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• Con Starmer sotto crescente pressione per dimettersi, i gruppi Growth e Tribune propongono idee per una revisione delle politiche • Gruppi collegati al segretario della salute, Wes Streeting, e al sindaco del Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, hanno proposto ampi cambiamenti alla politica governativa, offrendo un'idea di come il paese potrebbe cambiare qualora uno dei due dovesse succeedere a Keir Starmer. • Il Growth Group, alleato di Streeting, e il gruppo Tribune di parlamentari laburisti, alleato di Burnham, hanno pubblicato visioni contrastanti su come la Gran Bretagna dovrebbe essere gestita, tra cui vasti tagli fiscali, aiuti per il costo della vita e grandi riforme dell'apparato governativo.

• I Greens sono sempre più conflitti, ma iniziano a trarre beneficio dall'adesione al movimento 'Make America Healthy Again' di Robert F. Kennedy Jr. • I gruppi ambientalisti hanno respinto pubblicamente Kennedy durante la sua corsa presidenziale, ma alcuni si stanno ora allineando silenziosamente con il veterano avvocato ambientalista. • Questo spostamento è significativo poiché colma le divisioni tra i greens tradizionali e l'agenda orientata alla salute del MAHA, amplificando potenzialmente l'influenza sulle politiche.

I membri delle comunità minoritarie a Birmingham e altrove temono che i risultati possano portare a un aumento della retorica ostile. Ammettendo la sconfitta durante lo spoglio elettorale presso l'Utilita Arena di Birmingham venerdì, il leader uscente del consiglio comunale per il Labour, John Cotton, ha lanciato un appello. "Ciò che incoraggerei la prossima amministrazione di questa città a fare, qualunque sia la forma che essa assumerà, è che si assicuri di sostenere la diversità di questa città", ha dichiarato. Il governo locale del Labour, durato 14 anni, è terminato bruscamente, con Reform che emerge come il partito più grande con 22 consiglieri finora, seguito dai Greens con 19, sebbene entrambi i partiti siano lontani dai 51 necessari per la maggioranza. Continua a leggere...

• Nell'aprile 2025, aggressori allineati alla Cina hanno sfruttato il server di un'azienda di software taiwanese come punto di distribuzione di malware, evidenziando tattiche regionali aggressive. • Earth Kasha, collegato a APT10, ha esteso le attività di spear-phishing dai think tank giapponesi nel 2024 alle agenzie governative taiwanesi nel marzo 2025 utilizzando il malware ANEL. • Gruppi come Earth Preta, Baxia e Kurma hanno preso di mira i governi e le telecomunicazioni dell'area APAC con backdoor, rootkit ed esfiltrazione di dati cloud, spostando l'equilibrio cyber globale.

• Famiglie sotto pressione per mantenere il silenzio in mezzo a un blackout di internet, mentre le esecuzioni sarebbero in aumento con 24 persone uccise a marzo • Crisi in Medio Oriente – aggiornamenti in diretta • L'Iran sta portando avanti esecuzioni di prigionieri quasi quotidiane in segreto e, in alcuni casi, rifiuta di consegnare i corpi dei defunti alle loro famiglie, secondo i gruppi per i diritti umani e fonti vicine ai parenti delle vittime.

As communities push for publicly owned electricity, private utilities may be deploying dark money and local front groups to stop themThe utility industry is quietly dispatching a network of front groups to thwart the growing push for public power across the US – a push that comes amid mounting frustration over sky-high utility bills, electric outages, a slow transition to clean energy and private utilities’ soaring profits.Communities from Ann Arbor, Michigan to San Diego, California and St Petersburg, Florida are exploring municipalizing their grids to join the country’s approximately 2,000 public power companies. Continue reading...

‘Clinical consensus statement’ also urges heart doctors to advise patients to not eat late at night, and chew slowlyWant to reduce your intake of ultra-processed food? If so, cook at home more often, don’t eat late at night and chew your food more slowly.Those are among some of the tips doctors have offered to help people limit the amount of UPF they consume given the acute and growing danger it poses to human health worldwide. Continue reading...

Without offering details or evidence, US Southern Command described the people killed as ‘narco-terrorists’The US military said on Tuesday it struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three people, in the latest such attack that rights groups label as “extrajudicial killings” and Washington describes as targeting “narco-terrorists”.US Southern Command posted about the strike on social media Tuesday evening, alleging that the vessel struck on Tuesday was operated by “Designated Terrorist Organizations” that it did not identify. Continue reading...

Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spillSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxEnvironmental groups have sued the Trump administration over its approval of BP’s huge new ultra-deep oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico, 16 years to the day since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster caused the worst oil spill in US history. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Ministers urged to consult sector on proposed social cohesion measures meant to tackle extremismSeveral leading civil society organisations have urged the government to consult the sector before introducing new powers for the Charity Commission, which they warn risks “suppressing legitimate advocacy” at a time when civic space is under increased pressure.Signatories including leaders from some of the UK’s largest civil society bodies, alongside faith-based and community organisations, wrote to the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, saying the proposed social cohesion measures could lead to the “suppression of lawful advocacy, campaigning and community engagement”. Continue reading...

Filing seeks to overturn seditious conspiracy charges of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members who laid siege to US Capitol in 2021The US Department of Justice has requested that a federal appeals judge overturn convictions for members of far-right groups Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who were previously found guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the violent siege of the US capitol in 2021.Jeanine Pirro, the Donald Trump-appointed US attorney for the District of Columbia, signed separate motions on Tuesday to vacate convictions for a slew of individuals, including the Proud Boys’ leaders Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs as well as Stewart Rhodes, a former attorney who founded the Oath Keepers’ militia. Continue reading...

Three human rights groups are seeking to subpoena permit documents from Richard MarlesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA trio of Palestinian human rights groups have launched a legal bid to force Australia’s defence minister, Richard Marles, to shed light on whether the government has approved Israel-bound export permits, which could violate international law.The groups – the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights – will attempt to subpoena arms export documents after filing an affidavit in the federal court last week. Continue reading...

Lafarge fined more than €1m and its former boss jailed for paying nearly €5.6m to groups including Islamic State A French court has fined the cement group Lafarge more than €1m (£870,000) and sentenced its former boss to six years in prison for paying protection money to Islamic State and other terror groups to maintain its business in war-torn Syria from 2013 to 2014.The ruling follows a 2022 case in the United States in which the French firm pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to US-designated “terrorist” organisations and agreed to pay a $778m fine (£580m) – the first time a company had faced the charge. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Dozens of organizations write to Congress after general announced plan to ‘deal with’ those fleeing any humanitarian crisis on the islandDozens of US and international human rights organizations are decrying the Trump administration’s plans to establish a migrant “camp” for fleeing Cubans at the Guantánamo Bay military base if the island nation’s crisis worsens under pressure from the US, according to a letter to members of Congress on Friday.The 85 groups plan to submit the joint letter, exclusively shared with the Guardian, to US senators and House representatives, expressing their “profound concern” with comments made last month by a top Department of Defense commander, and describing any prospect of further migrant detention at the base as “deeply troubling and unacceptable”. Continue reading...

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itselfOn a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees in front of him began to display nervous behaviour. They grimaced and touched each other for reassurance, acting more like they were about to meet strangers than close companions.In hindsight, Sandel said, that moment was the first sign of what would become a years-long bloody conflict between a once close-knit group of chimps. Continue reading...

The coalition of organizations says Trump’s executive order restricting who can receive mail ballots is unconstitutional Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxA coalition of civil rights groups sued the Trump administration on Thursday, saying that a new executive order to limit mail-in voting is unconstitutional.The order, which Trump signed on Tuesday, instructs the federal government to come up with a list of eligible citizens who can vote in each state. It also instructs the US Postal Service to only transmit mail-in ballots to people on that list. Continue reading...

Louis Mosley says government should resist calls to trigger break clause in £330m deal with US analytics companyUK politics live – latest updatesPalantir’s UK boss has urged the government not to give in to “ideologically motivated campaigners” as government ministers explore a way out of a £330m NHS contract with the tech company.Ministers have sought advice on triggering a break clause in Palantir’s deal to deliver the Federated Data Platform (FDP), amid questions over the company’s presence in the public sector. Continue reading...

Advocates say Lee Zeldin’s EPA has rolled back protections and cut staff and funding, putting health at riskSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxMore than 160 environmental and public health organizations on Tuesday called for Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, to resign or be fired.“No [EPA] administrator in history – Democratic or Republican – has so brazenly betrayed the agency’s core mission,” the groups wrote in an open letter. “EPA’s foremost purpose is to protect human health and the environment. With Administrator Lee Zeldin at the helm, EPA has abandoned its mission, creating damage that will take decades to address.” Continue reading...

US-based Zubeyda Muzeyyen, AKA DJ Haram, claimed a ‘Zio-Australian-Epstein empire’ was responsible for silencing dissentersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe premier of New South Wales has ruled out cutting funding for Sydney’s Biennale arts festival after Jewish groups condemned language used by US artist DJ Haram at an opening night event at the White Bay Power Station in Sydney.At the centre of the controversy was the artist’s claim during her set that a “Zio-Australian-Epstein empire” was responsible for silencing dissenters. The words appear to link Israel to the convicted sex offender and New York financier Jeffrey Epstein and, critics say, feed into longstanding antisemitic tropes. Continue reading...