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20, Including 5 Children, Dead As Gaza Building Struck By Israel Collapses
Sep 16, 2026 - World 
The six-storey building, which had four apartments per floor, crumbled overnight onto nearby homes and tents in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City, according to the civil defence agency, which works as a rescue service under Hamas authority.
Key House Democrat refuses to clear Trump’s $2.8bn arms sale to Israel
Sep 16, 2026 - World 
Pro-Israel Gregory Meeks raises concerns over threat to civilian lives from package of 40,000 one-ton bombs‘An antidote to Trumpism’: Our politics team answered your questions on Democrats’ midterms hopesThe top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee has thrown up a roadblock to one of the largest US arms transfers of Trump’s second term, refusing to clear a $2.8bn sale of 2,000lb bombs to Israel.Gregory Meeks announced the hold on Tuesday on a package of 40,000 of the bombs, among the most destructive conventional munitions in the US arsenal. Continue reading...
‘Made in Europe’ law threatens UK plans for reset with EU
Sep 16, 2026 - World 
Government sources say legislation aimed at China poses a risk to British businesses and must be addressedThe UK government’s EU reset summit will be delayed again unless the bloc agrees to discuss legislation that could lock British business out of parts of EU industry, government sources have said.The “Made in Europe” legislation – formally known as the Industrial Accelerator Act – is designed to curb China’s increasing presence in European industry, but was not on the reset plan agreed by the former prime minister Keir Starmer and the European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, in London in May 2025. Continue reading...
Trump suggests EU allowing Canada as associate member could be a 'hostile act'
Sep 16, 2026 - World 
President Donald Trump suggested that the European Union allowing Canada to become an associate member could be a "hostile act" and threatened to respond to the proposed move by imposing more tariffs on the bloc.
Is EU’s offer to Canada a blueprint for Britain – or a reminder it is out in the cold?
Sep 16, 2026 - World 
Ursula von der Leyen has opened door for Canada to become associate member to deepen links in ‘openly hostile world’Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has been advocating closer alignment with “middle powers” since January in the face of recklessness in Washington.But what should worry another middle power, the UK, is that it was Brussels that came up with Wednesday’s big reveal in Strasbourg. Continue reading...