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All eyes on Kate in first appearance since cancer diagnosis
The Princess of Wales has appeared in public for the first time this year, as she begins her return to public life with an all-family outing at Trooping the Colour.
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- Hannah Furness
Israeli jets strike targets in Lebanon after missile barrage
The Israeli military said its jets and artillery attacked targets operated by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon.
- James Mackenzie
Putin demands land concessions from Ukraine
The Russian president said Ukraine must recognise four regions and Crimea as Russian territory and Kyiv’s neutral status needs to be cemented.
- Bloomberg News
Bankers sacked for faking work in rise of ‘mouse jigglers’
US banking giant Wells Fargo dismissed members of its wealth and investment management arm after investigating claims that they were pretending to be busy.
- Hannah Levitt
Nigel Farage’s party overtakes Tories in UK poll blow
Right-wing Reform UK provides a symbolic ‘crossover moment’ in support that Conservative strategists have been fearing for months.
- Alex Wickham
Why Keir Starmer’s wife is being kept off the campaign trail
Victoria Starmer is said to be highly resistant to the idea of breaking up the family’s happy life in the leafy streets near Hampstead Heath, and has kept a remarkably low profile.
- Guy Kelly and Eleanor Mills
Opinion & Analysis
Starmer will be centrism’s last chance
Voters need to see normal politics working for them again. Keir Starmer not only carries the dreams of a country demanding change but the hope of all who fear what follows if he fails.
British political commentator
What Aussie business can expect from Europe’s far-right shift
Both sides of politics in Europe will back industrial policies designed to onshore or diversify supply chains – and that’s the space where Australia plays.
Europe correspondent
White Britons are receiving special attention but don’t tell them that
The most important ethnic group in British politics is the one nobody talks about.
Contributor
Talks on EU top jobs kick off at G7 summit
A summit of G7 leaders hosted by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni will feature private conversations with the EC president as she seeks five more years in the job.
Contributor
From the Financial Times
- Analysis
- World elections
Talks on EU top jobs kick off at G7 summit
A summit of G7 leaders hosted by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni will feature private conversations with the EC president as she seeks five more years in the job.
- Henry Foy and Andy Bounds
EU to impose multibillion-euro tariffs on Chinese electric cars
The European Commission is set to tell carmakers that it will provisionally apply additional duties of up to 25 per cent on imported Chinese EVs from July.
- Andy Bounds
- Opinion
- World elections
The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government
Emmanuel Macron has concluded that power often tames radical parties or demonstrates their incompetence. His election call might be the most prudent thing he could have done.
- Janan Ganesh
This Month
Biden vows weapons, aid for Ukraine ‘until they prevail’
The US president has signed a new security agreement with Volodymyr Zelensky, and the G7 plans $75 billion in aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.
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- Matt Viser and Tyler Pager
Macron has poured on the petrol. Someone will get burnt
The President hopes to prove that votes for the right in Europe were just voters venting steam. If he’s wrong, the consequences will be felt far beyond France.
- Hans van Leeuwen
KPMG to cut 200 jobs | Musk’s $72b payday | Trump promises tax cuts
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
The ‘fundamental gap’ in the UN Gaza peace plan explained
Neither Hamas nor Israel will agree to the proposal without at least one significant change, according to policy experts.
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- Emma Connors
China’s broken housing market and a generation ‘lying flat’
While wallets were open at last weekend’s national Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese consumers are still not spending enough to get the economy out of its housing hole.
- Jessica Sier
Trump promises tax cuts in pitch to top CEOs
The former president delivered his populist economic pledges to Wall Street titans at a business roundtable event in Washington before the US election.
- Matthew Cranston
Tesla shareholders approve Musk’s $72b pay package
The shareholder vote is a major win for the Tesla chief executive as he seeks to reassert control over the company.
- Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis
UK’s likely next PM copies Albanese election playbook
Labour leader Keir Starmer unveiled a policy manifesto containing almost no new policies, confirming just a handful of tax tweaks if his party is elected on July 4.
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- Hans van Leeuwen
US jobless claims jump to the highest level in 10 months
The number of unemployment claims rose 13,000, higher than economists expected.
- Matt Ott
Argentine Senate passes Milei reform bill as protests rage outside
The bill is key to overhauling an embattled economy, and includes plans for privatising public firms, granting special powers to the president and spurring investment.
- Nicolás Misculin and Eliana Raszewski
Musk says shareholders approving his $75b pay package
It’s D-Day for the Tesla CEO as shareholders vote on his controversial pay package – with major implications for the billionaire and his company.
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- Trisha Thadani
- Opinion
- World elections
Starmer will be centrism’s last chance
Voters need to see normal politics working for them again. Keir Starmer not only carries the dreams of a country demanding change but the hope of all who fear what follows if he fails.
- Robert Shrimsley
- Analysis
- World elections
What Aussie business can expect from Europe’s far-right shift
Both sides of politics in Europe will back industrial policies designed to onshore or diversify supply chains – and that’s the space where Australia plays.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
Macron urges unity against surging far-right turmoil
The French president made the call after the centre-right Republicans ditched its chairman, who had called for an alliance with the hard right.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- UK election
White Britons are receiving special attention but don’t tell them that
The most important ethnic group in British politics is the one nobody talks about.
- The Economist
Upbeat markets price in rate cut as US inflation eases
US President Joe Biden welcomed the news of falling inflation but said more needed to be done to reduce the cost of living.
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- Matthew Cranston
Britain’s economy stalls in blow for Sunak
Gross domestic product was flat in April compared with the previous month, a slowdown from 0.4 per cent growth in March.
- Tom Rees and Irina Anghel
- Analysis
- World elections
Talks on EU top jobs kick off at G7 summit
A summit of G7 leaders hosted by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni will feature private conversations with the EC president as she seeks five more years in the job.
- Henry Foy and Andy Bounds
China’s mild inflation fails to quell fears over weak demand
May inflation figures point to a mixed picture for the economy as domestic consumption picks up slightly.
- Zhu Lin
EU to impose multibillion-euro tariffs on Chinese electric cars
The European Commission is set to tell carmakers that it will provisionally apply additional duties of up to 25 per cent on imported Chinese EVs from July.
- Andy Bounds
