Ukrainian forces take back over 200 sq km in just five days, wiping out weeks of Russian gains

by Nic Tall, National Co-ordinator of Together for the Church of England I am writing this piece in Church House, the morning after a five-hour debate on Living in Love and Faith (LLF). As with many l...

General Synod has given its backing to establishing working and consultative groups to continue work on same-sex relationships and marriage as the Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith (LLF) pr...

Whether it’s the $1bn price tag or the US president’s outsized power, key allies are steering clear of the board

Cross-party UK MPs campaigning for senior Fatah leader’s release from Israeli jail, saying he is unifying figure The son of Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian prisoner often described as the Nelson Mandela of the Palestinian movement, has called on the British government to put his father’s release at the heart of Palestinian democratic renewal. Arab Barghouti warned the UK government that its recent recognition of a Palestinian state risks providing nothing but false hope unless it follows through by using diplomatic channels to secure his father’s freedom. Continue reading...

Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

Cycling represents one of the most energy-efficient forms of transport ever invented

Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground Two witnesses to the killing of Alex Pretti have said in sworn testimony that the 37-year-old intensive care nurse was not brandishing a weapon when he approached federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, contradicting a claim made by Trump administration officials as they sought to cast the shooting of a prone man as an act of self-defense. Their accounts came in sworn affidavits that were filed in federal court in Minnesota late Saturday, just hours after Pretti’s killing, as part of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of Minneapolis protesters against Kristi Noem and other homeland security officials directing the immigration crackdown in the city. Continue reading...

Renee Nicole Good’s killing is the latest example of the president’s outrageous – and blatant – assaults on the truth

Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years

Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’

Exclusive: Chloë Deakin tells how she wrote to Dulwich college master to argue against Farage’s nomination as prefect

International organisations not registered by 31 December face closure in Israel, but the Israeli government says aid delivery will not be affected.

The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential. The authoritative World Inequality Report 2026, based on data compiled by 200 researchers, also found that the top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% combined, while the poorest half captures less than 10% of total global earnings. Continue reading...