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Sep 15, 2026 - World

Minister says discussions are ongoing on how to strengthen the alliance’s eastern flank after security incidents intensify across Europe, including in Denmark and PolandWe are also getting a bit more detail from the Netherlands, as the Dutch broadcaster ⁠NOS showed long, thin ​pipes being ‌removed from the ‌tracks after causing widespread disruption to railway services.“At this stage, it appears ‌to be a deliberate disruption of train services caused by human action. It is not yet known who is ‌responsible or what the motive is“, the infrastructure operator ProRail said in the latest update to its statement on the incident. Continue reading...

Sep 15, 2026 - World

Comments come after court on Monday rejected the president’s mail ballot restrictions ahead of the November midterm electionsSupreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm electionsHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Lawmakers have given their support to the supreme court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections.Mitch McConnell, the 84-year-old former Senate majority leader from Kentucky, was seen in Washington for the first time in months on Monday, minutes before his office released a statement saying that he was back at work.With a slip of the tongue reminiscent of Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, told CNN that he would not run for president in 2028 if his fellow Californian, former vice-president Kamala Harris, decides to run again, since “I know what that means: I know her base of supporters, I know her friends, the zen diagram on that is just pure crossover.”Donald Trump claimed there is a “SICK conspiracy” against artificial intelligence and data centers in response to the growing calls for greater checks on AI development.In a statement posted on social media, Barack Obama, the former US president, called for the pace of AI development to be slowed to allow time for the federal government to develop regulations to address “serious safety concerns”. Continue reading...

Sep 15, 2026 - World

Wage growth – used to set triple-lock pension – slows to 3.9%, meaning state pension should hit £13,000 next year‘Costing billions’: is the pensions triple lock a lifeline or simply unaffordable?If the state pension rises to £13,000 next year, it will probably breach the UK’s tax-free personal allowance (currently £12,570) – the amount you can earn before paying income tax.However, pensioners who don’t receive any other income should still be exempt from paying tax if the state pension exceeds the personal allowance.In the 2025 Budget the government announced the personal allowance would be frozen at its current level up to April 2031.It also announced that pensioners whose sole income is the basic or new state pension would not have to pay small amounts of tax via simple assessment from 2027/28 if the new or basic state pension exceeded the personal allowance from that point. To date the government has not published any further details of how this is to be done. Continue reading...

Sep 15, 2026 - World

Party leader claims proposed new retrospective laws are unfair and Reform would retaliate with a crackdown on union funding if elected Every part of the country must be prepared to take in asylum seekers, a cabinet minister said as a village held a symbolic independence referendum in protest at plans to house more than 1,000 migrants at a former military base. As the Press Association reports, the proposal, which would mean 1,256 male asylum seekers moving into the base near Piddington in Oxfordshire has sparked anger and fear among many village residents. PA says:Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds acknowledged “none of this is pleasant” but the disused military site was more suitable than housing asylum seekers in hotels.There was “no imaginary place these people can go”, he said.The deputy prime minister is here. Good to see you Pat.Jab at Wes I: “Last time [Streeting] gave an after-dinner speech he had a few jokes about us both,” Rayner said, referring to herself and Louise Haigh. “I remember it well. I’d just come back from meeting the pope. I was also introduced to a young ambitious cardinal tipped for the top — or the Vatican’s Wes Streeting as they called him. He didn’t get the votes either.”Jab at Wes II: “Anyway, Louise and I were delighted Wes joined us back in Cabinet. I think Louise advised the prime minister to make him defense secretary because he’s the one Cabinet member we know can’t organize a coup.” Continue reading...

Sep 15, 2026 - World

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen condemns ‘reckless action from Russia towards Denmark’s military’A Russian warship has fired two emergency flares at a Danish helicopter in the Baltic Sea, and Nato fighter jets have shot down a drone over Lithuania, in the latest security incidents on the alliance’s eastern flank linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine.Poland also scrambled fighter jets “due to the activity of Russian jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles conducting strikes on Ukrainian territory”, a day after retrieving a suspected Russian drone adrift in its waters. Continue reading...