Sir Keir Starmer has said he hopes to meet Kamala Harris and Donald Trump before the US election. The prime minister, speaking from a flight to the US for the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), said it would be “very good to meet both of them at some stage before the election”. “We’ll just
Month: September 2024
A motion calling for Labour to reverse its cut to the winter fuel allowance has been backed by party conference members, in an embarrassing blow to Sir Keir Starmer. While there is nothing binding about the vote, it puts further pressure on the Labour leadership over its controversial decision to take away the benefit from
The president of the European Council has defended the bloc’s sanctions regime, saying it is fine-tuned and calibrated every week, after Sky News showed luxury cars being sent over the Russian border. Charles Michel told Sky News it is challenging to sanction Russia after its Ukraine invasion, as it attempts to counter the blockade. “We
The UK remains at risk from “lingering” inflation but its economy is among nations showing “robust” growth, according to a biannual report which upgrades its expectations for output both this year and next. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) saw UK gross domestic product (GDP) rising by 1.1% this year – faster than
A senior executive at CrowdStrike has apologised for a faulty software update that caused a global IT outage in July. The incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and impacted industries around the globe including banks, health care, media companies and hotel chains. The outage disrupted internet services, affecting 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices. Adam Meyers,
Crime rose sharply in Co-op shops over the last six months, with 950 offences taking place every day, the business said. The cost of theft and fraud in Co-op’s food business rose to £39.5m in the first half of 2024 alone. Compared to the same time a year earlier, it cost 19% more, up from
Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard share their daily guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes. The political attention has turned away from the Labour Party conference to Lebanon, which Western leaders have warned is on the brink of war. British troops are being sent to
The leader of a Haitian non-profit community group has filed criminal charges against Donald Trump and JD Vance over unsubstantiated claims they made about immigrants eating the pets of other residents in Springfield, Ohio. Several bomb threats have been recorded in the city this month because of what Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian
A major search is under way for a grandmother and five-month-old baby swept away as they tried to escape floodwater in Italy. The child’s mum and dad and his grandfather were rescued from the roof of their holiday home in Pisa province, the fire service said. More than 100 people – as well as divers,
A toy company must pay $71.5m (£53m) for making dolls infringing the name and likeness of a US teen pop group. OMG Girlz sued MGA Entertainment over its LOL Surprise! OMG dolls, arguing the company had copied their look and brand. On Tuesday, the group finally won the long-running intellectual property case after a California
As night draws across the eastern front medical teams wait nervously behind the frontline. They know it will be a busy night – every night is busy these days as Russia intensifies its attacks in the Donbas. The chief medic, Yaroslav, takes the first call of the shift. His face is filled with concern as
Around 700 UK troops are deploying to Cyprus to be ready to help evacuate British nationals from Lebanon as fears grow of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. Defence Secretary John Healey – who chaired a meeting of the UK’s emergency Cobra committee earlier – has urged all Britons to leave the crisis-torn country “now”.
It was not the high note Joe Biden would have hoped for in his last speech at the UN. With the world in crisis on so many fronts in the dying months of his presidency, there was little hope of that. President Biden has built so much of his political career in foreign policy and
Eighty days into government after a landslide election win, Sir Keir Starmer came to Liverpool as the first Labour prime minister in 15 years to address conference. It should have been a joyous victory lap, but instead this is a PM already stumbling, wrong-footed by a row over the amount of freebies he took as
Joe Biden has called for an end to conflicts in the Middle East in his final address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly. In his speech in New York, the US president said now was the time for Israel and Hamas to finalise the terms of a ceasefire and hostage release deal in
A man has been charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump after staking out the presidential hopeful on his Florida golf course. Ryan Routh was arrested after allegedly poking his gun through bushes surrounding the West Palm Beach golf course on 15 September. Routh was initially charged with two gun offences but prosecutors have upgraded