The High Court has decided to permit an extraordinary general meeting of PTSB to proceed on July 30 which would allow shareholders vote on whether to approve a €1.6 billion takeover of the bank by Austrian group BAWAG.

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Prices for buses and trains to World Cup matches at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey have been cut following a backlash from fans.

The British holidaymaker, who is in his 60s, had boarded the same flight from Saint Helena to Johannesburg as MV Hondius passenger Mirjam Schilperoord, who died from hantavirus

The travel operator says customers are delaying booking holidays over Iran war concerns.

The prime minister is fighting to stay on in No 10 as heavy election losses trigger a Labour revolt.

Ceremonial event marks start of new parliamentary year, and outlines government policies and proposed legislation

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Health secretary met with Keir Starmer this morning in brief meeting at No 10 ahead of the king’s speech

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Libby Brooks is the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent.

An odd dispute of interpretation has emerged overnight between the Scottish and UK governments. Yesterday evening a Scottish government spokesperson announced that, during a call between first minister John Swinney and prime minister Kier Starmer, both parties agreed to meet face to face next month to discuss a referendum on independence.

It is particularly welcome that the prime minister agreed to meet next month to discuss a referendum on independence.

The PM committed to meeting to discussed shared issues including the cost of living.

As the PM told the first minister, the manifesto this government was elected on was unambiguous that ‘Labour does not support independence or another referendum’. Our position remains unchanged.

We, in Scotland, as in the rest of the UK, had a devastating set of election results and we were simply unable to articulate our offering, or indeed critique, of the SNP government because of the noise created at the centre.

Therefore, we became, and the prime minister became, the inadvertent midwife of a fifth-term SNP government. And that scenario you saw then, people waiting for a speech to try and articulate his new direction, a strategy, and it simply was not forthcoming.

This is not one faction of the Labour party. This is about the Labour party articulating, I think, now a commonly held view that this is unsustainable and unstable.

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Sergei Lavrov comments before leaders of the ‘Bucharest Nine’ meet later today with Nato’s secretary general Mark Rutte

More than 1,700 people – 1,233 passengers and 514 crew members – are confined on a cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after a death of a 90-year-old passenger amid a reported gastroenteritis outbreak, AFP, Le Figaro and BMFTV reported.

Some fifty people have shown symptoms of norovirus, prompting the French health authorities to step in, it was reported.

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BRITS have been forced to quarantine on a cruise ship after a suspected norovirus outbreak caused the death of an elderly passenger. Over 1,700 passengers and crew are stranded in Bordeaux with more than 50 people reporting symptoms of the highly contagious virus. Chaos broke out on the Ambassador Cruise Line ship, known as the...

The monarch has outlined the government's plans for new laws in the next session of Parliament.

French authorities have confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew on a cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after a passenger died from a suspected norovirus, officials said.