Latest updates: leftwing former president fails to secure majority of first-round votes ‘We want no more hatred’: leftwing ex-president Lula on verge of comeback Live results tracker A Lula victory would represent the latest in a series of triumphs for a resurgent Latin American left, following the election of leftist […]
Month: October 2022
Exclusive: Westminster gave exemption for Hinduja brothers’ Old War Office development in return for £10m payment The UK’s two richest people have been allowed to avoid planning rules that should have required them to build 98 affordable flats for key workers and low-income workers at their new £1.2bn luxury development […]
Drinks reception with wealthy Tory donors took place on same day the chancellor delivered mini-budget Pressure is growing on the Tory party to provide a full list of attendees at a private champagne reception attended by the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, hours after he delivered his mini-budget. Anneliese Dodds, the Labour […]
Conservative MPs urge Liz Truss’s removal from No 10 after poll reveals British public’s fury over tax plans Three-quarters of UK voters, including a staggering 71% of those who backed the Conservatives at the last general election, believe the prime minister, Liz Truss, and the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, have “lost […]
Prime minister reportedly raised objections to him going during personal audience at Buckingham Palace King Charles III has reportedly abandoned plans to attend and deliver a speech at the Cop27 climate change summit on the advice of Liz Truss. The monarch, a veteran campaigner on environmental issues, had been invited […]
Military defeat in Donetsk comes hours after Moscow declared that the region was Russian territory ‘for ever’ Russia-Ukraine war: latest developments Russia suffered a humiliating military defeat on Saturday when Ukrainian troops liberated the key eastern city of Lyman, with videos showing them raising a blue and yellow national flag […]
Violence erupted after Arema’s home loss to Persebaya Surabaya Police fired tear gas into crowded stands in Malang At least 129 people died and 180 were injured after violence and a stampede erupted following an Indonesian league football match, police have said. Supporters of the Javanese clubs Arema and Persebaya […]
Thomas Cashman, 34, also charged with attempted murder of Olivia’s mother, Cheryl Korbel, and Joseph Nee A 34-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, the girl shot dead in her own home in Liverpool, along with the attempted murder of her mother. Thomas Cashman, from the […]
Russian president signs ‘accession treaties’ at Kremlin in defiance of international law and US responds with sanctions Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Vladimir Putin has signed “accession treaties” formalising Russia’s illegal annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine, marking the largest forcible takeover of territory in Europe since the second world […]
Coroner finds harmful online content likely to have contributed to Molly’s death ‘in a more than minimal way’ Molly Russell’s father has accused the world’s biggest social media firms of “monetising misery” after an inquest ruled that harmful online content contributed to the 14-year-old’s death. Ian Russell accused Meta, the […]