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Labour Together allegedly hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donationsUK politics live – latest updatesA thinktank previously run by a Labour minister and the prime minister’s chief of staff is alleged to have paid a PR firm to investigate journalists who were looking into its funding.Labour Together, once run by Morgan McSweeney and then by Josh Simons, now a Cabinet Office minister, hired […]

Pressure continues to build on Keir Starmer to remove his chief of staff Morgan McSweeneyHome Office minister Mike Tapp has blamed the vetting process for the reason Peter Mandelson was able to be apppointed US ambassador.Defending the prime minister, Tapp told Sky News that Keir Starmer “wasn’t the vetting officer” and said that he had acted quickly.He wasn’t the vetting officer here. We do know that there were lies told […]

Two countries separately meet negotiators in what is thought to be a last-ditch chance to avert US attack Iran and US nuclear talks – live updatesOman has mediated high-stakes, indirect talks between Iran and the US over Tehran’s nuclear programme, seen as one of the last chances to prevent a new US attack.Convoys for the two countries arrived for separate meetings with the sultanate’s top diplomat, Badr al-Busaidi. The negotiations […]

Senior officials meet for indirect talks, amid a crisis that has raised fears of a military action between Iran and the USAnalysis: Iran is betting Trump does not have a plan for regime changeUS and Iran talks brought back from the brink after White House relents on move to OmanIt is the first time the US and Iran have sat down for face-to-face negotiations since June last year, when Israel […]

Data shows 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars also sold, while the figure for battery electric vehicles was more than 2,000Just seven new petrol cars were sold in Norway last month, data shows.The country, which is the frontrunner in the uptake of electric vehicles, shifted a record low number of new fossil-fuel cars in January, information from the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council (OFV) reveals. Continue reading...Source: www.theguardian.comRead full article

Rescue teams reach the site after blast reported at a mosque in Tarlai Kalan during Friday prayers.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Al Jazeera asked people in Iran’s capital about the threat of a US attack and how hopeful they are about talks.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article