iran to give diplomacy another chance, but he ​was ‌ready ‌for “strong military ‌action” if diplomacy fails.Washington was in “very deep ⁠talks with Iran”, the president told Axios, but, he added: “If they don’t work out, we will be go back to very strong military action.”I am going to talk to Bibi about the fact that if I weren’t president, Iran would have had nuclear weapons by now and Israel would have been destroyed.Without me, there would be no Israel. Continue reading...