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RAF Fairford live updates: Streeting thanks farmer who alerted police but says she has ‘a partial picture’

Member of the public who contacted police after seeing ‘group of hooded and masked men’ near RAF base says she thinks ‘someone dropped the ball’ over incidentThe incident comes as the war between the US and Iran limps on. In July, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps noted RAF Fairford’s use by US bombers, warning the UK that “any base used for aggression against Iranian territory constitutes a legitimate target for our forces”.Counter-terror police and the security services are searching fo…

RAF Fairford live updates: Streeting thanks farmer who alerted police but says she has ‘a partial picture’

UK counter-terrorism police probe Iran link to suspected bomb plot at RAF base

Since March, RAF Fairford has been used by the US military to launch air strikes on Iran as the war in the Middle East rumbles on.

طهران تنفي وجود محادثات مقررة مع واشنطن، وأنباء عن إصابة ثمانية من "المارينز" في هجوم إيراني

قالت إيران إنه لا توجد محادثات مقررة بينها وبين الولايات المتحدة، وذلك ردّاً على إعلان الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب.

US, China list goods recommended for tariff cuts following Trump-Xi summit

Washington and Beijing announce details of agreement to reduce tariffs on $60bn of trade.

Counter-terror police investigate Iran link over suspected bomb plot at RAF base used by US

Five men arrested on terrorism charges after explosives found near RAF Fairford in GloucestershireCounter-terrorism police are investigating whether Iran is behind a suspected bomb plot after armed officers found explosives on three vans parked minutes from an RAF base used by the US military.The Guardian understands that after five men were arrested on terrorism charges, investigators were examining materials found in the vans, with an initial view being they were consistent with improvised exp…

Oil prices jump after Trump rejects Iran’s truce offer

Oil prices rose while stocks and bonds fell after US President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, reversing some of the optimism that lifted markets late last week.

Trump offered to sell arms to China during Xi visit, US ambassador tells Fox News

The United States is required by law to supply Taiwan, which has a democratically elected president and legislature, with weapons for its defence under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.

Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says

David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled islandDonald Trump offered to sell weapons to China while hosting its leader, Xi Jinping, last week, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday.David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday: “President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point.”

Nantucket shipwreck uncovered by Nor'easter

The local newspaper in Nantucket got a tip: 'I found what I believe to be a shipwreck uncovered by the storm.'(Image credit: Jason Graziadei)

Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads

John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump ‘public service announcements’ air before midtermsAs the White House expands a taxpayer-funded advertising campaign to promote Donald Trump’s political agenda before the November midterm elections, US senator John Kennedy told CBS News on Sunday “there ought to be a rule” against such spending – before tacitly admitting such spending is “probably” illegal.Kennedy, the US president’s fellow Republican, was asked by Margaret Brennan, the…

Powerful storm floods US Northeast, causes power outages

The nor'easter causes another round of flooding in low-lying areas in New Jersey and New York City and knocks out power.

Scientists discover two new species of sea spiders along Canadian coastline

So far, scientists have identified more than 1,300 species of sea spiders. (Image credit: Cormac Toler-Scott)

Nor’easter storm batters US east coast with heavy winds and power outages

At least one person killed and about 110,500 households still without power from North Carolina to New EnglandA strong, deadly storm known as a nor’easter battered the US’s east coast over the weekend, bringing power outages, flooding, damaging winds and hazardous ocean conditions.Trees and power lines were knocked down across the region, at least one person was killed and hundreds of thousands were left without electricity.

Blanche defends Trump’s White House media ban: ‘It is a privilege, not a right’

US attorney general argues that president was ‘sick and tired’ of inaccurate reporting by CNN, MS Now and PoliticoDonald Trump’s attorney general Todd Blanche argued on Sunday that the administration was permitted to ban three news outlets from the White House because “it is a privilege and not a right to be there”.Appearing on the ABC News program This Week during the second week of the White House’s dispute over press credentialing and access, Blanche also said that the administration took the…

UK: 5 arrested after 'major incident' near Fairford air base

Scores of homes were evacuated in the UK town of Whelford, near an air base used by the US military, with bomb disposal teams checking "suspicious vehicles" at the scene. Police said five men had been arrested.

UN ambassador Waltz says Iran was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end war

Waltz says Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to end war because they ‘were asking for everything up front’The Trump administration’s ambassador to the United Nations said the US rejected Iran’s proposal to end the ongoing war there because Iranian negotiators “were asking for everything up front”.Echoing comments by Donald Trump on Saturday, the president’s UN ambassador Mike Waltz told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that Iran had asked for relief “from billions and billions of sanctions that a…

Venezuela releases dozens of political prisoners as election calls grow

A slew of dissidents being released from long-term detention comes days after the nation's interim leader met the US president.

Iran claims seizure of an underwater US drone in Hormuz, US denies the claim

Iran's Revolutionary Guards claim that the vehicle is a REMUS 600 and has been handed over to Iranian military experts "to retrieve its data," but the US military denies the claim. Top Iranian army commander says "the war is not over" and that it is now in "a critical and decisive stage".

Collateral damage: How Cognac is paying the price for Europe’s trade wars

French Cognac producers are battling falling sales as trade disputes with China and the US squeeze the export-dependent industry and leave growers seeking EU support.

Datacenter developers accused of skirting key US pollution rules

Firms manipulating process to avoid emission controls and scrutiny of their projects, environmental groups warnDatacenter developers are manipulating the EPA’s air pollution permitting process to avoid emission controls and scrutiny of their projects, environmental advocates allege.Companies need federal permits to emit a range of pollutants. In their permit applications, some in big tech are avoiding “major” reviews by dividing their emissions sources into separate, multiple “minor” sources tha…