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Downing Street could become a notably less appealing place to work in the coming weeks, with cleaners and catering staff at No 10 scheduled to begin a month-long continuous strike over pay and conditions.

The strike, scheduled to last from 24 February to 25 March in No 10 and the …

A Russian drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the protective containment shell of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said.

The attack came just hours before the start of the Munich Security Conference, where discussions were dominated by the war in Ukraine …

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Career-death via “offensive WhatsApp group” is a modern iteration of a long-standing tradition of public figures being felled by loose talk. Where once it was Jane Austen being busted – albeit posthumously – for making bitchy remarks in a letter about her neighbour’s miscarriage, now we enjoy the spectacle …

One month after the

announcement of a ceasefire

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and Hamas are playing a game of nerves every week of the truce. On Saturday, all …

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Ever since Donald Trump won the US election in November, concerns about Ukraine’s fate have grown. Despite insisting on a number of occasions that he could end the war in one day, in the weeks since his inauguration there has been little clarity on Trump’s plans for the …

Japan is to flood the market with almost a quarter of a million tonnes of stockpiled rice in an unprecedented attempt to arrest soaring prices caused by

record summer heat

The government will release up to 210,000 tonnes of rice, the agriculture …

Angela Rayner has insisted Labour’s flagship

package of workers’ rights

The deputy prime minister said that company bosses who were critical of the proposals needed to “get on board” because …

When Margaret Thatcher opened the Hadley Centre for Climate Change in 1990 journalists suggested she was attempting to appear to be doing something about global heating rather than implementing any policies.

Fast-forward 35 years and the Hadley Centre’s science is world-leading and

makes the claim that for …

Political and business leaders descended on Paris this week for the third annual artificial intelligence summit with the technology causing tensions across the globe.

Emmanuel Macron, who opened the summit with a montage of deepfakes of himself, acknowledged AI’s potential to “disrupt”. A day later, the schism threatened by the …

Ministers are trying to “mission-wash” every item of spending in their departments, according to officials, before a spending review at which Rachel Reeves has demanded they justify every pound they receive.

Sources have told the Guardian that secretaries of state and their officials are looking for ways to link their …