The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has posted on social media to say he will be making an announcement this afternoon about his future in public life.
The statement follows recent reports regarding donations made to the party leader and his official declarations of them.
A series of explosions have been heard in Damascus near the hotel where the French President Emmanuel Macron is due to stay in Syria.
Roads have been sealed off and security measures implemented after the blasts. At least eighteen people were injured, including four police officers, in explosions that went off as Mr Macron entered the Syrian presidential palace. A witness said the devices detonated in the vicinity of the French leader’s hotel, with verified footage appearing to show smoke rising near the Four Seasons in the capital.
The UK has entered its third heatwave of the year, with temperatures predicted to climb as high as thirty-five degrees Celsius in some parts of the country later this week.
Southeast England has now officially met the heatwave criteria after three days of temperatures above twenty-eight degrees, the Met Office said. Temperatures are forecast to rise across the country this week, with more regions likely to reach their local heatwave thresholds.
A Ukrainian woman suspected of carrying out a parcel bombing in Monaco which injured a sanctioned multi-millionaire and his family has been found dead.
A cross-border manhunt was launched for thirty-nine-year-old Anastasiia Berezovska, who officials believed fled after planting the bomb on the twenty-ninth of June. Her body was found with gunshot wounds to the head, and two people, including a Ministry of Defence officer, have been detained on suspicion of murder.
The public will be asked who should receive social care and how it should be paid for as part of a review into the system.
Baroness Louise Casey, leading the commission into adult social care in England, described the current system as impossible to navigate and called for a reckoning.
The prisons watchdog has said it will keep a close eye on criminals released early from jail under a government scheme, amid concerns that rapists could be among them.
From September, part of the Sentencing Act 2026 will come into force, enabling some offenders to be freed earlier in a bid to reduce overcrowding. Reports suggest killers, rapists and sex offenders could be among up to six thousand criminals released early in a few months’ time. Charlie Taylor, the chief inspector of prisons, said the extra capacity could help governors focus more on rehabilitation, but warned institutions were still failing to provide the education, training and risk-reduction programmes needed to support their release.
Ukraine’s president plans to use the Nato meeting in Turkey to urge allies to deliver urgent air defence systems.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s call follows Russian missile strikes on Kyiv which killed more than fifty civilians. At the Ankara summit, Zelensky will also meet Donald Trump to press home his case that Russia’s brutal attacks show weakness, while Ukraine steps up drone attacks against Russian targets.
Charles de Ketelaere scored twice for Belgium as the United States became the third and final co-host to be knocked out of the World Cup.
It was a lethargic display by the US, who started Folarin Balogun after Donald Trump asked Fifa to review his ban. Fifa suspended the automatic match ban, but their leading scorer was isolated as Belgium dominated the entire game.
Some of the UK’s biggest banks have been failing their most vulnerable customers, according to the financial regulator.
The Financial Conduct Authority found banks were pushing homeless people or those facing financial hardship away from basic bank accounts towards unsuitable online applications. Nine UK banks and building societies have now agreed to demands from the regulator to make access to accounts much more straightforward.
British singer Lauren Bennett, one of the voices on LMFAO’s hit song Party Rock Anthem, has died aged thirty-seven.
Her former musical group G.R.L. shared the news on its Instagram account on Monday, stating that their hearts are broken and she meant so much to them. The statement did not reveal a cause of death for her.
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