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Conflicts and extreme weather pushing global food prices higher, warns UN 

04 September 2026

News|Food Global food prices have hit a four-year high, the United Nations has warned. The UN’s Food and Agriculture O...

Philippine court orders arrest of VP Duterte over President Marcos threats 

04 September 2026

News|Politics A Philippine court has ordered the arrest of Vice President Sara Duterte over allegations that she arrange...

Can the Green Party’s Polanski take on Labour and win Starmer’s old seat? 

04 September 2026

When Britain’s former Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood down as the member of parliament for Holborn and St Pancras th...

Why is Farage’s Reform accused of violating the UK’s foreign funding rules? 

04 September 2026

The anti-immigration Reform UK party said two of its senior officials had stepped down on Friday, following allegations ...

Israel frees four more Lebanese prisoners in Red Cross-mediated handover 

04 September 2026

Four Lebanese citizens who were held in Israel have been released and handed over to the International Committee of the ...

Germany’s far right AfD eyes election breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt 

04 September 2026

Mario Jung does not fit the profile of a political hardliner. The 59-year-old banking clerk, who lives in Magdeburg in e...

US envoys headed to Russia and Ukraine to relaunch mediation 

04 September 2026

United States envoys are expected to arrive in Kyiv and Moscow over the weekend, in an apparent bid to revive negotiatio...

‘Things happen’: How Vance’s comment on Iran wedding strike fits US pattern 

04 September 2026

United States Vice President JD Vance has expressed scepticism about reports of a deadly US attack on a wedding party in...

South Korea mulls ‘contributions’ in Strait of Hormuz 

04 September 2026

South Korea is mulling “contributions” to the freedom of navigation ⁠in the Strait of Hormuz, the presidential off...

Germany’s far right eyes election breakthrough as AfD surges in Saxony 

04 September 2026

Mario Jung does not fit the profile of a political hardliner. The 59-year-old banking clerk, who lives in Magdeburg in e...