Three men are in custody and more arrests are planned, but the suspected murder weapon has not been found Scores of protesters have congregated outside the offices of Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency Funai in the riverside town of Atalaia do Norte, renewing calls for justice over the murders of journalist […]
Maintenance and train company staff in parallel negotiations as ministers plan to use agency workers to break strike The second 24-hour national rail strike has emptied railway stations across Great Britain as commuters opted to work from home while ministers pushed ahead with controversial plans to allow agency staff to […]
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Research finds BNPL shoppers now paying off average of 4.8 purchases since cost of living began to surge Almost a third of shoppers who use buy now, pay later credit say repayments on the loans have become “unmanageable”, with the cost of living crisis pushing them into a debt spiral, […]
The hardline Islamist leadership says help needs to be ‘scaled up’ after the quake devastated towns and villages in the country’s mountainous east Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government has appealed for more international aid as it struggles to cope with the devastating earthquake in a mountainous eastern region that has left more […]
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RMT accuses government of ‘wrecking negotiations’ as operators and passengers prepare to face further disruption on Thursday Talks to avert a second national rail strike collapsed in rancour as the two sides traded insults in a bitter war of words as millions of passengers faced another day of disruption. In […]
Billionaire media baron, 91, to split from model and actor wife, 65, he married in London in 2016, New York Times reports The merry wives of Rupert Murdoch: marriage to Jerry Hall is reportedly over The billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall, a former top model, are reportedly […]
At least five MPs defy Keir Starmer’s orders and tweet pictures of themselves with RMT strikers Keir Starmer is expected to discipline at least five Labour frontbenchers who defied his orders and appeared on RMT picket lines on Tuesday in solidarity with striking railworkers. On the first of three days […]
Analysis: Critics fear Labour leader’s tactics are largely about drawing dividing lines within his own party In a gritty promotional video for his 2020 Labour leadership bid, Keir Starmer called himself a “proud trade unionist” who had worked with unions “all my life”, including as a legal observer on the […]