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The US, EU, Canada and Ukraine have ordered the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats in response to the nerve agent attack in the UK, in a show of solidarity that represents the biggest concerted blow...

The former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has been remanded in custody in northern Germany pending a decision on extradition proceedings brought by Spain. The German authorities have 60 days in which to reach a decision on the extradition...

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school accused the National Rifle Association on Sunday of exploiting people’s fears to sell weapons and criticized the Trump administration for its stuttering response to last month’s gun rampage in...

The families of the Parkland shooting victims have done more to enact gun safety legislation in the five weeks since the 14 February massacre than others have in more than a decade, Florida senator Marco Rubio has said....

HR McMaster has resigned as Donald Trump’s national security adviser and will be replaced by John Bolton, the hawkish former US ambassador to the United Nations, the president announced on Thursday night. Bolton has advocated using military...

Theresa May has welcomed the decision by European Union leaders to wholeheartedly back the UK’s condemnation of Russia over the Salisbury attack, after Brussels recalled its ambassador to Moscow. Speaking as she departed from an EU summit...

Steve Bannon tried to distance himself from the Cambridge Analytica scandal on Thursday, claiming: “I didn’t even know anything about the Facebook mining.” Bannon is a former vice-president and board member of the political consultancy, which...

More than £140m has been wiped off the value of the fashion retailer Ted Baker after it warned that challenging trading conditions had been compounded by the recent heavy snows. The shares tumbled 13% on Thursday...

Tough trading conditions for Britain’s hard-pressed retail sector eased slightly in February, according to official figures showing the first increase in sales in three months. The Office for National Statistics said retail sales volumes were up by...

One of the founders of mixer maker Fever-Tree is toasting a £82.5m payday after cashing in on the firm’s recent success by selling a stake in the group. The deputy chairman, Charles Rolls, offloaded a 2.6%...