Labour commits to deal agreed last year, following weeks of tension over possible ‘watering down’

Labour has reached agreement with the unions on its flagship workers’ rights proposals after general secretaries demanded the party commit to no further weakening of the original plans.

One of the key critics of changes, the Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham, said the unions had “been listened to and the workers’ voice heard in what she described as a “red line” summit with Keir Starmer on Tuesday.

Cohen tells trial he would not have paid Daniels the money if Trump had not been running for president; Cohen says he regrets lying for Trump

• Michael Cohen tells hush-money jury of phoney invoices to cover up payment

Donald Trump is entering the courtroom. He was carrying papers, which he dropped on to the defense table before sitting.

Trump is joined by Florida congressman Cory Mills, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, as well as Eric Trump and Lara Trump.

Deputy foreign secretary urges Cayman and British Virgin islands to implement UK law requiring public registers of funds

Nearly 40% of the dirty money in the world is going through the City of London and other crown dependencies, the UK’s deputy foreign secretary has said.

Andrew Mitchell added the crown dependencies and overseas territories will face fresh demands from the Foreign Office to comply with UK laws setting up public registers of beneficial share ownership.

Protesters in Tbilisi treated by medics after bill condemned as Kremlin-inspired act of repression was passed into law

• Police fire teargas at protesters and MPs brawl as Georgia passes ‘foreign agents’ bill

Petre Tsiskarishvili, a secretary-general of the main opposition United National Movement and a former Georgian MP, said the election in October election is when the Georgian public should “basically go on a referendum” and make a final decision which way we want to go, the BBC reported.

“What is the aspiration of the Georgian people? Is it the European integration or these Russia style laws and this government that initiates and tables the legislation that copies the Russian style authoritarianism.”

PM confirms three others wounded in attack on vehicle transporting prisoner from courthouse in Rouen

Elite French police are searching for gunmen who attacked a prison van in Normandy, killing at least two prison officers and freeing the high-security inmate being transported.

The French prime minister, Gabriel Attal, told parliament that two prison officers were killed and three others were seriously injured in the ambush at a motorway toll point. He said the attack had targeted the French republic and the justice system.

National Farmers’ Union president warns food production is likely to drop next year and says farmers need help right now

Rishi Sunak’s plan to improve the UK’s food security will not help build farmer’s confidence in the short-term, the head of the country’s biggest farming body has said.

Food production was likely to drop next year, said Tom Bradshaw, the president of the National Farmers’ Union, who warned that the prime minister’s plan, published during the UK’s second annual Farm to Fork summit, failed to give farmers the solutions they needed right now.

Steve Davies lost job six months after journalist falsely claimed to the princess he ‘feeds [the] Today newspaper … change your chauffeur’

The BBC has agreed to pay “substantial” compensation to Diana, Princess of Wales’s chauffeur to settle a claim he was slandered by the disgraced broadcaster Martin Bashir.

The claim by Steve Davies, her driver for many years, related to allegations Bashir made to the princess and her brother, Earl Spencer, during a meeting in 1995 as the journalist was trying to secure his explosive Panorama interview with her.

Package for Ken Murphy more than double the previous year, and more than half relates to long-term bonus

Tesco has been accused of giving struggling workers a “slap in the face” after the UK supermarket’s boss earned almost £10m last year as profits soared during the cost of living crisis.

Ken Murphy was given £9.9m in pay and perks, more than double the previous year and thought to be the most ever for a Tesco boss, beating £7m-plus paydays for the former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy.

European Broadcasting Union says Dutch broadcaster’s version of events does not correspond with witness accounts

The organisers of the Eurovision song contest have defended their decision to disqualify the Netherlands’ contestant just hours before last Saturday’s grand final, saying the version of event portrayed by the Dutch side “does not correspond with statements shared […] by staff and witnesses”.

Dutch singer and rapper Joost Klein, 26, was kicked out of the competition in the Swedish city of Malmö over an “incident” after Thursday’s semi-final involving a female member of the production crew, the precise nature of which has been the subject of an ill-tempered disagreement between the music event’s organisers and Dutch broadcaster Avrotros.

Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade

The Canadian short-story writer and Nobel prize winner Alice Munro, who examined everyday life through the lens of short fiction for more than 60 years, has died aged 92 at her care home in Ontario. She had suffered from dementia for more than a decade.

Once called “the Canadian Chekhov” by Cynthia Ozick, Munro’s body of work was founded on forms and subjects traditionally disregarded by the literary mainstream. It was only later in life that Munro’s reputation began to rise, her understated stories of apparently plain folks in undramatic, small-town Canada amassing a raft of international awards that included the 2013 Nobel prize in literature.