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The Ellison-backed US media giant offered a so-called ticking fee for each month the deal fails to close.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

New rule could be used to send asylum seekers to countries they have no ties to if they're 'deemed' safe.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Ex-congressman Tom Malinowski congratulates activist on ‘hard-won victory’ in special primary for US House seatIn an upset victory that may carry implications for Democrats nationwide, the progressive activist Analilia Mejia on Tuesday was on the verge of winning a special primary for a US House seat in New Jersey after her main challenger conceded defeat.Former congressman Tom Malinowski issued a statement congratulating Mejia, a former adviser to Bernie Sanders’ 2020 […]

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereKemi Badenoch has said that Keir Starmer just received a “stay of execution” yesterday. Speaking to reporters on a visit this morning, she said:[Starmer] is in a very dangerous place. The Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the quiet bit out loud.Labour MPs and the Labour party have lost confidence in their leader, but the MPs are too […]

Ex-editor of Daily Mail tells high court he is appalled by allegations about its journalists by Stephen Lawrence’s mother and othersPaul Dacre, the longtime editor of the Daily Mail, has said it was “bitterly wounding” to face allegations that his journalists used criminal tactics to target the mother of a murdered teenager whose case he had championed.Giving evidence in the high court, Dacre, who edited the paper from 1992 to […]

An illuminating show at the Young V&A in London showcases the work of the world’s leading stop-motion studio What would Wallace - everyone’s favourite amateur Yorkshire inventor – look like with a moustache, straw boater and postman’s coat? Would a huge set of teeth suit his faithful beagle, Gromit? How about a nose shaped like a banana?Such questions are answered by an illuminating and sometimes alarming exhibition at east London’s […]

The media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences. His family has described the sentence as ‘heartbreakingly cruel’, given the 78-year-old’s declining health. Lai was convicted in December on charges of sedition and conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, after pleading not guilty to all charges. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior China correspondent, […]