UK, Canada and Australia announce formal recognition of Palestinian state
Summary
The UK now formally recognises a Palestinian state, PM Keir Starmer says in a video statement on social media
Ahead of the announcement, Canada becomes the first G7 nation to make the same move, followed by Australia
Starmer says it keeps "alive the possibility of peace" and insists the UK will "keep fighting to bring" home Israeli hostages
But Israel's foreign ministry says "recognition is nothing but a reward for jihadist Hamas"
Families of those still being held in Gaza express concern - in an open letter to Starmer, they say recognition "complicates efforts to bring home our loved ones"
Earlier, Deputy PM David Lammy defended the UK's position, telling the BBC "now is the time to stand up for a two-state solution"
Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man
LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, who could take €1bn hit, says proposed 2% levy ‘aims to destroy liberal economy’
Sun 21 Sep 2025 15.35 BST
Europe’s richest man, the luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault, has said that a wealth tax that could cost him more than €1bn (£817m) would be deadly for France’s economy.
The French founder of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton said in a statement to the Sunday Times that calls for a 2% wealth tax on all assets “aims to destroy the liberal economy, the only one that works for the good of all”.
Expedition to the North PolePolar Researchers Fear an Ecological Collapse in the Arctic
The research ship Polarstern spent two months in the ice of the Arctic this summer. What they found could be evidence of an ecological collapse.
On the day the research station on Floe 1 was lost, the Polarstern was moored in the pack ice some 600 kilometers to the west. The team on the research ship says they were sitting together in the red salon and following along on the screen as the station’s GPS position kept drifting further and further to the east.
That evening, the point on the screen crossed over the magic line, across which Russia’s territorial waters begin. The 150,000-euro device had drifted out of reach of the researchers – along with its valuable climate, current and weather data.
'Demographic conquest': Inside Russia’s campaign to indoctrinate kidnapped Ukrainian children
Two recent studies show where thousands of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia are taken and the re-education they undergo. The reports are based on open-source intelligence and the accounts of those Ukrainian children who have returned home from Russia.
A hotel in Krasnodar, a monastery in southern Rostov, military schools in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Donetsk and near the city of Volgograd: these are just some of the 210 different facilities across Russia and in occupied territory that have been used to hold Ukrainian children deported or displaced since Russia's invasion, according to a report published on September 16 by the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL).
Philippines: Protests erupt over flood control fraud
Zac Crellin with AP, AFP, dpa
Organizers estimated that around 130,000 turned out in Manila alone to protest alleged corruption over flood control projects. The protests were largely peaceful but police arrested 17 people after clashes.
Thousands of people in the Philippines took to the streets on Sunday to protest alleged corruption over bogus or substandard flood control projects.
Organizers estimated the turnout at around 130,000 people in the capital city of Manila alone, where protesters gathered at Luneta Park and the EDSA People Power Monument, which commemorates the mass uprising that ousted the father of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in 1986.
Deadly rain in central Japan highlights problems with alert system
At least 10 of the 16 people who died as the result of torrential rain in central Japan last September were believed to have been caught up in flooding or landslides before the weather agency raised its disaster alert to the highest level, according to accounts by bereaved families and local authorities.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency's five-tier scale, evacuations are basically urged at alert level 4, so the latest findings on the disaster in Ishikawa Prefecture suggest that more efforts are needed for authorities to ensure that the public receives information regarding their evacuation in a prompt manner, experts say.
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