Deputy PM declines to say whether MP’s remarks were Islamophobic

Firms say the rapid change in US trade policy, including big taxes on China, has left them in flux.

It is a milestone for a scheme aiming to ensure fair distribution of Covid-19 jabs to poorer countries.

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is also confirmed to have died in Sunday’s crash in north-western Iran.

Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games and the kick-off to the football season are among the events affected.

The US president welcomes the conviction in the George Floyd murder case but says more must be done.

Patients in Carmarthenshire will be the first in the UK to receive the vaccine on Wednesday.