Former US president beats Republican rivals in first state to choose their Republican candidate Iowa results tracker: how the candidates rank Florida senator Marco Rubio formally endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign on Sunday, effectively snubbing his state’s own governor Ron DeSantis. In a social media post, Rubio cited his […]
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Civilians killed in strikes on Erbil include a millionaire Kurdish businessman and his family, medical sources say Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they have attacked the “espionage headquarters” of Israel in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, state media has reported, while the elite force said they had also struck Islamic State targets […]
Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith defy prime minister by supporting rightwing challenges to legislation Rishi Sunak is facing a Conservative meltdown over the Rwanda deportation bill after two deputy chairs said they would support rebel amendments aimed at blocking international human rights laws. Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith have defied […]
Move to offer the monarch’s photograph to UK bodies has been described as a ‘shameful waste of money’ by critics A new official portrait of the king has been unveiled, created to hang in public buildings across the UK under an £8m government-funded scheme that an anti-monarchy campaign group has […]
Spending watchdog says smarter government can find huge savings for better public services Britain is wasting tens of billions of pounds on badly run projects, cold war-era IT systems and crumbling, poorly maintained infrastructure, parliament’s spending watchdog will say on Tuesday. Gareth Davies, head of the National Audit Office (NAO), […]
Unpublished figures reveal a doubling of products in short supply over past two years ‘The worst I’ve known it’: the struggle to get vital medicines Analysis: why is UK being hit by medicine supply shortages? An unprecedented medicines shortage in the NHS is endangering lives, pharmacists have said, as unpublished […]
Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% – almost 5 billion people – have lost money. The details come in […]
US Central Command says anti-ship cruise missile was fired from Houthi-controlled area of Yemen, but no injuries or damage were reported Continue reading…
Only practice procession saw marchers out of step and Gentleman at Arms almost crushed, royal biography says The only rehearsal for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral had a band at the wrong start point, a Gentleman at Arms nearly crushed at Marble Arch and “everything that could go wrong … go […]
Seismic activity intensified overnight near Grindavík, the fifth eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in two years Houses have caught fire in the fishing town of Grindavík in south-west Iceland after a volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month. Two fissures formed near the town on Sunday […]