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Good morning. Over the weekend, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda – Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame – were among those

who took part in a regional summit

News that the US president, Donald Trump,

was going to place a 25% tariff

Tech companies are putting pressure on the UK government to encourage an AI datacentre boom in remote areas of Great Britain by offering some of the cheapest electricity prices in Europe.

A report paid for by the tech companies Amazon and OpenAI has called on ministers to overhaul the UK’s …

The artificial intelligence race must be led by “western, liberal, democratic” countries, said the UK technology secretary in a veiled warning over China’s role in the contest, before a global AI summit in Paris.

Peter Kyle spoke as political leaders and tech company bosses gather in France, and after the …

A record number of asylum seekers died last year while in the care of the Home Office, according to data obtained by the Guardian, and officials admit they do not know when some of them died.

Fifty-one people died in Home Office-provided accommodation in 2024, an increase of 11 on …

Kosovo’s ruling Vetevendosje party was on track to win the country’s parliamentary election, but will need to negotiate a coalition with other parties to form a government, exit polls and preliminary results showed.

With 73% of the votes counted, prime minister Albin Kurti’s leftist Self-Determination Movement Party, or Vetevendosje, had …

An increasingly complex tax system is burdening the government and businesses with hundreds of millions of pounds more in administration costs, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has warned.

The report by the National Audit Office (NAO) also said “poor levels of service” meant some taxpayers and their representatives were “finding it more …

The Home Office is launching a fresh wave of immigration raids for illegal working and boasting of record numbers of deportations as Labour attempts to counter the growing political threat from Reform UK.

Ahead of the second reading of the new border security bill today, officials announced that both illegal …

Britain’s system for controlling arms exports is broken, subject to political manipulation and has seen conduct that crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes, a former UK diplomat has claimed.

Writing

for the Guardian

It was with great dismay and a sense of urgency that I read Patrick Wintour’s piece about the decline of the British Council (

Why the financial crisis at the British Council matters as UK pushes soft power, 25 January

I was 13 when I discovered the …