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Sep 21, 2026 - World

The ventures of the Trump family's business empire create potential conflicts of interest as the US figures out how to deal with rapid AI development.

Sep 21, 2026 - World

At least 13 minors, including five girls, are now serving prison sentences in Ukraine in cases linked to such activities.

Sep 21, 2026 - World

Islamabad has repeatedly accused TTP of maintaining sanctuaries in Afghanistan and using them to plan or support attacks inside Pakistan.

Sep 21, 2026 - World

Helen Jenner will be party’s new head in Senedd as Farage says Dan Thomas’s arrest was a ‘bump in the road’Here are some more lines from Max Wilkinson’s speech to the Lib Dem conference this morning.Wilkinson, the Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson, accused Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, of using “divisive language” that you would expect from the “authoritarian right”. After condemning the Tories and Reform UK for their anti-migration views, he said:And what’s the Labour response to this hard right agenda? Their home secretary has indulged in the sort of divisive language that we would usually expect from the authoritarian right …Well let me tell you home secretary – no matter how hard you chase, you’ll never catch up with [Nigel] Farage – that is a fool’s errand.He said that it was the duty of the Liberal Democrats to stand up to the Tories and Reform UK, and the “poison” they were spreading on migration. Repeatedly referring to Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick as a “plonker”, he said:[Jenrick] and his party are plonkers with dangerous ideas … and £72m to deliver them.And their allies in the Conservative party are weakly following them.He criticised the Conservatives and Reform UK for proposing to withdraw Britain from the European convention on human rights. He said:Leaving the European convention on human rights will not fix our asylum system.It will not stop dangerous Channel crossings – not a single boat – and it will not stop the criminal gangs.And he confirmed that the Lib Dems want to tax big tech to finance a new online crime agency. This was announced overnight and Peter Walker and Alexandra Topping have written the story up here.We will carry on as if nothing has happened We could have done without this bump in the road. But it has happened, We are making the best of it. Continue reading...

Sep 21, 2026 - World

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster loomsThe planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists.Of the nine “planetary boundaries” that help determine whether life can flourish on Earth, seven are being breached at their highest ever levels of transgression, according to the latest planetary health check, a process that was established in 2009. Continue reading...