Disgraced Tory peer says government always knew of involvement in Covid contracts as calls mount for her to stay away from Lords A furious row has broken out between the disgraced Conservative peer Michelle Mone and the government over how much they knew about her links to a company that […]
Month: December 2023
ECB security staff advise players not to leave building Livingstone says England have taken ‘big step’ in T20 series England’s players have been sequestered in their Port of Spain hotel after a man was shot dead yards from the front door of the building during their first night in Trinidad. […]
US says it cannot support a reference to a ‘cessation of hostilities’, but might accept a call for a ‘suspension of hostilities’ The United Nations security council has postponed a vote calling for a sustainable cessation of hostilities in Gaza to give more time for diplomats to meet US objections […]
Fearing a significant event, authorities had evacuated the nearly 4,000 inhabitants of the fishing town of Grindavik A volcano in southwest Iceland has erupted, spewing lava and smoke across a large area after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country’s Meteorological Office has said. Fearing a significant outbreak on the […]
Officials launched an emergency response and dispatched rescue personnel to Gansu and Qinghai provinces just after 6.2 magnitude quake At least 111 people have been killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in north-west China’s Gansu and Qinghai provinces, according to the state news agency. Xinhua said that 100 people had […]
Veoza, also known as fezolinetant, is prescription-only and will be available privately from January A “gamechanging” drug that prevents hot flushes and could benefit hundreds of thousands of women has been approved for use in the UK. The green light for Veoza, also known as fezolinetant, comes after the US […]
Independent Monitoring Board also finds longer detentions and raises concern about treatment of vulnerable people Almost 80% of people held in UK immigration detention centres in 2022 were released into the community rather than deported, according to a report. The purpose of immigration detention is to prepare people for deportation […]
WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel’s attack on Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza; Israeli military says it has found biggest tunnel yet UK and Germany call for ‘sustainable’ ceasefire The emergency department at the al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza is “a bloodbath” and the facility is “in need of resuscitation”, the World […]
Exclusive: Thousands of families with one British partner and one from abroad will be hit by £38,700 salary requirement ‘We sacrificed so much to be here’: couples’ lives in disarray after new UK visa rules What do new UK visa rules mean for multinational families? Multinational families threatened with division […]
Ex-Tory peer defends lying to media over links to firm that made millions from PPE deals, saying, ‘It’s not a crime … I was protecting my family’ Who is Michelle Mone and what PPE deals was she involved in? How the Mone scandal unfolded The former Conservative peer Michelle Mone […]