China established an air defense zone for the purpose of identification and early warning in the East China Sea.
Day: July 14, 2025
Iran’s foreign minister visits China after Israel conflict, highlighting efforts to deepen ties amid regional and U.S. tensions.
The fashion icon’s decision to step down as editor-in-chief of the magazine may have been a smart decision.
The proportion of conservatives who support Trump has increased in recent months.
Austin was one of the biggest winners during the pandemic homebuying frenzy—but now experts say the floor has fallen out in the city’s housing market.
After months of mixed signals over the war, Trump appears to resume military support for Ukraine, with E.U. funding, amid disappointment with Putin.
Darren Jones also declines to rule out wealth tax when questioned about government plans
Good morning. This is the last full week the Commons is sitting before the summer recess starts (on Tuesday next week) and, although there is a fair amount coming up (see below), there is no big story dominating the news agenda. The national newspapers are all splashing on different items – which is normally a sign that it was a slow news day yesterday.
The government wants to talk about its new £500m “better futures fund”.
Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT.
The thing I can tell you is that our manifesto commitment coming into this election was that we were not going to increase the headline rate of income tax or employee national insurance on working people in the pay slips that people get when they go to work or on VAT because we know that that disproportionately affects people on lower incomes because they spend more of their money on the day to day shop, essentially.
We made a commitment in our manifesto not to be putting up taxes on people on modest incomes, working people.
Modest income means different things to different people. But it’s not entirely relevant, because the thing that is relevant is our manifesto commitment not to increase national insurance or employee national or income tax in the payslips that people receive every month.
Treasury minister Darren Jones says Labour’s “working people” tax pledge refers to “anyone that gets a payslip, basically”.
Significantly broader than Transport Sec Heidi Alexander’s definition yesterday of “people on modest incomes”.
What a mess, and not for the first time.
Defence official says major increase in Australian defence spending is ‘quite warranted’
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Some US military stakeholders have “very serious concerns” about the Aukus arrangement but the Pentagon wants “to make this thing work”, a senior American defence official says. While they say a review of the nuclear submarine pact is being undertaken in good faith, it will not be completed within 30 days, as initially anticipated.
Still, Washington is sticking to its request for Australia to give “a clear sense” of how it would respond militarily, including with the Aukus submarines, to future conflicts. While Anthony Albanese declares the Australian government wants to see “peace in and security in our region”, the senior official says the US wants Australia to step up more.
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