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Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz praised U.S. President Donald Trump in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday (September 26). In 2017 President Trump broke with long-standing U.S. policy when he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, imperiling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike. Katz also singled out Trump’s hard-line policy towards Iran, saying, “I call on the international community to support President Trump’s “maximum pressure policy’ against Iran. This is the way to stop them. We must stop Iran today, in order to prevent war tomorrow,” he added.…

The anger directed against MPs over Brexit is “not surprising”, the PM’s adviser, Dominic Cummings, has said. The former Vote Leave campaign director said the only way the issue of abuse would be solved is if MPs “respect” the result of the EU referendum. Mr Cummings’s remarks came after Boris Johnson defended language he used in Parliament amid criticism from MPs. The parliamentary tensions have led 120 archbishops and bishops to warn against “further entrenching our divisions”. The intervention followed an ill-tempered debate on Wednesday, as MPs returned to Parliament after the Supreme Court ruled the suspension of Parliament was…

The parent firm of British Airways has issued a profit warning on the back of costly strikes at the airline and weaker bookings. International Airlines Group (IAG) said the 48-hour action by pilots earlier this month, which forced the airline to scrap almost all its flights over the two days, cost it an estimated €137m (£121m). It also pointed to a €33m (£29.2m) cost from further passenger disruption as a result of threatened strikes by staff at Heathrow Airport. Another cost headwind, IAG said, was from weaker booking trends in its budget Vueling and LEVEL operations, with an expected impact…

As Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan prepares to deliver yet another appeal this week to the world to address the plight of Kashmir. He faces growing backlash and the risk that anger in Pakistan’s portion of the disputed region could spiral into a confrontation with India. Kashmir has been Pakistan’s single most pressing foreign policy issue since it split off from India at the end of British rule in 1947. Both countries claim the disputed mountain region in full, an issue sparking two of their three wars. Regional tensions have swelled since India stripped its portion of Kashmir of autonomy…

Britain’s parliamentary speaker of the House John Bercow told MP’s to stop treating each other as enemies after a day when several criticised the rhetoric of Prime Minister Boris Johnson for deepening division in the country. Brexit has illustrated a United Kingdom divided about much more than the European Union, and has fuelled soul-searching about everything from secession and immigration to capitalism, empire and modern Britishness. The rage and ferocity of the Brexit debate has shocked allies of a country that has for over a century touted itself as a confident – and mostly tolerant – pillar of Western economic…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under fire from opposition MP’s, with several taking aim at his choice of language. The Labour Party’s Paula Sherriff told Johnson that “offensive, dangerous and inflammatory language” he has repeatedly used is being repeated in death threats targeting MP’s. Her Labour colleague Tracy Brabin mirrored her words, with both lawmakers citing Brabin’s predecessor, Jo Cox, who was killed in a politically-motivated attack prior to the 2016 Brexit referendum. Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson also said the prime minister “was not serious” and should have the “humility to say sorry” after the Supreme Court ruled…

French power company EDF said the new nuclear plant it is building at Hinkley Point C will cost up to £2.9bn more than thought. It raised its estimate for the project, in Somerset, to between £21.5bn and £22.5bn, blaming “challenging ground conditions”. It also said the risk of the project is 15 months late had risen. In common with other major UK building projects, such as Crossrail and HS2, the power plant is over budget. EDF last raised its estimate for the project in 2017, by £1.5bn.

Sainsbury’s will close 60-70 Argos stores as it adds more of the catalogue shop’s outlets to its own stores. The company will open about 80 Argos concessions in its supermarkets, it said in a trading update. The move comes as the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain warned investors that profit for the six months to 21 September will dip. It blamed bad weather and higher marketing costs for the forecast £50m drop on the period last year. The supermarket will also cease new mortgage sales as part of a plan to make its financial services division more profitable.

Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said that it would be appropriate to trigger a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson only when a no-deal Brexit has clearly been averted. Corbyn said his priority was averting a no-deal Brexit with legislation and only when that was clear would he be ready to trigger a vote of no confidence. He said he would be happy to have an election once no-deal Brexit had been averted. He also said PM Johnson should apologize to Queen Elizabeth and to the British people after the Supreme Court ruled he had…

The UK Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down parliament in the run-up to Brexit was unlawful, but a defiant prime minister said he disagreed and vowed that Britain would leave the EU by Oct. 31, come what may. The stinging judgment by all 11 of the court’s sitting justices undermines Johnson’s already fragile grip on power and gives legislators more scope to try to stop him taking Britain out of the bloc next month, with or without a divorce deal. The speaker of the House of Commons said it would reconvene at 11:30 a.m. (1030 GMT)…