Home secretary’s withholding of payments for healthy food for children and pregnant women found to be unlawful The home secretary acted unlawfully in failing to provide basic support to asylum seekers, including young children and pregnant women, a judge has ruled. Suella Braverman must introduce changes that will benefit thousands […]
Year: 2023
Conservative People’s party and prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists both declare victory, with weeks of negotiations likely ahead Spain’s opposition conservative party secured the most number of seats in national elections but looked unlikely to secure a coalition rightwing majority after a vote that had raised fears of the far […]
Sergei Sobyanin says there were no serious injuries after drones hit two non-residential buildings in centre of Russian capital At a glance: what we know on day 516 of Ukraine invasion The debris of a drone has been found in central Moscow, Russia’s state-owned Tass news agency is reporting. It […]
Travel companies cancel holidays to Greek island as holidaymakers describe scenes of chaos on beaches British tourists said they had been left in “a living nightmare” after wildfires caused the emergency evacuation of 19,000 people on the Greek island of Rhodes. More than 3,000 people were rescued from beaches and […]
Barbie made $377m while Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer took home $174m, making ‘Barbenheimer’ biggest box office weekend of 2023 so far Greta Gerwig has made history as Barbie scored a US$377m (£293m, A$560m) opening weekend around the world, making it the biggest debut ever for a film directed by a woman. […]
Make UK report says post-Brexit structural shift in trade is particularly hurting factories in north-west and West Midlands Factories in England and Wales are seeing a downward trend in the share of their trade going to the EU, an analysis from the manufacturers’ trade body shows. Make UK said that […]
Science and business leaders say lurch away from climate agenda after byelections would be deeply unpopular with voters and damage UK’s reputation Britain’s leaders have been warned against a “politically suicidal” lurch away from their green pledges as concerns grow that both major parties may dilute their plans to combat […]
Observer investigation shows that majority of Nice drug appraisals involve groups financially linked to maker of pharmaceuticals Drug companies are systematically funding grassroots patient groups that lobby the NHS medicines watchdog to approve the rollout of their drugs, the Observer can reveal. An investigation by the Observer has found that […]
Israeli prime minister vows to push ahead with controversial reforms even as tens of thousands protest against them Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be fitted with a pacemaker overnight, he has said, adding that he will be discharged from hospital in time for a key vote on his controversial […]
Review could show that thousands more Jews and prisoners of war died on Alderney than previously thought The full horrors of the only Nazi concentration camps to exist on British soil will finally be investigated in an official government inquiry, the Observer can reveal. Eighty years on from one of […]