Unacceptable

De opmerkingen van de president volgden op verklaringen van Benjamin Netanyahu dat de oorlog 'niet voorbij is'. Daarnaast reizen Amerikaanse passagiers van het door het hantavirus getroffen cruiseschip naar Nebraska.

• Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft de reactie van Iran op een Amerikaans vredigvoorstel publiekelijk veroordeeld als 'totaal onaanvaardbaar', te midden van vastgelopen onderhandelingen in de afgelopen weken. • Iran heeft zijn 'oorlogbeëindigende' reactie ingediend via Pakistaanse bemiddelaars, terwijl een fragiel staakt-het-vuren standhoudt ondanks incidentele escalaties in de Golf en meldingen van droneaanvallen. • De uitwisseling verhoogt de spanningen; Iran bestempelt de afwijzing van Trump als 'irrelevant' en waarschuwt landen die Amerikaanse sancties handhaven voor 'moeilijkheden' bij het passeren van de Straat van Hormuz.

Brown calls for police to look into former prince’s use of public funds as he says he had colleague raise issue in 2008Gordon Brown has revealed he ordered that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor be questioned about incurring “unacceptable costs” as a trade envoy in 2008, as he called for the police to widen their inquiry to include the use of public funds.The former prime minister said he asked a colleague from the business department to question Mountbatten-Windsor about his travel expenses. Continue reading...

David Hinton will receive only his £400,000 salary this year after thousands of customers were left without waterThe chief executive of South East Water has said he will forgo his bonus in an act of penitence for “unacceptable outages” that left thousands of customers in Kent and Sussex without water.David Hinton told MPs on the environment, food and rural affairs select committee that he had decided not to accept an additional “performance payment” this year. Instead, he will receive only his £400,000 salary. Continue reading...

A top UN official has criticised lack of global urgency as reports confirm the world’s largest humanitarian crisis is worseningEfforts to end Sudan’s catastrophic war have been criticised as “unacceptable” by the country’s top UN official as a series of new reports confirm that the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis is worsening.Speaking to the Guardian on the eve of the third anniversary of the war, Denise Brown expressed her concern over the apparent lack of political urgency to end a conflict that has forced 14 million Sudanese to flee their homes. Tens of thousands of people are missing. Continue reading...