Videos showed crowds chanting slogans at security forces as tear gas was fired and motorcycle-mounted units were deployed along Jomhouri Street in Tehran. Labor, retiree, civil, and teachers’ organizations inside Iran also issued statements backing the protests, citing inflation, unemployment, and economic pressure. Opposition figures pay tribute to slain protestorsIran International has verified the identities 16 protestors who have been killed during the protests. US-based human rights group, Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), reported the deaths of at least 19 protestors on Sunday. Addressing the families of slain protestors, Pahlavi said: “On this irreversible path, I stand shoulder to shoulder with you.”“I assure you that those who ordered and carried out these crimes will be identified and, without doubt, punished,” he added.

Kids will be protected from exposure to junk food advertising on TV and online as new regulations come into force to help tackle childhood obesity. From today, adverts for less healthy food and drinks will be banned on television before 9pm, and online at all times. Tooth decay is the leading cause of hospital admissions for young children (typically ages 5-9) in the UK. We welcome the government taking action to put children’s health front and centre, to protect young people from the predatory and manipulative marketing of unhealthy food by junk food giants. These new rules are an important first step that begins to rip down the wallpaper of junk food advertising that surrounds young people on TV and online every day.

Do you live in one of Britain’s most desirable towns? Telegraph Money has narrowed down a list of the 50 most coveted places to live that offer a great quality of life. In half of the top 20 most desirable towns, average property values have fallen or have been at a standstill in the period between June 2024 and August 2025. Towns which have bucked the trend include Harpenden and St Albans in Hertfordshire, Sevenoaks in Kent, Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, and North Ascot in Berkshire. “Even the housing markets of the UK’s most desirable towns have had to face up to some headwinds in recent times,” says Lucian Cook, head of residential research at Savills.

Mr Trump later reiterated his comments that the US would take control, telling reporters on Air Force One “we’re going to run everything” with elections “at the right time”. Hours after Mr Rubio’s comments, interim leader Delcy Rodriguez issued a public message to the US, asserting Venezuela’s “right to peace, development, sovereignty, and a future”. “The United Kingdom was not involved in any way,” Mr Jones told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips programme. We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime. “It’s for the Americans now and for Venezuela to set out what happens in the coming days,” he said.

HSBC has become the first major lender to cut mortgage rates this year, a move that could spark a price war over the coming months. The banking group, which is one of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders, has cut rates across a range of residential and landlord buy-to-let mortgage products. Last week the financial data firm Moneyfacts said the average rate on a two-year fixed residential mortgage was running at 4.83%. The average two-year, buy-to-let residential mortgage rate stood at 4.7%. “The cheapest two- and five-year fixes remain below bank rate, reflecting expectations of further cuts,” he said.

And politically, he is probably the most leftwing incumbent of the office since Fiorello La Guardia in the 1930s and 40s. Hardly surprising then, that Mr Mamdani’s extraordinary rise to prominence should be accompanied by high expectations and tense anticipation. In order to finance this programme, he has restated his intention to raise tax rates on the very wealthy, and on corporations. The political dynamics of New York, the home of Wall Street and a global centre for the arts, are not straightforwardly generalisable. But the affordability agenda that delivered Mr Mamdani’s flagship success has also fuelled a political revival for Democrats in states such as New Jersey and Virginia.

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Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, and prominent Republicans swiftly backpedaled from Donald Trump’s assertion that the US will run Venezuela in transition after US forces snatched the president, Nicolás Maduro, and brought him to the US to face federal criminal charges. The secretary of state was challenged repeatedly in a number of appearances to confirm whether the US would run Venezuela. Rubio said on ABC that the US had “leverage” over the country and that: “We expect that it’s going to lead to results here. Maduro was widely considered to have lost the 2024 presidential election in Venezuela, but stayed in power anyway. We want them to expel the Cubans and the Iranians and the Islamic radicals.”Congressman Jim Jordan, a Republican representing Ohio and the chairman of the House judiciary committee, also could not confirm that the US would run Venezuela.

It would seem that Donald Trump and his cohort of henchmen and women in Washington, DC can be ranked amongst their number. Trump has started a war against Venezuela. Third, disastrous as this action is, hope remains possible because Trump's ineptitude has made the likelihood of the long-term success of what he has set out to achieve so unlikely. You can accuse me of struggling to find any good interpretation of unfolding events in what I have written here. As I have said many times before, at the end of many blog posts, we have to live in hope.

The long-overdue update, which has been demanded by users for years now, will allow people to change their email address. If Google users wanted to change their name, they would have to start a totally new account. Google to allow users to change their Gmail account in massive updateAccording to the eagle-eyed observers over at 9to5Google, those who change their old email address will have emails automatically forwarded to the new one. Discussing the change, a Google support document said: "The email address associated with your Google Account is the address you use to sign in to Google services." If you’d like, you can change your Google Account email address that ends in gmail.com to a new email address that ends in gmail.com.

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The deputy director of the US’s biggest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group warns that Republican governors’ steps to declare his organization a “terrorist organization” won’t stop with the Muslim community. “A Democratic governor could declare the Republican party a terrorist group and ban it from state contracts or ban it from owning land,” Mitchell said. “Cair Texas is open for business and continues to protect the community and so is Cair Florida,” Mitchell said. He believes that the erosion of support for Israel in the US is motivating its supporters to fuel anti-Muslim hatred. The incidents of hate that Cair has documented have ranged from discrimination in education and employment, to verbal harassment, vandalism and violent attacks.

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I was afraid she would ask me to help her end her own life. But she trusts me, and talks to me in a way she doesn’t to her sons and her siblings. I must point out that you cannot help her end her own life as that would be a criminal offence. Can you find someone you can trust, a friend, or therapist, to think with you about your feelings? If they take the pills away, there’s no guarantee that she won’t find more pills or end her life in a different way.