UK PM responds to Putin’s threat that use of long-range British missiles inside Russia would put it at war with Nato Keir Starmer has told Vladimir Putin that he started the war in Ukraine and could end it at any time after the Russian leader warned that any use of […]
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Spokesperson for Keir Starmer says focus was instead on encouraging pensioners to seek additional support Ministers did not carry out a specific impact assessment on the withdrawal of the winter fuel payment from the bulk of pensioners, such as the potential effect on illness and death rates among older people, […]
Landslide in Greenland caused unprecedented seismic event that shows impact of global heating, say scientists A landslide and mega-tsunami in Greenland in September 2023, triggered by the climate crisis, caused the entire Earth to vibrate for nine days, a scientific investigation has found. The seismic event was detected by earthquake […]
Ex-leader was jailed in 2009 for corruption and human rights abuses but granted a humanitarian pardon last year Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s former strongman leader throughout the 1990s and the country’s most divisive leader, has died aged 86, just 10 months after he was granted a pardon and freed from jail. […]
GOP lawmakers and analysts virtually unanimous that Trump was second best to Harris in first presidential debate Donald Trump’s campaign was in damage control mode on Wednesday amid widespread dismay among supporters over a presidential debate performance that saw Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, repeatedly goad him into going wildly […]
The UN Palestinian refugee agency said the attack on Nuseirat led to the highest death toll among its staff in a single incident See all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza war An Israeli airstrike on a central Gaza school being used as a shelter for displaced Palestinians has killed 14 […]
Detailed analysis warns Keir Starmer it will take longer than five years to get waiting times back on track Long delays for hospital, GP and mental health services are leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths and have ruptured “the social contract between the NHS and the people”, an inquiry has […]
Decision understood to have already been made in private as secretary of state says in Kyiv that US will continue to adapt policy The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that the White House is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons […]
Figure is largely in addition to £7.8bn committed since Russia’s invasion, says National Audit Office report Britain has donated arms and equipment to Ukraine that would cost £2.71bn to replace, largely in addition to the £7.8bn committed by prime ministers since Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to a National Audit Office […]
Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust tells inquest highly vulnerable Aviva Otte was given nutritional product containing deadly bacteria An NHS trust has admitted that a highly vulnerable baby died because of contaminated feed that it gave her, after denying that for more than a decade. At an inquest on Tuesday, […]