Capital hit by blackout as insurgent fighters reach outskirts and western nations race to evacuate citizens Report: last major Afghan city in the north falls to the Taliban 3.46am BST The animated version of the map I posted earlier: Time lapse video of the Taliban’s offensive when it began taking […]
Month: August 2021
Prime minister declares month-long state of emergency after earthquake felt across the Caribbean At least 304 people have died, with 1,800 injured and hundreds missing after Haiti was struck by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that reduced churches, hotels and homes to rubble, in the latest tragedy to hit a Caribbean nation […]
Keyham’s tight-knit community says the government has ‘big questions’ to answer about gun control Five-year-old Evie-Rae left her grandmother Terri’s side and carefully placed a pink candle and a teddy bear on the growing pile of tributes at the foot of a tree in North Down Crescent Park. “I wanted […]
Vaccine-beating variant is ‘realistic possibility’, say scientists, amid calls for contingency plans to be revealed Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers are being pressed to reveal what contingency plans are in place to deal with a future Covid variant that evades current vaccines, amid warnings from […]
Woman, 18, is in intensive care in Abidjan as emergency plan to identify her contacts begins Ivory Coast has recorded a case of Ebola, its health minister has said, the first occurrence of the deadly disease in the country in nearly three decades. Officials at the Institut Pasteur confirmed the […]
Jake Davison had licence revoked in December but it was restored after he attended anger management course A gunman who killed his mother and four passersby, including a three-year-old girl, had his firearms licence revoked in December, but police reinstated it last month after he attended an anger management course. […]
Oxford Vaccine Group and Gavi say western leaders must not ‘reject their responsibility to the rest of humanity’ We shouldn’t be giving Covid boosters while millions wait for first dose See all our coronavirus coverage Many more people around the world will die of Covid if western political leaders “reject […]
Insurgents control more than two-thirds of the country and are closing in on Kabul The Taliban’s seemingly unstoppable advance across Afghanistan continued on Friday, as insurgents took control of four more provincial capitals, having on Thursday seized Kandahar and Herat, the second and third-largest cities. With Afghan government forces in […]
Anonymous artist posts Instagram video charting his coastal tour in an ageing camper van Banksy has confirmed that he is indeed the author of a number of works that have appeared recently in seaside towns on the UK east coast. An Instagram video clip, just over three minutes long called […]
The singer-songwriter known for songs such as Love at the Five and Dime and From a Distance has died with a cause unknown Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer known for her literary songwriting, has died at age 68. Her management confirmed her death in a statement on Friday afternoon, […]