Health groups challenge Starmer to ban ‘unhealthy products’ firms from lobbying MPs by giving them gifts MPs are being urged to stop accepting freebies to sports and cultural events from tobacco, alcohol and junk food firms because their products cause so much illness and death. More than 100 health groups […]
Month: August 2024
Mykola Oleshchuk’s dismissal thought to be linked to death of pilot and loss of plane newly delivered to Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy has fired the head of Ukraine’s air force a day after it emerged that a recently delivered F-16 jet had crashed earlier this week, killing the pilot. “I have […]
Opinion differs only over whether leadership is merely incompetent or actively working with Netanyahu Israel said it has killed three militants including a senior Hamas official in an airstrike on a car outside Jenin on the third day of extensive military operations across the West Bank. The campaign, according to […]
Ex-president hits back at Pennsylvania rally after US army rebuked him for turning Arlington ceremony into photo op Donald Trump has denied exploiting a controversial visit to soldiers’ graves at Arlington national cemetery for political ends by saying he does not need the publicity. The US army publicly rebuked Trump […]
Social media platform to be blocked by ISPs because it did not appoint legal representative in allotted time The Brazilian supreme court has ordered that X be suspended in the country after the social media platform failed to meet a deadline to appoint a legal representative in the country. Late […]
Hospitality industry expresses concern about impact on businesses of leaked proposals not denied by PM Keir Starmer is on a collision course with the hospitality industry and political opponents after signalling plans for major curbs on outdoor smoking. The proposals, not denied by the prime minister, would potentially prohibit tobacco […]
IDF claims ‘armed assailants’ tried to hijack vehicle leading convoy of medical supplies, but aid organiser says those killed were transport company staff The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said they carried out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza aimed at “armed assailants” trying to hijack it […]
Vice-president also talks about moment Joe Biden told her he is ending campaign; Walz recounts moment son Gus was moved to tears by convention speech Donald Trump’s “own platform could effectively ban [in vitro fertilization] and abortion nationwide”, a spokesperson for Kamala Harris’s campaign said in response to Trump’s latest […]
‘A moment of great sadness for the nation’ as Māori king, considered the paramount chief of several tribes, or iwi, dies New Zealand’s Māori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully on Friday morning, aged 69, according to a statement released by his representatives. “The death of Kiingi Tuheitia […]
More than 130,000 people will benefit from check-ups that will be considered the equivalent of an NHS appointment More than 130,000 people across England will benefit from workplace health checks being trialled to help protect people from preventable diseases, the government has said. The checkups, which will begin on 30 […]