• Un grupo multipartidista afirma que el cierre de la unidad humanitaria socavará el seguimiento de las violaciones legales y las exportaciones de armas
• Los diputados han expresado su alarma por el cierre de la unidad de derecho internacional humanitario del Foreign Office, advirtiendo que “perjudicará la capacidad del Reino Unido para anticipar, evaluar y responder a violaciones graves del derecho internacional en múltiples contextos”
• La noticia del cierre, revelada por el Guardian, fue planteada a Keir Starmer en la sesión de preguntas al primer ministro esta semana por el diputado independiente por Dewsbury and Batley, Iqbal Mohamed
El organismo de control afirma que los desafíos legales de Consumer Voice y tres prestamistas «generan una nueva incertidumbre para millones de consumidores»Business live – últimas actualizacionesEl organismo de control financiero del Reino Unido se enfrenta a cuatro desafíos legales contra su plan de compensación de £9.1bn para las víctimas del escándalo de la financiación de vehículos.La Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) afirmó que defenderá el plan «enérgicamente» como la «vía más rápida y sencilla para los consumidores y la forma más eficiente para que las empresas rectifiquen la situación». Continuar leyendo...
• El Congreso de EE.UU. aprobó una extensión temporal de 45 días de una polémica ley que otorga autoridad de vigilancia sin orden judicial bajo la Sección 702 de la Ley de Vigilancia de Inteligencia Extranjera, dando a los legisladores más tiempo para debatir los límites a la recolección masiva de datos.
• La prórroga evitó por poco un vencimiento automático del régimen de vigilancia, que según funcionarios de inteligencia sustenta aproximadamente la mitad de las operaciones antiterroristas y de contraespionaje de la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional.
• Grupos defensores de las libertades civiles criticaron la solución a corto plazo, argumentando que el gobierno de EE.UU. sigue recolectando grandes cantidades de comunicaciones digitales de estadounidenses sin órdenes judiciales individualizadas, mientras que la Casa Blanca presionó al Congreso para restaurar los plenos poderes de la Sección 702.
EnComm Aviation afirma que la acción de la empresa ha cortado el apoyo vital a países afectados por crisis, incluidos Sudán del Sur y la RDC. El mayor fabricante de armas de Gran Bretaña, BAE Systems, se enfrenta a una demanda de 120 millones de libras tras retirar el apoyo a los aviones utilizados para entregar ayuda a algunos de los países más necesitados del mundo. EnComm Aviation, un operador de carga de ayuda con sede en Kenia, afirma que la decisión obligó a cancelar contratos humanitarios y redujo los suministros a Sudán del Sur, ahora amenazado por la hambruna, Somalia y la República Democrática del Congo (RDC), entre otros. Seguir leyendo...
Judith Alexander describe cómo la casa de Kentish Town, propiedad del primer ministro, fue blanco de un ataque. La cuñada del primer ministro ha dicho que temía lo que podría haber sucedido si no se hubiera despertado después de que su hogar fuera blanco de un ataque incendiario, según se informó ante el tribunal. El incidente es uno de una serie de ataques incendiarios que tuvieron lugar en mayo del año pasado contra propiedades vinculadas a Keir Starmer, de los cuales se acusa a tres hombres con vínculos con Ukraine. Ellos niegan todos los cargos. Continuar leyendo...
El músico era conocido por el himno de la clase trabajadora Take This Job and Shove It, así como por éxitos como The Ride y otrosDavid Allan Coe, el cantautor de country que escribió el himno de la clase trabajadora Take This Job and Shove It y tuvo éxitos con You Never Even Called Me By My Name y The Ride, entre otros, ha muerto. Tenía 86 años. La esposa de Coe, Kimberly Hastings Coe, confirmó su fallecimiento a Rolling Stone el miércoles. Continuar leyendo...
• Electoral Commission está investigando denuncias de que el dinero entregado al MP procedía de un empresario de US ahora condenado por fraude electrónico
• UK politics live – últimas actualizaciones
• Labour ha pedido a Robert Jenrick que renuncie a casi 40.000 £ donadas a su campaña para ser líder del Conservative en 2024 tras las alegaciones de que la suma procedía de un donante extranjero no permitido ahora condenado por fraude.
La ministra de Asuntos Exteriores dice que China ha acordado facilitar las exportaciones de combustible para aviones para aliviar las interrupciones del suministro. Siga las noticias de hoy en vivo. Reciba nuestro correo electrónico de noticias de última hora, nuestra aplicación gratuita o nuestro podcast de noticias diario. Buenos días y bienvenidos a nuestro blog de noticias en vivo. Soy Martin Farrer con las historias más destacadas de la noche y luego será Nick Visser con la acción principal. Penny Wong ha estado ocupada en su último viaje al extranjero, afirmando que China ha aceptado negociar las ventas de combustible para aviones para ayudar a aliviar la crisis mundial del petróleo. Continuar leyendo...
• Un juez federal desestimó una demanda del Departamento de Justicia que buscaba acceso a los datos de registro de votantes de Arizona, fallando a favor del estado.
• El caso involucraba alegaciones sobre listas de votantes inexactas, pero el tribunal consideró que no había pruebas suficientes para proceder con las exigencias de la Administración Trump.
• Este fallo protege la privacidad de los datos de los votantes del estado y podría impactar los debates actuales sobre la integridad electoral antes de las elecciones de mitad de mandato de 2026.
Los reguladores de California resolvieron una demanda que alegaba que una agencia estatal mostró sesgo político contra la empresa de cohetes y su director ejecutivo. Los reguladores de California se disculparon con el CEO de SpaceX, Elon Musk, esta semana al resolver una demanda que afirmaba que una agencia estatal mostró sesgo político contra la compañía de cohetes y su director ejecutivo. Como parte del acuerdo, la Comisión Costera de California reconoció que sus miembros hicieron declaraciones “inapropiadas” sobre las creencias políticas de Musk en una audiencia de 2024 sobre el programa de lanzamiento Falcon 9 de SpaceX. Continuar leyendo...
Terri Sewell y Shomari Figures corren el riesgo de perder sus escaños en los distritos congresionales negros de Alabama tras el fallo. Los legisladores que representan los dos distritos congresionales negros de Alabama, quienes ahora corren el riesgo de perder sus escaños después de que la Corte Suprema diezmara efectivamente el Voting Rights Act, dijeron que la decisión envía a EE. UU. “hacia atrás”. El fallo de 6-3 en Louisiana v Callais el miércoles debilita una disposición clave del Voting Rights Act, abriendo la puerta para que los republicanos eliminen los distritos congresionales de mayoría-minoría en todo el sur, y los representantes Terri Sewell y Shomari Figures se encuentran en el punto de mira. Continuar leyendo...
• Maurice 'Mopreme' Shakur, el hermanastro de Tupac, presentó el martes una demanda por muerte por negligencia en el Tribunal Superior de Los Ángeles contra Duane 'Keffe D' Davis y otros acusados no identificados involucrados en el asesinato de 1996.
• La demanda afirma que "por primera vez en casi 30 años, los hilos están empezando a unirse" en medio de nuevos avances mientras se acerca el juicio de Davis por asesinato en primer grado.
• Tupac recibió cuatro disparos mortales el 7 de septiembre de 1996 en Las Vegas, cuando un Cadillac blanco se acercó a su BMW cerca del MGM Grand y el Caesars Palace.
European Commission says tech company does not have effective measures to keep under-13s off Facebook and InstagramThe tech company Meta has been found to be in breach of EU law for failing to prevent children under 13 from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms.Issuing the preliminary findings of a nearly two-year investigation, the European Commission said on Wednesday that Meta did not have effective measures in place to stop under-13s accessing its services. Continue reading...
Albanese defends plan forcing Meta, Google and TikTok to make deals with Australian news publishers through a levy The Trump administration has described Australia’s moves to make big tech companies pay for news online as “extortion” but Anthony Albanese defended the plan by saying it was about protecting and rewarding media outlets for the work they produce.Labor’s plan to encourage Meta, Google and TikTok to make deals with Australian news publishers, or face a 2.25% levy, is likely to be supported by the Coalition and Greens in parliament. But a bigger problem may be the ire of Donald Trump, who has strongly opposed extra regulation being imposed on US-based tech companies. A major tech industry lobby group on Wednesday urged the White House to consider retaliatory trade measures. Continue reading...
The NSW premier, who was unequivocal in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, has now linked the fate of his state’s laws with those of the Queensland legal challengeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has said he will only ban the slogan “globalise the intifada” if a potential constitutional challenge to a similar ban in Queensland is unsuccessful, the strongest indication yet that the state government may not seek to proscribe the contested phrase at all.Minns was unequivocal about his intention to ban what he described as “hateful, violent rhetoric” following the Bondi terror attack in December, but sent the issue to a parliamentary inquiry, which he said would enable legislation to be introduced when parliament returned in February. Continue reading...
After she had to travel out of state to access care, Rachel Fulton joined the Center for Reproductive Rights’ suit, which an appeal has now halted indefinitelyIt was the worst day of Rachel Fulton’s life. She stood outside her doctor’s office, reeling with the news that her dearly wanted pregnancy needed to end. But her day would, somehow, become even worse: Fulton lives in Tennessee, where abortion is banned except for very narrow threats to the patient’s life. She had to travel hours to another state to receive care from an unfamiliar doctor far from home.Fulton joined a lawsuit, along with five other patients, in 2023 against the state of Tennessee for violating their right to life. The American Medical Association and two doctors also joined the lawsuit because they say they have been prevented from providing the standard of care for their patients. Continue reading...
Trump officials use incident at correspondents’ dinner to pitch case for $400m project, arguing it will be ‘safe space’US politics live – latest updatesThe US Department of J (DoJ) has used the weekend shooting in Washington DC to pressure a preservation group to drop a lawsuit seeking to halt the construction of Donald Trump’s White House ballroom.Several Trump administration officials, including the president, seized on the incident at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to advance their case for the completion of the controversial $400m project, for which the White House’s East Wing was suddenly demolished, arguing the new ballroom was needed as a “safe space”. Continue reading...
Prime minister tells Jewish leaders legislation against malign state actors will go before parliament in JulyKeir Starmer has promised to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guards by introducing legislation in the next session of parliament in July.On a trip to Kenton united synagogue in north-west London on Thursday, the prime minister said he wanted “to make Britain a country where our Jewish community feels safe”. Continue reading...
Sabrina Crawford among those refused because of rule change, which now also affects children of immigrants born in ItalyIn 2025, after a long and arduous journey in her attempts to gain Italian citizenship, including a pivotal genealogical research trip to a village in Calabria, US-born Sabrina Crawford was hoping to fulfil her lifelong dream of building a life in Italy as she edged towards the final hurdle of the bureaucratic process.But her plans were scuppered when Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government enacted a law stopping access to Italian citizenship via distant ancestry. Since May last year, only those with a parent or grandparent who was an Italian citizen at birth, and who did not take on dual nationality, are eligible to apply. Continue reading...
• The acting Attorney General announced charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center alleging fraud in its informant program.
• Authorities assert that the SPLC's informant program paid sources to "stoke racial hatred," suggesting deliberate misuse of funds and inflammatory activities.
• The investigation remains ongoing with the possibility of future indictments naming SPLC executives as defendants.
• U.S. lawmakers and foreign policy analysts have reached bipartisan consensus that Russia and Iran have formed a "transformational" military alliance that extends far beyond diplomatic convenience, fundamentally reshaping conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
• The alliance involves weapons transfers, intelligence sharing, and sanctions-evasion tactics, with experts describing the relationship's trajectory as shifting "from turbulent to transactional to transformational" following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• Senator Tom Tillis emphasized the lethal implications for American personnel, stating that intelligence and satellite data sharing between Moscow and Tehran directly endangers U.S. service members deployed globally.
Exclusive: Officials warn department will lose access to database of 26,000 verified cases by cutting fundingThe Foreign Office unit tracking potential breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza and more recently Lebanon has been closed because of cuts within the department, the Guardian can reveal.The decision to shut the international humanitarian law cell follows a review by Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary at the Foreign Office dismissed last week by the prime minister over the Peter Mandelson scandal. Continue reading...
Climate experts and advocates warn House and Senate bills will protect polluters at the cost of the climate Republican lawmakers are attempting to shield big oil from having to pay for its contributions to the climate crisis, alarming environmental advocates.New House and Senate bills, led by Harriet Hageman, a Wyoming representative, and Ted Cruz, a Texas senator, respectively, would give oil and gas companies broad legal immunity from policies and lawsuits aimed at holding the industry accountable for damages caused by its emissions. Continue reading...
Not using capital punishment ‘really a requirement’ for Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly, says presidentIsrael’s observer status at the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly could be suspended over the country’s new law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of some offences, the president of the body has said.Petra Bayr, an Austrian Social Democrat and president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Pace), said not using the death penalty was “really a requirement” of having observer status at the pan-European human rights body, which has no connection to the EU. Continue reading...
Analysis finds 53 allegations against 30 lawmakers; nine still in office amid wave of resignations in CongressFifty-three allegations of workplace sexual harassment have been made against at least 30 House and Senate lawmakers over the past two decades, an advocacy group said in a study that was released Tuesday amid a spate of ethics-fueled resignations in Congress.Most of the lawmakers from 13 states and Guam who have faced allegations have since left office, but nine continue to hold seats, the nonpartisan National Women’s Defense League (NWDL) said. Continue reading...
Justice department’s focus seems to be on SPLC’s prior use of paid informants to monitor hate groups, group’s CEO says The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent civil rights organization, the group’s CEO said on Tuesday.Bryan Fair, the CEO of the SPLC, said the details of the investigation were not entirely clear, though “the focus appears to be on the SPLC’s prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups”. Continue reading...
ECJ says law passed in 2021 discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for incoming PMThe EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values, setting up an early test for the incoming prime minister Péter Magyar’s government when it takes power next month.In a wide-ranging judgment, the European court of justice said the 2021 law that bans content about LGBTQ+ people from schools and primetime TV was at odds with a society based on pluralism and fundamental rights such as prohibition of discrimination and freedom of expression. Continue reading...
The hearing marks a key hurdle Kevin Warsh must overcome in order to succeed Jerome Powell when his term ends on 15 MayHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Federal Reserve will commit to protecting central bank independence on interest rates at a crucial confirmation hearing later today.Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Donald Trump’s labor secretary, resigned from her role with the administration. She said it was “an honor and a privilege to serve” to serve and that she would take on a job in the private sector. The departure came after she became entangled in a string of political and personal controversies. Democrats celebrated, writing “this administration is imploding”.Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, called for Kash Patel’s immediate resignation following a report from the Atlantic detailing the FBI director’s alleged excessive drinking and absences. Patel has sued the magazine for defamation with his attorneys calling the article a “sweeping, malicious, and defamatory hit piece”.Donald Trump signed memorandums related to coal supply chains, natural gas and grid infrastructure on Monday. The president invoked the Defense Production Act in the energy-related memos, writing that increasing energy production is “essential to United States national defense”.The crowded field of Democratic candidates in the California’s governor’s race appears to be narrowing as Betty Yee — a former state controller— announced Monday she planned to end her campaign. Meanwhile, the California Democratic party chair Rusty Hicks continued to urge candidates trailing in the polls to exit the race. Continue reading...
• The New York Giants traded defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence to the Cincinnati Bengals in exchange for the No. 10 overall pick in the NFL Draft, less than two weeks after Lawrence requested a trade.
• The deal gives the Giants two first-round picks, opening numerous draft options ahead of this week's selections.
• This blockbuster move shakes up draft projections and bolsters Cincinnati's defensive line with Lawrence's elite talent.
