Rise is three times higher than initial 1% offer but nurses likely to reject award and may take industrial action in protest Ministers have offered more than 1 million NHS staff in England a 3% pay rise, three times higher than its initial 1% offer which sparked fury among frontline […]
Year: 2021
Member of the House of Lords and Briton once detained in UAE among those appearing in database A member of the House of Lords is among more than 400 people whose UK mobile phone numbers appear in a leaked list of numbers identified by NSO Group’s client governments between 2017 […]
Blueprint for alternative arrangement published as sources say protocol was flawed at conception The UK has launched an audacious bid to rewrite a key plank of the Brexit deal, saying the Northern Ireland protocol was flawed at conception but served its purpose to get the UK out of the EU […]
Agency must apply for retrospective planning permission after filling in Victorian arch with concrete The government’s roads agency could be forced to remove hundreds of tonnes of concrete it used to fill in a Victorian railway arch in a project that was condemned as the first act of “cultural vandalism” […]
Operation to avoid even worse flooding comes as residents in the city of Zhengzhou are trapped in homes, offices, schools and metro China’s military has blasted a dam to release water threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces, as the death toll in widespread flooding rose to at least […]
South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa also among 14 world leaders identified in records The leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus project includes the mobile phone numbers of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and 13 other heads of state and heads of government, the Guardian can reveal. The South African […]
Former environment minister François de Rugy ‘astonished’ by forensics discovery after he appeared on leaked database The mobile phone of a serving French minister showed digital traces of activity associated with NSO Group’s spyware, according to forensic analysis undertaken by the Pegasus project investigation. François de Rugy, who was environment […]
Disclosures about political figures put Israel under increasing pressure over extent of surveillance Back in 2017, few would have disputed that Israel and Saudi Arabia were regional foes. Officially, the countries had no diplomatic ties. Yet for a small group of Israeli businesspeople attending secret meetings with Saudi officials in […]
Exclusive: officers in England no longer have to verify whether new arrivals have received a negative Covid test Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Border officials are no longer required to make basic Covid checks on people arriving in England from green and amber list countries, according […]
Locals fear for their health and property as smoke from raging forest fires shrouds an entire region of eastern Russia ‘Airpocalypse’ hits Siberian city as heatwave sparks forest fires Every morning and evening for the last few days, shifts of young villagers have headed out into the taiga forest around […]