All news for 2026-07-07

Nigel Farage’s finances and the associations surrounding his political projects have been under scrutiny for the best part of a decade.

The BBC’s announcement that it proposes to cut 550 jobs in news, nations, and TV and radio content as part of the first stage in its plan to save £500 million across the corporation over the next two years will have wide-ranging ramifications, not least because people will lose their livelihoods.

A Scottish wind farm has been bought by a company whose founder and major shareholder is a right-wing US media mogul who has donated to Donald Trump.

Bálint Ruff, the minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office, signed the decision, meaning that at the end of July the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation (MCC) will cease to exist, along with all “public-interest asset management foundations performing public duties” (KEKVA).

Two bombs exploded near the hotel in Damascus where ‌Emmanuel Macron held meetings on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, but the French president’s office said he did not hear the explosions and he met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa soon afterwards.

Since Labour swept to power two years ago, Britain has cycled through three U.S. ambassadors, two trade secretaries and is now preparing for a second prime minister.

Comcast’s Sky has agreed to buy the broadcast channels and streaming service of Britain’s ITV for £1.6 billion ($2.13 billion), creating a British champion to compete with global players YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and Disney.

The U.S. cyber defense agency CISA is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to audit government software, ‌three people familiar with the matter said on Monday, another sign of government enthusiasm for adopting the AI startup’s tools even as the company navigates an ongoing standoff with the White House.

The US president leapt to the defence of his country’s star striker on Monday as he insisted the red card shown for his challenge on Bosnia-Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic “wasn’t a foul.”

Harry arrived in the UK on Monday evening and so will be in the country when the judgment is published on Tuesday afternoon, after an 11-week trial earlier this year in his claim against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over alleged unlawful information gathering.

Donald Trump’s intervention to have the USA’s star striker’s ban overturned has sparked a massive World Cup crisis - and the host nation was dumped out anyway in a humiliating 4-1 defeat to Belgium

Belgium hammered USA 4-1 in Seattle on Monday and their players trolled Donald Trump with his signature dance moves after Romelu Lukaku completed the scoring.

Despite a range of prohibitions, Lithuanian companies continued to supply Russia with drone components, Starlink terminals, and spare parts for the terminals, The Insider found in collaboration with the Lithuanian investigative journalism organization Siena.