Secretary general António Guterres calls on Israel to abide by international law after its attack on Jenin in the West Bank In a rare condemnation of Israel, the UN has denounced the country’s excessive use of force in its largest military operation in two decades targeting a refugee camp in […]
Year: 2023
Exclusive: Women urged to study symptoms and be as vigilant as they are for breast cancer ‘My lungs are my strength’: trial finds early cancer in fitness fan Explained: what to look out for The number of women diagnosed with lung cancer in the UK is expected to overtake men […]
Labour leader will argue against snobbery of ‘vocational’ and ‘academic’ education, saying young people need both Britain needs to shatter its snobbish “class ceiling” that prevents children from getting ahead, Keir Starmer is to argue in a speech setting out his fifth and final “mission” aimed at removing barriers to […]
Talks on returning as an associate member after Brexit row are close to agreement, say diplomatic sources The UK is on the brink of doing a deal to return to the EU’s £85bn science research programme Horizon Europe. Diplomatic sources say negotiations to become an associate member will continue over […]
Mark Zuckerberg targets Elon Musk’s troubled platform with new app from Meta that’s closely modelled on Twitter Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has launched Threads, its rival to Twitter, with the app seeking to woo users from Elon Musk’s troubled platform through an offer of lengthier posts, a handful of celebrity backers […]
Collective profit comes on back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to Oxfam and ActionAid The world’s 722 biggest companies collectively are making more than $1tn a year (£780bn) in windfall profits on the back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to research by […]
Damning report highlights lack of control over billions in spending and no stockpile plan for future pandemic Britain’s lead public health body has a staggering lack of control over billions of pounds of spending, and there is no plan for stockpiling vaccines or personal protective equipment (PPE) for a future […]
Exclusive: Disclosure provokes fury as Rishi Sunak accused of betraying populations vulnerable to global heating The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the Guardian can reveal, with the prime minster accused of betraying populations most vulnerable to global heating. The […]
Twelve Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead after Israel carries out one of the biggest military operations in the occupied West Bank in years Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired five rockets toward Israel, the military said in the early hours of Wednesday, as its forces began to withdraw […]
GMTV host undergoing trials for new drug that scientists hope could slow or reverse the illness The television presenter Fiona Phillips has disclosed she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is undergoing trials for a new drug that scientists hope could slow or reverse the illness. The 62-year-old said […]