The Senate, in a bipartisan super-majority, overwhelmingly voted to advance the measure, which Joe Biden is expected to sign The US Senate voted resoundingly on Tuesday to approve $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as a bipartisan super-majority united to send the long-stalled package to Joe Biden’s desk […]
Month: April 2024
Watchdog says only a third of local authorities are confident they will have enough places for September The deployment of the government’s childcare scheme to tens of thousands more families is facing “significant uncertainties” and may struggle to meet its own targets, according to a report by Whitehall’s spending watchdog. […]
Juan Merchan reserves judgment on prosecutors’ request for maximum fine but tells Todd Blanche ‘you’re losing all credibility’ Skeptical judge and National Enquirer deal: key takeaways Pecker says he was ‘eyes and ears’ of Trump campaign The New York judge presiding in Donald Trump’s criminal trial held off on deciding […]
Three-decade campaign by the Gweagal community of La Perouse sees repatriation of four spears to Kamay Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Four spears stolen from Kamay, now known as Botany Bay in Sydney, […]
Authorities in Greece warn the dust concentrations can reduce sunlight and visibility, while increasing levels of fine pollution particles pose health risks Clouds of dust blown in from the Sahara covered Athens and other Greek cities on Tuesday, one of the worst such episodes to hit the country since 2018, […]
Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa How the UK government’s Rwanda deportation plan was fought in court Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda deportation bill will become law after peers eventually backed down on amending it, opening the way for legal battles over […]
Exclusive: Mark Rowley says sergeant will not be disciplined and warns of ‘fakery’ by activists at other protests The commissioner of the Metropolitan police has praised the “professional” conduct of the sergeant who stopped an antisemitism campaigner at a pro-Palestinian march and warned that officers at other protests had been […]
Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing Paedophiles are being urged to use artificial intelligence to create nude images of children to extort more extreme material from them, according to a child abuse charity. The Internet Watch Foundation […]
Celebrity fashion designer, who recruited couriers to transport bags from her native Colombia to US on commercial flights, receives 18-month sentence A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the Sex and the City TV series has been sentenced to 18 […]
Exclusive: analysis shows increase of a third in two years, prompting claim of ‘deprioritising women’s health’ The government has been accused of “deprioritising women’s health” as analysis shows that almost 600,000 women in England are waiting for gynaecological treatment, an increase of a third over two years. There are 33,000 […]