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Donald Trump will land in the UK on Monday amid anger over comments made by his ambassador suggesting the NHS should be “on the table” in future trade negotiations. His visit also came as cabinet ministers vying for the Tory leadership suggested they could tear up plans for the Chinese tech...

Scott Morrison has declared “stepping up is all about showing up” as he unveiled the latest plank of the Australian government’s Pacific strategy during a visit to the Solomon Islands. The prime minister’s visit – the first by an Australian leader to the island nation since 2008 – comes as key...

Users of YouTube and other Google services are seeing errors or slow performance due to high levels of network congestion in the eastern United States. YouTube, Google Cloud and G Suite services are affected, but Google said it believed it had identified the cause of the congestion and expected...

An order to have a ship named for the late Senator John McCain hidden from view during Donald Trump’s recent visit to Japan was “not an unreasonable thing to ask”, the president’s chief of staff said on Sunday. Mick Mulvaney made the startling claim even as it was reported that the Pentagon has...

More than 50 congressional Democrats reportedly back impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. But on Sunday morning, senior figures highlighted the split that remains between those demanding swift action and their party leaders. Siege review: Michael Wolff's Trump tale is Fire and Fury II...

In the end, it was a Champions League victory delivered in sweltering Madrid heat with considerably less panache than that incredible semi-final comeback against Barcelona. For the hundreds of thousands of people who lined the streets of Merseyside, however, the team’s homecoming on Sunday was...

Donald Trump is “deadly serious” about slapping tariffs on imports from Mexico, his chief of staff said on Sunday, even though the president “intentionally left the declaration sort of ad hoc” amidst fears of damage to the US economy if he follows through on his threat. Mexico could tighten...

When Mustapha Merzoughi, a French citizen of Tunisian origin, left France for Syria in 2015, he hoped to start afresh in the so-called Islamic State and leave behind a life plagued with what he called social and financial problems. But as he faced a judge in Iraq’s capital Baghdad last week, he...

About 200 gilets jaunes have staged a “march of the mutilated” through central Paris. Among them were people seriously injured in demonstrations since the movement started last November. Several had lost an eye or limb in clashes with riot police. The marchers called for an end to “repressive...

Twelve stars and stripes flags were planted on the grass verge, one for each of the lives cut short. Floral tributes accumulated in their midst with the prosaic details of price tags: $6.99 for one bunch, $4.87 for another. Police officers and TV crews went about their work, the latter shaded by...

After 12 people were shot dead at a government building in Virginia Beach on Friday, contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination sought to present the case for gun control reform in terms of tackling everyday gun violence, rather than stopping mass shootings. A mass shooting couldn’t...

The US is prepared to engage with Iran about its nuclear program without pre-conditions but needs to see the country behaving like “a normal nation”, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani suggested on Saturday that Iran may be willing to hold talks if...

Donald Trump has said he did not call Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, “nasty” when giving an interview to the Sun, despite an audio recording released by the paper. Speaking to the tabloid before his visit to the UK, Trump was told that Meghan “wasn’t so nice” about him during the 2016 US...

The US is prepared to engage with Iran about its nuclear program without pre-conditions but needs to see the country behaving like “a normal nation”, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani suggested on Saturday that Iran may be willing to hold talks if...

Eight climbers missing in the Himalayas have not been found in initial helicopter searches, and hopes are fading that they will be discovered. Two Indian air force helicopters and a rescue team have been searching the region around the Nanda Devi mountain, which the group were attempting to...

Until recently, the only thing the average citizen could have told you about Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, was that s/he hadn’t the faintest idea of how to pronounce it (it’s “hwa-wei” btw, according to Wikipedia). And then, suddenly, this unpronounceable company seemed to be all over the...

A handwritten note at the home of the Virginia Beach shootings suspect expressed condolences to the victims on behalf of the suspect’s family. A mass shooting couldn’t happen in Virginia Beach … until it did The suspect died in a shootout with police. The note was taped to the front door of...

Observer special report China’s other Tiananmens: 30 years on Students march in Shanghai on 10 June 1989, after authorities warned that illegal gatherings would be punished. Photograph: Mitsuhiko Sato/AP Hundreds of other Chinese cities were also suppressed and are now forgotten after a media...

Blowing raspberries Last week a startup based at Plymouth University unveiled the world’s first raspberry-picking robot. The machine can pick about 25,000 berries a day, which is 10,000 more than a human during an eight-hour shift. Raspberries are particularly challenging for machines to...

Donald Trump’s state visit this week to the UK is being promoted as a celebration of a close alliance tempered through war. It could be more accurately described as a personal lap of victory for the US president, performed largely at the expense of his hosts. Trump arrives in London having...