BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight

Four countries boycott Eurovision over Israel

Four countries will not enter the contest in protest at Israel’s participation

The EC has set out revised plans to use frozen Russian assets to loan money to Ukraine

Two of Trump’s closest envoys meet Putin for talks on a peace plan

UK-US agree zero tariffs deal on pharmaceutical products

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Government U-turns on manifesto promise to give workers immediate unfair dismissal right

Rachel Reeves freezes income tax thresholds and ends two-child benefit cap

Minimum wage for 18 to 21-year-olds to go up 8.1%, but businesses concerned about costs

BBC chairman Samir Shah and members of BBC board scrutinised by MPs over alleged bias

Vladimir Putin says the White House plan can “form the basis of a final peace settlement”