Potential proposal would secure control of Diego Garcia base amid stalled UK plans to cede sovereignty of territory

Donald Trump is reportedly weighing a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius amid stalled plans from the UK to cede sovereignty of the territory, the Telegraph first reported.

The White House did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on the report about the potential plan.

Keir Starmer hosts Ukrainian, French and German leaders in Downing Street after Russia fires hypersonic weapons at Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the leaders of the UK, France and Germany discussed “the urgent need to scale up” Ukraine’s air defences and deep-strike capabilities in London on Sunday night, after Russia fired hypersonic weapons at Ukraine, Downing Street said.

The meeting of Ukraine’s staunchest allies in London came hours after a Russian drone strike damaged a storage centre for spent nuclear fuel nine miles from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

Exclusive: Dr David Wilson says former British police officer approached him as part of efforts to influence his work

The author of a Home Office-sponsored report on the Chinese state and organised crime in the UK was the target of failed honey traps and a suspected attempt to compromise him by a former British police officer, it is claimed.

Dr David Wilson, whose groundbreaking analysis was declassified in February, has told of multiple attempts to influence him or discredit his work as he sought to examine the policing challenges posed by the Chinese Communist party (CCP) and criminal gangs.

Danish follicle rebels go head to head in competition for best short-in-the-front, long-in-the-back cut

Business in the front, party in the back. A packed Danish crowd has celebrated the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle, defined by very short hair at the front and longer hair at the back.

Denmark’s raucous 2026 Mullet Championship, presented on an outdoor stage in central Copenhagen, attracted 12 well-coiffed competitors and more than 1,000 spectators.

Move comes as 137 Labour MPs sign letter demanding ‘urgent, concrete action’ to stop settler violence

The UK Foreign Office and a group of western countries are due to announce a package of sanctions against Israel this week designed to deter companies from becoming involved in a proposed West Bank settlement that would split the territory in two and render the concept of a two-state solution near impossible.

Nine countries including France, the UK and Australia have warned that settlement violence must stop and no company should be involved in what is known as the E1 development.

Local man had been accused of rape in months before murder but series of delays meant police had failed to summon him for questioning

Thousands of mourners have turned out for a silent march for a 11-year-old schoolgirl whose murder prompted widespread outrage when it emerged police had failed to question the suspected killer about previous child sexual abuse allegations.

The parents of the girl, who has been named only as Lyhanna, led the cortege on Sunday in the south-western village of Fleurance behind a banner reading “Never again”. Most of those who marched, including children, wore white shirts or T-shirts, many bearing a smiling portrait of the young victim.

“Ho evitato il panico e ho pensato solo a tornare a riva”. È così che Alejo Santiñaque, surfista uruguaiano di 20 anni che vive in Australia da quasi due anni, racconta l’attacco di uno squalo che avrebbe potuto costargli la vita.

Il giovane si trovava in acqua al largo di Red Cliff, sulla costa del Nuovo Galles del Sud, ed era in attesa di un’onda quando ha avvertito “un colpo violento e una forte trazione al piede”. In un messaggio pubblicato sui social ha raccontato di aver capito immediatamente cosa stava accadendo: “Uno squalo mi aveva morso“.

Secondo il suo racconto, l’animale lo avrebbe trascinato sott’acqua rimanendo impigliato nel leash, il laccio che collega il surfista alla tavola. “È successo tutto in modo incredibilmente rapido. Non credo siano passati più di due secondi tra il morso e la mia reazione”, ha spiegato. A quel punto, a guidare Santiñaque è stato l’istinto: “Mi stava trascinando in acqua e la mia risposta immediata è stata prenderlo a calci il più forte possibile per farlo mollare”.

La mossa ha funzionato. Lo squalo ha lasciato la presa, anche se durante la colluttazione il leash si è spezzato. Santiñaque è riuscito così a nuotare verso la riva, concentrandosi esclusivamente sulla fuga: “Dal momento in cui sono stato morso fino a quando ho raggiunto la spiaggia mi sono concentrato su ciò che dovevo fare ed ho evitato di farmi prendere dal panico”.

Una volta a terra, gli amici gli hanno applicato un laccio emostatico in attesa dei soccorsi. Trasportato in ospedale, è stato sottoposto a un intervento chirurgico per la rottura di un tendine e lesioni muscolari. Il morso, però, non ha interessato le arterie principali e le sue condizioni non sono considerate gravi.

Nonostante quanto accaduto, il ventenne ha escluso qualsiasi sentimento di rabbia verso l’animale. “L’oceano è casa sua e siamo noi a entrare nel suo ambiente”, ha scritto. E ha aggiunto: “Gli squali non sono cattivi né mostri. Sono animali selvatici e una parte essenziale dell’ecosistema marino”.

L'articolo “Ho sentito un colpo violento e una forte trazione al piede. Ho capito che uno squalo mi aveva morso. Mi sono salvato prendendolo a calci”: il racconto del surfista Alejo Santiñaque proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Tehran official had promised ‘decisive and painful’ reply to Israeli bombing of apartment buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs

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Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in response to Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, shattering a fragile ceasefire and marking the most serious escalation since April, after 100 days of war.

A senior Iranian official has promised a “decisive and painful” response to Israel’s airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut and, a few hours later, sirens sounded across northern Israel.

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Donald Trump also aggressively pushed back against claims that he broke a key campaign promise to keep the US out of new foreign conflicts.

“Well, well, first of all, I didn’t guarantee no war,” Trump said during the Meet the Press interview. “Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?”

Attack was ‘extremely vile’ and deliberate, says Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy

A Russian Shahed drone has substantially damaged a building used to store spent nuclear fuel close to the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant, in what Ukraine’s president described as a deliberate and “extremely vile” attack.

While the structure – the reception building of the spent fuel storage facility – was empty of containers at the time, the targeting of the sensitive site appeared to be direct messaging from Moscow amid an intensifying battle of long-range aerial strikes in which high-profile locations on both sides have been hit.

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of 1990s leader Alberto, is vying with a congressman to become country’s ninth president in a decade

Peruvians go to the polls on Sunday in an election runoff that pits a perennial rightwing candidate, Keiko Fujimori, against a leftist congressman, Roberto Sánchez. Amid rising crime, chronic political instability, corruption scandals and voter apathy, they are vying to become Peru’s ninth president in a decade.

Fujimori, who is the daughter of the late president Alberto Fujimori, won 17% of the vote in the first round in April. Sánchez, a former trade and tourism minister, took 12 % of the vote, edging out Rafael López Aliaga, an ultra-conservative former Lima mayor. The stage is set for a polarised left-right replay of the country’s last election in 2021.

Legal papers, expert investigations and social media posts tell story of how a 32-year-old Iraqi appeared to run ‘proxy’ campaign

On Monday, a slightly dishevelled Iraqi man, shackled and dressed in beige prison overalls, was ushered into a Manhattan courtroom.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, 32, pleaded not guilty to a series of terrorism-related offences, then gestured toward the judge and prosecutors. “I’m a prisoner of war. I’m not a threat,” he told them. “Children and women are being killed by your rockets.”