Maintenance and train company staff in parallel negotiations as ministers plan to use agency workers to break strike The second 24-hour national rail strike has emptied railway stations across Great Britain as commuters opted to work from home while ministers pushed ahead with controversial plans to allow agency staff to […]
Month: June 2022
Loss of Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton could push backbench Tories towards restarting efforts to oust PM Politics latest – live Voting has closed for two crucial byelections, in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton, the results of which could play a pivotal role in Boris Johnson’s political future. Defeat […]
Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ted Cruz among those who requested to be let off after attempting to overturn election results The Republicans Matt Gaetz and Mo Brooks sought a blanket pardon of members of Congress involved in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden through […]
Three men are in custody and more arrests are planned, but the suspected murder weapon has not been found Scores of protesters have congregated outside the offices of Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency Funai in the riverside town of Atalaia do Norte, renewing calls for justice over the murders of journalist […]
Zelenskiy welcomes approval of Ukraine’s application to join EU as ‘historic moment’ while battle for two key cities in eastern Ukraine edges towards ‘fearsome climax’ See all our Ukraine coverage Continue reading…
RMT accuses government of ‘wrecking negotiations’ as operators and passengers prepare to face further disruption on Thursday Talks to avert a second national rail strike collapsed in rancour as the two sides traded insults in a bitter war of words as millions of passengers faced another day of disruption. In […]
Forces edge closer to seizing last pocket of Ukraine resistance in Luhansk; footage shows drone crashing into oil refinery in Russia See all our Ukraine coverage Continue reading…
The hardline Islamist leadership says help needs to be ‘scaled up’ after the quake devastated towns and villages in the country’s mountainous east Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government has appealed for more international aid as it struggles to cope with the devastating earthquake in a mountainous eastern region that has left more […]
Research finds BNPL shoppers now paying off average of 4.8 purchases since cost of living began to surge Almost a third of shoppers who use buy now, pay later credit say repayments on the loans have become “unmanageable”, with the cost of living crisis pushing them into a debt spiral, […]
Billionaire media baron, 91, to split from model and actor wife, 65, he married in London in 2016, New York Times reports The merry wives of Rupert Murdoch: marriage to Jerry Hall is reportedly over The billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, a former top model, are reportedly […]