Britain’s Foreign secretary Ed Miliband will tell campaigners and party members who raised the plight of Palestinians they were right that Labour’s approach had not been enough, saying he was heeding the calls of millions of people by imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements.

He stated he would ensure Labour is going to take more explicitly progressive foreign policy positions under Andy Burnham, and that the UK will be a leader among like-minded countries in a new age of diplomacy.

Since becoming foreign secretary, Miliband has announced sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements against a backdrop of increasing settler violence in the West Bank, which has resulted in 12 countries – including France and Canada – announcing they would also impose sanctions.

Miliband will also pay tribute to those who have campaigned against the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, though his warm words are likely to raise questions about whether the government will review the proscription of Palestine Action, when police arrested a number of demonstrators outside the conference hall on Sunday.

US President Trump is considering banning diesel exports as his domestic support wavers following record-high fuel prices amid the war in Iran.

It comes after the president called for a ban ahead of a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart on Tuesday. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright have both confirmed the administration is examining the proposal.

Diesel prices have reached record highs in both the US and Europe as the war in Ukraine and Iran cut exports from some of the world’s biggest products such as Russia and Saudi Arabia.

In Australia, which consumes the most diesel per capita, the price of diesel has risen by seven per cent to nearly $3 a litre, according to the federal government’s latest fuel data. Australia does not directly import diesel from the US, instead relying on refineries in the Asia-Pacific, such as South Korea, Japan and Singapore.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said a ban would be “a very concerning development for the global economy”. The government also faces questions on whether it would reintroduce its fuel excise cut, which was ruled out by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles who said the government was not considering the policy.

The chief executive of Anthropic will turn down an invitation to appear at a Senate committee hearing on AI this week.

The invite came after the prime minister’s revelation that OpenAI’s agents had infiltrated systems run by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Victoria’s Department of Health, the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Medicare statistics reporting service portal of Services Australia.

It is understood the company’s local team is not in Australia, and the invite was considered last-minute. An alternative date for the hearing has been sought. However, the company will make an appearance before another committee early next week.

The finance and government services minister, Katy Gallagher, flagged new mandatory reporting rules could be introduced for AI data breaches. After criticism of the government’s slow response to the incident, Services Australia has put in place new procedures to ensure real-time monitoring of information sent to the public-facing email address used by OpenAI to report the hacking.