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Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Tony Burke zegt dat de vermelding de groep zal beletten zich te organiseren en bijeen te komen, en mogelijk meer 'verschrikkelijke bigotische rallies' zal voorkomen.

• Groepen stellen dat de rechter van het Hooggerechtshof, die aandelen in de olie-industrie bezit, mogelijk ethische codes schendt door deel te nemen aan bepaalde zaken. • Rechter Samuel Alito, die aandelen in oliebedrijven bezit, zou volgens overheidswaakhonden de ethische codes van het hof kunnen overtreden door deel te nemen aan zaken die gunstig kunnen zijn voor de grote olie-industrie. • In een brief van donderdag riep een coalitie van waakhondorganisaties de gerechtelijke commissie van de Senaat op om Alito, de enige rechter van het Hooggerechtshof met belangen in energiebedrijven, te onderzoeken. Lees verder...

• Citigroup heeft plannen aangekondigd om haar Asia-Pacific prime brokerage-divisie dit jaar met ongeveer 10% uit te breiden om meer hedgefondsen aan te trekken te midden van groeiende regionale activiteit. • De wervingscampagne is erop gericht om meer hedgefondsactiviteiten in APAC binnen te halen, een belangrijk groeigebied voor de securities services van de Amerikaanse bank. • Deze stap sluit aan bij het bredere optimisme op de Aziatische financiële markten, met name in de tech- en AI-sectoren die de koersstijgingen stimuleren.

• CME Group en Silicon Data hebben een nieuwe derivatenmarkt aangekondigd waarmee beleggers kunnen speculeren op de prijzen van cloud-rekenkracht voor AI-workloads, door de lancering van een verhandelbaar contract gebaseerd op GPU-huurbenchmarks. • De compute futures markt stelt beleggers in staat om prijzen voor graphics processing unit-capaciteit vast te leggen, om zich zo af te dekken tegen volatiliteit in de kosten van AI-infrastructuur nu de vraag sterk stijgt. • De lancering weerspiegelt de groeiende institutionele interesse in AI-infrastructuur als een verhandelbare activaklasse, en biedt een oplossing voor de onzekerheid over cloud-rekenkosten voor ondernemingen die hun AI-implementaties opschalen.

FTSE 100-bedrijf is 'voornemig aan te bevelen' bod van £60 per aandeel van bedrijf in bezit van miljardairsfamilie Wallenberg

Terwijl de druk op Starmer om af te treden toeneemt, leggen de Growth- en Tribune-groepen ideeën voor voor beleidsherzieningen UK politics live – laatste updates Groepen verbonden aan de minister van Volksgezondheid, Wes Streeting, en de burgemeester van Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, hebben ingrijpende wijzigingen in het regeringsbeleid voorgesteld. Dit geeft een beeld van hoe het land zou kunnen veranderen als een van hen Keir Starmer opvolgt. De Growth Group, verbonden aan Streeting, en de Tribune-groep van Labour-parlementsleden, verbonden aan Burnham, hebben concurrerende visies gepubliceerd over hoe Groot-Brittannië bestuurd moet worden, inclusief grootschalige belastingverlagingen, hulp bij de kosten van levensonderhoud en grote hervormingen van het overheidsapparaat. Lees verder...

• Groenen zijn in toenemende mate in conflict, maar beginnen te profiteren van het steunen van de 'Make America Healthy Again'-beweging van Robert F. Kennedy Jr. • Milieugroeperingen wezen Kennedy publiekelijk af tijdens zijn presidentscampagne, maar sommigen sluiten zich nu stilletjes aan bij de langdurige milieuadvocaat. • Deze verschuiving is van belang omdat het de kloof overbrugt tussen traditionele groenen en de op gezondheid gerichte agenda van MAHA, wat de invloed op het beleid potentieel kan vergroten.

Leden van minderheidsgemeenschappen in Birmingham en elders vrezen dat de resultaten kunnen leiden tot een toename van vijandige retoriek.

Moedermaatschappij van het Truth Social-platform van de president genereerde slechts $870.000, ondanks een stijging van de netto-omzet met 6%

• In April 2025, China-aligned attackers exploited a Taiwanese software company's server as a malware distribution point, highlighting aggressive regional tactics. • Earth Kasha, linked to APT10, expanded spear-phishing from Japanese think tanks in 2024 to Taiwanese government agencies in March 2025 using ANEL malware. • Groups like Earth Preta, Baxia, and Kurma targeted APAC governments and telecoms with backdoors, rootkits, and cloud exfiltration, shifting the global cyber balance.

Families under pressure to stay silent amid internet blackout as executions reportedly surge with 24 killed in MarchMiddle East crisis – live updatesIran is carrying out near-daily executions of prisoners in secrecy and, in some cases, refusing to hand the bodies of the dead to their families, according to rights groups and sources close to the relatives of the dead.Many families only learn of executions after they have been carried out, with some facing harassment and pressure not to speak publicly on the personal impact of the state killings, the sources said. Continue reading...

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...

• The ILeague3 group stage final points table confirmed four group winners and two best runners-up qualifying for the playoffs due to Group C's four-team format. • Results against the fifth-placed team in Group C were disregarded in standings calculations. • This structure sets up an exciting knockout phase for lower-tier Indian football clubs.

‘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...

• Expro Group Holdings announced plans to relocate its corporate domicile to the Cayman Islands, subject to shareholder approval expected in June 2026, in a strategic restructuring move. • The company is also advancing a $215 million acquisition as part of its capital deployment strategy amid expectations for stronger activity in the energy services sector. • The dual initiatives reflect Expro's efforts to optimize its corporate structure and pursue targeted M&A to enhance shareholder value.

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...

Fahad Ansari says it was ‘chilling’ that police ‘equated him with his client’ after he was stopped on return from family holiday in IrelandA lawyer who filed Hamas’s challenge to proscription in the UK was recorded by police as being a member of the banned group, “equating him with his client”.On a risk assessment form, a detective inspector, who authorised the detention of Fahad Ansari under the Terrorism Act on his return from a family holiday in Ireland, wrote “Hamas” in the space reserved for “membership of a known group”. Continue reading...

WhatsApp group has bought tens of thousands of meals for people via Facebook pageCarl used to own pubs – several of them – and a string of hotels. Then two years ago, rising costs forced him into bankruptcy. Now he sleeps on the beach in summer, and in winter sits in an all-night McDonald’s nursing a single cup of coffee.Carl’s daughters are in a different part of the country with his ex-wife. To maintain the illusion that he lives a normal life, Carl is careful only to video-call them from the local Wetherspoon’s with a meal and a drink carefully positioned in shot. That way, he reasons, he looks like a man with somewhere to be. Continue reading...

Letter coordinated by Survivors Against Terror, which includes bereaved relatives, after spate of attacks on Jewish communityDozens of survivors and bereaved relatives of 19 separate terror attacks have written an open letter of solidarity to the Jewish community, saying: “Standing together in the face of hatred is not just the right thing to do – it’s the most effective way of defeating terrorism.”The letter was coordinated by the group Survivors Against Terror (SAT), after terror attacks on two Jewish men in north London earlier this week, in what was the latest in a series of attacks on the community in the UK. Continue reading...

• San Diego Padres ownership group agreed to sell the team to a new investor consortium on May 2, awaiting MLB approval. • The deal, valued at $2.8 billion, includes local business leaders and aims to fund stadium upgrades. • This sale ends decades of current ownership, promising stability amid the Padres' competitive NL West push.

Exclusive: Sev.en Global Investments could turn state-owned businesses into Britain’s biggest steelmakerBusiness live – latest updatesThe owner of the UK’s largest electric steelworks has said the government should find a single buyer for British Steel and Speciality Steel UK (SSUK), a move that would create the country’s biggest steelmaker.Sev.en Global Investments, owned by the Czech billionaire Pavel Tykač, said it not only plans to invest £100m in the UK – mainly in the electric arc steelworks in Cardiff it bought last year – but also has the ability to invest “hundreds of millions of pounds” more in Britain under its 7 Steel brand. Continue reading...

• The United States deployed a third aircraft carrier strike group with thousands of elite troops to the Middle East on April 24, marking the largest military buildup since the 2003 Iraq invasion, as the two-month Iran conflict escalates despite a ceasefire agreement. • President Trump warned the American military was "ready to go" if peace efforts fail, stating the US used the April 8 ceasefire to "restock" military capabilities while Washington and Tehran accuse each other of violations. • The US bombing campaign launched February 28 has devastated Iran's military infrastructure and leadership, but Tehran maintains control of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil and gas supply route, prompting a US naval blockade imposed April 13.

HAYI has taken responsibility for a string of incidents targeting Jewish sites, but investigators say the latest claim may be opportunistic rather than state-backedPolice treating stabbing of two men in Golders Green as terrorismIt took just over an hour after the horrific knife attack on two British Jewish people in Golders Green, north London, for an Iran-linked terror group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI), to make a claim of responsibility on a Telegram channel.Counter-terror police are aware of the initial posting – a brief statement accompanied by the group’s logo – put online at 12.23pm and a follow-up 40 minutes later showing a violent attack at a bus stop. Continue reading...

Man has been arrested after incident in north-west London, says volunteer organisation Shomrim A man has been arrested after two people were stabbed in Golders Green, north-west London, the Jewish neighbourhood watch group Shomrim has said.The man was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and “attempting to stab Jewish members of the public”, Shomrim said on social media. Continue reading...

About 500 officers deployed as part of operation at headquarters of Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light Police have raided the headquarters of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light following an investigation into allegations of serious sexual offences, modern slavery and forced marriage.About 500 officers drawn from across the north-west region were on the ground on Wednesday morning. The officers had warrants to enter the group’s headquarters, which is based out of a former orphanage as well as other properties in Crewe, Cheshire. Continue reading...

Research on maths teaching in English secondary schools upends decades of debate over mixed-ability educationTeaching pupils in classes grouped by ability improves the results of high-flyers but does not affect the progress of less able children, according to a study that upends decades of debate over mixed-ability education.The research by University College London’s Institute of Education found that secondary school pupils in England with previously strong maths performances made slower progress in mixed-attainment classes than when they were taught alongside children with similarly high ability. Continue reading...

Kremlin-controlled paramilitaries also alleged it inflicted ‘irreplaceable losses’ on insurgents avoiding civilian casualtiesRussia’s defence ministry has claimed its Africa Corps – the successor to the former Wagner mercenary group – had prevented a coup in Mali over the weekend, avoiding mass civilian casualties and inflicting “irreplaceable losses” on rebel insurgents.It said in a statement that its troops in the desert town of Kidal near the Algerian border had fought for more than 24 hours while completely surrounded and vastly outnumbered. It also alleged without providing evidence, that the militants had been trained by European mercenary instructors including Ukrainians. The casualty toll was not specified. 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...