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Morgan McSweeney has denied claims he bullied civil servants into appointing Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, widely regarded as a protege of Mandelson, resigned in February over his part in the peer getting the coveted job. Ahead of his appearance at the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, the political […]

Pope Leo XIV has urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home from his trip to Africa. Leo also asserted that countries have the right to control their borders but must not treat migrants worse than “animals”, […]

Actor Ralph Fiennes has said “I love” that Pope Leo is standing up to US President Donald Trump. Appearing on Andrew Marr’s show on LBC Radio, Fiennes spoke of the ongoing Iran conflict and what he described as “the obscene approach of Mr Trump’s regime to waging war”. Fiennes starred in Oscar-winning film Conclave in […]

The US Department of Justice’s internal watchdog said that it is reviewing the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The inspector general’s review office will focus on how the department collected, reviewed and redacted materials in preparation for release and its process for addressing privacy concerns that arose […]

Actor and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal will preside over the main competition jury for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival later this year. Festival organisers announced the selection on Thursday. Gyllenhaal, who most recently directed The Bride!, brought her directorial debut The Lost Daughter to the festival in 2021. Maggie Gyllenhaal attends The Bride world premiere […]

The US military has seized another tanker associated with smuggling Iranian oil. The Defence Department said it seized the oil tanker Majestic X in the Indian Ocean. “We will continue global maritime enforcement to disrupt illicit networks and interdict vessels providing material support to Iran, wherever they operate,” the Defence Department said. Overnight, U.S. forces […]

Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi was splattered with red liquid as he left a building in Berlin. Mr Pahlavi had just departed a news briefing, during which he criticised the ceasefire between the Unites States and Iran, when the incident occurred outside Germany’s federal press conference building. He then waved to his supporters and […]

Two trains have collided in Denmark, prompting a massive emergency response for what police called a major accident. The collision occurred at around 6.30am local time about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Copenhagen. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured. Rescuers at the site where two trains collided between Hilleroed and […]

Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, underscoring the ongoing threat to global energy supplies and complicating efforts to bring the US and Iran together for talks to end the war. The attacks, which Iranian media said were carried out by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, came after President Donald Trump […]

A second ship has come under attack in the Strait of Hormuz, the British military said, just a short time after Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a container ship. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO) did not immediately identify who shot at the second ship. However, suspicion immediately fell on Iran, […]