US president also offers asylum to Afrikaners and criticises law that allows land seizures without compensation in some circumstances The US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa, accusing the country’s government of “unjust racial discrimination” against white Afrikaners and offering them […]

Pledge to fix broken welfare system follows new evidence that people are worried about returning to work for fear that benefits will be withdrawn Britain’s broken welfare system is fuelling the “greatest unemployment challenge of a generation”, ministers have concluded as they draw up a root-and-branch overhaul designed to counter […]

Exclusive: ‘No scientific justification’ to say former nurse definitely poisoned babies with insulin, according to study authors The claim that Lucy Letby definitely poisoned babies with insulin has “no scientific justification whatsoever” and there is a “very strong level of reasonable doubt” about the convictions, according to the authors of […]

Prime minister says US president covets northern neighbour’s vast resources as Canadians rally against threat Donald Trump’s recent fixation on absorbing Canada is “a real thing”, Justin Trudeau has told business leaders, warning that the US president wants access to his northern neighbour’s vast supply of critical minerals. The outgoing […]

Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humans Thailand will begin giving birth control to a small number of wild female elephants this year, as the country struggles with the growing problem of human-elephant conflict. Asian elephants have been classified as endangered since 1986. But […]