Helicopter carrying Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian reportedly crashed in mountainous area amid bad weather Full report: helicopter carrying Iran’s president crashes in mountains Profile: Ebrahim Raisi: Iran’s hardline president dogged by execution claims Reuters has put together a list of reactions from around the world, with Iranian […]
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Police at Gablecross police station declared detainee dead early on Sunday and have referred incident to police watchdog A man in his 30s has died while in custody at a police station in Swindon, Wiltshire police said. He had been in custody at Gablecross police station since Saturday morning, and […]
‘More than three years after end of transition period, it is still not clear when full controls will be in place’ Post-Brexit border checks will cost UK businesses £470m a year, the government’s public spending watchdog has said. Plans to bring in border checks on goods coming from the EU […]
Former chancellor, who was one of those who urged Johnson to go, says Tories should have realised ‘Twitter was not the country’ Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he and his Conservative colleagues were wrong to force out Boris Johnson as prime minister in 2022. Johnson resigned after less than […]
In latest Opinium poll, only 16% say accepting rightwing Tory MP’s defection was the right move – against 33% who see it as a mistake More voters believe Keir Starmer was wrong to allow a rightwing Tory MP into Labour than think it was the right move, after anger from […]
Head of Church of England Justin Welby tells Observer that ending policy would lift thousands of UK children out of poverty The Observer view: Labour must tackle this scourge Gordon Brown: People haven’t woken up to this Torsten Bell: We can easily end child poverty Justin Welby, the archbishop of […]
Usyk wins split decision 115-112, 113-114, 114-113 Fury knocked down in critical ninth round in Riyadh Oleksandr Usyk is the first undisputed world heavyweight champion this century after he defeated Tyson Fury, in a compelling fight, on a split decision in the early hours of Sunday morning. Usyk added Fury’s […]
Benny Gantz’s threat to withdraw his opposition party from coalition calls into question future of government The Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza, calling into question the future of the Israeli government. During a press […]
Samantha Power says barely 100 trucks of aid a day enter Gaza, far less than 600 needed to address threat of famine Humanitarian assistance has begun to arrive in Gaza along a US-made pier, but the US aid chief said the new sea corridor could not be a substitute for […]
Exclusive: Experts call for higher taxes and tougher regulation as research shows cost to NHS, other public services and economy The cost of alcohol abuse is laid bare in a new study that shows £27bn a year being spent in England on the health and social harms of drinking. The […]