Comments signal president prepared to use dispute to push UK to raise defence spending and Nato contributions

Centre for Economics and Business Research calculates effect of inflation and wage stagnation to end of 2027

Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting the decision – and they’re only getting more passionate

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Party’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits

US president places military plan in doubt despite positive meetings with Voloymyr Zelenskyy in Washington this week. What we know on day 1,619

Rightwing provocateur meets Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who says he expects to meet Donald Trump in Washington next week

The suspension of the USA striker’s red card after Trump’s intervention has shown what Gianni Infantino’s organisation is trying to turn the sport into: scripted entertainment

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In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

A battered economy, huge numbers of casualties and very little territorial gain – it’s no wonder even stalwart Putin supporters are showing signs of disquiet, says Rajan Menon, professor emeritus of i...

Exclusive: International Energy Agency’s Fatih Birol, the world’s leading energy economist, also says UK should largely forgo North Sea expansion

The madness is contagious – and nowhere has this been more in evidence than in the two-week ceasefire with Iran

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Intelligence reports find Russia is close to completing phased shipment of drones, medicine and food

Negotiators had reached agreement on key issues despite Trump team’s idiosyncratic approach. Two days later, war began

Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war

Pilots reportedly adopting Russian tactics as statement in name of new Iranian supreme leader vows continued attacks on US bases

At least the British gave us the perp-walk shots. But I fear that any Americans seeking real justice will have to wait, and wait, and wait, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation

Putin shows no signs of ending Ukraine war and claim adds weight to accusation Trump favours Russian president

Reform’s latest defector from the Tories is a politician whose eye has only ever been on his own ambition