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President-elect Donald Trump will want to do a good deal with the UK, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has insisted.Jones, the chancellor’s second-in-command, said he was confident UK-US trading relationships could be deepened and that Peter Mandelson will be “brilliant” as the new UK ambassador to the US.However, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has claimed Prime Minster Sir Keir Starmer is in a “weak” negotiating position due to his wish to strengthen ties with the EU at the same time as with the US.The PM has insisted he can walk a tightrope and balance strong trading and security…

A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has taken effect, pausing a 15-month war that has brought devastation and political change to the Middle East.As part of the deal, three Israeli hostages are due to be released later on Sunday, named by Hamas as Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari.Emily Damari, 28Emily Damari, who has British and Israeli citizenship, grew up in south-east London. Photograph: Family handout/PA MediaHamas kidnapped Damari, who has joint British and Israeli citizenship, from her apartment in the Kfar Aza kibbutz on 7 October 2023, along with 37 other residents of…

These days, our phones are constantly buzzing with notifications, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between legitimate messages and potential scams. Bill from Mesa, Arizona, recently shared an experience that highlights this growing concern:”Twice in the last week I’ve received texts supposedly sent elsewhere. The last one asked if I was ‘available tomorrow evening.’ I did not recognize the number but am active in an old people park so receive many calls and texts from unfamiliar numbers. I texted back that my wife thought we were available. A few minutes later, a text came asking if I was Mrs.…

Could this be the year, as President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised, when Russia’s war against Ukraine is brought to an end?The possibility of peace brings “tears to my eyes,” said Valeria, 30, an English teacher from eastern Ukraine.As Mr. Trump prepares to return to the White House on Monday, he is promising peace in Ukraine, but publicly offering no strategy for how to achieve it — aside from his stated desire to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. So Ukrainians can only guess at what the coming months will bring.No one, Valeria said, wants peace more than…

The first phase of the long-awaited Gaza ceasefire deal has begun after an almost three-hour delay, with Hamas set to release three Israeli hostages later on Sunday.The ceasefire was due to start at 08:30 (06:30 GMT), but Israel said Hamas had not delivered the names of the first hostages to be freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. Hamas blamed “technical reasons”.Nineteen Palestinians were reportedly killed as the Israeli military struck what it called “terror targets” in Gaza after the initial deadline passed.The ceasefire eventually took effect at 11:15, after Israel received the hostages’ names. Mediator Qatar said they included British-Israeli…

Mayor Adams on Saturday doubled down on defending his meeting with soon-to-be president Donald Trump, claiming he was “fighting for” New Yorkers, as fellow Democrats accused him of cozying up to Trump in efforts to get a presidential pardon for his federal corruption case.“I don’t care if it’s a Democrat, Republican, Socialist. I don’t care who’s the president,” Adams told a crowd gathered at National Action Network’s Martin Luther King Day at their Harlem headquarters.The mayor implied he discussed the $6.9 billion spent on the city’s migrant crisis with Trump at their Friday meeting in Florida.“I’m [going to] defend this…

SpaceX launched its seventh test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk‘s company said Starship broke apart, calling it a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” The rocket appeared to lift off from SpaceX’s launchpad at its Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas, but eight and a half minutes into the mission, ground control announced that it had lost all communication with the ship.Flights near the Turks and Caicos Islands were spotted diverting to avoid the debris from the explosion on Thursday and footage was shared of debris falling…

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Ministers are to safeguard the Marcus Rashford-inspired scheme providing food and activities to vulnerable children during school holidays for another year, following concerns it could fall victim to a desperate search for savings across Whitehall.More than a million people signed a petition from the Manchester United star calling for the scheme after a huge grassroots campaign in 2020.The previous government eventually rolled out the £200m-a-year holiday activities and food (HAF) programme after pressure from Keir Starmer and his shadow ministers.Concerns over its future had been escalating in recent weeks. Funding was set to expire this spring, with local authorities left…

TALK TO EUROPEAN bosses about their continent and the responses are as varied as the languages they speak. Katastrophe, bark the Germans. The Italians wave their hands in exasperation. The French offer a resigned Gallic shrug. The British change the subject to the weather (which isn’t exactly fabulous, either). With governments collapsing centre-left (in Germany last month) and centre-right (in France on December 4th), plus war raging in next-door Ukraine, chaos is the political watchword.