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Mikel Arteta apologised to Arsenal’s supporters for a disastrous second‑half display in a 3-0 home defeat against Brighton that effectively ended the title race as a contest, admitting his team had let people down. Arsenal were well beaten in only their second reverse on home turf this season, conceding three times after the interval and finishing the day four points behind Manchester City, who will secure first place with one more win. Gunners players cut dejected figures afterwards, Martin Ødegaard effectively admitting he had lost hope of winning the league, and a similarly flat Arteta lamented the manner in which they had fallen…

Kemi Badenoch will fly to Switzerland on Monday for talks with her Swiss counterpart on a new post-Brexit trade deal, describing the two countries as “natural trading partners”. The business and trade secretary is meeting Guy Parmelin in Berne to discuss a “modern” UK-Switzerland free trade agreement (FTA) that would boost trade between two “services superpowers”, she said. “There’s a huge prize on offer to both the UK and Switzerland by updating our trading relationship to reflect the strength of our companies working in areas ranging from finance and legal, to accountancy and architecture,” said Badenoch ahead of the talks at…

Record high turnout in a tightly fought election has presented the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with the greatest challenge to his leadership in two decades, with signs that the vote was heading for a runoff even as Erdoğan attempted to claim victory before an official vote count had ended. Speaking to a jubilant crowd of supporters, an energised and delighted Erdoğan declared: “The fact that the election results have not yet been finalised does not diminish the fact that our nation’s choice is clearly in favor of us.” Despite Turkey’s supreme election council, the YSK, declaring that the count had…

The deaths of dozens of civilians in fighting in the far south of Sudan and an outbreak of communal violence in the restive Darfur region have fuelled fears that communities across the frontier regions of Africa’s third biggest country are being drawn into the bloody contest between two rival generals. Fighting in the southern state of North Kordofan between militias aligned with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group and local brigades of the Sudanese army has centred on the strategically important state capital, El Obeid. “The two sides went to war and the civilians in the middle got hurt…

Britain has become the first western country to provide Ukraine with the long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles that Kyiv wants to boost its chances in a much-anticipated counteroffensive, prompting a threat from the Kremlin of a military response. Hours after Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said he needed more western weapons to be confident of a victory this summer, Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary, told MPs that the missiles – which cost more than £2m each – were “now going in, or are in the country itself”. The gift of the missiles was supported by the US, Wallace added, although previously Washington had…

The UK economy shrank unexpectedly in March, by 0.3%, as the cost of living crisis, bad weather and industrial action took a toll. However, a strong performance in January meant the economy grew by 0.1% over the first quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. The slump in March was driven largely by weakness in the retail sector as consumers reined in spending in response to squeezed budgets, while the wet weather also dampened demand. It is likely to concern the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, who said in response to the figures that the UK remained on course to be a “high…

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to introduce a bill aimed at cracking down on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online and holding Big Tech firms accountable. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) joined forces on May 11 to advance the legislation, which aims to combat the proliferation of CSAM online and grants more support to victims, while also bolstering accountability and transparency among online platforms. Specifically, the bill would hold tech companies more accountable for CSAM posted on their platforms by limiting their immunity from civil liability under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, instead making them liable for certain…

Rail services across Britain will be severely disrupted on Friday as train drivers stage the first of the latest wave of planned strikes in a long-running pay dispute. Members of the drivers’ union Aslef will strike for 24 hours across virtually all the big passenger operators in England, stopping some major intercity and commuter services entirely. Cross-border services to Wales and Scotland will also be affected, although the union is only in direct dispute with firms contracted to the Department for Transport in England. No trains will run on networks including Avanti, Southeastern, Govia Thameslink, Northern, West Midlands, TransPennine Express and CrossCountry. The drivers’ strike will…

Almost 1.5 million homeowners with variable rate mortgages face higher borrowing costs with the Bank of England expected to push up interest rates on Thursday to 4.5%. City analysts polled by Refinitiv were unanimous in forecasting the central bank would increase its base rate by 0.25 percentage points when policymakers meet to tackle Britain’s stubbornly high inflation rate. Another 1.5 million households with fixed-rate mortgages will see their annual bills spiral by an average £3,000 when they refinance their loans this year, afterthe average two-year fixed rate jumped from below 2% to 4.75% over the past 18 months. The near certainty of…

Joseph Tacopina, attorney of former President Donald Trump, told The Epoch Times that the former president is planning to appeal the verdict that found him liable for battery and defamation charges in the E. Jean Carroll trial. It came as a Manhattan grand jury on Tuesday ruled against former President Donald Trump on one count of defamation and one count of battery in a civil case launched against him by Carroll, an advice columnist. The verdict will not result in jail time because it is a civil case. The jury found that Trump should pay a total of about $5…