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The Indonesian government has handed Australia a draft proposal for the repatriation of the Bali Nine members still in prison, a deal it hopes can be finalised by the end of December.

There was hope a final deal could be reached as soon as possible, Indonesia’s minister for law, Yusril …

Good morning. All over the western world, incumbent governments have been given a kicking over the cost of living crisis. But in the Irish election, where the counting of results

concluded yesterday

Not long ago, Sinn Féin appeared on course to win …

Scottish ministers are contemplating modest tax increases for the better off and plan to scrap the freeze in council tax rates as they search for extra money in this week’s budget.

Shona Robison, the Scottish finance secretary, is under pressure to provide a vote-winning budget on Wednesday after being given …

Islamist-led rebels seized

large swathes of territory

Here is a look at who controls what territory in Syria, where war broke out in 2011 after …

The Swedish government checklist for surviving a war would not have looked out of place decades ago: bottled water; sleeping bags; extra batteries; enough cash for a week; and non-perishable food such as rice and cereal.

Without being mentioned in name, Russia once more lurks in the background as it …

Rachel Reeves is to appoint a health service and regulatory veteran, Tom Hayhoe, a former Conservative cabinet adviser, as her Covid corruption commissioner with the remit of clawing back billions in fraudulent contracts.

The chancellor is understood to believe the Treasury can recoup £2.6bn from waste, fraud and flawed contracts …

Keir Starmer has “utterly rejected” the idea that the UK must choose between the United States and Europe when Donald Trump comes to power, arguing that it is in the national interest to work with both.

The prime minister said the UK would “never turn away” from its relationship with …

In its manifesto, Labour promised to tighten the rules around political donations. Officials are now

examining a slate of ideas

Change will take time, as the plans are still at an early stage and ministers are not due …

A failed Conservative plan to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda spent £50m on flights that never took off, new figures disclose.

The Home Office has also revealed that the scheme – which

ran under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak’s administrations

The crisis in Syria is the result of President Bashar al-Assad’s refusal to engage in political dialogue with the opposition, and not external interventions, the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, said after meeting his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, for

emergency talks in Ankara

Araghchi, by contrast, blamed …