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Thomas Cook travel chaos: firm's collapse leaves 150,000 stranded abroad – live updates

A huge repatriation effort has begun after company ceases trading with immediate effect, causing flights to be cancelled Latest summary: Rescue efforts underwayWedding in ruins due to overnight collapseFull story: Thomas Cook announces administration after last-ditch talks failThomas Cook collapse: your questions answeredHow have you been affected? 4.57pm BS […]

Iran says it considered exchanging Zaghari-Ratcliffe for £400m owed by UK

Mohammad Javad Zarif says he would have argued for release if UK repaid tank deal moneyIran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has said the UK offered to release long-frozen Iranian funds in return for him intervening to help free the British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, detained in Iran for more than three years.Zarif said the suggestion had fi […]

Brexit: Labour delegates debate rival motions for and against Corbyn's strategy – live news

Rolling coverage of the Labour conference in Brighton, including the debate to decide if the party will commit to campaigning for remain nowLabour rows over Brexit worsen before crucial votes at conferenceMcDonnell says Labour would introduce 32-hour working weekHow the Labour plan to move to 32-hour working week might workMcDonnell says Labour would expand […]

Impeachment talk intensifies over Trump's call with Ukraine president

Trump seems to acknowledge he discussed Biden in July callOpinion: this is a taste of how dirty 2020 will getImpeachment talk has intensified in Washington, after Donald Trump suggested he discussed Joe Biden and Biden’s son in a phone call with the new president of Ukraine. Related: Trump goes on offensive over Biden and Ukraine as Schiff ponders impeachmen […]

EU's chief negotiator calls Johnson's backstop solution 'unacceptable'

Barnier pours scorn on PM’s Irish border proposal as it would not avoid customs and VAT checks post-BrexitMichel Barnier has described Boris Johnson’s solution for replacing the Irish backstop as “unacceptable” as the EU’s chief negotiator gave his most downbeat assessment yet of the chances of striking a Brexit deal by 31 October.Standing alongside the Germ […]

Iran says UK-flagged tanker seized in July is free to leave

Stena Impero was dramatically seized on 19 July, sparking crisis in shipping in GulfThe British-flagged tanker seized by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards more than two months ago has been released, according to Iranian officials.“The legal process has finished and based on that the conditions for letting the oil tanker go free have been fulfilled and the oil tank […]

UK to snub Franco-German 'alliance for multilateralism'

UK decision not to send minister to meeting is sign of how Brexit is shifting foreign policyBritish ministers are to snub a major new “alliance for multilateralism” being launched by France and Germany at the United Nations general assembly this week in a fresh sign of how Brexit is shifting British foreign policy.The alliance, due to be launched by the Germ […]

Brazilian indigenous leaders denounce Bolsonaro before UN speech

Open letter decries ‘colonialist and ethnocidal policies’President expected to attack left and foreign critics in New YorkIndigenous leaders in Brazil have denounced Jair Bolsonaro’s “colonialist and ethnocidal” policies as the far-right populist headed to New York to defend his treatment of the Amazon and its inhabitants.Bolsonaro is set to make the opening […]

Italian hunter killed his father thinking he was wild boar, say police

Son, aged 34, charged with manslaughter after Martino Gaudioso shot dead, officers sayA 55-year-old man was killed by his adult son during a hunting expedition in southern Italy after being mistaken for a wild boar, police have said.Martino Gaudioso was said to have been shot dead by his son, aged 34, during a wild boar hunt in a densely wooded area of the A […]

Cats bond with their people too, study finds

Scientists say felines display similar ‘attachment styles’ with caregivers as dogs and children – but not everyone is convincedCats may sometimes seem aloof, contrary and utterly nonplussed by humans, but it turns out that might not be the full story.Researchers say they have found that, like children and dogs, cats form emotional attachments to their caregi […]

Ancient Turkish town begins to disappear underwater – in pictures

The small town of Hasankeyf, in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority south-east, is doomed to disappear in the coming months after being inhabited for 12,000 years. An artificial lake, part of the Ilısu hydroelectric dam project, will swallow it up. The huge dam, Turkey’s second largest, is being filled further down the Tigris River, despite protests that it will displ […]

Which is the world’s hardest-working city?

Tokyo may be the most ‘overworked’ city – but there are ways to measure how hard a city works other than simply totting up the overtimeIn July 2013, 31-year-old Miwa Sado, a reporter for Japan’s national broadcaster NHK, was found dead in her Tokyo apartment. She had died from heart failure. It was later revealed that Sado had logged 159 hours and 37 minutes […]

Hot properties: how Oslo went wild for floating saunas

When the city’s first floating sauna was banned by port authorities, its owners took it on the run, sparking a public crazeIt all began in September 2011, when Martin Lundberg sailed his boat into the marina in the fashionable Aker Brygge district in central Oslo, Norway.A native of Malmö, Sweden, Lundberg had spent the summer on his boat moored off one of O […]

Horrible bosses: masked activists publicly shame businesses in Bologna

The anonymous members of Il Padrone di Merda (“crappy boss”) stage protests outside employers in the Italian city who are accused of exploiting their workersOn a warm summer afternoon in the Italian city of Bologna, a group of around 15 young people march through the crowded city centre to a high-end pastry shop in Strada Maggiore.If employers are afraid of […]

'Medication or housing': why soaring insulin prices are killing Americans

Price gouging and other barriers to accessing insulin are symptomatic of a broken healthcare system, and demonstrate the need of systemic reforms, diabetes advocates argueJada Renee Louis of Newport News, Virginia, died on 22 June 2019 about a week after requiring emergency hospital care for diabetic ketoacidosis, a serious complication caused by a lack of i […]

Manchester airport incident: arrested man is taken to hospital

Man is arrested as trains and buses suspended and nearby offices evacuated A man arrested at Manchester airport has been taken to hospital for assessment after bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion on a suspect package on Monday morning, and the airport interchange and surrounding offices were evacuated.Police officers rushed to the airpor […]

Alarm over cases of disease with Ebola-like symptoms in Tanzania

World Health Organization frustrated by lack of clinical data sharing, while Tanzania insists its tests show disease is not Ebola Several unexplained cases of a disease with Ebola-like symptoms in Tanzania have prompted an extraordinary statement from the World Health Organization questioning the response of the country’s health authorities.WHO warned that l […]

Democrats ramp up pressure on Trump over Ukraine whistleblower scandal – live

CNN poll puts Warren on 22% to Biden’s 20%, while impeachment talk swirls as Trump seems to confirm he discussed Biden in Ukraine call 4.58pm BST Trump is currently speaking at a UN General Assembly session on protecting religious freedom.Trump at U.N.: "As president, protecting religious freedom is one of my highest priorities and always has been. […]

Ofcom investigates CGTN over coverage of Hong Kong protests

UK regulator to look at whether Chinese state-backed channel broke impartiality rulesThe Chinese state-backed news channel CGTN is under investigation by the British media regulator over claims its coverage of protests in Hong Kong breached broadcasting rules.Ofcom announced on Monday that it was looking at whether the station “broke our rules requiring news […]

Australian PM says China must step up on climate change as 'newly developed' nation

Scott Morrison uses keynote speech of US visit to say China should be doing more to combat the climate crisisScott Morrison has challenged China to do more heavy lifting on climate change, saying Australia welcomes its economic growth, but that prosperity and power also come with responsibility.The Australian prime minister used the keynote speech of his US […]

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