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The US has imposed sanctions on 19 Russians for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. The sanctions will cover five groups, including Moscow’s intelligence services. All property, and interests in property of the designated persons subject to US jurisdiction, have been blocked.Americans are also banned from engaging in transactions with them.The penalties include the first use of new powers passed by Congress last year to punish Moscow for election meddling. Image: Evgeny Prigozhin (L) assists Vladimir Putin during a dinner in 2011 Those targets include officials working for the Russian military intelligence agency, GRU, the Internet Research Agency, and…

The Defence Secretary has told Russia it should “go away and shut up” rather than contemplate tit-for-tat measures over the Salisbury nerve agent attack. After the Prime Minister announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats over Moscow’s use of novichok in the Wiltshire city, the Kremlin has threatened retaliatory action.But Gavin Williamson warned Russia against escalating the diplomatic battle over the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Video: May: ‘Russia is culpable’ The Defence Secretary said: “What we will do, we will look at how Russia responds to what we have done.”It is absolutely atrocious…

There will be no further investigation into the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. The toddler’s mother is “extremely disappointed” the latest inquest was “not enough” to prompt a further review of the case by the CPS, her lawyer has said.The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had previously called for prosecutors to look again at her daughter’s case after a third court judgement said her daughter was sexually assaulted before her death.Earlier this year David Roberts, the senior coroner for Cumbria, concluded the toddler was assaulted in her father Paul Worthington’s double…

Sky News has established the Government has been signing a series of secret agreements with companies and industry groups over highly controversial outcomes of the Brexit process for Britain’s trade border. The attempt to enforce silence about outside discussions on the changes urgently required to the border after Brexit has raised eyebrows across industry.A series of non-disclosure agreements have been forced into the process of consultation with the logistics companies that actually operate the UK border, with one industry source calculating that “many dozens” have been signed.The development was described by Meg Hillier MP, the chair of the Public Accounts…

The Government has dismissed any suggestion that Unilever’s decision to abandon its UK headquarters is connected to Brexit. The company, behind top consumer brands including Marmite and Persil, confirmed a move to Rotterdam on Thursday morning.The announcement was made less than 24 hours after Sky News reported the decision was to be finalised by the boards of its current dual British and Dutch holding companies.Under the changes, which Unilever said would result in no job losses among its 7,300 UK staff, the two holding companies would become a “single legal entity incorporated in the Netherlands”.It began to ponder the shake-up…

Jeremy Corbyn was accused of “appeasement” towards Russia as MPs – including his own backbenchers – voiced anger at the Labour leader’s apparent reluctance to directly blame Moscow for the Salisbury nerve agent attack. Mr Corbyn was heckled in the House of Commons on Wednesday as he responded to the Prime Minister’s statement setting out a range of retaliatory measures the UK will take against Russia. The Labour leader described the Salisbury attack as an “appalling act of violence”, but urged the Government to ensure its response is “decisive, proportionate and based on clear evidence”. Mr Corbyn also called on Theresa May…

The Prime Minister has unveiled a raft of measures against Russia in response to the Salisbury nerve agent attack. The UK will kick out 23 Russian diplomats, suspend bilateral relations with Moscow, toughen sanctions powers and lead a boycott of dignitaries at this summer’s World Cup, Theresa May said.Following the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, Mrs May told MPs on Wednesday there can be “no alternative conclusion” other than the Russian state being responsible for their attempted murder.Speaking to the House of Commons, the Prime Minister accused Moscow of responding with “sarcasm, contempt and defiance”,…

All 3,000 staff at Toys R US are set to lose their jobs after administrators for the stricken toy chain admitted defeat in their efforts to find a buyer. Moorfields, appointed to oversee the UK business after its collapse a fortnight ago, will wind down all 100 stores over the next six weeks though it did not rule out the possibility of bid interest for some of the sites.Workers were told the grim news on Wednesday morning alongside details of the first redundancies , involving 67 head office staff in Maidenhead. Image: Toys R Us stock is being flogged ahead…

Unilever, the maker of Dove shampoo and Marmite, is set to bring the curtain down on nearly a century of corporate history by axing its UK headquarters‎ and consolidating its legal base in the Netherlands. Sky News has learnt that directors of Unilever‎’s dual British and Dutch holding companies are meeting in the coming hours to finalise the landmark decision.An announcement will be made on Thursday – or possibly late on Wednesday – according to City sources who cautioned that the formal verdict had not yet been rubber-stamped by Unilever’s boards.Unilever – created in 1929 by the merger of Britain’s…

No President has ever fired a Secretary of State via social media before – but it was still possibly not the most significant moment in Donald Trump’s last 24 hours. Way out in rural Pennsylvania, the news that Democrat Conor Lamb had taken a special congressional election to the wire is what’s ringing the loudest alarm bells in the White House. Image: US Democratic congressional candidate Conor Lamb at his election night rally With a handful of absentees votes still to be counted on Wednesday, the 33-year-old former US Marine was neck-and-neck in a district that Donald Trump swept by…