Vladimir Putin responds to recent statements from David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron over Ukraine warUkraine war – live updatesRussia has threatened to strike British military facilities and ordered its military to hold battlefield nuclear weapons drills in a move the Kremlin described as a response to comments from the French president, Emmanuel Macron,...

People displaced from elsewhere in Gaza during the war are on the move again but find their destination already packedMiddle East crisis – live updatesBy mid-morning, overloaded trucks, carts and donkeys were filling the streets of Rafah. Under dark skies and a cold, unseasonable rain, thousands were setting out on a halting journey through crowded,...

PM says he is ‘determined to fight on’ after disastrous local, mayoral and Blackpool byelection results last weekLabour has marked the anniversary of the Conservatives re-entering government at the 2010 election by launching a what the opposition have called “Conflix” website [geddit?] that mockingly tells the story of “14 years of Tory chaos”The party’s...

Northern Ireland police investigate possible paramilitary links after attack left victim with life-changing injuriesThere has been widespread condemnation of an attack on a man who was found nailed to a fence in a car park in Bushmills, County Antrim.The victim, in his 20s, was discovered with nails in both hands and injuries to his nose in the Dundarave...

South Dakota governor and Trump VP hopeful refuses to back down amid scandal over animal killings and North Korea claimTuesday will see publication of No Going Back, a campaign book by the South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem, that generated unusual buzz after the Guardian revealed how Noem describes in detail the day she shot dead her dog, Cricket, which...

After PM’s bold reading of disastrous Tory local election results, we assess the variables in play at national levelUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has boldly claimed that the Conservatives’ disastrous set of local election results prove the country is on course for a hung parliament and a Labour-led “coalition of chaos” after the general...