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Trump delivers ultimatum to Hamas: hostages home or pay the consequences

President Donald Trump issued his ‘last warning’ to Hamas to either release the remaining hostages or face the consequences. ‘Everyone wants the hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social. ‘The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well.’ ‘I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting,’ he continued. ‘This is my last warning, there will not be another one! Thank you...

Barclays faces complaint over alleged anti-Semitism at Leicester branch

Barclays Bank has been hit with a formal complaint alleging anti-Semitism after a customer claimed staff at its Leicester business team unfairly froze his account because of his Israeli residency. In a letter addressed directly to group chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan, journalist Martin Blackham accused the bank of discriminating against him on the basis of his nationality and location. Blackham, who said he is a member of His Majesty’s press corps currently covering the war...

With friends like these pushing to dismantle Trump’s Middle East peace deal, who needs enemies?

America’s so-called allies – Britain, France, Canada, Australia and others – are about to stab President Donald Trump in the back. The goal is to lay waste to the president’s signature foreign policy success – the Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accords denied violent Palestinian rejectionists a veto over the normalization of relations between Arab states and Israel. Now Palestinians and their band of useful idiots have launched a coup. The scheme opens by overthrowing the fundamental...

Trump nominees pile up as GOP weighs rule shift once floated by Democrats

Senate Republicans are getting closer to changing the upper chamber’s rules to allow for a slew of President Donald Trump’s lower-level nominees to be confirmed, and they’re closing in on a revived proposal from Democrats to do it. The hope among Republicans is that using a tool that Senate Democrats once considered would allow them to avoid turning to the ‘nuclear option,’ meaning a rule change with a simple majority vote. ‘The Democrats should support...

US-backed Gaza aid group slams Doctors Without Borders, accuses it of spreading ‘false’ claims

Following unrelenting criticism from the United Nations, the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is once again being targeted by NGOs, even as it delivered its 155 millionth meal to Gazans on Saturday. Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF has launched ads criticizing GHFMeta’s Ad Library shows that in August it ran several Facebook ads targeting the foundation. One ad read ‘This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing.’ Another said, ‘In MSF’s...

Cartel connection: Hezbollah and Iran exploit Maduro’s Venezuela for cocaine cash

The deadly U.S. strike in the Caribbean this week is being cast by experts as the latest move in a broader campaign to dismantle Iran and Hezbollah’s growing narco empire in Venezuela. U.S. officials say Tren de Aragua works closely with the Cartel of the Suns — a network of Venezuelan military elites long accused of moving cocaine in collaboration with Hezbollah. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital that ‘President Trump has taken...

Trump’s short list for Fed: Hassett, Warsh and Waller

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s short list of candidates to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve now includes his aide Kevin Hassett, former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and current Fed Governor Christopher Waller. Trump told reporters at the White House that the three men were the finalists for appointments to the Fed, adding he would consider Scott Bessent, too, but that the Treasury secretary was not interested. Bessent, who was with...

Online shopping at work not a sackable offence, tribunal rules

Spending short periods of time shopping or browsing online during work hours is not a sackable offence, a UK judge has ruled in a case that awarded an employee more than £14,000 in compensation. The ruling followed the dismissal of Ms A Lanuszka, an accountancy administrator, who was fired in July 2023 after her employer secretly installed spyware on her computer and recorded her visiting websites such as Rightmove and Amazon. The tribunal heard she...

Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack to take ‘weeks not days’ to fix as West Midlands suppliers hit

Britain’s biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is bracing for weeks of disruption after a devastating cyberattack forced it to shut down factories, suspend deliveries and send thousands of staff home. The attack, claimed by a group called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters linked to the collective behind recent hacks on M&S, Harrods and the Co-op, has rendered JLR’s global IT systems unusable. Without diagnostic tools, dealerships cannot properly service vehicles, register new sales or access online...

M&S calls on ministers to rethink farm inheritance tax reforms amid rural backlash

Marks & Spencer has called on the government to reconsider proposed reforms to inheritance tax relief for farms, warning of damaging consequences for rural communities and Britain’s food security. Alex Freudmann, managing director of M&S Food, urged new environment secretary Emma Reynolds to back Britain’s farmers following growing anger in the countryside. “We support our farmers’ calls on the government to do more to support farming, and that includes supporting their call for a rethink...