Thirty Palestinian children and three women released from Israeli prisons; more Israeli hostages to be released as part of ceasefire extension Israel and Palestine: a complete guide to the crisis Hani Mahmoud, reporting for Al Jazeera from Khan Younis inside Gaza, says that people there consider it “an incomplete and […]
Month: November 2023
Tory source says ‘it became impossible for meeting to go ahead’ after Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged return of antiquities to Athens Greece’s prime minister has criticised the decision of his British counterpart Rishi Sunak to cancel planned talks at which he had hoped to raise the issue of the Parthenon marbles, […]
Imprisonment for public protection sentences will now have an end date under changes in England and Wales ‘It’s bittersweet’: MoJ sentencing changes will bring freedom for some More than 1,800 offenders in England and Wales who have been released on licence but remain under indefinite threat of recall to jail […]
Warning: sensitive contentBoy and girl on trial at Manchester crown court over fatal stabbing of Brianna in a Cheshire park in February Two teenagers accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl in a park near Warrington had a list of five children they wanted to kill, a court has heard. The […]
Natural History Museum prepares to study pristine material gathered in Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission A teaspoon’s worth of dark dust and granules scooped from an asteroid 200m miles from Earth has arrived at the Natural History Museum in London, where scientists are preparing to unlock its secrets. Researchers at the museum […]
Israel frees more prisoners in exchange but insists its military campaign in Gaza is far from over Israel-Hamas war – live updates The third exchange of hostages and prisoners between Hamas and Israel has taken place as the US expressed hope that a fragile four-day truce in Gaza would be […]
Report says lack of ‘intellectual diversity’ at senior level and too wide a range of priorities led to errors and fall in public confidence The Bank of England’s reliance on “inadequate” forecasting models and a lack of intellectual diversity within its most senior ranks contributed to inflation sticking at among […]
Exclusive: figures include one man who died during 18-minute wait for the ambulance service to answer his 999 call ‘You feel frustrated and scared’: patients left waiting for NHS care Almost 8,000 people were harmed and 112 died last year as a direct result of enduring long waits for an […]
The Irish author’s novel set in an imagined Dublin descending into far-right tyranny wins £50,000 prize • Paul Lynch’s timely Booker winner is a novel written to jolt the reader awake Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song, set in an […]
Darren Jones says figures are ‘extremely high’ and party would aim to reduce them to ‘normal levels’ A Labour government would cut net migration to a “couple of hundred thousand a year” within its first term, a shadow cabinet minister has said. The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren […]