The European Union has announced an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06 billion — that will mostly go to strengthening border control to halt the flow of asylum seekers and migrants from the small, crisis-wracked country acro ...

When a group of teenage mothers were evicted from their homeless hostel, Focus E15, they took over a tower block of empty council flats in protest. Ten years on, they are still fighting

A senior Hamas official told AFP the group was looking to end the war but had reservations about the ceasefire plan

Ex-chancellor and Truss were close political allies and friends before he was sacked over a crisis stoked by the mini-budget

Party stands by members set to contest key seats who claimed climate crisis and Islamophobia don’t exist

US secretary of state, who is in Tel Aviv, says he is also focused on people ‘who are suffering in this crossfire’

Questions emerging about whether the figures behind the city council’s bankruptcy stack up

Owner Farhad Moshiri once said the club were ‘robust’ enough to fund stadium but now they need working capital injections

Largest trainer of dogs in country is trying to prevent an estimated £20m funding gap opening up by 2026.

Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show

Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

Increasing the cost to almost £10 is a "tax on the working poor", commentators said as prescriptions are free in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

The TUC said that millions of workers are in the midst of the longest pay squeeze in more than 200 years

The US president made the comments in a call with Egypt and Qatar’s leaders as Hamas considers its response to the latest ceasefire proposal

We face a recruitment and retention emergency when even desirable schools can’t fill vacancies. This is what a crisis looks like, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Ministers should hold their nerve as it is not yet clear what the regulator, Ofwat, will propose

Editorial: A failed act of brinkmanship has led to more self-inflicted drama for the SNP, as it struggles to emerge from a tumultuous period

Prime minister dismisses potential deal with Dublin, increasing prospect of an escalating UK-Irish crisis

SNP and Scottish government go through second leadership crisis in less than 18 months

Some crops completely wiped out and dramatic falls in yields being predicted in county which reflects crisis in rest of UK