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Miliband defends sanctions on Israeli settlements and pushes back against chief rabbi’s criticismGood morning. Yesterday Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, made what may turn out to be one of the most important Commons statements of the year. Here is our overnight report by Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot and Kiran Stacey.Here is an analysis by Patrick Wintour, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor.And here is the Guardian’s editorial.It starts: “Rarely in recent years has the Commons felt like the cockpit of history. On Tuesday it did.”Ministers were worried about a backlash from Donald Trump. So far, that has not happened, and in the…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has prioritised the supervision of terrorism financing as part of efforts to protect the country’s financial system from abuse by illicit actors. The apex bank disclosed this in a statement signed by its Acting Director, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations Department, Sidi-Ali Hakama, on Tuesday. The supervisory focus would cover terrorism-financing risk management, transaction monitoring, targeted financial sanctions implementation, and suspicious-transaction reporting related to terrorism financing. “This supervisory priority covers, at a high level, terrorism-financing risk management, terrorism-financing transaction monitoring, targeted financial sanctions implementation, and terrorism financing-related suspicious transaction reporting,” CBN said. CBN also…

Manchester United target Lewis Hall has reportedly agreed a new contract with Newcastle United, while Liverpool could make a bid to sign Crystal Palace’s Adam Wharton as soon as January.Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe.Transfers home page | Men’s summer grades | Women’s gradesTrending rumorsMan United were keen on signing Lewis Hall this summer as a long-term replacement for Luke Shaw. Harvey Murphy/News Images/NurPhoto via Getty Images- Newcastle United have agreed a new multi-year contract with left back Lewis Hall to see off interest from Manchester United, as reported by TEAMtalk. The 22-year-old has…

In addition to Burke, the lawsuit names several of Burke’s companies and managers, his mother and a live-in security guard. Hernandez’s parents allege that these people “enabled Burke to isolate” Rivas Hernandez and facilitated his travel, housing and security. Burke’s management company Mogul Vision and finance manager have previously denied knowing about Burke and Rivas Hernandez, the Los Angeles Times, external reported.In July, a judge found enough probable cause for Burke to stand trial on the murder charge in the criminal case. At the time, the district attorney said he was weighing whether to seek the death penalty.In a statement…

𝐴k𝑤𝘢 𝘐𝑏𝘰𝑚 𝑆𝘵𝑎𝘵𝑒 k𝘪𝑐𝘬𝑠 off it𝑠 39𝑡𝘩 a𝑛𝘯𝑖𝘷𝑒𝘳𝑠𝘢𝑟𝘺 with 𝘞𝑖𝘵ℎ 39 𝘗𝑟𝘰𝑗𝘦𝑐𝘵𝑠 lined up for commissioning, including a new 180-seater Airbus By Anietie Usen She was the cynosure of all eyes.As the 71 tonnes brand new Airbus A220-300 touched down at the Victor Attah International Airport,VAIA, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, September 1, 2026, the chief pilot, Captain Ruth Adeola Adebanwo, went instantly into Nigerian Aviation book of records as the first woman ever to fly a new aircraft into Nigeria. The attention of the mammoth crowd at the MRO apron quickly shifted away from the top government dignitaries, including…

Lagos is beginning to rethink what it means to call something “waste.” Plastic, aluminium, textiles, organic materials and even electronic components are increasingly finding their way into recycling and reuse chains, creating jobs and new economic opportunities. As the city grapples with rising waste volumes, the emerging circular economy offers a different approach by turning discarded materials into valuable resources while reducing dependence on landfills. Victoria Ojiako writes  For decades, the Nigerian expression “pure waste” carried only one meaning. Something worthless. Something to be discarded. Something whose usefulness had ended. But in the emerging environmental economy of Lagos, that definition is increasingly becoming…

Kayode Tokede   The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revealed that total  overnight financing market Rate  (NOFR) closed August 2026 at N98.08 trillion, representing about 6.5 per cent Month-on-Month (MoM)  decline from N104.9  trillion total traded volume reported in July 2026.  Analysts stated that the August 2026 decline in NOFR is best interpreted as a sign of easing pressure in the overnight money market as banks had less need to source funds overnight from the interbank market.  The NOFR is the benchmark measure of unsecured overnight borrowing costs in the domestic money market and serves as a key indicator of…

A video game posted to the Trump administration’s website — one that closely resembled Tetris — has been taken down after the Tetris Company complained. The White House recently took the unusual step of posting a number of arcade-style video games to its website. One of the more controversial was a game called “Build the Wall,” which reportedly mirrored Tetris’ gameplay, tasking players with stacking blocks of various shapes and sizes. Widely criticized as racist, the stated goal of the game was to build a wall in order to keep out a “zombie border siege.” Not long after Build the Wall’s…

Naturalist Steve Backshall and Lost Gardens of Heligan co-founder Sir Tim Smit have called for more “greenlightenment” to put nature education at the heart of school curriculums.It comes as the government has been consulting on a new natural history GCSE, which Sir Tim said was a “seismic moment for British education”, adding “a deep understanding of the natural world is fundamental to humanity’s future”.Backshall, who hosted the Wild Heligan experience to excite young people about wildlife, said: “I see every day how nature revitalises, restores and fills people with joy.”A survey by Heligan of 1,004 parent and child groups across…

Ryan O’HanlonSep 8, 2026, 03:57 AM ETCloseRyan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”Multiple AuthorsLionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and all the guys who came next — Arjen Robben, Gareth Bale, Neymar, Mohamed Salah — transformed our understanding of what a winger was supposed to do.It used to be: get chalk on your heels, stay wide, wait for a pass, dribble past your fullback, and cross the ball into the big striker in the box. And then you’d do it over and over and over again.The problem, though,…