All news for 2024-06-20

The outgoing Dutch PM has been confirmed after seven months of campaigning.

The royal affront has a history, with President Milei having previously insulted Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez and his wife.

Conservative figures are accused of betting on the timing of the snap election. The scandal couldn’t come at a worse moment for Rishi Sunak.

British trading platform CMC Markets (CMCX.L), opens new tab on Thursday forecast higher operating income in 2025 after a 52% jump in annual profit aided by strong retail and institutional trading and tight cost control measures, boosting shares to a near-two-year high.

The Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high of 5.25% at its last meeting before July 4’s UK election, but the prospect of a future rate cut moved closer as some policymakers said their thinking was now "finely balanced".

The victim suffered a stroke shortly before he died in hospital

Russia and China are currently united by many things — a natural gas pipeline, mutual antipathy towards Washington, authoritarian politics, and, increasingly, a state-sponsored homophobic agenda.

Tell enough kids at school they can’t play with you anymore and soon enough you’ll be the one left out.

Ten members of the group have been convicted over the operation, which produced counterfeit versions of medicines such as Xanax.

Abdul Ezedi’s body was pulled from the River Thames earlier this year following a manhunt after he doused his ex-partner with an alkali substance.

Laura Saunders is married to Tony Lee, head of Conservative campaigns. Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary aide, Craig Williams, is also under investigation, and the PM’s close protection officer has been arrested over betting allegations.

The Queen and the Prince of Wales have joined thousands of people for the second day of Royal Ascot.

An armoured vehicle which rolled down a hill during a training exercise, killing an occupant, had long-standing safety concerns, an inquest heard.

Condor Ferries services from Guernsey and Jersey to St Malo are set to operate as scheduled this summer after strikes in France were suspended.

Among several big General Election polls released yesterday, one predicted a particularly shocking result: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak losing his seat in North Yorkshire.

Politicians shut down the Stormont Assembly for two years. Among the casualties: Northern Ireland’s hopes of greening its economy.

Labour is talking a good game on cleaning up Westminster as an election looms — but the U.K. has a long history of opposition parties promising the earth.

Heads of prisons say they will no longer be able to accept new inmates ‘very soon’ after 4 July election

Only two countries provide fair amount to compensate lower-income nations for biodiversity loss, with most paying less than half what they should, says ODI