Unions condemn measure as potentially against international law as 40,000 staff prepare for first day of industrial action Boris Johnson has responded to the biggest rail strikes in a generation with plans to break the industrial action by allowing firms to bring in agency staff, a move unions have decried […]
Year: 2022
Newspaper swiftly withdrew article alleging Boris Johnson tried to hire his future wife as chief of staff The Times swiftly withdrew a story that made allegations about the prime minister and his wife after Downing Street intervened to complain about it, No 10 has confirmed. The piece alleged that Boris […]
Exclusive: Questions over palaces, vineyards and yachts run by entities that appear to be part of a cooperative Russian palaces, villas and yachts linked to Putin by email leak – in pictures, maps and video Palaces, yachts and vineyards reportedly provided to Vladimir Putin by friends and oligarchs can now […]
Muratov, who was awarded the gold medal in October 2021, said proceeds would go to Unicef to help children displaced by Ukraine war The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees has sold for $103.5m (£84.5m), shattering the record […]
Roberto David Castillo sentenced for role in assassination of Indigenous environmentalist in 2016 The US military trained him. Then he helped murder Berta Cáceres A US-trained former Honduran army intelligence officer who was the president of an internationally financed energy company has been sentenced to 22 years and six months […]
Millions face week of cancelled services and union leaders warn industrial action could spread The government is facing growing anger over its refusal to join last-ditch talks to avert the biggest rail strike for three decades, with millions of people facing a week of cancelled trains and union leaders saying […]
Gains by new left alliance and historic surge by the far right cast uncertainty over Macron’s second term Emmanuel Macron’s centrist grouping has lost its absolute majority in parliament, amid gains by a new left alliance and a historic surge by the far right, according to projected results in Sunday’s […]
Zelenskiy says he expects Russia will intensify attacks on Ukraine and possibly strike other European countries this week See all our Ukraine coverage Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he expected Russia would intensify attacks on Ukraine and possibly hit other European countries after the European Commission proposed it as a […]
Social media abuzz with pictures and theories about formations thought to be from exhaust plume of SpaceX rocket New Zealand stargazers were left puzzled and awed by strange, spiralling light formations in the night sky on Sunday night. Around 7.25pm Alasdair Burns, a stargazing guide on Stewart Island/Rakiura, received a […]
27-year-old Briton wins by one from Zalatoris and Scheffler Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa finish in top 10 The world of professional golf will imminently return to a dismal domain involving Saudi Arabians bearing dollars, players defending the indefensible and commercial organisations scrapping for survival. There was extra cause to […]